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Machine Operator

AT Saint-Gobain
Saint-Gobain

Machine Operator

Shreveport, LA

Position Description

Job Summary

Primary Functions

Maintain the safe and efficient use of equipment, while adjusting settings to ensure accurate production of goods. Support all efforts to maintain 5-S standards and the plant's overall housekeeping as assigned by the Production Supervisor. Assist other Managers with different tasks as they occur as assigned by the Production Supervisor.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Perform daily routine cleaning of areas; maintain 5-S standards and housekeeping
  • Responsible for machine adjustments, product changeover, start-up, and shutdowns activities.
  • Conduct preventable maintenance of process lines and resolve production problems efficiently to minimize downtime.
  • Ensure optimum operations of equipment by reporting needed maintenance
  • Meet the department's key objectives
  • Must understand and follow job-specific SOPs
  • Will be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned consistent with the non-exempt functions.

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Will be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned consistent with the non-exempt functions.

Required Qualifications

Qualifications

  • Ability to read, write, comprehend, and verbally communicate simple instructions in English.
  • Ability to perform all operations within acceptable quality and time standards.
  • Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees at all levels of the organization.
  • Ability to recognize the quality expected and be able to reproduce it.
  • Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of changing situations.
  • Must maintain a positive rating as described in the training/qualification evaluation record as Front End Support.
  • Must have the ability to read, write, and perform mathematical computations at a level required for successful job performance.
  • Hand-eye coordination.

Additional Description

Manufacturing experience preferred

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to walk. The employee is occasionally required to stand, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit and talk and hear. Other physical requirements include:

  • Ability to regularly lift and/or move up to 40 lbs without assistance.
  • Ability to work from various squatting, kneeling, or bending positions.
  • Ability to work with arms above head.
  • Ability to perform all operations within acceptable quality and time standards.
  • Ability to operate and understand the operation of all protective safety equipment in the area.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, and depth perception.
  • Hand-eye coordination.

Experience

  • High School Diploma or equivalent.
  • Three (3) or more years of experience in a manufacturing environment.
  • Any appropriate combination of academic and work experience.

Company Summary

Through the responsible development of innovative and sustainable building products, CertainTeed, headquartered in Malvern, Pennsylvania, has helped shape the building products industry for more than 110 years. Founded in 1904 as General Roofing Manufacturing Company, the firm's slogan "Quality Made Certain, Satisfaction Guaranteed," inspired the name CertainTeed. Today, CertainTeed is a leading North American brand of exterior and interior building products, including roofing, siding, fence, decking, railing, trim, insulation, drywall, and ceilings.

A subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, one of the world's largest and oldest building products companies, CertainTeed has more than 6,300 employees and more than 60 manufacturing facilities throughout the United States and Canada. www.certainteed.com

Legal Statement

Saint-Gobain provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Saint-Gobain is an equal opportunity employer of individuals with disabilities and supports the hiring of veterans.

Client-provided location(s): Shreveport, LA, USA
Job ID: Saint_Gobain-USA07292
Employment Type: Other