Production Worker

Stryten Energy • Fort Smith, AR

8h • $23 • Onsite

About The Position

Starting pay rate = $22.65 plus $1.00 per hour each anniversary (up to 3 years) in addition to plant wide merit increases.
Stryten Energy in the Fort Smith, AR area, operates a growing battery manufacturing factory. Through the Industrial Power division, we are an essential business that produces batteries, services and solutions for the Motive and Network Power industries.
Stryten is hiring Production Workers for our Fort Smith facility. You could be working to manufacture lead acid batteries in any of these areas noted below. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
2nd Shift: 2:30p to 11:00pm
Apply online or text plantjobs to 678-931-7826 to begin your pre-screening process!
Stryten Energy offers a strong benefit package that includes the following:
Medical, prescription, dental and vision plans (top plans in the market)
Short-term, long term disability and employee life
401(k) plan with Company Match
Paid Time Off (including time off 1st year)
Paid Holidays

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• One to three years of manufacturing experience, preference given to experience with batteries and / or mechanical processes.
• Ability to read, analyze and interpret common technical instructions.
• Effectively communicate with co-workers, customer and management.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

Nice To Haves

• Stryten Energy encourages candidates with Military training and/ or experience to apply.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form
• Prefer the ability to define problems and draw valid conclusions to help determine the work that needs to be performed
• Prefer an understanding of basic electricity/electronics in order to troubleshoot problems

Responsibilities

• Casting
• Have alloys checked and staged for melting pot
• Set up casting machines
• Perform quality checks, looking for things like missing members, flash, and cracks
• Have forklift move to full pallets to storage for curing organized for production schedule
• Pasting
• Set up pasting machine
• Perform quality checks
• Feed plates and / or moves stacks across rollers with minimal handling to drying rack
• Have forklift move to full drying racks to steam huts for curing
• Move cured plates to storage area organized for production schedule
• Assembly
• Assembles batteries from components staged on line, may involve duties like loading, burning, sealing, testing or stacking
• Charge & Cycle
• Jars are filled with required amount of acid allowing plates to soak.
• Connect bank of batteries together
• Initiate battery charging
• Work batteries through charge and discharge cycles to specifications
• Test batteries for finishing
• Wash batteries for finishing
• Finish & Pack
• Configures batteries based on order and / or standard operating procedures (SOP)
• Prepares the batteries for shipment, including such duties as crating, strapping packing additional parts based on order and / or operating procedure
• Boxing up parts for specific batteries depending on upcoming orders and SOP
• May involve loading trucks

Benefits

• Medical, prescription, dental and vision plans (top plans in the market)
• Short-term, long term disability and employee life
• 401(k) plan with Company Match
• Paid Time Off (including time off 1st year)
• Paid Holidays

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED