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Overview

The Crusher Plant Operator is responsible for operating and maintaining equipment that crushes concrete at job sites. This role involves ensuring safety protocols, conducting training, and managing daily reports related to plant production and equipment status.

Responsibilities

  • Ensures routine maintenance is performed on a timely basis.
  • Ensures logbooks are accurately maintained and up to date.
  • Performs lifting, pulling, carrying and other manual labor tasks to operate equipment designed to crush concrete on job site.
  • Operates equipment; assists in equipment maintenance tasks, and reports equipment operation problems to production Supervisor.
  • Assists, and performs duties of co-workers, as needed to accomplish productivity objectives.
  • Trains all personnel in job duties and responsibilities and monitors job sites.
  • Conducts daily safety meetings and submits daily reports to Production supervisor of attendance log and topics covered.
  • Completes daily yard status report with equipment issues and submits to Production supervisor.
  • Produces reports of the previous business day’s plant production numbers and forwards to sales department each day.
  • Monitors all site supplies and submits orders on daily basis to Production Supervisor.
  • Require each employee to always wear proper PPE.
  • Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Requirements

  • Prior experience of at least 3 years in a similar position with similar equipment and operations, required.
  • Knowledge of general construction procedures; mechanical knowledge, and knowledge of loader machine signals.
  • Ability to work in all weather conditions.
  • Ability to stand, sit, stoop and/or bend for extended periods of time at conveyor belt and catwalk operation.
  • Ability to climb heights/stairs of up to 40 feet on a regular basis.
  • Ability to lift, carry, and/or pull 50 pounds on a regular basis.
  • Ability to work in dusty, loud noise environment.
  • Required to wear safety equipment including hard hat, safety glasses, goggles, steel toed boots, ear plugs, respirator, gloves and various other similar items as required.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k
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How this job compares in Los Angeles, CA

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting comes in about 30% below the $40/hr median for welding jobs in Los Angeles, CA, where the middle half runs $31–$57/hr across 73 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 18% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Los Angeles, CA

We're tracking 101 other active welding openings in Los Angeles, CA right now, from 60 different employers. 51 of them were added in the last week. Across California as a whole we're tracking 627 other active welding openings from 305 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Los Angeles, or widen the search to California.

The most active employers in California at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are SpaceX (31), Aerotek (16), and Volt (16). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within California, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Redondo Beach at $51/hr, Santa Ana at $48/hr, and Long Beach at $40/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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