Primary Responsibilities:
- Oversee and guide manufacturing department personnel
- Oversee product quality and flow within a work area
- Establish and maintain a well-organized work area
- Monitor and support training of personnel
- Perform general work of an operator
- Implement and monitor safe work practices
- Responsible for quality and workmanship of product
Education and Experience Requirements:
- High School diploma or equivalent
- 2 years manufacturing experience
- Required Skills:
- Ability to read and understand technical drawings, work orders, and written procedures
- Ability to complete production forms, such as product travelers
- Ability to inspect produced parts
- Ability to accurately utilize measuring equipment such as calipers, thickness gages, weigh scales, and tape measures
- Proficient in shop math
- Two years in a leadership position preferred
- Preferred experience with the manufacture of custom rubber mixing
- Mixing, calendaring, refining, and extruding of rubber.
- Experience in the operation of internal mixers, mills, extruders Millroom support equipment, mechanical inspection and test equipment.
- Operation of a forklift
- Basic computer skills preferred
Respirator Use Requirement
Certain areas within the department may require the use of a respirator due to operational or environmental conditions. In accordance with safety regulations and proper respirator fit standards, employees assigned to these areas must be clean-shaven where the respirator seals to the face. This requirement ensures the effectiveness of the equipment and the safety of the operator.
Specific Tasks and Focus Areas:
- Oversee and guide manufacturing department personnel
- Lead the shift start-up meeting
- Execute Lean Daily Management System
- Make daily work assignments
- Compete daily production reporting in the manufacturing software system
- Provide Supervisor with input on personnel performance
- Review and approve daily labor and attendance reports
- Review overtime and vacation requests for Supervisor approval
- Ensure standard operating procedures are followed
- Oversee product quality and flow within a work area
- Monitor quality of parts produced
- Monitor daily production output
- Resolve issues interfering with quality, productivity or schedule
- Support production readiness
- Conduct process audits
- Establish and maintain a well organized work area
- Maintain work area for maximum efficiency
- Utilize 5S techniques to maintain a clean and organized work area
- Ensure measuring and test equipment is properly calibrated
- Start-up & shut down equipment at the beginning and end of a shift
- Generate maintenance requests
- Generate requisitions for shop aids and when required materials
- Monitor and support training of personnel
- Demonstrate the ability to accurately perform manufacturing methods during the training of personnel
- Provide instruction on the operation of equipment
- Provide instruction on the completion of work orders.
- Generate skill versatility sheets
- Monitor employee skills and make recommendations for training to the Supervisor
- Perform general work of an operator
- Implement and monitor safe work practices
- Monitor work of personnel for safe practices
- Review applicable MSDS with operators
- Visually inspect equipment for safe operation
- Responsible for quality and workmanship of product
- Ensure materials are readily available
- Order materials as necessary, coordinate with stores
- Identify and resolve product problems and issues, work with operators/engineering/quality to resolve
- Identify and report equipment problems and issues
- Perform visual and dimensional checks of product manufactured by operators
