Production Operator - Evenings

The Role

Our Production Operator performs skilled tasks in rare earth magnet production, including machine operation, basic troubleshooting, and quality checks. This role requires familiarity with production equipment and the ability to work with limited supervision.

Key Responsibilities

Equipment Operation & Process Control

• Operate primary magnet production equipment, such as pressing, sintering furnaces, and machining stations.
• Perform setup and changeover of machines following established procedures.
• Monitor process parameters, and adjust settings within allowable limits.

Quality & Troubleshooting

• Conduct in-process quality inspections using gauges, calipers, or microscopy tools.
• Identify and communicate equipment issues or process deviations.
• Perform basic troubleshooting and process adjustments.

Documentation, Safety & Training

• Maintain accurate documentation for lot traceability and quality compliance.
• Handle rare earth materials safely, and follow contamination-control practices.
• Assist in training new Operator I personnel.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• 1-3 years of manufacturing experience.
• Strong understanding of manufacturing processes and workflows.
• Ability to perform basic troubleshooting and process adjustments.
• Good communication skills and ability to work independently.
• Consistent adherence to safety and quality standards.

Courage & Pioneering Spirit

Speaks up when a process drifts or a machine does not run right, and works through unfamiliar problems on the line.

Integrity & Transparency

Records lot, quality, and process data accurately, and reports deviations and equipment issues even when they are unwelcome.

Personal Responsibility & Zero Harm

Follows safety and contamination-control practices every shift, and stops the machine when conditions are unsafe.

Excellence & Innovation

Keeps process parameters within limits and suggests practical improvements to setups and workflows.

Agility & Entrepreneurial Drive

Adapts to changeovers and shifting production needs, and takes ownership of the machines and lots assigned to them.

Partnership & Shared Value

Works with setup operators, technicians, and supervisors, and helps train new Operator I personnel.

Physical Demands

• Specific vision abilities, including close vision and distance vision.
• Regularly walk, stand, move, sit, carry, bend, kneel, reach, push, pull, and lift.
• Use hands and fingers to handle or feel objects, and talk and hear.
• Lift and move boxes or packages not exceeding 20 pounds.
• Some work stress inherent to the position and extended work hours may be required.

• The work environment will be a mix of a typical office environment, a manufacturing floor and a construction site.
• Noise level: Normal office, manufacturing and construction noises.

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job.
• They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills required of personnel so classified.
• The reporting relationship may not reflect the most recent changes to the corporation.

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