Shop Helper (AMP - Indirect)
South Western Communications, Inc.

This is working at our Watson Metal Masters location.

Summary

Join our expanding team at Watson Metal Masters as a Shop Helper! As we experience rapid growth, we're on the lookout for committed individuals eager to build their careers.

As a vital member of the production team, you will contribute significantly to our operations. In this role, you will be responsible for providing support for the operations in the shop, flexibility is key. Including a wide range of diverse activities and helping the product flow run smoothly.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Build wooden crates and skids, palletizing equipment for shipment.
• Assist with shop clean up, including emptying dumpsters with forklifts.
• Ability to run overhead cranes.
• Grinding.
• Load equipment for shipment.
• Unload raw material and freight loads.
• Assist shipping.
• Assist shop floor with various tasks.
• May be asked to perform other duties as needed.
• Gather parts and materials for jobs.
• Maintain product flow throughout the production floor.
• Wash tanks, peel protective film off tanks.

Qualifications

Education

• High school diploma or GED, preferred.

Specialized Knowledge and Experience

• 2 years of manufacturing and experience preferred
• Forklift experience preferred
• Demonstrate ability to accurately read a tape measure
• Use various hand tools

Skills and Abilities

Other Skills

• Requires the verbal skills to probe and ask questions to ensure understanding of requirements and participate in teams.
• Must be able to interact professionally, appropriately, and courteously with customers, co-workers and other outside parties.

Travel Requirements

No travel is required for this position.

Physical requirements

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 must be able to stand and walk for extended periods of time; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and must be able to talk and hear. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and depth perception.

Safety is of utmost importance. All team members must observe safety procedures and use equipment and materials properly; must wear safety glasses and steel toe boots.

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