Plant Operator, Tester, Calciner, Shift Supervisor
CurrentStarted as a plant operator in the board plant. Working a number of positions including Forklift Operator, Liner paper operator (top floor) Mixer Operator, Shift Tester (Controls the recipe of what type of board is being made at the time and also tests the product) and back-up Senior Operator.I can also run the plant's Plastermill. The Plastermill is where the raw gypsum gets delivered via trucks into holding sheds. The gypsum then gets fed into the Plaster Mill where it is crushed into smaller particles then dried and calcined in the kettle and then transferred into holding silos and from there the Plasterboard and Cove Cornice plants are supplied in order for them to produce plasterboard and cornice.Another facet of running the Plastermill is driving the plant's front end loader (Volvo L120F). We use this front end loader to fill up the Gypsum bins that feed the Plastermill itself as well as take care of trucks delivering new gypsum and also recycling old material via a recycling machine in order for us to reuse the old material to put back through the system!