18+ Summer Mentor Trainee - Roseburg, OR

Youth - Studmill General Plant & OH

Position Title: 18+ Summer Mentor Trainee

Reports To: Sawmill or Planer Superintendent

Department: Roseburg Stud-mill

Hours per shift: 10 hours per day with three ten-minute breaks and a 30-minute lunch

Wage: Level 2

Position Purpose: The Summer Mentor Trainee position is designed to provide individuals with firsthand experience in a manufacturing and industrial setting.

This role supports daily operations through tasks such as material handling, cleanup, basic maintenance, and assisting skilled workers, all while learning about safety protocols, production processes, and the importance of quality in wood product manufacturing.

The position promotes the development of work ethic, technical skills, and an understanding of careers in the wood products industry.

Position Functions:

Sticker Operator: Essential Functions

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These duties are designated as ADA Essential Functions and must be performed in this job.

Position Purpose: Communicate with forklift operators to remove full bundles of kiln sticks.

Maintain clean and clear work environment.

This position can be fast-paced and requires constant attention and awareness of various operations.

Monitoring the sticker flow into slings and strapping up full bundles.

Also keeping belts and chains running freely.

Monitor the flow of stickers into slings and lockout and lower bundle down to chain and place two straps around it in the middle.

Monitor and keep the sticker magazines full at the wet board stacker 

Monitor the chipper and its conveyors for plug ups or the metal detector needing reset.

Pick out bad and broken sticks that are too short or split and slide down the chute in the sticker box below.

Operate the wet board stacker console on the east side of wet board stacker, when possible, to help Breakdown operator stay caught up.

Keep walkways and catwalks clean of any debris.

Bander/Endwax: Essential Functions

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These duties are designated as ADA Essential Functions and must be performed in this job.

Position Purpose: Operate bander consistent with production needs.

Inspect loads to make sure that they are fit to ship.

Communicate with supervisors about wood quality or any problems or potential problems.

Make sure loads are banded and wrote on correctly.

 Keep lathe placer in full and in operational condition.

Verify Grade and length for correctness.

Spray End Wax.

Paint stencil when needed.

Change rolls of banding.

Utilize slack time by cleaning area.

Keep work area neat, orderly, and clean.

Clean bander tracks and heads pre-shift, do PMs

Keep battens filled for product being run.

Break off lathe pieces sticking out from units.

Fix unit on Strapper re-entry and run through Strapper.

Return miss graded boards to the P.E.T.

tree.

Perform the PM for the machine

Paperwrap: Essential Functions

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These duties are secondary in nature and are not classified as ADA essential.

Position Purpose: Wrap, tag, and end seal units of lumber....