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Position Summary:

Setup, operate, and change tooling for various specific manufacturing equipment in accordance with procedures to ensure optimum product quality. Ensuring Cellofoam safety requirements and core competencies are met.

Essential Position Requirements (include but are not limited to):

• SAFETY FIRST – Every employee of Cellofoam North America Inc. must demonstrate a strong commitment to safety ownership and accountability by observing all safety standards, procedures, and practices to ensure a safe working environment for themselves and others.
• Adhere to Cellofoam North America Inc. company focus areas: Safety, Financial, Customer, and People.
• Embody the Cellofoam North America Inc. employee core values of Humility, Hunger, Responsibility, and Intelligence.
• Understand and adhere to Emergency Action Plan and safety absolutes.
• Understand and adhere to Lock out/Tag out procedure.
• Operate manufacturing equipment and PLC to adjust, index, and prepare for mold changes.
• Full understanding of the manufacturing processes, quality standards, equipment operations, safety requirements and departmental procedures.
• Maintain a clean and organized work area.
• Read work orders or production schedules to determine specifications, such as materials to be used, locations of cutting lines, or dimensions and tolerances.
• Verify order information and produce part(s) with the correct material, density, weight, size, and/or shape within quality tolerance to meet specific job requirements while meeting productivity standards.
• Install dies onto machines or presses and coat dies with parting agents, according to work order specifications.
• Install, align, and lock specified punches, dies, cutting blades, or other fixtures in rams or beds of machines, using gauges, templates, feelers, shims, and hand tools.
• Remove parts, such as dies, from machines after production runs are finished.
• Perform other production duties as requested by manager, supervisor, or lead.
• Use appropriate judgment in upward communication regarding plant or employee concerns.
• General understanding of the manufacturing processes and safety requirements.
• Supporting and working with other plant employees performing various tasks as required.  Lifting, inspecting materials, finished parts off the machine, product, packaging, wrapping, boxing, and assembling as required.
• Accurate completion of documentation for mold maintenance and start up approval.
• Ability to organize mold changes, prep molds, effectively operate hoists, and utilize power tools. 
• Maintain all molds regarding loaders, manifolds, core venting, seals, and alignments to insure safe and efficient operation.
• Diagnose needed mold repairs and implement preventive maintenance measures.
• Set up, operate, or tend metal or plastic molding, casting, or coremaking machines to mold or cast metal or thermoplastic parts or products.
• Smooth and clean inner surfaces of molds, using brushes, scrapers, air hoses, polishers or grinding wheels, and fill imperfections.
• Repair or replace damaged molds, pipes, belts, chains, or other equipment, using hand tools, hand-powered presses, or jib cranes.
• Clean and lubricate equipment.
• Work in conjunction with other departments to resolve issues.
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere with a culture of respect for others.
• Uses appropriate judgment in upward communication regarding plant or employee concerns.
• Maintain a working knowledge and is in full compliance with corporate standards for business conduct and Federal anti-trust laws.
• Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

Education Requirements

• High School diploma or GED preferred but not required.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

• Good communication and organizational skills.  Attention to details.
• Ability to read and comprehend general safety warnings, work instructions, and guidelines.
• Teamwork, and communication skills and the ability to take direction from co-workers.
• Mechanical: Knowledge of machines and basic tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and preventive maintenance.
• Ability to use and articulate measuring devices:  tape measure, calipers, weight scales.
• Quality Control/Analysis: Conduct tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
• General understanding of drawing and print requirements.
• Troubleshooting: Determine causes of operating errors and take action to address.

Position Requirements and Qualifications

• Prior experience in a manufacturing setting preferred.
• Must be Lock Out/Tag Out trained.
• Must be able to lift 50 lbs.
• Good manual dexterity and hand-eye coordination.
• Must be Forklift certified.
• Ability to work while standing for long periods
• Ability to maintain a brisk pace and meet standard production rates.
• Attendance and dependability necessary.
• Ability to operate a forklift properly and safely.

Software Skills Required

• Willingness to learn machine operation, touch screens, and setups.

Other Information

• Flexibility in working hours to include nights, weekends and holidays as required.
• Overtime work may be required.
• Aluminum welding and soldering a plus.

This Position Description is intended as a summary of the job responsibilities for this specific position. Cellofoam North America Inc. (the Company) reserves the right to add, remove, and/or alter job responsibilities in whole or in part with or without notice. This Position Description is not a contract. Every employee’s employment with the Company is voluntary and is subject to termination by the employee or the Company at will, with or without cause, and, with or without notice, at any time. Nothing in this Position Description or Company policies shall be interpreted to be in conflict or to eliminate or modify in any way the employment-at-will status of the Company’s employees.