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Job Description

Job Description

Description : Focus / Objective

The Extrusion Operator Assistant will support the plant activities by assisting in machine set-up for orders, safely helping operate machines to production target, waste, and quality standards.

Help with troubleshooting machine when it is down or not performing to standards.

Job Duties and Responsibilities :

• Adjust, calibrate, and test equipment at the beginning of every shift to ensure proper pressure, speed, temperature and general operation.
• Examine visually, weigh and measure components created from equipment at the end of the week to ensure machines are produced according to company and industry regulations and standards, adjusting as needed.
• Work with team members, shift supervisors and all necessary personnel to take care of complications as they arise
• Communicate with fellow team members to learn of any equipment problems or malfunctions and take care of them as they come up.
• Use regulated cleaning solutions, grease guns, oil cans, air hoses and cleaning cloths to properly maintain and clean equipment on a bimonthly basis.
• Make repairs to equipment when necessary, and replace all defective, broken or worn-out components.
• Choose and install cutters, molds, and all other necessary equipment parts so machines are always operating at peak efficiency.

Minimum Position Qualifications / Requirements :

Requirements :

Preferred Skills / Qualifications & Education :

Education and Experience :

Environmental, Health & Safety Responsibilities :

Quality Responsibilities :

Physical Demands :

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job :

Talking is important for those activities in which workers must impart oral information to clients or to the public, and in those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Using primarily just the fingers to make small movements such as typing, picking up small objects, or pinching fingers together. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk and stoop; kneel, crouch or crawl.

Work Environment :

Must be able to perform under the following conditions :