Production Employee – Sidney Plant
Reports
Supervisor
Function: Varies, Can Include:
- Receive, sort, grade and handle lumber
- Move packs of lumber, pile lumber, unload and load trucks
- Hand grade lumber and sort lumber into proper stacks
- Load scarfer with lumber and get lumber in correct order
- Set-up tunnel for lengths, monitor levels on RF tunnel & adjust machine when necessary
- Set-up and remove steel rods using air wrenches
- Handle up to 2’x12’ lumber at various lengths, glued beams up to 100 feet long with the help of co-workers and overhead cranes, and welded flat steel assemblies used to smooth laminated beam plies
- Accurately fabricating laminated wood beams from shop drawings
- Accurately and safely loading finished products on trucks for transportation to the job site
- Perform equipment and building maintenance as well as janitorial duties when needed
Job Requirements:
Education & Training
- Able to read, write, and effectively communicate
- Good math skills
- Ability to read weight scales
- Some basic computer skills
- Blueprint reading – including knowing how to read ML1A plylist sheets
- BOCES or Trade School Preferred
Experience
Working in a manufacturing environment is helpful
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
- Good manual dexterity
- Ability to keep work area clean
- Ability to work in a wet glue environment
- Carpentry skills
- Ability to follow verbal and written directions
- Ability to be cross-trained to take on new responsibilities
- Knowledge or safe and proper use of equipment
- Must be flexible to work in other departments as needed
- Must be a self starter and take initiative
- Must be able to work as part of a team
- Good attendance is required
Physical Demands
- Possibly 4 or more hours per day lifting 50lbs maximum, frequently lifting/carrying up to 25 lbs
- On feet and walking 8 hours per day on concrete
- Possibly 4 or more hours per day lifting 100lbs maximum with help of a hoist, wheeled cart or an assistant, frequently lifting/carrying up to 50lbs
- Power gripping with left and right hands
- Bending
- Kneeling
- Climbing stairs
- Reaching over shoulders
- Push/Pull 100 lbs with the assistance of a wheeled cart or hoist
- Lift/Carry
- 1-10lbs – Occasionally (0-33%)
- 11-20lbs – Frequently (34-66%)
- 21-50lbs – Continuous (67%-100%)
- Over 50lbs – Occasionally (0-33%)
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