Valero
Shipping %26 Receiving Operator - Ethanol Plant
1930 Hayes Ave, Fort Dodge, IA 50501
On-site
First seen by offpeak October 6, 2026
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Valero is the best-in-class producer of essential fuels and products that are foundational to modern life. We invite you to join our ~10,000 employees to drive exceptional results for our company, the energy industry and our community.
As a Shipping & Receiving Operator you will be responsible for unloading raw materials, loading ethanol and distiller’s grain, and the movement of trucks and rail cars on the plant site. This position ensures maximum production quantity and quality while supporting the policies, goals and objectives of the company and works a 12-hour rotating day shift schedule.
At Valero, this role performs duties that support our commitment to advancing the future of energy through innovation, ingenuity, and unmatched execution. You can help achieve this goal if you can:
- Operate and maintain all processes associated with corn receiving, corn storage, product storage, unloading, and loading.
- Unload corn from trucks and railcars.
- Load ethanol into trucks and railcars.
- Load distiller’s grains into trucks, railcars, and containers.
- Take samples of corn, ethanol, and distiller’s grains for testing.
- Operate plant scale house; probes, analyzes, and grades corn, weighs trucks in and out, enters data into scale house software, issues paperwork to drivers.
- Operate meters and bulk weighers to facilitate product loading.
- Operate locomotive or rail mover to move railcars on plant site to facilitate loading and unloading of product.
- Operate large machinery and equipment such as front end loaders and lifts.
- Participate in safety, health, and environmental programs. (LOTO-lock out tag out, Safe Work Permit, FSMA-Food Safety Modernization Act).
- Perform preventive maintenance tasks as required.
- Perform routine housekeeping duties to maintain a clean work environment.
- Monitor area equipment and assists with maintenance as required.
- Communicate regularly with local rail service to facilitate rail movement activities.
This position is hourly nonexempt status, which means you are eligible for overtime pay.
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