Lumber Production Associate — 1st Shift

Monroechamber; Janesville (WI); On-site; USD 22,000 - 25,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equal opportunity employer

Job summary

Monroechamber in Janesville, WI, is hiring a Production Associate for 1st shift (6:00am–2:00pm) with overtime possible on Saturdays. You will tag lumber, load crates, band bundles, operate a nail gun, and move pallets around the production area.

You must be able to stand during the entire shift, lift 10–20 lbs regularly and up to 50 lbs occasionally, and be able to bend, reach and climb. Prior mill or blueprint-reading experience is a plus and equal opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Able to stand for the entire shift.
• Basic math skills and able to read a ruler.

Responsibilities

• Operate tagging / label gun while either sitting or standing to tag each piece of lumber with a sticky tag/label for identification purposes
• Load pieces of cut lumber into crates
• Using a bander (manual or automatic) band cut lumber into bundles
• Operate a nail gun to assist in the assembly of fences
• Pick up bundles of lumber that weigh between 10-20lbs and place them in the stacker machine
• Operate a hand pallet jack to move pallets of wood around the production area
• Assist with supplying or holding tools and materials
• Cut and stack lumber in the Mill Department
• Sort lumber by quality (Work outdoors)
• Keep work area clean and orderly
• Examine finished product to verify conformance to quality standards
• Count finished products to determine if product orders are complete

Skills

Hand-eye coordination

Basic math

Read ruler

Tools

Banding machine

Nail gun

Pallet jack

Job description

Monroechamber in Janesville, WI, is hiring a Production Associate for 1st shift (6:00am–2:00pm) with overtime possible on Saturdays. You will tag lumber, load crates, band bundles, operate a nail gun, and move pallets around the production area.

You must be able to stand during the entire shift, lift 10–20 lbs regularly and up to 50 lbs occasionally, and be able to bend, reach and climb. Prior mill or blueprint-reading experience is a plus and equal opportunity employer.