Job Description
Job Summary:
Required Education and Experience:
Critical Success Factors:
- Excellent attendance.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Acceptable verbal/written English skills
- Ability to work independently and handle multiple tasks
- Good computer skills
- Ability to troubleshoot
Essential Functions:
- Abide by all Company policies including, but not limited to the following: Health and Safety, Quality and Environmental Systems, Human Resources policies, and the Martinrea Employee Handbook.
- Responsible for but not limited to manufacturing parts and product by operating extruder machines, as well as providing training and support to employees performing various extrusion activities.
- Manufactures parts or product by operating extrusion machines and equipment, using hand tools and fixtures, and assembling components as required
- Tests and visually inspects completed or in-process work, notifies supervisor or other personnel of manufacturing or quality problems, and documents quality conformance and production volumes during shift or run
- Prepares finished parts or product for shipment or routing to next processing stage, or notifies appropriate personnel that product is ready for packaging or shipment
- Rotates between different work stations or job assignments
- Maintains accurate and complete daily paperwork
- Completes quality checks as defined by job instructions
- Trains new operators
- Troubleshoots complex machine or process problems with producing extruded parts
- Performs test runs of extruded products using new materials to define possible uses, and brainstorm ideas for possible new uses and processes involving new materials
- Confers with appropriate personnel regarding the development of production processes, tooling and materials
- Performs general maintenance of extruders, pullers, water pumps and vacuum tanks.
- Housekeeping
- Equipment to be wiped down and kept clean
- Floors to be swept and washed by the end of each shift
- Garbage cans to be dumped at the end of each shift
- Work station to be clean and organized
- All other duties as requested by Supervisor
Working Conditions
- Predominantly in a factory/warehouse setting –PPE required
- Involves handling or working near industrial chemicals or vapours’ such as solvents, cleaning agents and flammable liquids
- Involves operating or working near moving mechanical equipment
Effort/Physical Demands
- Adequate vision acuity
- Frequent long hours and overtime as required
- Ability to stand up to 12 hours during a work shift
- Ability to lift materials or objects up to 25 pounds frequently, 40 pounds occasionally
- Ability to perform repetitive operations and operate machine controls with hands and fingers. Assembly work may include repetitive pushing, pulling and bending of parts, as well as manipulating small parts
- Ability to stoop or crouch to retrieve and/or lift parts
Health and Safety Responsibilities
- Must work in accordance with Health and Safety regulations, Company Rules, Plant Rules, policies and procedures
- Must use or wear equipment, protective devices or certain clothing as required by the company
Other Duties:
- This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities required for this job. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice