2nd shift Press Operator

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Uses and maintains required PPE
• Follows and adheres to all SOP’s and safety procedures and practices for the facility and department
• Reads, understands, and follows all operator's guide and work instructions
• Keeps pace with press cycle times
• Maintains and operates transfer presses
• Performs trimming, grinding, punching, date coding of parts after removed from the press according to customer standards
• Performs visual, in-process, and final inspection of all parts, removing the inlet gates, excessive flashing, and tear trims
• Reports excessive product defects being produced and/or defective materials to the shift supervisor and/or Quality Tech
• Ensures all visual standards and process references are adhered to produce conforming parts
• Ensures all parts are properly sorted by product type into designed holding bins, in accordance with our labeling system (Routing Cards)
• Keeps and maintains accurate records within material tracking software
• Affirms to adhere to all quality standards
• Ensures the work area and equipment are in a clean and orderly condition
• Assists material handling from mill to molding department
• Assists within the Finishing Department when required

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, this employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls and talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb or balance, and taste.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 35 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 40 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employees frequently works near moving mechanical parts and is frequently exposed to risk of electrical shock.
• The employee occasionally works in high, precarious places and inside and outside weather conditions and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles and vibration.
• The temperature in the factory may vary from 70 degrees Fahrenheit during the winter to 110 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer.
• Employees may get dirty with grease and oil.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and occasionally loud.