Production Associate

Job Title: Production Associate
Department: Production
Reports To: Area Lead
FLSA Status: Non-exempt

Summary:
Multiple manual and mechanical assembly functions in the construction of stacked and wound film capacitors. Includes various process steps ranging from the point of raw material preparations to the final stage of packaging.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Places parts in specified relationship to each other.
• Bolts, clips, screws, solders, or otherwise fastens parts together.
• Tends machines, such as electrical test equipment, soldering stations, printing and tape wrap stations, to perform operations on assembly line.
• Works at different work stations as production needs require.
• Works on line where tasks vary as different model of same article moves along line.
• Performs general housekeeping as established by supervisor or plant operations
  Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Technical Skills – Strives to continuously build knowledge and skills.
• Teamwork – Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Puts success of team above own interests.
• Ethics – Treats people with respect; Works with integrity and ethically; Upholds organizational values.
• Organizational Support – Follows policies and procedures; Supports organization’s goals and values.
• Judgment – Exhibits sound and accurate judgment.
• Professionalism – Treats others with respect and consideration regardless of their status or position; Accepts responsibility for own actions.
• Quality – Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; Monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Quantity – Meets productivity standards; Completes work in timely manner; Strives to increase productivity; Works quickly.
• Safety and Security – Observes safety and security procedures; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; Uses equipment and materials properly.
• Adaptability – Adapts to changes in the work environment; Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
• Attendance/Punctuality – Is consistently at work and on time.
• Dependability – Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan
  Educations and Experience:
• High school diploma or general education degree (GED); or one to three months related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Language Skills: Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
• Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Ability: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out simple one- or two-step instructions. Ability to deal with standardized situations with only occasional or no variables.
  Work Environment:
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing 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 exposed to risk of electrical shock. The employee is frequently exposed to moving mechanical parts. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate
  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; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision and depth perception.