ILUS- Powder Coat Loader Lead

Daifuku Intralogistics America; Hobart (IN); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Daifuku Intralogistics America is hiring a Powder Coat Loader Lead to help manage a manufacturing team on the 1st shift. You will train new employees, champion safety, and ensure accurate, organized workflow in a fast-paced environment.

You will verify quality, maintain records, and assist with equipment maintenance while following Daifuku QMS policies. Strong leadership and communication are essential.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent is preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience.
• Experienced forklift truck operator.

Responsibilities

• Assist in managing team members’ work in completion of tasks.
• Verify accuracy and quality.
• Inspect for damages or defects and notify supervisor.
• Maintain department database and prepare routine reports.
• Operate department material handling equipment and assist in maintenance.
• Follow safety rules and departmental policies.

Skills

Leadership

Computer skills

Verbal communication

English literacy

Basic math

Organization

Time management

Self-motivated

Team orientation

Work orders

Quality assurance

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Forklift truck operation

Job description

Overview

Manufacturing Company with Career Development Opportunities!

Comprehensive Benefits Package!

Full Time | 1st Shift | Monday - Friday | 5:00 AM-1:30pm

About Us:

Daifuku is the nation’s leading independent, U.S.‐based provider of intelligent material handling systems. With hundreds of engineers in‐house, the company designs, manufactures, integrates, and installs the full spectrum of intra-logisticssolutions. We provide leading‐edge conveyor and sortation systems, voice and light‐directed order fulfillment equipment, controls and software, robotics, mezzanines, and structures.

If you want to join a team of industry leading experts and who want to create an impact on the future of material handling solutions, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities

Position Summary:

The Powder Coat Loader Lead helps the supervisor manage the work of the team, including training new employees, acting as the department safety champion, performing departmental tasks as assigned by the supervisor, verifying proper hanging devices while maintaining an organized/accurate work area.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Assisting in managing team members’ work in completion of tasks
• Verifying accuracy and quality
• Inspecting for damages or defects, records issues, and notifies supervisor
• Maintaining department database, prepares routine reports, and files records
• Operating department material handling equipment and assisting in routine equipment maintenance
• Following departmental policies, procedures, and objectives, continuous improvement objectives, and safety rules
• Selecting proper hanging devices
• Using overhead crane to handle heavy parts
• Identifying parts related to work orders
• Occasionally drives forklift to move product
• Employees are responsible to comply with all requirements of Daifuku’s QMS policies and procedures.
• Employees are to ensure sustainable process outputs that drive continuous improvement to provide leading industry performance and exceptional customer satisfaction.

Qualifications

Education and Experience Requirements:

• High school diploma or equivalent preferred
• Minimum of 3 years of experience
• Experienced forklift truck operator

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Requirements:

• Strong leadership skills
• Good computer skills
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Ability to read and write English and use basic math
• Strong organization skills
• Good time management skills
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented
• Team orientation
• Ability to read and follow work orders and numerical instructions
• Knowledge of quality assurance and self-inspection techniques

ADA Requirements:

• Heavy work: Exerting up to 100 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 50 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 20 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Stooping: Bending body downward and forward by bending spine at the waist. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires full use of the lower extremities and back muscles.
• Crouching: Bending the body downward and forward by bending leg and spine.
• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.
• Standing: Remaining upright on the feet, particularly for sustained periods of time.
• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
• Pushing: Using upper extremities to press against something with steady force in order to thrust forward, downward or outward.
• Pulling: Using upper extremities to exert force in order to draw, drag, haul or tug objects in a sustained motion.
• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position to-position. This factor is important if it occurs to a considerable degree and requires the substantial use of the upper extremities and back muscles.
• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly
• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
• Repetitive motions: Making substantial movements (motions) of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.

Visual Acuity:

• The worker is required to: have close visual acuity to perform an activity such as: preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; extensive reading; visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and/or operation of machines (including inspection); using measurement devices; and/or assembly or fabrication of parts at distances close to the eyes.
• The worker is required to: have visual acuity to operate motor vehicles.
• The worker is required to: have visual acuity to determine the accuracy, neatness, and thoroughness of the work assigned or to make general observations of facilities or structures.

Job Conditions:

• The worker is subject to: inside environmental conditions: Protection from weather conditions but not necessarily from temperature changes.
• The worker is subject to: outside environmental conditions: No effective protection from weather
• The worker is subject to: hazards including a variety of physical conditions, such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical current, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat or exposure to chemicals.
• The worker is required to: function in narrow aisles or passageways.

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