State Industries Production Technician
Listed on 2026-09-12
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Manufacturing / Production
Manufacturing & Industrial Operations
Supervise and coordinate welding operations with incarcerated individuals while using a large variety of hand tools, power tools and machinery. This position is responsible for overseeing the production area and ensuring all safety and security measures are followed. Quality control in this area requires constant attention.
Job classification duties also include instructing on various welding techniques, fabrication processes and safety protocols required by the Iowa DOC, North Central Correctional Facility, OSHA, Fire Marshall, Respirator Program, and Lock Out/Tag Out procedures.
Also ensure all products meet industry standards and customer specifications.
This role requires strong mechanical aptitude, excellent blueprint reading skills, and the ability to effectively manage welders and fabrication processes by incarcerated individuals.
Maintain the stock of raw material while keeping a detailed inventory of finished goods.
Also ensuring timely delivery dates of finish goods are met.
Maintain daily physical accounts of tool inventory and machines.
Replace or repair damaged tools or equipment.
Deliver finished goods as needed.
Monitor the activities of offenders in a minimum/medium security correctional setting.
Receives yearly training in this area.
Gives the highest priority to security functions to ensure the safety of offenders, staff, and the general public.
Conducts required offender counts professionally.
Teach I/Is to be a proficient welder; know and understand metal working equipment such as press brakes, plasma, laser cutters, and welders. Help management determine which piece of equipment best fits the shop's needs for capital improvements.
Work with CAD designers to determine best material for jobs.
Qualified applicants will meet selective requirements as well as the minimum qualifications of the job class.
Required qualificationsApplicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:
- a. Wood Furniture Fabrication: cutting, planing, shaping, routing, gluing, staining, and assembling wood furniture.
- b. Upholstery Fabrication: cutting patterns, sewing, stitching, tacking, gluing, and assembling fabric and foam upholstery items.
- c. Braille Production: translation of printed documents into Literary and/or Nemeth Code Braille using the Perkins Braille writer and/or computer translation programs, thermoforming, binding, producing raised line drawings.
- d. Graphics Arts Production: layout, proofing, darkroom operation, screen-printing, press operation (offset, duplicator, desktop publishing), binding, and cost estimating.
- e. Chemical Formulation: mixing, blending, bottling, packaging, and labeling personal care, floor care, kitchen, laundry, and bathroom chemical products.
- f. Sign Fabrication: blanking, shaping, and forming metal, wood, and plastic into sign substrate. Application of reflective or non-reflective sheeting to substrate to produce traffic control signs.
- g. Warehouse Operations: receiving, accounting for, storing, and disbursing raw materials, component parts, and finished products. Loading, unloading, routing, and dispatching delivery vehicles.
- h. Service Center Operation: receiving, processing, recording, and fulfilling incoming telephonic calls. Initiating, recording, and servicing outgoing calls. Responding to and servicing mailed and electronically transferred requests for information; using computers to provide services.
- i. Industrial Safety: implementing and administering programs to ensure compliance with the standards of regulatory agencies (OSHA, EPA, etc.) in manufacturing plants. Providing safety training to personnel in industrial plants.
- j. Manufacturing Support Services and Production Control: coordinating the disbursement of raw materials and component parts to production shops; scheduling the output of production shops to ensure efficient final assembly; scheduling and routing delivery of finished goods; coordinating on-site installation of large projects between production, delivery, contracted vendors, and customers; inventory control; quality control; micrographics, or computer-based production control and support.
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