1st Shift
Monday – Friday
Monday 5am Start, Tuesday – Friday 6:45am start (8 hours, overtime available).
Brief:
- A 30-year strong, manufacturing company.
- Focused on growth, efficiency, and continuous improvement as a company.
- Striving to provide opportunity, stability & work life balance for our employees.
Benefits:
- 8-hour shifts.
- Temperature controlled production floor.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Annual profit sharing.
- Tuition assistance.
- Paid holidays immediately after hire date.
- Paid vacation.
- Medical, dental and vision insurance.
- Company-paid short & long term disability, AD&D, and life insurance.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Perform job duties in a safe manner (this includes wearing eye and hearing protection in designated areas).
- Start and stop all equipment in a proper and safe manner.
- Perform daily walk downs to ensure machines are at required efficiency and production levels.
- Complete machine/line changeovers, including all downstream equipment (leak detectors, conveyors, flamers, box erectors, etc.) to maintain production orders and levels per production schedule.
- With direct supervision of Quality Control personnel help, perform first piece quality checks (OFC, “T”, “E”, etc.) with the known bottle specifications, while completing the proper documentation to support findings.
- Prepare in-house computer system with proper codes (downtime, jobs, etc.) during changeover process.
- Maintains proper paperwork, logs and records (work orders, machine problems, settings, mold maintenance, and mold design changes) as required.
- Makes complete machine changeovers and calibrations (heads, molds, tooling, stretch-rods, blow pins, blow nozzels, etc.) without any assistance or set up aids (set-up sheets, cartridges, or saved programs) within specified time period.
- Work closely with management with total hands on processing of all new products/materials to determine proper materials and cycle standards.
- Perform daily walk downs to ensure proper levels of materials (virgin and regrind) are being introduced in the process.
- Work closely with management on items (tooling, etc.) that need to be purchased or repaired for the processing portion of the equipment.
- Order and maintain inventory/stock regarding items for the processing portion (tooling and mold components, etc.) of the equipment.
- Complete new and old product/material samples as requested.
- Work closely with maintenance to ensure equipment is at industry standard.
- Troubleshoot equipment regarding processing issues.
- Fill in when requested for other job duties/functions (Supervisors, Mechanics, Maintenance, etc.)
- During the machine set-up process, perform housekeeping duties such as keep floor clear of debris (scraps, blobs, excess flash, preforms), cleaning machines in a safe manner in accordance with American Institute of Baking (AIB) regulations.
- May be asked to cover for other shift Supervisors and Machine Operator/Mechanic (B or A Class) during personnel shortage (vacations, sick leave etc).
- If requested, enter production quantities into the in-house computer production/inventory systems.
- Assist co-works where needed.
Experience/Education:
- Must have comprehensive mechanical tools to complete required machine tasks.
- Must have basic mechanical, pneumatic, hydraulic, and electrical skills.
- Requires constant visual attention, ability to discern flaws in containers.
- Must know and be able to assist in the training of lower classification employees on the in-house computer inventory systems for production entries.
Physical Requirements:
- Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 25 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Must be able to lift 75-100 pounds occasionally.
