Cement Terminal Summer Intern (Ozinga)
Company Overview
The Port of Palm Beach is one of Florida’s most dynamic and accessible deepwater ports, playing a vital role in regional and international trade. Located in Riviera Beach, the Port serves as a key gateway for cargo movement between the United States, the Caribbean, and Central and South America.
Handling a diverse range of commodities—including containerized cargo, bulk materials, and petroleum products—the Port supports critical supply chains and contributes significantly to the local and state economy.
The Port of Palm Beach is committed to operational excellence, environmental responsibility, and community engagement. With a focus on safety, innovation, and customer service, the Port fosters a collaborative work environment where employees play an essential role in driving growth and maintaining high standards across all operations.
PRINCIPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Consistently maintain all safety precautions, using all safety gear and protective equipment.
Assist terminal operators in and around the yard with loading, unloading, sorting, and maintaining all work areas.
- Move products to and from storage areas, docks, vehicles, or containers by hand or using other equipment.
- Sort products based on specifications, paying close attention to detail in attaching tags and marking products for identification.
- Clean and perform other routine maintenance work on equipment, the driver’s room, bathrooms, warehouse, bins, carts, and other containers.
- Maintain equipment storage to ensure inventory is protected.
- Ability to be flexible in work assignments and open to working in multiple areas and locations as necessary to get the job done.
- Active listening to receive oral instructions and read work orders to complete work assignments.
- Accurate recording and maintaining of work tickets/orders as instructed.
- Participate in training courses to successfully operate loading/unloading equipment.
- Assist with loading and unloading cement products off ships.
Ozinga’s Intern Responsibilities
Port of Palm Beach Cement Terminal
The Intern is responsible for performing routine maintenance on plant equipment and ensuring that the yard area is properly maintained and organized.
SKILLS/ ABILITIES:
- Demonstrated ability to follow instruction and work independently.
- Demonstrated ability to successfully handle multiple tasks simultaneously.
- Accuracy and attention to detail is a must.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to read and interpret maps.
- Proficient computer skills
- Ability to climb ladder to check inventories and or to perform plant maintenance.
WORKING CONDITIONS:
- Most of the work is performed outside.
- Exposure to elements of weather including heat, cold, rain, and dust.
- Occasionally/frequently exposed to rough, muddy, walking surface.
- Intermittent exposure to moving parts/ pieces of equipment.
- Frequent exposure to cement, lime, dust, oils, diesel fuel, and other substances that may cause burns, be toxic or explosive if handled incorrectly.
- Frequent exposure to water and wet conditions.
- Fast paced environment with a need to respond to ever changing scenarios.
- Exposed to moving mechanical parts, vehicles, heavy construction equipment, toxic or caustic chemicals, and outside weather conditions.
- Noise level is usually moderate but can be high and requires personal hearing protection on occasion at job sites, plants, and laboratories.
- Flexible in work assignments; open to working in multiple areas as necessary to get the job done.
PHSYICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Regularly required to talk or hear; frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
- Occasionally required to sit, climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
- Frequent periods of extended sitting.
- Occasionally need to climb heights of up to 100 feet.
- Occasional need to stretch, reach, and grab.
- Occasional lifting of up to 50 lbs.
- Occasional periods of walking across uneven surfaces.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Education Requirements
- High School Junior/Senior
- College Student
- Graduate Student
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