Plant Services - Washline

Bonney Forge Corporation; Mount Union (Huntingdon County); On-site; USD 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Bonney Forge Corporation in Mount Union, PA is seeking a detail-oriented worker to clean and apply protective coating to manufactured products. The role involves loading baskets, operating washlines, and ensuring correct tank routing.

Responsibilities include reading tags, transferring parts, weighing and counting, operating lab equipment, and using cranes, hoists, and a forklift with safety PPE. The position requires teamwork and the ability to follow instructions in a manufacturing setting.

Qualifications

• Ability to follow instructions.
• Ability to get along with co-workers.
• Present information in one-on-one or small group settings to employees and supervisors.
• Add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure with whole numbers, fractions and decimals.
• Apply common sense and follow detailed oral/written instructions.
• Ability to solve on-the-job problems.
• Operate lab equipment to check phosphate levels.
• Operate cranes and hoists.
• Operate a forklift and maintain forklift license (renewal every 3 years).
• Run a floor scrubber.
• Perform basic housekeeping plant-wide.
• Wear PPE and follow safety/work rules.

Responsibilities

• Load and push baskets of parts through the washline.
• Receive and load parts from machinery onto the washline; move from skids to hydraulic lift.
• Read tags and route bins to the correct tanks.
• Advance parts through tanks on the washline.
• Tag parts and move to packing department.
• Lift packed products to skids for shipment.
• Count and weigh parts with external threads; stack carefully in boxes.
• Count drops and adjust bath material to meet specs.
• Clean and recharge tanks as needed.
• Operate lab equipment to check phosphate levels and ensure quality.

Skills

Follow instructions

Teamwork

Communication

Mathematics

Safety compliance

Problem solving

Lab equipment

Forklift operation

Cranes/Hoists

Floor scrubber

Housekeeping

PPE safety

Tools

Lab equipment

Job description

General Description

Employees in this job are responsible for cleaning and applying protective coating to manufactured products.

Essential Job Functions and Duties

• Load and push baskets of parts through the washline. (80%)


• Receive and load parts from various machinery throughout the plant onto the washline, transferring parts from skids to a hydraulic lift (approximately 2 feet high) manually.


• Read tags and distinguish through which tanks each bin of parts should go.


• Advance the parts in baskets or barrels through the tanks on the washline.


• Tag parts appropriately and advance them on the rollers to the packing department.


• Lift packed products from the packing line roller assembly to skids prior to shipment from the plant.


• Weigh counting and stacking parts with external threads by hand. (15%)


• Any parts with external threads must be careful stacked in boxes by hand, rather than thrown into bins/baskets.


• Other parts must be weigh counted using scales on shop floor.


• Operation of lab equipment (5%)


• Dip sample form each tanks and take to lab.


• Add chemicals and observe colors to determine correct properties of wash tank.


• Count drops to make necessary additions/adjustments to bath material to meet quality specifications.


• Clean and recharge tanks as needed (if bath material is out of specification).

Job Specifications

• Ability to follow instructions.


• Ability to get along with co-workers.


• Must be able to effectively present information in one on one in small group situations to other employees and supervisors.


• Add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.


• Ability to apply common sense, understanding, carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.


• Ability to solve on the job problems.


• Ability to operate lab equipment to check phosphate levels.


• Must operate cranes and hoists.


• Must operate a forklift and maintain forklift license (renewal every 3 years)


• Ability to run floor scrubber.


• Ability to perform basic housekeeping functions plant wide.


• Must wear all required PPE and follow safety and work rules.