Winder Operator

Western Container Corporation Winder Operator

Job Title: Winder Operator

Department: Production

Reports To: Production Supervisor

Approval Date: 04/02/2020

The Winder Operator is responsible for creating a safe work environment and operating assigned machinery including saws. This position is responsible for safely setting up, operating and maintaining the saw/winder and work area to meet both internal and external customer needs. The individual in this role is detail oriented in ensuring work product meets client specifications as indicated in the work order.

This role is part of a team environment focused on safely creating products and services that meet and exceed customer expectations efficiently, collaborating with management and manufacturing personnel to ensure an excellent product to the customer.

Other duties may be assigned.

• Setup appropriate machinery per job specifications ensuring safety, quality and appropriately applying lean strategies.
• Log into jobs and record production data, including closing open work orders and whipping orders to finished goods for shipping.
• Read work orders or production schedules to determine specifications such as materials, cutting lines, dimensions and tolerances.
• Position guides, stops, holding blocks, or other fixtures to secure and direct work pieces using hand tools and measuring devices.
• Set stops on machine beds, change dies, and adjust components such as rams or power presses when making multiple or successive passes.
• Start machines, monitor their operations, and record operational data.
• Set up, operate, or tend machines to saw, cut, shear, slit, punch, crimp, notch, bend, or straighten metal or plastic material.
• Responsible for machine changeover and appropriate material setup.
• Examine work area at the beginning and end of each shift and during any machine changeover for safety and proper operations.
• Examine completed work pieces for defects such as chipped edges or marred surfaces and sort defective pieces according to types of flaws.
• Measure completed work pieces to verify conformance to specifications using micrometers, gauges, calipers, templates, or rulers.
• Safely and efficiently prepare material for shipping, including proper identification, tagging and wrapping.
• Collaborate with various departments to meet customer satisfaction.
• Stack finished goods on pallets.

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required.
• One-year related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge of Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software preferred.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, Excel) preferred.
• Driver’s License preferred.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small-group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measurement, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common-sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.
• Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

• Stand >2/3 of the time.
• Walk >2/3 of the time.
• Sit 2/3 of the time.
• Reach with hands and arms 1/3–2/3 of the time.
• Climb or balance 1/3–2/3 of the time.
• Sto p, kneel, crouch or crawl 1/3–2/3 of the time.
• Talk and hear >2/3 of the time.
• Push or pull up to 50 pounds 1/3–2/3 of the time.
• Lift up to 50 pounds 1/3–2/3 of the time.

• Normal work environment is a manufacturing facility.
• Noise in the manufacturing environment is moderately loud with machinery and forklift traffic.
• Employees are exposed to warm and cool temperatures based on weather conditions.