Job Description:

• 1) Drives electric-powered transfer car to transfer carloads of lumber between loading, drying, and storage areas, and operates winch to load and unload kilns: Turns rheostat lever to drive transfer car along track to loading platform, and aligns rails on transfer car with rails on platform.

• 2) Hooks winch cable to carload of lumber and pushes and pulls levers to activate winch and pull loaded lumber car onto transfer car.

• 3) Drives transfer car with carload of lumber to designated dry kiln and aligns transfer car rails with rails into kiln.

• 4) Hooks cable to lumber car and operates winch to pull lumber car into kiln.

• 5) Pulls lumber car from kiln when lumber is dry and transfers it to storage or to processing department.

• 6) May tend stacking machine that stacks and unstacks lumber onto lumber car.