Material Technician

Summary: This position is primarily responsible for supporting personnel to produce a quality shingle and timely meet expectations of production demands by performing the following duties.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Core duties and responsibilities include the following.
Other duties may be assigned.
Trains and relieves machine operators as needed.
Fills in for the Lead during their absence, including performing color changes, quality checks, and become familiar with mold changeovers.
Maintains communication between shifts and coworkers.
Performs daily departmental housekeeping.
Reads work order or follows oral instructions to ascertain materials or containers to be moved.
Loads and unloads materials onto or from pallets, by hand.
Conveys materials from storage or work sites to designated area.
Counts, weighs, and records number of units of materials moved or handled on daily production sheet.
Attaches identifying tags or labels to materials or marks information on pallets.
Stacks or assembles materials into bundles and bands bundles together.
Removes samples of materials, labels with identifying information, and takes samples for analysis.
Lifts heavy objects by hand or with power hoist, and cleans work area, machines, and equipment to assist machine operators.
Dumps by hand materials such as colors or plastic, into machine hoppers or move product by hand onto scrap pallets.
Operates industrial truck or electric hoist to assist in loading or moving materials and products.
Reads spread sheets to determine specific material requirements at changeovers.
Maintains work area in a neat and clean condition.
Performs necessary maintenance and repair on some equipment used.
Responsible for performing the physical tasks involved in the shipping, receiving, storing, and distributing of products, materials, parts, supplies and equipment.
Prepares and maintains records of product movement.
Pulls raw materials and finish product from various locations for manufacturing orders.
ACCOUNTABILITY: Notifies the Supervisor of any issue with these subjects.
Safety Inventory Control Quality Control Production requirements Scrap reduction Double checks product pulled for accuracy.
Replenishes shelf stock after orders complete.
General housekeeping and maintenance of the warehouse work areas.
Meets minimum standards of productivity and quality.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
SPECIALIZED EQUIPMENT: May use (but not limited to) power equipment such as a forklift, hand tools, and other devices operated in a warehouse environment.
Forklift and electric pallet jack for material movement Overhead crane for mold changes when assisting or filling in for Lead Molders Scales for color changes and inventory verification Injection molding machines Logics Thermolators Shrink wrapper Bander Grinder PHYSICAL DEMANDS: 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.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.
The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell.
The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.
The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; high, precarious places The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
Westlake Management Services, Inc.
is proud to offer equal employment opportunities to qualified applicants to join our company and to succeed as members of our team regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, disability, genetic information, marital status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.