Machine Operator

As a leading aerial equipment manufacturer, we’re constantly striving to better our products, services, and customer satisfaction. We understand this starts with us and that’s why we’re dedicated to our employees’ success.

If you’re an energetic and motivated individual, we want to talk with you! Start the conversation and learn more about our rapidly growing team when you apply today.

Essential Function and Responsibilities:

• Assists in staging production for welders and all others in the facility and supplies them with all necessary supplies, fixtures, and pallets needed to complete staged jobs.
• Prepares weldments for shipping including, but not limited to, palletizing, banding, wrapping, labeling, etc.
• Operates robotic welding equipment to produce scissor assemblies and fabricated metal parts, loads and unloads parts, checks quality of welds and metal finish weldments.
• Assists in ensuring all materials are unloaded from delivery trucks, verified for correctness, checked for damaged goods, and materials transferred to their designated location or workstation on a daily basis.
• Observes robot operation to detect defects or machine malfunction, reports issues that may fall outside of product specifications.
• Chips or grinds off burrs, sharp edges, excess weld, slag, or spatter using hand or bench grinders and other power tools.
• Performs various maintenance and custodial duties.
• Follows safety regulations and observes environment to ensure safe working conditions are present and corrects issues that need attention.
• May perform other duties as required and/or assigned.

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, physical demands, and/or ability required for this position to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or

Experience:

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Ability to read measurement devices such as tape measure, combination square, carpenter’s square, T square, etc.
• Preferred – Previous experience welding in a manufacturing industry.
• Preferred – Previous experience with brake presses, welding, shipping and receiving.
• Preferred – Ability to develop more specialized skills in such areas as welding, blueprint readings, machine operation.

Physical Demands and Working Environment:

• Ability to lift, position, move, bend, flip parts in order to accomplish production goals that require loading, adjusting, turning, and removing small and large parts up to 60 lbs with assistance.
• Ability to occasionally lift greater than 75 lbs with assistance.
• Ability to stand for extended periods of time, bend, kneel, reach, lift, sit in hot, cold, dusty, elevated, noisy area where foot and automated equipment movement, airborne dust/fumes, and ultraviolet light are present.
• Ability to operate a forklift.
• Exposure to moving mechanical parts.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.