General Assembler-School Bus Test Line

About the role

Perform parts and material installation and assembly tasks per work instructions and verbal leadership. Assembles, aligns, tests, and inspects parts to form complete units or subassemblies of a variety of standard products where procedures and methods are prescribed. This may involve many parts, close tolerances, and interrelated factors.

Responsibilities

• Assembles or produces component parts into completed units within blueprint specification and/or design tolerances.
• Maintains acceptable performance standards for assembly, production, quality, safety, and housekeeping.
• Performs minor adjustments, repairs, or setups to equipment or machines.
• Inspects parts or completed units by using visual inspection, gages, tape measures, check fixtures, calipers, or other inspection equipment.
• Responsible for proper daily storage of hand tools.
• Coordinates with other setup or leader personnel for associate job assignments, or setup personnel for movement of materials or coordination of duties.
• Maintains daily 5S standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned by management.
• Follows quality service standards and complies with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Keeps production supervisor advised of work status, workload, problems, and progress as related to work assignments.

Requirements

• 1–3 years' experience in cutting, fitting, and measuring, including installing/assembling components such as bus seats, windows, doors, interior lights, grab bars, and other interior bus fixtures.
• 1 year of experience understanding bus assembly processes, lean manufacturing concepts, and blueprint reading.
• Basic computer skills and math knowledge.
• Ability to understand written and verbal work instructions.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints.
• High school diploma or GED.

Work Environment

• Regularly exposed to high levels of noise.
• Machinery operation requires safety equipment, including eye safety glasses, hearing protectors, work boots, and hardhats.
• Loose-fitting clothes and jewelry are not permitted.

Physical Requirements

• Ability to walk, stand, crouch, bend, kneel, lift, carry, and reach as needed in large and tight spaces.
• Manual dexterity used regularly with occasional repetitive finger motion.
• Lifting up to 25 pounds; occasionally 50 pounds.
• Hearing and speaking required.
• Specific vision abilities include close and distance vision, color identification, eye/hand coordination, and depth perception.

Pay

$17.50–$25.00 per hour.