Production Associate

Bridgestone Americas, Inc.; Williamsburg (VA); On-site; USD 23,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onboarding

Mentorship

CSR activities

Global environment

Work-life balance

Job summary

Bridgestone Americas, Inc. seeks a Night Shift Manufacturing Production Worker in the United States for setting up, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting production equipment.

Responsibilities include operating machine tools, processing, assembly, or packaging, and ensuring outputs meet quality standards. The role requires a high school diploma or 1–2 years of vocational training/associates degree, with duties centered on night shift operations and precise production records.

Qualifications

• Must be able to operate manufacturing equipment and monitor product quality.
• Ability to input daily production data and maintain accurate records.
• Wamiliarity with safety procedures and quality standards is required.

Responsibilities

• Operate machine tools, processing, assembly, or packaging equipment to meet production specs.
• Move, pack, and sort raw materials or finished goods.
• Monitor output quality and discard or rework faulty items as needed.
• Maintain accurate daily production records for performance analysis.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills

Machine operation

Quality monitoring

Record keeping

Education

High school diploma or vocational training/associates degree

Job description

Company Overview Firestone Airide, specializes in air spring manufacturing and technology with a history of more than 80 years of research and development on technologically advanced air springs for the global marketplace. Firestone engineers air springs and related products for commercial trucks and trailers, cars, sport utility vehicles, light trucks, mini vans, motor homes, buses, agricultural equipment, rail and industrial applications.

Job Category Production & Skilled Trades Position Summary Manufacturing Production Workers focus on setting up, operating, maintaining, and troubleshooting manufacturing production (i.e., machining, processing, assembly, or packaging) equipment

Responsibilities ****THIS IS FOR NIGHT SHIFT****

• Operating machine tool, chemical processing, assembly, or packaging equipment to manufacture products according to production specifications, schedules, volume/cost/wastage targets, and quality standards
• Moving, packing, and sorting raw materials or finished goods
• Monitoring the quality of output to identify, discard, or re-manufacture faulty products
• Maintaining accurate daily production records as input to manufacturing performance analysis
• Other duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications: n/a

Minimum Qualifications Typically requires a high school degree; or 1-2 year vocational training / associates degree

What we offer At Bridgestone, what really matters is to foster co-creation opportunities and empowering you to be creative and curious to make mobility safer, more efficient, and more sustainable for future generations. Whatever role you fill, when you represent Bridgestone, you are a valued teammate, and part of our larger mission to “Serve Society with Superior Quality”, for that, we offer you more than just a competitive compensation; we will provide you:

• A supportive and engaging onboarding experience to ensure a smooth transition into our team.
• The opportunity to develop and grow, through training and regular mentorship.
• Corporate Social Responsibility activities.
• A truly global, dynamic and challenging work environment.
• Agility and work/life effectiveness and your long‑term well‑being.
• An effective and inclusive team.

Bridgestone is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to consider all individuals for employment based on their unique merit and without regard to age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.

Employment Eligibility If hired, a Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification must be completed at the start of employment. Temporary work authorization or the need for sponsorship may disqualify you from employment.

Based in Nashville Tennessee, Bridgestone Americas, Inc. is the U.S. subsidiary of Bridgestone Corporation, the world’s largest tire and rubber company. Bridgestone Americas and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand tires to address the needs of a broad range of customers, including consumers, automotive and commercial vehicle original equipment manufacturers, and those in the agricultural, forestry and mining industries. The companies are also engaged in retreading operations throughout the Western Hemisphere and produce air springs, roofing materials, and industrial fibers and textiles. The Bridgestone Americas family of companies also operates the world’s largest chain of automotive tire and service centers. Guided by its global corporate social responsibility (CSR), commitment Our Way to Serve, Bridgestone embraces its responsibility as a global leader by striving to improve the way people move, live, work and play.