OTW Accessories Operator

Contec, Inc.•Sherman Park, SC

6h•Onsite

About The Position

The OTW Accessories Operator assembles various components into finished products for customers, including lids, trolleys, and mechanical parts. The role involves interpreting production documentation, setting up equipment, managing shop orders and raw components through a computer system, completing production paperwork, performing in-process inspections, and packaging products to specifications. The operator reports non-conformances to the Cutting Lead, maintains the work area, and participates in required safety, quality, product-specification, and equipment-operation training. The position works within Contec’s ISO 9001-2015 quality guidelines and goals. The role requires reliable attendance, attention to safety and quality, teamwork, effective communication, adaptability, customer focus, self-awareness, continuous improvement, action orientation, and time management. Employees may be cross-trained in other areas and may be assigned additional duties. Work takes place in an air-conditioned manufacturing environment with moving mechanical parts and usually moderate noise. Employees must wear company-provided safety glasses, steel-toed shoes, hairnets, beardnets, and nitrile gloves; jewelry is not permitted in the work cell. The work involves frequent or constant equipment operation, repetitive hand and arm movements, bending, standing or remaining stationary, moving between workstations, and handling products and loads.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED; or one to three months of related experience and/or training; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
Ability to write simple correspondence and present information effectively in one-on-one and small-group situations.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to apply common-sense understanding to detailed but uncomplicated written or oral instructions and solve problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.
Ability to work in a team environment and cooperate with others to meet production goals.
Ability to follow site protocols, policies, and procedures and perform duties with regard for safety and quality.
Ability to operate equipment and perform repetitive hand, finger, wrist, and arm movements, including squeezing.
Ability to move between workstations, bend repetitively at the waist, and transport or move loads up to 30 pounds and push, pull, or lift up to 40 pounds.
Required vision abilities include close vision, color vision, and ability to adjust focus; the job description also lists distance and peripheral vision.

Responsibilities

Meet regular and reliable work-site attendance requirements to perform the job and meet productivity standards.
Read and interpret product drawings, Control Plans, and Shop Orders as needed for production.
Complete production paperwork.
Set up equipment.
Order raw components through the computer system.
Make, issue, and close shop orders in the computer system.
Perform in-process inspections as required.
Notify the Cutting Lead of non-conformances.
Clean the manufacturing work area as necessary or as required by a maintenance work order.
Package products to specifications.
Participate in periodic training on safety, product specifications, quality, and equipment operation.
Work within ISO 9001-2015 quality standards and Contec’s quality goals.
Cross-train in other areas and perform other duties as assigned.