Brief Description: Works with a team that organizes and directs operations in a manufacturing environment. Reports to department supervisor and completes tasks as assigned.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• With direction from the department supervisor, schedules and directs production activities and establishes production priorities for products in keeping with effective operations and cost factors.
• Provides leadership to a diverse workforce.
• Determines labor needs according to schedules.
• Provides leadership for employee relations through effective communications, coaching, training, and development.
• Answers questions and resolves any problems that arise with workers or production.
• As assigned keeps in contact with customers and provides quality customer service.
• Committed to practicing 5S.
• With direct supervisor’s direction, develops and implements operating methods and procedures designed to eliminate operating problems and improve product quality.
• Keeps production whiteboard up to date.
• Works with department supervisor to revise production schedules and priorities as a result of equipment failure and operating problems.
• Ensures compliance with company standards for cost control, waste reduction, quality, safety, and complete and on-time delivery.
• Notifies supervisor of material needs.
• Commitment to ISO and Lean Manufacturing standards.
• Operates RF Gun to move parts.
• Other duties as assigned.

Education/Experience:

• 3+ years’ experience as a Lead in production or warehouse facility.
• Associates degree in business or related field or proof of continuing education preferred.
• History of training department staff.

Language Skills:

• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information to employees.

Mathematical Skills:

• Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to define and solve practical problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions either in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions.

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Office.
• Working knowledge of Excel.
• Ability to multi task.
• Knowledge of production equipment and tools such as a forklift, electric hand or pallet jacks, automated baggers, electric tape machines, sewing machines, label printers, and cutting tools.
• Knowledge of packaging work orders and sales orders.
• Knowledge of human behavior and motivational factors affecting employee performance and self-esteem.
• Skill to work in a team oriented environment.
• Ability to use basic office equipment including printer, fax machine, and copy machine.
• Ability to adapt to ever changing priorities and/or situations.
• Ability to pay attention to detail.
• Ability to handle pressure of deadlines and stay patient while tasks are being performed.

Strength/Physical Demands:

• Must be able to be on feet for 8 hours each day either standing or walking.
• Regularly required to bend, stoop, or reach with hands and arms.
• Lifting and carrying of up to 20 pounds with occasional lifting of up to 25 pounds, with infrequent lifting or carrying of small tools or objects.

Work Conditions:

• Must be willing to work hours necessary to complete tasks.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Clean modern workplace and climate controlled shop floor.

Brief Description: Operates the lifting and tilting controls and steers the forklift into position to load, move, transport, and stack goods and materials contained on pallets and/or crates.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Loads trucks, ensuring loads are evenly and securely placed.
• Unloads trucks, ensuring material is brought to the correct area.
• Follows safety procedures according to shop regulations.
• Moves raw materials and finished goods to processing or dock areas of the warehouse.
• Sorts material for required areas.
• Weighs material before loading trucks, if needed.
• Puts out paperwork, ensuring it is placed with the correct material, if needed.
• Moves pallets and crates when needed.
• Ensure goods are stored in the correct area of the warehouse so they may be located easily when processing orders.
• Communicates with supervisor if there is a problem with the forklift.
• Continuously inspects the forklift throughout the day to verify that the brakes, steering, etc. are working correctly.
• Completes a Pre-Start Up Safety Checklist every morning before operating the machine.
• Other duties as assigned.

Strength Demands:

• Lifting and carrying of up to 20 pounds with occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds.
• Continuously getting on and off the forklift throughout the day.
• Bending and twisting.

Work Conditions:

• Must be willing to work 40 hours per week.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
• Must wear safety seatbelt at all times while operating a forklift.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Must be able to cooperate/communicate with other employees, supervisors, and line leaders.
• Must be considerate to customers/truck drivers and have patience as they watch over the loading or unloading of their trucks.
• Knowledge of safety procedures and safety awareness.
• Knowledge of basic forklift operations.
• Knowledge of how the hydraulics system of a forklift works.
• Skill to work in a team oriented environment.
• Coordination skills and good reflexes.
• Ability to water battery when necessary.
• Ability to judge distances.
• Ability to adjust to ever changing conditions in the warehouse.
• Ability to rotate to any area of the warehouse on a weekly basis.
• Ability to pay attention to detail.
• Must be able to use RF gun to scan product for locating in correct to load trucks in shipping and unload in receiving.

Education/Experience:

• 1 year experience driving a forklift.
• 1 year experience working in a warehouse environment.
• Must pass in house certification.
• No educational requirement.

Brief Description:  Supervise and coordinate the activities of workers engaged in packing products and material to ensure the end result meets quality standards before shipment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Observes packing operations to verify conformance to specifications.
• Interprets job work orders to workers and assigns duties.
• Analyzes and resolves work problems, or assists workers in solving work problems.
• Monitors worker productivity.
• Motivates workers.
• Controls and implements job assignment/rotation plan for workers.
• Assures materials are being properly handled, routed, and controlled.
• Ensures that safety standards are adhered to.
• Examine work for exactness, neatness, and conformance to policies and procedures.
• Performs hourly checks on tables and tracks progress of workers.
• Verifies counts on material being packaged.
• Sets scale to determine the number of pieces each container requires for all orders requiring more than 10 items per container.
• Keeps track of scrap, inputs information into the computer, and prints out paperwork.
• Verifies packaging work orders.
• Pays close attention to dates on material in order to determine what material should be completed first.
• Communicates with supervisor when problems arise.
• Keeps track of daily labor sheet including part numbers.
• Assigns bags/boxes to material and creates a sample to be checked by a supervisor.
• Assigns table numbers to all material.
• Keeps track of own paperwork.
• Notifies supervisor when in need of a blueprint.
• Works in the flow of the line, as time permits and needs arise.

• Prints labels.
• Tally up production orders upon completion.
• Audits and closes tri wall.
• Double checks tags on tri wall to be sure they are correct.
• Be able to utilize the RF gun for put-away, picking and packing processes and perform all functions of a line leader associated with Caterpillar EWM processes
• Be able to utilize monitor to check job status and picks, and to correct issues when they arise.
• Adjusts paperwork when there are quantity discrepancies.
• Other duties as assigned.

Strength/Physical Demands:

• Occasional lifting or carrying of small tools or objects.

• Frequent lifting and carrying of up to 25-35 pounds
• Must be able to be on feet for 8 hours each day either standing or walking.
• Regularly required to bend, stoop, or reach with hands and arms while filling orders.
• Regularly required to use hands to handle objects or tools.

Work Conditions:

• Must be willing to work 40 hours per week.
• The noise level in the environment is usually moderate.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Knowledge of basic computer functions.
• Knowledge of basic mathematical functions and basic calculator functions.
• Knowledge of production equipment and tools such as electric hand jacks, electric tape machines, hand held tape guns, and heat sealers.

• Skill to communicate assignments to other employees.
• Skill to work in a team oriented environment.
• Ability to establish priorities, organize and proceed with objectives with minimal supervision.
• Ability to adapt to ever changing priorities and/or situations.
• Ability to pay attention to detail.
• Ability to handle pressure of deadlines and stay patient while tasks are being performed.

• Ability to motivate other employees.

• Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with other employees.

 Education/Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED
• 1 year experience in a managerial/supervisory role preferred.
• 1 year experience in a warehouse environment preferred.

Brief Description: Operates electric powered sewing machine to produce a variety of items
such as straps, boots, aprons, and bags in accordance with customer specifications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Sets up sewing machine and selects threads.
• Discusses daily work requirements with the supervisor or lead person.
• Ensures that tasks are completed according to customer specifications.
• Alters the machine settings to suit the type of material.
• Uses marking pencil to track the area that must be sewn or cut.
• Follows appropriate instructions per job, positions the material together through the machine, and guides it through the machine.
• Inspects material and finished products to ensure that they meet customer specifications.
• Keeps samples of finished products to reference at a later date.
• Performs general preventative maintenance on sewing equipment.
• Helps put kits together or assists on the packing line when needed.
• Creates prototypes and samples of material when asked to.
• Other duties as assigned.

Strength/Physical Demands:

• Must have steady hands and good eyesight (with or without glasses).
• Good hand-eye coordination and manual dexterity.
• Regularly required to sit for long periods of time while tasks are being performed.

Work Conditions:

• Must be willing to work 40 hours per week.
• Worker has moderate supervision at all times.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Experience using industrial sewing equipment and methods, needle sizes, fabrics, and machine-threading techniques.
• Must have good sewing skills and an eye for detail.
• Skill to perform tasks neatly, accurately, and carefully.
• Skill to work in a team oriented environment.
• Ability to handle pressure of deadlines and stay patient while tasks are being performed.
• Ability to perform tasks of a repetitive nature.
• Ability to follow instructions and remained focused.
• Ability to use a ruler to measure material before sewing.
• Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with other employees.

 Education/Experience:

• No specific educational requirements.
• 1 year of experience with sewing operations in a production facility.