Job Summary:Want to go to a job where you feel you have a purpose? Would you like to go to work and leave feeling fulfilled and feel you've made a difference? Look no further! Join the growing LION team today as a Production Associate, cutting fire-fighting gloves! No priorexperience required. We will train you!Our Production Associates cut leather components for fire-fighting gloves, meeting NFPA requirements.Essential Functions:
- Select leather type and cutting dies according to the glove style indicated in the work ticket to cut glove components.
- Meet delivery deadlines by working with team to ensure products are made correctly and with good quality and meet production goals set by supervisor.
- Understand quality requirements and how this position affects quality: on time delivery, material tracking, and meeting customer requirements.
- Maintain cleanliness and good housekeeping in sewing area.
Additional Responsibilities:
- Demonstrate productivity that drives towards decreased lead time.
- Works well with other production associates.
- Must be able to follow instructions consistently with minimum supervision.
- Must be able to read job cards and follow standards.
- Can get along with supervisors and all other departments in the plant.
- Maintain a clean and safe work environment.
- Must follow company rules & regulations.
- Ability to multi-task.
Education & Experience Qualifications:
- High School diploma or GED
- 1-2 years manufacturing experience preferred, but not required.
- Previous experience working with industrial sewing equipment preferred, but not required.
- Must be able to read and comprehend English language instructions.
- Positive attitude and demonstrated ability to work well with a team.
- Good attendance record.
Physical Requirements:
- Standing, sitting, walking, bending as needed.
- Hearing and vision required to be within normal ranges with or without correction.
- Using proper lifting technique may be required to lift objects up to 30 lbs.
- May be required to operate traditional office equipment including computers, copiers, fax machines and telephones if needed.
Mental Requirements:
- Displays ambitious, positive attitude.
- Interpersonal skills to build relationships with site leadership and teammates. May be required to occasionally interact with customers.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, work proactively and independently in a fast-changing environment.
- Good communication skills (verbal and written)
Relationships & Contacts:
- Communicates with site leadership, immediate supervisor, and teammates. May occasionally encounter customers and suppliers and corporate staff.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with DisabilitiesThe contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c) Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)