Manufacturing Associate I

Responsibilities

Operates production equipment and processes. • Follow established production and quality procedures. • Participate in the team’s daily start-up communications meeting, assigns work, and establishes job rotation. • Maintain personal OJT training documentation. • Follow defined Standard Work and provide input for improvement • Performs cell audits and inspections and follow-up on abnormalities. • Ensures individual compliance to established policies and procedures. • Determine and judge if operating conditions become abnormal. • Associates will be capable of performing complete preventative maintenance routines utilizing established checklists designed to return the equipment to the original state. • Actively participates in the completion of required preventative maintenance activities. • Actively preserve normal conditions of equipment and/or processes • Performs first response troubleshooting and minor first line maintenance activities during line down situations. • Respond quickly to abnormalities by repairing the machine or having a technician take care of it when he/she does not have enough knowledge, skill, or resources. • Ensures team achieves daily 5S+1, Quality, Delivery, Kaizen, and Cost goals. • Employs various problem-solving techniques (5 Why, 8 D, Cause and Effect, and Fishbone Diagrams, etc.) to drive problems to permanent corrective action. • Participates in teams Kaizen activities to ensure continuous improvement within the work cell.