Job Description

Forest River, Inc., the Nation’s largest manufacturer of Recreational Vehicles, Cargo Trailers, Transit Buses and Boats has an immediate opening.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

 

• Candidates should have at least 1 year of MIG welding experience.
• Must feel comfortable attending a MIG welding test on-site at the facility.
• Mechanically inclined and skilled with hand, air, and power tools.
• Must be proficient in work.
• Must be detail oriented and be very meticulous about you work.
• Perform as a team member which requires the ability to learn, perform and rotate to other workstations.
• Perform the above within acceptable quality, quantity, performance, and safety standards.

 

Additional Duties and Responsibilities:

• Obtain supplies and parts required to do the job.
• Assist other employees when assembly work is not required.
• Clean department and maintain neatness in the surrounding work areas.

 

Skills/Qualifications:

• Must have passed or be able to pass Print Reading and MTE.
• Must have a general or working knowledge, average skill, and some experience with ordinary and semi-complex equipment to be operated.
• Must be able to do minor weld and rotator machine adjustments, change weld wire, change weld tip, change gas, read, and interpret work orders, read blueprints, use full scale drawings.
• Must have knowledge of inspection tool use.
• Must have a working knowledge of common, easy to recognize materials.
• Must be able to constantly sustain an exertion and lifting of parts up to 25 lbs.
• Ability to occasional lift tooling components weighing 10 to 75 lbs.
• Continuous mental and visual attention and alertness is required.

Additional Skills/Qualifications:

• Solid work history with interest in pursuing a long-term full-time placement with a growing company.

• Ability to use ladders, enter and exit vehicles, reaching, bending, twisting, squatting, working below knees or above shoulders.
• Ability to use air and electrically powered tools such as drills, hammer drills, torque wrenches (powered or non-powered), air tools.
• Ability to read and understand work orders, directions, charts, forms, and safety regulations.
• Ability to correctly use and read various gauges.
• Ability to work well with other employees in a team environment.
• Ability to read a tape measure to a sixteenth (1/16) of an inch.
• Must have strong problem-solving skills.
• Must be able to work in a strong team environment.

Forest River offers a stable work environment that is fast paced. Our employees enjoy a highly competitive Wage and Benefit Package.  We are looking for dedicated individuals with experience in the Industry as well as other Manufacturing Processes.