Tool Crib Attendant

About the role

Flex is the diversified manufacturing partner of choice that helps market-leading brands design, build and deliver innovative products that improve the world. A career at Flex offers the opportunity to make a difference and invest in your growth in a respectful, inclusive, and collaborative environment. If you are excited about a role but don't meet every bullet point, we encourage you to apply and join us to create the extraordinary. To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add an Tool Crib Attendant located in Columbia, South Carolina. Reporting to the Process Engineering Manager the Tool Crib Attendant role is responsible for issuing tools, dies and area equipment; maintains records of issued tools, and monitors the tool crib inventory when necessary; also receives new tools and schedules preventative maintenance of the equipment.

Responsibilities

• Receives, stores and issues hand tools, machine tools, dies, materials, and equipment in industrial establishment.
• Maintains perpetual inventory of tools and equipment, manually or using computer.
• Receives incoming tools and equipment.
• Lubricates tools and equipment, using hand tools, spray gun, or pressurized spray.
• Determines method of tools shipment.
• Unpacks and examines incoming tools and materials, rejects damaged items, records shortages and corresponds with shipper to rectify damages and shortages.
• Liable to notify supervision of received items.
• Receives, unpacks, and stores incoming tools and equipment, and requisitions stock to replenish inventory.
• Inspects and measures tools and equipment for defects and wear and reports damage or wear to supervisors.
• Repairs, services, and lubricates tools and equipment.
• Delivers tools or equipment to workers.
• Marks and identifies tools and equipment.
• Maintain a cutting tool inventory.
• Orders, stores, issues, sharpens, and maintains all tools and holders.
• Responsible for the operations and management of the tool crib during lab hours.

Requirements

• Completion of a high school degree is preferred.
• Basic Office Skills: typing, telephones experience; excel experience preferred
• ERP knowledge preferred, but not required
• Warehouse Skills: forklift, electronic scales, pallet jack
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions and procedure manuals
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form