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Job Summary: The Gund Company is seeking a Machine Operator to ensure optimal machine operation, monitor process parameters, and coordinate activities with support departments. Key Highlights: 1. Join a fun, motivated, and solution-oriented team. 2. Operation and monitoring of machines with a focus on quality. 3. Coordination and resolution of incidents with support departments. Description: **Summary** Join The Gund Company, where you’ll find friends who will support and encourage you to achieve goals that offer incredible growth opportunities. We specialize in manufacturing electrical insulation materials, yet we take pride in being a group of fun, motivated, and solution-oriented people who 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 area machinery to ensure optimal performance in accordance with Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Continuously monitor process parameters—including pressure, temperature, and cycle time—to ensure production requirements and departmental quality standards are met. Handle material feeding and verify proper 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, promptly 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 safety guards and machine air pressure. * Release first pieces for testing on Virtek (a machine located 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 implementation 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 fellow coworkers. * Support other departments as needed. Requirements: **Minimum Requirements** * Education – Secondary School \- High School Diploma * Experience – Industrial experience operating cutting machines, including 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** Fixed-term contract for 3 months, followed by an indefinite-term contract. **Important Note** The information above describes the general nature and level of work assigned to this position. Not all tasks can be exhaustively listed, as the incumbent may occasionally perform other job-related duties as required by the nature of the role, and must develop skills aligned with their specific 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, longitudinal cutter, brake press).
