Job Description

**Production Specialist **will support the stock room, paint, and finishing manufacturing activities to provide quality parts.

Production Specialist Responsibilities:

• Work safely to prevent on-the-job injuries by wearing proper safety equipment and following procedures.
• Proactively identify and take corrective action to eliminate unsafe behaviors and conditions.
• Pull parts for assembly cells.
• Maintain the stock room inventory and shelves.
• Maintain established production rates at expected quality level.
• Keep work areas clean and organized for self and others daily.
• Maintain a foreign object damage-free work area.
• Must demonstrate effective verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Ability to work effectively with others and be a participative team player.
• Must demonstrate effective reasoning ability when dealing with internal customers.
• Train, share knowledge, and assist other team members.
• Remove burrs, sharp edges, and tooling marks or other irregularities from machined parts on castings.
• Maintain and operate wash tank system to ensure proper concentration levels, including daily titration tests.
• Clean surface of parts free of dirt, oil, and media.
• Properly prepare parts for Paint Department.
• Strip and clean improperly finished parts.
• Basic blueprint reading skills.
• Ability to follow written and verbal work instructions.
• Inspect work-in-process and finished parts for conformance to all specifications and ensure proper documentation.
• Basic PC knowledge.
• Perform other duties as required, including training others and demonstrating initiative in continuous improvement.

Production Specialist Requirements:

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Minimum of 1 year experience in a machine shop environment.
• Ability to read and follow blueprints, specifications, written and verbal instructions.
• Ability to utilize applied mathematics, including adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, decimals, and fractions.
• Physical demand: Lifting (up to 50 pounds) and standing.

You should be proficient in:

• Experience in a Manufacturing Environment
• Blueprint Reading