




Job Summary: Machine operator to ensure optimal operation, product quality, and safety, coordinating with other departments to maintain operational continuity at The Gund Company. Key Highlights: 1. Growth opportunities and support in a fun and motivating environment. 2. A culture of mutual care, customer care, and business care. 3. Operating industrial machinery and ensuring production quality. Description: **Summary** Join The Gund Company, where you’ll find friends who support and encourage you to achieve goals that offer incredible growth opportunities. We specialize in manufacturing electrical insulation materials, but 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 per standardized operating procedures. Continuously monitor process parameters—such as pressure, temperature, and cycle time—to ensure compliance with production requirements and departmental quality standards. Handle material feeding and verify correct alignment and adjustment before initiating the pressing cycle. Maintain constant interaction with support departments—including 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 parts for inspection on the Virtek machine (quality lab equipment). * Inspect finished parts against the Work Order drawing or blueprint. * Maintain area organization using the hourly board, reporting and verifying production progress and downtime during shift via application of 6S principles. * Deliver finished products to manual assembly or packaging. **Additional Responsibilities:** * Perform job duties according to Category I of the pay scale. * Embody corporate culture values. * Safeguard the safety and physical well-being of coworkers. * Support other departments. Requirements: **Minimum Requirements** * Education – Secondary School \- High School Diploma * 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 (with 30 min. meal break) Mon–Sat Second Shift: 06:00–14:00 hrs (with 30 min. meal break) Mon–Fri Third Shift: 06:00–14:00 hrs (with 30 min. meal break) **Employment Type** 3-month fixed-term contract, followed by indefinite-term employment. **Important Note** The 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. Example Positions: Utility Operator I. Example Equipment: (Table saw, cut-off saw, radial arm saw, manual milling machine, disc sander, band/cut-off saw, panel saw, shear, VARTM, autoclave, longitudinal cutter, press brake).


