Job Description

Build Your Future at NWPX
At NWPX Infrastructure, we manufacture welded steel pipe and precast products that form the backbone of America’s water infrastructure. It’s work you can be proud of—and an opportunity to advance your career with a company committed to your professional growth and well-being.
Our brands—Northwest Pipe Company, NWPX Park, and NWPX Geneva—set the standard for safety, quality, innovation, and performance. Guided by our core values of Accountability, Commitment, and Teamwork, our people work collaboratively to deliver reliable products and trusted service to our customers—while building stable, rewarding careers along the way.
For over 50 years, NWPX has been a leader in reliable water infrastructure solutions, and our people are the foundation of our success. Build your future with us and be part of a legacy grounded in water.

WHAT NWPX OFFERS YOU:
• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, AD&D Insurance
• Paid Vacation, Holidays, and Sick Time
• 401k Retirement Savings Plan with Employer Match
• On-Demand Pay (Access Your Earned Wages Before Payday)
• Bonus Potential
• Up to $5,000 per year Tuition Reimbursement
• Safety Footwear and Eyewear Voucher (Day 1 of Employment)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Opportunities for Career Advancement
• Values-Driven Culture Committed to Equal Opportunities and Safety

OF JOB PURPOSE:
Operates spiral mill, counts and marks lengths of pipe, splices coil and completes proper documentation under ongoing supervision. Trains other mill operators on special mill techniques and/or procedures.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Performs some preventive maintenance.
• Operates mill.
• Grinds welds and end finish.
• Sets up equipment.
• Marks pipe.
• Performs cleaning and grinding as required
• Moves pipe with overhead crane.
• Ensures general housekeeping and safety.
• Performs ISO procedures.
• Other duties may be assigned.
• Regular, reliable, and predictable attendance is necessary in order to perform the essential functions of this position.

SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

This role has no secondary responsibilities.

JOB SCOPE:
Various tasks listed are conducted daily - some more than others.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

LANGUAGE SKILLS
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

REASONING ABILITY
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.

` OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES
• Welding machines (wire & stick)
• Grinders
• Arc gouging equipment
• Torches
• Overhead crane
• Lock-out Tag-out
• Small forklift
• Shear
• Misc. hand tools

EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
• High School diploma, GED; or one-year certificate from college or technical school; or three to six months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• On-the job training by other mill operators who have experience, knowledge and insight into the job.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS:
• FCAW weld qualified

MILL OPERATOR I – this level of Mill Operator is responsible for operation of mechanical mill, and requires minimum experience. Additionally, individuals in this position operate, work with and around various hand tools and welding equipment. Duties are routinely carried out under close supervision; however, supervision is not always available for routine and repetitive tasks, which can be carried on without difficulty once they are learned. As work experience is gained and additional welding certification are obtained, the employee may be assigned to tasks that are more difficult in nature and require more responsibility.

MILL OPERATOR II – this level of Mill Operator is responsible for performing duties described for a Mill Operator I. This level of Mill Operator requires additional training, skills, certification, and experience. Work normally is performed under limited to close supervision. As additional experience is gained, the employee may be assigned to tasks that are more difficult in nature and require more responsibility.

MILL OPERATOR III – this level of Mill Operator is responsible for performing duties described for a Mill Operator II. This level possesses advanced qualifications, experience. Work normally is performed under minimal supervision. Employees in this position may be responsible for providing on-the-job training to new employees.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to sit and climb or balance.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Physical Activity

Up to 2/3 of the time:
• Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Body agility is emphasized. (This factor is important if the amount and kind of climbing required exceeds that required for ordinary locomotion.)
• Standing: Remaining upright in a stationary position particularly for sustained periods.
• Walking: Moving about to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately loudly or quickly.
• Communicating: Expressing or exchanging ideas and information accurately, in written or diagram form.
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correct and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication and making fine discriminations in sounds.

Less than 1/3 of the time:
• Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing or crouching on narrow, slippery or erratically moving surfaces (This factor is important if the amount and kind of balancing the amount and kind of balancing exceeds that needed for ordinary locomotion and maintenance of body equilibrium).
• Stooping: Positions self to checking bevel/edge millers this factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Kneeling/Couching: Position self-checking bevel /edger millers.
• Reaching: Grabbing things from distance above or from the side.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward down ward or outward.
• Pulling: using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw drag haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to position (This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.)
• Fingers: Picking pinching typing or otherwise working primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling to phone computer.
• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm to tag line.
• Feeling Perceiving attributes of objects such as size shape temperature or texture by touching with skin particularly that of fingertips.

Physical Requirements
• Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and /or up to 10 pounds of force frequently, and/or a negligible amount of force constantly to move objects (If the use of arm and/or leg controls requires exertion of forces greater than that for sedentary work and the worker sits most of the time the job is rated for Light Work).

Visual Acuity
• The worker is required to have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: operating machines such as lathes drill presses power saws and mills where the seeing jobs is at or within arm’s reach performing mechanical or skilled trades tasks of a non-repetitive nature such as ones by carpenter’s technicians service people plumber’s painter’s mechanics etc.

Vision Requirements:

Over 2/3 of the time:
• The worker will not be required to have any special vision.

Up to 2/3 of time the worker is required to have:
• The worker is required to have distance vision (clear vison at 20 feet or more)
• The worker is required to have color vision (ability to identify and distinguish color)
• The worker is required to have peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up and down or to the left and right while eyes are fixed on a given point.
• The worker is required to have depth perception (three dimensional vision, ability to judge distance and spatial relationships)

Less than 1/3 of the time:
• The worker is required to have close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)
• The worker is required to have the ability to adjust visual focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus.

Weather Conditions

Over 2/3 of the time:
• The worker is subject to inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to noise: There is sufficient noise to cause the worker to shout in order to be heard above the ambient noise level.

Up to 2/3 of the time:
• The worker is subject to outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather.
• The worker is subject to extreme heat: Temperatures above 100 degrees for periods of more than one hour. Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity.
• None: The worker is not substantially exposed to adverse environmental conditions (as in typical office or administrative work)

Less than 1/3 of the time:
• The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: activities occurs inside and outside.
• The worker is subject to extreme cold: Temperatures typically below 32 degrees for periods of more than one hour (Consideration should be given to the effect of other environmental conditions such as wind and humidity.)
• The worker is subject to vibration: Exposure to oscillating movements of the extremities or whole body.
• The worker is subjects to hazards: Includes a variety of physical conditions such as proximity to moving mechanical parts moving vehicles electrical current working on scaffolding and high places exposure to high heat or exposure to chemical.
• The worker is subject to atmospheric conditions: One or more of the following conditions that affects the respiratory system of the skin: Fumes odors, dusts mists gases or poor ventilation.
• The worker is subject to oils: There is air and/or skin exposure to oils and other cutting fluids.

Noise Levels

Up to 2/3 of the time:
• Loud noise (Examples metal can be manufacturing department large earth-moving equipment.
• Very loud noise (example jack hammer work front row at rock concert.

Less than 1/3 of the time:
• Very quiet conditions (example: forest trail, isolation booth for hearing test)
• Quiet conditions (examples library private office)
• Moderate noise (examples business office with computers and printers light traffic.

Supervision Received:
• Supervision: The incumbent performs a variety of routine work within established policies and procedures and receives detailed instructions on new projects and assignments.

Personal Protective Equipment is required when in the Plant, Yard or Construction Areas:
• Hard Hat
• Safety Glasses
• Steel-toed Boots
• Hearing Protection
• Reflective Vest

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Except where prohibited by state law, offers of employment may be contingent upon the successful completion of a background check, drug test, and/or physical examination, as determined by the essential functions and physical requirements of the position.
NWPX Infrastructure is committed to equal employment opportunity. Veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
NWPX Infrastructure reserves the right to close the position, with or without notice, if a qualified candidate is identified prior to the close date.