Encapsulation Setup Specialist

About the role

The Production team at Thorne is integral to our mission of creating high-quality health and wellness products. This role involves hands-on production tasks in a clean, safe, and innovative manufacturing environment.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates a working knowledge of hand tools and maintains them in good condition.
• Takes initiative to make sound decisions, within guidelines provided.
• Contacts Supervisor as required and performs preventative maintenance tasks.
• Aids Encapsulation and Maintenance Technicians with repairs and preventative maintenance tasks on encapsulation equipment.
• Maintains a set of sliders clean, greased, and ready.
• Checks for damage and verifies good working condition of capsule forks, closing pins, ejection pins, hollow clean pins, and separation pins.
• Checks tamping pins for straightness and alerts Maintenance if major damage is needed.
• Checks rectifier parts for damage and verifies parts are in good working condition.
• Checks segment carriers for proper level and aligns any out of level tolerance.
• Ensures change over parts are always ready for a 3 and modified 2 cleans.
• Notifies supporting departments of any change over parts problems to allow fixes during the next 3 and modified 2 cleans.
• After every run, inspects for damage and ensures all changeover tooling (machine parts) are in good working order.
• Observes the daily flow of the department and determines which job has priority.
• Keeps supervisor informed of project and machine status.

Physical Demands

• Must be able to work an entire 8-hour shift, when necessary, in an enclosed room.
• Must be medically qualified to work while using a half-mask respirator or a full-air respirator for up to six hours at a time and be able to follow Thorne Research’s Respiratory Protection Program guidelines.
• Must be able to work in a stationary position as well as move about unassisted.
• Must be able to safely and carefully operate and use assigned production equipment and machinery.
• Must be able to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl as circumstances arise during the course of a shift as well as climb a ladder unassisted.
• Must be able to operate, activate, use, prepare, and clean production equipment, occasionally grasping with force and using twisting wrist movements, as well as climb a ladder unassisted.
• Must have sufficient range of motion with arms and hands to reach overhead and to the side, often repetitively, during an 8-hour shift.
• Must be able to ascend/descend a ladder while carrying up to 20 pounds of material.
• Must be able to print in a legible manner.
• Must be able to work in a moderate noise level environment.
• Must be able to move or lift items weighing up to 50 pounds from floor to table and from table to floor, often repetitively, during an 8-hour shift.

What You Need

• High school diploma or GED.
• Prior manufacturing experience preferred.
• Ability to work overtime as required.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
• Ability to perform minor mechanical machine troubleshooting.
• Ability to recognize fastener size and differentiate if standard or metric and, if required, torque to proper level per SOP and/or instruction manual.
• Ability to recognize bearing and or shaft failure.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure used in the Maintenance Department, using whole numbers and decimals.
• Safety to work with ingredients and products that are derived from possibly allergenic sources including, but not limited to, nuts, soy, dairy, fish, and shellfish.

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation.
• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage for employees.
• Company-paid short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Company-paid life insurance.
• 401k plan with employer matching contributions up to 4%.
• Gym membership reimbursement.
• Monthly allowance of Thorne supplements.
• Paid time off, volunteer time off and holiday leave.
• Training, professional development, and career growth opportunities.