Operator - Mud Plant

Select Water Solutions, Inc.; Kentucky; Hybrid; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision, life and long

Paid Vacation Days

Paid Holidays

401K with company match

Annual uniform allowance

Referral bonus

Paid Training

Job summary

Select Water Solutions, Inc. is seeking a Mud Plant Operator to ensure safe and efficient operation of heavy equipment at our disposal site. You will maintain quality control and ensure environmental compliance, worker safety, and regulatory adherence.

The role requires operating excavators, monitoring pits and silos, performing routine maintenance, and documenting activities. This position offers full-time hours, competitive benefits, and a team-driven work environment.

Qualifications

• Must have reliable transportation to the work site.
• Ability to work 12-hour shifts and weekends.
• Experience operating excavators and heavy equipment.
• Ability to lubricate equipment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Able to work with minimal supervision and follow instructions.
• Team player with dependable performance.

Responsibilities

• Maintain disposal area appearance and overall maintenance.
• Monitor pit levels and silo levels.
• Retrieve oil from working pit/tanks.
• Unload lines, discharge and relieve valves or other equipment related to disposal of fluids.
• Generate and document third-party tickets and other forms of documentation in support of disposal.
• Meet compliance requirements with county, state, and federal regulatory rules and regulations.
• Ensure smooth transition from day to night attendants: communicate current status and potential issues prior to end of shift.
• Attend company meetings as requested.
• Follow company policies and procedures.
• Improve utilization efficiently, driver compliance.
• Ensure immediate work area is neat and orderly to ensure safety of workers.
• Report and correct unsafe conditions of practices.

Skills

Heavy equipment operation

Safety compliance

Industrial lubrication

Maintenance and housekeeping

Team player

Excellent communication

Reliability

Shift work

Weekend availability

Job description

MUD PLANT OPERATOR

Job Details

Full Time / Part Time: Full Time

FLSA Classification: Non-Exempt

Business Unit: Disposals

Reports to: Operations Manager

Travel Requirement: No

Top Tier Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, coverage in addition to life and disability insurance plans.
• Paid Vacation Days and Paid Holidays.
• Retirement and Savings (401K) Plan with Company match.
• Annual uniform allowance.
• Referral bonus with no cap on amount of referrals.
• Paid Training.

Job Description

Select’s Mud Plant Operator is responsible for assuring safe and efficient operation of heavy equipment. Maintain quality control and assure complete compliance with all federal, state, and local laws governing environmental compliance, worker safety and underground injection well regulations.

The essential job functions include, but are not limited to

• Overall maintenance, upkeep and appearance of disposal area.
• Monitor pit levels and silo level.
• Retrieve oil from working pit/tanks.
• Unload lines, discharge and relieve valves or other equipment related to disposal of fluids.
• Generate and document third-party tickets and other forms of documentation in support of disposal.
• Meet compliance requirements with county, state, and federal regulatory rules and regulations.
• Ensure smooth transition from day to night attendants: communicate current status and potential issues prior to end of shift.
• Attend company meetings as requested.
• Follow company policies and procedures.
• Improve utilization efficiently, driver compliance.
• Ensure immediate work area is neat and orderly to ensure safety of workers.
• Report and correct unsafe conditions of practices.

Other duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Requirements

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:

• Must have a reliable means of transportation to work site
• Ability to work 12-hour shifts.
• Ability to work weekends.
• Experience in operating excavators
• Experience in operating heavy equipment
• Ability to lubricate equipment.
• Ability to climb staircase and work on catwalk of 15’-25’.
• Ability to download and use inspection applications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must possess valid driver’s license and be eligible to drive a company vehicle according to Select’s insurance guidelines.
• Extremely dependable and reliable.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to execute duties based off of instruction with little supervision or guidance.
• Exhibits qualities of a team player.
• Extremely dependable.

Select Values and Guiding Principles

• W: Working Safe
• A: Accountability
• T: Teamwork
• E: Excellence
• R: Respect

Compensation Information

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Physical Demands and Exposures

• Work is always performed in outside weather conditions, including rain and extreme cold and heat, near moving mechanical parts; exposure to high wind, ice, snow, wet and/or humid conditions, vibration, and dust is expected.
• Ability to operate heavy equipment
• Exposure to noise levels requiring the use of hearing protection.
• Prolonged sitting, standing, walking.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to individually lift: Maximum 50 lbs.