Operator - 2nd Shift

Job Details

• Job Location:
  
  Whiteland - Whiteland, IN 46184
• Position Type:
  Full Time
• Education Level: None
• Travel Percentage:
  None
• Job Category:
  Manufacturing

Operator position to set up, operate, and tend to various specific manufacturing equipment in the department in accordance with procedures to ensure optimum product quality. Accountable to safety, quality, efficiency, and proper packaging of materials produced.

• 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 a minimum of one manufacturing equipment or machine proficiently and at speed with minimal supervision.
• Complete documentation for quality checks and accurately record operational data and KPIs.
• Verify recipe or settings to process raw materials with the correct density, color and quality tolerance to meet specific job requirements.
• 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.
• Hand‑form, cut, or finish work pieces, using tools such as blades, glue guns, heat guns.
• 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.
• Load work pieces or material into machines.
• Mark identifying data on work pieces.
• Set up, operate, or tend machines to cut, punch, crimp, or notch material.
• Set stops on machine beds, change dies, and adjust components.
• Verify equipment set‑up prior to start of a production run; operate and shut down manufacturing equipment.
• Start machines, monitor their operations, troubleshoot, and stop machines.
• Turn controls to set cutting speeds, feed rates, or table angles for specified operations.
• Turn valves and dials of machines to regulate pressure, temperature, and speed and feed rates, and to set cycle times.
• Monitor equipment operations and record operational data.
• Remove parts, such as dies, from machines after production runs are finished.
• Trim excess material from parts, using approved knives, and grind scrap material for reuse.
• 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.
• Perform other production duties as requested by manager, supervisor, or lead.
• Work in conjunction with other departments to resolve issues.
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere with a culture of respect for others.
• Use 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.

• High School diploma or GED preferred but not required.