Plating Plant Operator (Temp to Hire) 2nd Shift
About the role
This is where your work makes a difference. At Baxter, we believe every person—regardless of who they are or where they are from—deserves a chance to live a healthy life. It was our founding belief in 1931 and continues to be our guiding principle. We are redefining healthcare delivery to make a greater impact today, tomorrow, and beyond. Our Baxter colleagues are united by our Mission to Save and Sustain Lives. Together, our community is driven by a culture of courage, trust, and collaboration. Every individual is empowered to take ownership and make a meaningful impact. We strive for efficient and effective operations, and we hold each other accountable for delivering exceptional results. Here, you will find more than just a job—you will find purpose and pride.
Responsibilities
- Perform a range of repetitive operations, racking, un-racking, plating, assembly, using hand and power tools, set-up, bending, drilling, packing, benders, presses, drilling machines, induction welding, fabric machines, assemble parts for a variety of products making adjustments and clean machines daily.
- Follow verbal and written instructions, operation sheets, processes and clearly-defined procedures to complete tasks.
- Use overhead hoist, lift truck and other material handling equipment as required.
- Load parts, raw steel and remove parts after forming, assembly and bead-blasting as required.
- Perform duties and various similar functions in prescribed sequence as necessary for proper fit and operation.
- Help maintain solutions for effective cleaning and plating operations “processes” to produce quality parts. Processes include cleaning, electroless-nickel, acid rinses, plating and rinsing.
- Loading and unloading racks and plating barrels and place into tanks in proper sequence for required cycle times.
- Help dump, clean and flush tanks and assist in preparing new solutions.
- Handle hazardous waste and hazardous substances.
- Do minor maintenance on equipment as required.
- Fill out and attach in-ticket cards to finished products, report labor and other necessary data to the system.
- Ensure that parts are in conformance to prescribed quality criteria.
- Help in planning daily and weekly production runs; enter quantities, production adjustments to schedule and other appropriate information into the computer.
- Operate a variety of manual or computerized testing equipment to check parts for quality.
- Responsible for both quality and quantity of work: Participate in team activities and problem solving sessions as required.
- Communicate problems and/or solutions to appropriate team member.
- Must follow processes and procedures as written.
- As needed, document and/or chart production data to aid in problem identification, quality feedback and production scheduling.
- Troubleshoot problems when necessary.
- Train, instruct and assist other operators in their duties as required to ensure a quality product and smooth flow.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Advise and recommend alternatives to appropriate team member. (May require the use of computer and telecommunication device).
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential work stoppages.
- Evaluate defective material and tooling, faulty operations, questionable conditions and potential