Granite Color Match Technician I

Cold Spring Granite; Cold Spring (MN); On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

Dental

Optical

Medical FSA/HSA

Dependent Care (FSA)

Basic Life Plan

Short Term Disability

Long Term Disability

401K with Company Match

Profit Sharing (ROA)

PTO (Vacation)

Holidays

Jury Duty

Funeral Leave

Job summary

Coldspring is seeking a Color Match Technician I in Minnesota to coordinate with production to ensure granite stock meets tickets, maintaining color consistency and finish quality per customer specifications.

Responsibilities include layout planning, marking, dyeing for yield, color logging, and coordinating with quarries. Forklift cert is required; clean safety record and independent work style expected.

Qualifications

• Must obtain forklift certification.
• Good color perception; not color blind.
• Understand all aspects of stone production and color/background identification.
• Ability to calculate material needs and optimize raw material use.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Excellent problem solving and time management skills.

Responsibilities

• Apply and sort production tickets for granite slabs according to stone quality and customer specs.
• Calculate and layout work segments to maximize yield of each block.
• Align granite blocks and edge conditions to improve production efficiency.
• Peen knots and markings in granite stones using a peening stick.
• Use dye to mark cracks to maximize slab yield.
• Maintain color record log books and granite color samples.
• Use color flagging system to designate production status of slabs.
• Layout stone segments to fill production tickets using catalogued samples.
• Instruct slabbing personnel on cuts to achieve required thickness.
• Manage the stone sample library and coordinate approved samples for the plant.
• Coordinate with quarries to project yields to meet stock and color needs.
• Create Demand tickets in Microsoft Access to notify quarries of stone need.
• Scan granite slabs/blocks into JDE for inventory.
• Inspect incoming granite stone and inventory into JDE.
• Apply chemical treatments to improve color and appearance to maximize yield.

Tools

JDE system

Microsoft Access

Job description

Coldspring is seeking a Color Match Technician I in Minnesota to coordinate with production to ensure granite stock meets tickets, maintaining color consistency and finish quality per customer specifications.

Responsibilities include layout planning, marking, dyeing for yield, color logging, and coordinating with quarries. Forklift cert is required; clean safety record and independent work style expected.