3rd Shift Press Operator

About the role

milkrite | InterPuls is a global leader in providing complete milking point solutions to dairy farmers worldwide. With over 100 years of manufacturing experience in the dairy industry, we offer a wide range of products including over 150 different types of dairy inflations, tubing, claws, filters, and more.

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
• Affixes 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

• Regularly uses hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls and talk or hear
• Frequently stands; walks; reaches with hands and arms; stoops, kneels, crouch or crawl
• Occasionally sits, climbs or balance, and taste
• Regularly lifts and/or moves 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

• Frequent exposure to moving mechanical parts and is frequently exposed to risk of electrical shock
• Sometimes works in high, precarious places and inside and outside weather conditions
• 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