Position Overview & Responsibilities This position is responsible to direct staff on rotating shifts to ensure all live haul equipment is washed and to ensure all trailers are run through the bio-dri, inspected, chipped and paneled in a timely manner in accordance with safety, quality and bio-security requirements to meet transportation deadlines.
Major Areas of Accountability - Direct staff on shift to ensure efficiency, quality, bio-security and safety standards are met.
- Assist Manager with prioritizing and scheduling trailer wash activity and appropriate labor.
- Train new employees and coach existing employees.
- Assist with washing and disinfecting of live haul and other equipment as needed.
- Report problems or concerns with quality, processes, equipment, materials and labor to Manager.
- Identify and support continuous improvement efforts.
- Complete required documentation relating to business or regulatory requirements.
- Assist Manager to ensure execution of all wash functions as per SOP.
- Responsible for routine/preventative facility tasks such as yard work, laundry and supply replenishment as needed.
- Perform light duty maintenance on the facility, equipment or trailers as needed and communicate any issues to the manager.
- Communicate with team to ensure quality, safety, bio-security and deadline requirements are met.
- Ensure a successful bio-dri cycle on all washed trailers.
- Inspect all washed trailers per SOP.
- Be able to read and understand weekly transportation schedule.
- Properly panel and chip all trailers per SOP and approved transportation guidelines.
- Inform Manager of any supplies needed to complete job, including driver supplies.
- Safely drive spotter to retrieve washed trailers from the wash bays, take into bio dri and when complete park in clean parking lot.
- Perform and document an inspection on every trailer per the Christensen Farms guideline before parking the trailers in the clean trailer parking lot.
- Suggest, plan, and implement agreed upon process improvements and safety best practices.
- Functions as a back up to the Manager including all required administrative tasks.
Education, Training, and Experience Required - Minimum formal education required: None
- Minimum number of years of prior job experience required: 6 months