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Job Summary: The Gund Company is seeking a Machine Operator to ensure optimal operation, monitor process parameters, feed materials, and coordinate activities with support departments. Key Highlights: 1. Join a fun, motivated, and solution-oriented team that loves what it does. 2. Work focused on mutual care, customer care, and business care. 3. Opportunities for growth and support to achieve goals. Description: **Summary** Join The Gund Company, where you’ll find friends who will support and encourage you to achieve goals that provide incredible growth opportunities. We specialize in manufacturing electrical insulation products, yet we take pride in being a group of fun, motivated, and solution-oriented people who ABSOLUTELY LOVE what we do. **The Gund Company:** We care for each other, we care for our customers, and we care for our business. **Job Description Summary** Operate machines within the area to ensure optimal performance per standardized operating procedures. Continuously monitor process parameters—including pressure, temperature, and cycle time—to guarantee compliance with production requirements and departmental quality standards. Feed raw materials and verify correct alignment and adjustment prior to initiating the pressing cycle. Maintain constant interaction with support departments—e.g., Maintenance, Quality, and Production—to coordinate activities and ensure operational continuity, resolving any incidents or anomalies that arise. Adhere to industrial safety guidelines and ensure safe working conditions for all personnel involved. **Core Job Responsibilities:** * Verify raw materials against the Work Order. * Complete the safety checklist. * Inspect machine safety guards and air pressure. * Release first pieces for product verification on Virtek (a machine in the Quality Lab). * Inspect finished parts against the Work Order drawing or blueprint. * Maintain an organized work area using the hourly whiteboard, reporting and verifying production progress and downtime during shifts via application of 6S methodology. * Deliver finished products to manual assembly or packaging. **Additional Responsibilities:** * Perform job duties in accordance with Category I of the wage scale. * Embody corporate culture values. * Safeguard the safety and physical well-being of coworkers. * Support other departments. Requirements: **Minimum Requirements** * Education – Junior High School \- High School * Experience – Industrial experience with cutting machines, operation, and supervision. * Technical Skills – Operation of press machinery and preventive maintenance; use of measuring tools such as calipers, tape measures, etc. * Forklift operation preferred. * Soft Skills: Patience, perseverance, teamwork, resilience, shop-floor work, verbal and written communication, active listening **Required Skills** * Teamwork. * Working under pressure. * Effective communication. * Quality focus. * Frustration tolerance. **Work Schedule** Rotating shifts Mon \- Sat First Shift: 06:00–14:00 hrs (including 30 min. for meals) Mon \- Sat Second Shift: 06:00–14:00 hrs (including 30 min. for meals) Mon \- Fri Third Shift: 06:00–14:00 hrs (including 30 min. for meals) **Employment Type** 3-month fixed-term contract, followed by indefinite-term employment. **Important Note** Information above describes the general nature and level of work assigned to this position. Not all tasks are exhaustively listed, as the incumbent may occasionally perform other related duties as needed, depending on the nature of the role, and must develop competencies aligned with their function. FLL Statement: The Gund Company’s policy is to recruit, hire, train, and promote employees without discrimination based on race, gender, age, religion, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation, opinions, or disability. Examples of Related Positions: Utility Services Operator I. Example Equipment: (Table saw, cutoff saw, radial arm saw, manual milling machine, disc sander, band/cut-off saw, panel saw, shear, VARTM, autoclave, slitter, brake press).
