Tufting |Reliability Tech C| 2nd Shift

Shaw • GA

119d

About The Position

Shaw Industries is looking a Reliability Tech C to serve the Tufting/Warping Department by making necessary repairs and/or adjustments to tufting machines for the purpose of maintaining their efficient and accurate operation. Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a leader in flooring and other surface solutions designed for residential housing, commercial spaces and outdoor environments. Leveraging strengths in design, innovation and operational excellence, the company takes a people-centered, customer-focused, and growth-minded approach to meet diverse market needs. It creates differentiated customer experiences through its expansive portfolio of brands: Anderson Tuftex, COREtec, Shaw Floors, Patcraft, Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw Contract, Shaw Sports Turf, Shawgrass, Southwest Greens, Watershed Geo and more. Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Shaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $6 billion in annual sales and 18,000 associates worldwide.

Requirements

• Ability to communicate to other employees both in speech and in writing.
• Ensure the work environment is free of harassment and that employees feel free to express problems and concerns.
• Assure compliance of all corporate policies.

Responsibilities

• Make necessary repairs to tufting machines and warpers.
• Perform preventative maintenance on tufting machines and warpers.
• Make major changes of blades, loopers and needles on tufting machines.
• Make necessary speed adjustments to tufting machines.
• Obtain dissection weight checks for the purpose of determining the nature of tufting machine adjustments and make the needed adjustments pending the analysis of the dissection weight checks.
• Make necessary tufting machine adjustments to accommodate style changes.
• Troubleshoot machines and warpers for mechanical issues.
• Perform minor and major overhauls of tufting machines when machine shop work is not required.
• Repair mending guns and other Tufting/Warper Department equipment.
• Attend periodic departmental meetings as well as training that will foster continued job improvement.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Life insurance and disability coverage.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee assistance program.
• Health savings account.
• Paid Time Off.
• Parental Leave.
• 401K and Retirement Plans.
• Product discounts for employees.
• Adoption assistance.
• Shaw Family Health Center (Dalton, GA, and Cartersville, GA, locations).
• And much more.

What This Job Offers

• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees