Manufacturing Machine Operator II

Job Summary and Mission

Run multiple manual or automated Hone machines producing a quality product to blueprint specifications.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Set up and operate automated/robotic or manual honing machines.
• Program and troubleshoot robots using human machine interface (HMI).
• Perform changeovers, brush changes, and basic maintenance.
• Orient inserts before honing.
• Scope inserts to verify visual characteristics.
• Perform quality examinations with the magnifier scope.
• Pull samples and record inspection results.
• Perform dimensional and visual inspections of product.
• Run insert, tooling and brush tests.
• Separate scrap from good inserts, document accurately.
• Scan correct production information.
• Operate other equipment as needed.

Key Job Accountabilities

• Commitment to working safely and understand all safety procedures.
• Operator/Inspector responsible for following control plan, assuring product is processed/inspected according to proper routings, specifications and that the quantity and style are correct.
• Work to meet daily departmental production goals.
• Must be reliable and dependable.
• Communicate safety, quality, product issues with supervisor, team members and across shifts.

Education and Experience

• Must have High School diploma or GED.
• 2 year technical degree preferred.

Work Environment

• Environment with controlled temperatures and dust collection systems.
• Safety glasses with side-shields required.
• Safety Shoes are required.
• Gloves, cut resistant gloves when necessary.

Physical Demands

• Approximately eight hours standing with two break opportunities per eight hour work period.
• Intermittent walking, reaching, sitting and bending.
• Lifting insert trays weighing no more than thirty-three (33) pounds.

Problem Solving

• Run orders according to the order selection procedure.
• Assignments and instructions communicated orally and carried out by standing guidelines.
• Routine problems solved by operator using learned knowledge of insert styles and production processes.
• Recurring problems and major decisions receive supervisor attention.