Job Description:

• 1) Unloads wood chips from railroad cars or trucks, using materials-handling equipment: Drives rail-mounted trackmobile to spot railroad cars on scale and on ramp above chip storage bins for unloading.

• 2) Records gross and net weight of car.

• 3) Releases bottom doors of car, allowing chips to fall into bin.

• 4) Starts conveyor that carries chips to stockpile or to inside storage bins.

• 5) Gathers sample of chips from each car for analysis.

• 6) Shunts empty cars to spur tracks.

• 7) Signals driver to position truck for unloading.

• 8) Attaches hoist cable and hook and starts hoist to lift loaded trailer from tractor bed.

• 9) Opens tailgate of trailer, allowing wood chips to fall into bin.

• 10) Lowers trailer onto tractor bed and secures tailgate.

• 11) May attach electric vibrator to side of railroad cars to dislodge chips that have become tightly packed in transit.

• 12) May unload barges.