Job Description:

• 1) Cuts and moves shale from open pit, performing any combination of following laboring tasks to assist SHALE PLANER OPERATOR: Shovels loose shale from travel area of planer.

• 2) Signals truck driver to position vehicle for receiving shale from planer hopper.

• 3) Monitors movement of shale along conveyor leading from hopper to truck or railcar.

• 4) Frees jams in planer hopper, using metal pinch bar.

• 5) Assists in laying tracks and bed supports for planer, using pick, shovel, sledgehammer, and other handtools.