Production Operator - Blender (1st-Shift)

The Sherwin-Williams Company; Brooklyn Park (MN); On-site; USD 28,929 - 37,195; Full time

Job summary

The Sherwin-Williams Company is hiring a Production Operator - Blender in Brooklyn Park, MN. The role involves blending customer orders, preparing batches, and maintaining equipment to meet specifications. You will document work orders and formulas and ensure color matching accuracy.

Work is full-time, Monday–Friday, 7:00am–3:30pm, at the Brooklyn Park location with a pay range of $20.59–$26.71 per hour. The position requires lifting up to 100 lbs and compliance with safety and security

Qualifications

• Candidates should demonstrate safety awareness and ability to follow procedures.

Responsibilities

• Prepare customer orders, including blending, adjusting, filling, and labeling batches.
• Operate tinting and mixing equipment and material handling equipment.
• Make shade and gloss adjustments to meet customer requirements.
• Ensure customers' quality and service expectations are met.
• Perform inventory controls and keep quality standards high.
• Keep tools, equipment, and work environment clean and organized daily.
• Maintain production records and reporting as required.
• Communicate and cooperate with supervisors and coworkers.
• Ensure compliance with policies and procedures including safety, loss prevention, and security.
• Follow quality service standards and comply with procedures, rules and regulations.

Skills

Safety awareness

Quality focus

Team collaboration

Attention to details

Tools

Forklifts

Pallet jacks

Hand trucks

Order pickers

Vacu-hoists

Job description

The Production Operator - Blender is responsible for conducting paint drawdowns, preparing and blending customer orders to meet their specifications, documenting work orders and formulas, and maintaining all color-matching and mixing equipment.

• Location: 10695 Winnetka Avenue, Brooklyn Park, MN 55445
• Schedule: Full-time, Monday - Friday, 7:00am - 3:30pm
• Compensation: $20.59 - $26.71 per hour

Job duties include contact with other employees, operating heavy machinery, and access to proprietary information, raw materials, finished merchandise, and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and vendors.

• Prepare customer orders, including blending, adjusting, filling, and labeling batches
• Operate tinting and mixing equipment and material handling equipment in an efficient and safe manner
• Make shade and gloss adjustments to meet customer requirements
• Ensure customers' quality and service expectations are met
• Perform inventory controls and keep quality standards high
• Keep tools, equipment, and work environment clean and organized daily
• Maintain production records and reporting as required
• Communicate and cooperate with supervisors and coworkers
• Ensure compliance with policies and procedures including safety, loss prevention, and security
• Follow quality service standards and comply with procedures, rules and regulations

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future
• Must be able, with or without reasonable accommodation, to retrieve material from shelves and floor stacks and lift and carry up to 50 lbs. frequently and up to 100 lbs. on occasion

Preferred Qualifications:

• Have at least one (1) year of work experience mixing or blending raw materials and making a product in an industrial batch process
• Have at least one (1) year of work experience using material handling equipment (for example: forklifts (stand and sit), pallet jacks, hand trucks, order pickers, vacu-hoists, drum dollies, conveyor belts, etc.)
• Have at least one (1) year of work experience monitoring gauges, dials, or other machinery indicators to ensure proper operation of machinery
• Have at least one (1) year of work experience monitoring the quality of raw materials and/or finished goods
• Have at least one (1) year of work experience operating machinery in a manufacturing and/or distribution environment
• Have at least one (1) year experience working in a manufacturing and/or distribution facility
• Have prior work experience operating tinting or color matching equipment