Manufacturing Production Technician WCD

HWI has a fantastic opportunity to join our White Cloud Plant as a Manufacturing Production Technician.

Summary

The Manufacturing Production Technician is responsible for maintaining a clean & safe work environment as well as maintaining professional working relationships with co-workers. Job duties vary daily but all are focused on the forming finishing and packaging of fired brick used in the refractory industry.

Responsibilities

• Actively demonstrates and promotes safety and a safe work environment and holds their team accountable to drive a best in industry safety culture.
• Audits and observes to ensure our product meets or exceeds quality standards. Owns Quality Control compliance for their assigned working area.
• Analyzes equipment operations performance and problems and secures resources to ensure issues are resolved quickly and properly.
• Operates and programs presses setters pickers scales and all of bearing equipment; off bears brick from press table to rack cark kiln car or pallet cleans loose material and flange before setting in prescribed manner.
• Operates tram cab high lift and other transport machinery to deliver materials to presses.
• Transfers kiln cars; transports racks and/or rack cars to and from presses and ovens.
• Gauges and cleans kiln cars.
• Operates lift trucks to transport materials throughout the plant.
• Performs SMS charting and analysis of process variables.
• Performs minor preventative maintenance on equipment and/or partners with maintenance to solve equipment changes and problems.
• Actively participates in report out and production meetings.
• Ability to effectively receive and decipher both ambiguous and direct/detailed instructions provides innovative solutions and both work independently or as a team member.

Requirements

• Requires high school diploma or equivalent
• Some manufacturing experience helpful
• Previous forklift experience preferred
• Understanding of basic safety/OSHA standards
• Mechanical aptitude
• Two (2) four (4) years of previous machine operating or production related experience preferred

Physical and Environmental Requirements

• Physical Activity: Requires more than 2/3 of time standing walking using hands and fingers reaching climbing balancing stooping kneeling crouching crawling speaking; requires less than 1/3 of time sitting
• Lifting: Requires lifting to 100 pounds less than 1/3 of time.
• Vision: Requires accurate close distance color and peripheral vision including the ability to adjust focus and use peripheral vision.
• Environment: Requires more than 2/3 of time working near moving mechanical parts and being exposed to fumes airborne particles and outdoor weather conditions; 1/3 to 2/3 of time in wet or humid conditions in extreme heat or cold and exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals; and less than 1/3 of the time in an office setting in high places at risk of electrical shock and near vibration.
• Noise: Requires exposure to very loud noise.