2nd Shift Manufacturing Associate II

Klauer Manufacturing; Dubuque (IA); On-site; USD 35,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Pension and 401k Plan

11 Paid Holidays

Vacation

Paid Funeral Leave

Paid Jury Duty

Job summary

Klauer Manufacturing is seeking team members for fabrication line roles in Dubuque, IA. You will operate forming machines, brake presses, and shears to fabricate sheet parts, reading orders and adjusting equipment accordingly. The role emphasizes safety, quality standards, and efficient material handling.

Candidates should be proactive, highly organized, and able to work independently or in a team. A focus on continuous improvement and adherence to all policies is required, with opportunities

Qualifications

• Proactive and able to work without guidance or in a team.
• Highly organized with attention to detail and follow-through.
• Able to adhere to factory rules, work procedures, safety rules, and quality standards.
• Support safety and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ability to read job orders and operate fabrication machines.

Responsibilities

• Tends fabricating machines, such as forming machines, brake presses, and shears, that cut, shape and bend sheets.
• Reads job orders and specifications to determine machine adjustments and material requirements.
• Sets stops or guides to specified length as indicated by scale, rule or template.
• Positions workpiece against stops manually or by using a hoist.
• Pushes a button or depresses a pedal for machine activation.
• Observes machine operation to detect workpiece defects or machine malfunction.
• Measures workpiece dimensions using rule, template, or other measuring instruments to determine accuracy of machine operation.
• Removes individual parts from machine upon completion and places in a box, a rack or stacks parts depending on requirements.
• May load or unload specified coils of material on manual or powered pay off reel for distribution to machine.
• May shrink wrap, package or band boxes containing finished goods. May apply paper labels to individual parts or packages. May assist in setting up machine, and transporting finished workpieces.
• Ensure quality control inspection of parts as per the quality check sheets.

Skills

Proactive attitude

Highly organized

Team player

Attention to detail

Policy compliance

Safety conscious

Job description

Who is Klauer?

At Klauer, we enable our customers to win through the quality, consistency, and predictability of everything we do, while providing a safe and family‑oriented working environment for all. As a team, we are able to maintain our mission statement through our 4 Cultural Values: Safety, Attitude, Effort and Accountability.

What you can expect from Klauer

You can expect to feel as though you are part of the Klauer Manufacturing Family that is inclusive regardless of gender, background, disability, or status. We offer a generous total rewards package for all team members to include work hour flexibility, Health Insurance, Dental Insurance, Life Insurance, Short‑Term and Long‑Term Disability, Pension and 401k Plan, 11 Paid Holidays, Vacation, Paid Funeral Leave, Paid Jury Duty, and WEEKLY PAY.

Who are you and where did you come from?

• Proactive, can operate resourcefully in dynamic environments
• Highly organized and diligent, attention to detail and follow through
• Be able to work effectively both without guidance and as a team.
• Able to perform assigned work to meet quality expectations.
• Able to adhere to all policies, including factory rules, work procedures, safety rules, and quality standards.
• Actively support and participate in safety and continuous improvement initiatives.

Physical Demands For This Job

• Require standing walking, sitting, pushing, pulling, bending, and stooping.
• Strength rating for this job is M - Medium work - exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Physical demand requirements are in excess of those for light work.

What We Ask From You

• Tends fabricating machines, such as forming machines, brake presses, and shears, that cut, shape and bend sheets.
• Reads job orders and specifications to determine machine adjustments and material requirements.
• Sets stops or guides to specified length as indicated by scale, rule or template.
• Positions workpiece against stops manually or by using a hoist.
• Pushes a button or depresses a pedal for machine activation.
• Observes machine operation to detect workpiece defects or machine malfunction.
• Measures workpiece dimensions using rule, template, or other measuring instruments to determine accuracy of machine operation.
• Removes individual parts from machine upon completion and places in a box, a rack or stacks parts depending on requirements.
• May load or unload specified coils of material on manual or powered pay off reel for distribution to machine.
• May shrink wrap, package or band boxes containing finished goods. May apply paper labels to individual parts or packages. May assist in setting up machine, and transporting finished workpieces.
• Ensure quality control inspection of parts as per the quality check sheets.

Class I - Medium (Dictionary of Occupational Titles 4th Edition Vol. I & Vol. II)