Production Assistant

Workstream; Bridgewater (MA); On-site; USD 40,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Eddie Kane Steel Products is seeking a detail-oriented paperwork coordinator to support daily production operations. You will generate, review, and distribute job packets, maintain schedules, and ensure accuracy of shipping and receiving documents.

The role requires advanced Excel skills, strong MS Office experience, and the ability to communicate across departments. This is a fast-paced office position supporting production and logistics teams and upholding safety standards.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or Equivalent required.
• Advanced Excel and MS Office skills required.
• Strong organization and communication abilities; capable of coordinating across teams.

Responsibilities

• Generate and review all paperwork for job packets (orders, prints, labels).
• Communicate missing information to Sales Services and update packets.
• Coordinate and monitor material flow to meet production schedules.

Skills

Advanced Excel

MS Office

Organizational skills

Communication

Teamwork

Attention to detail

Education

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Job description

General Description: Responsible for daily facilitation of necessary paperwork needed to maintain efficiency and production flow of work throughout the shop floor.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Generate and review all paperwork (copy of the order, instructions, prints, traceability sheets, pallet labels, etc.) for the job packets to go to the production floor via email from Sales Services.
• Communicate to Sales Services if any necessary information is missing and update job packet before issuing it to the floor.
• Coordinate & monitor the flow of materials and information to ensure production schedules are met.
• Update and review issued production paperwork as communicated by Sales Services.
• Create and supply morning and end of day reports in excel.
• Place newly generated job packets in their respective file boxes in the production area multiple times a day.
• Pickup and check completed job packets from the file boxes, check them to ensure all paperwork is completed correctly by the operators and deliver them to the Transportation Administrator.
• Record & review new jobs on job schedules for possible delays with Production and Operations managers
• Collecting and ensuring all shipping/receiving documents are filled out correctly before delivering them to the Transportation Administrator.
• Maintain the ready to ship spreadsheet.
• Enter new jobs on the operations schedule after an estimated job completion time has been established.
• Attend production meetings and be able to speak on behalf of the floor production status.
• Be able to perform other office duties as required.

Skills

• Must be able to maintain organization in a fast-paced environment
• The health and safety of our Eddie Kane Steel Products employees is of the utmost importance to us and ensure that we have all PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) and hand sanitizer available to our employees, take employee, visitor and vendor temperatures, disinfect all common areas, practice social distancing and washing hands throughout the day to maintain a safe and healthy work environment!
• Advanced user in Excel is a must
• Must be able to effectively communicate on multiple organizational levels
• Have strong MS Office background
• Basic reading and mathematical skills (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division)
• Good oral & written communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with others

Education/Experience

High School Diploma or Equivalent

Eddie Kane Steel Products is a family owned business and has been a well known vendor in the steel industry for over 24 years. With it's corporate offices located in Sea Girt, New Jersey, the company has 7 plants throughout the United States located in: North Carolina (2), Ohio, New Jersey, California, Alabama and Kentucky
As a steel service center and distributor of hot-rolled prime and non-prime steel plate, Eddie Kane Steel sells on- and off-gauge, pattern and non-pattern plate sizes, ranging in thickness from 3/16 to 8 inches. Eddie Kane Steel maintains a diverse inventory of prime and non-prime steel plate and, for its strategic customer partners, stock inventory of custom-made parts. Value-added products include OEM parts, counterweights, and steel burn outs for diverse industries, including the waste industry, general building construction, transportation, agricultural and industrial equipment, drilling, theatrical stage, and elevator industries.
Eddie Kane Steel’s flagship processing facility in Ohio (180,000 square-foot warehouse and production plant) has a crane capacity up to 100 tons and has full rail access. The North Carolina and California facilities are also fully served by rail.
Eddie Kane Steel’s processing capabilities include high-definition plasma and oxy-fuel flame cutting, shearing, bending, drilling, punching, welding, beveling, Blanchard grinding, stress relieving, and light machining. With two plasma burning machines (including high-definition plasma machines), plate thicknesses up to 14 inches can be cut. Our oxy-fuel cutting capabilities include several multi-torch multi-head machines with several hundred feet of cutting surface. Through close partnerships with vendors offering proven high-quality workmanship, we provide services such as painting and coating, stamping, embossing, slitting, sawing, turning, annealing, leveling, and pressing.
Eddie Kane Steel's diversified product range, processing capabilities, and regional facility locations benefit our customers time-wise and cost-wise. We ship anywhere in the US, Canada, and Mexico. Eddie Kane Steel’s logistics department maintains strong relationships with the best transportation companies in the country, which translates to reliable service for our customers.