State Industries Production Technician

State-of-Iow; Rockwell City (IA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

State of Iowa is seeking a supervisor to oversee welding operations in a correctional setting, working with incarcerated individuals to ensure safety, security, and quality. You will instruct on welding techniques, monitor counts, and coordinate fabrication with CAD teams.

The role requires strong mechanical skills, blueprint reading, and the ability to manage finishing goods, tools, and delivery schedules while complying with OSHA and Right to Work requirements.

Qualifications

• 6 months welding experience or equivalent training as described in the job class.
• 1 year of full-time experience directing employees or correctional residents in production.
• Current, continuous experience supervising offenders in a manufacturing setting (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Supervise welding operations with incarcerated individuals and coordinate fabrication tasks.
• Instruct on welding techniques, fabrication processes and safety protocols.
• Maintain raw material stocks and inventory of finished goods; ensure timely delivery.
• Monitor offender counts and enforce security and safety measures in the shop.
• Inspect products to meet industry standards and customer specifications.
• Collaborate with CAD designers to select appropriate materials and equipment.

Skills

Mechanical aptitude

Blueprint reading

Welding supervision

Tool handling

Tools

CAD

Job description

Supervise and coordinate welding operations with incarcerated individuals while using a large variety of hand tools, power tools and machinery. This position is responsible for overseeing the production area and ensuring all safety and security measures are followed. Quality control in this area requires constant attention.

Job classification duties also include instructing on various welding techniques, fabrication processes and safety protocols required by the Iowa DOC, North Central Correctional Facility, OSHA, Fire Marshall, Respirator Program, and Lock Out/Tag Out procedures.

Also ensure all products meet industry standards and customer specifications.

This role requires strong mechanical aptitude, excellent blueprint reading skills, and the ability to effectively manage welders and fabrication processes by incarcerated individuals.

Maintain the stock of raw material while keeping a detailed inventory of finished goods.

Also ensuring timely delivery dates of finish goods are met.

Maintain daily physical accounts of tool inventory and machines.

Replace or repair damaged tools or equipment.

Deliver finished goods as needed.

Monitor the activities of offenders in a minimum/medium security correctional setting.

Receives yearly training in this area.

Gives the highest priority to security functions to ensure the safety of offenders, staff, and the general public.

Conducts required offender counts professionally.

Teach I/Is to be a proficient welder; know and understand metal working equipment such as press brakes, plasma, laser cutters, and welders. Help management determine which piece of equipment best fits the shop’s needs for capital improvements.

Work with CAD designers to determine best material for jobs.

Qualified applicants will meet selective requirements as well as the minimum qualifications of the job class.

E-Verify and Right to Work

The State of Iowa participates in E-Verify, a federal program that helps employers confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. Within the required timeframe, new hires will be verified through the E-Verify system to ensure authorization to work in the United States. The State of Iowa also complies with the federal Right to Work laws, which protect employees' rights to work without being required to join a labor organization. For more information, please visit www.e-verify.gov.

765 Welding (Arc and/or Acetylene)

6 months’ experience, 12 semester hours, or a combination of both in welding that uses an electric arc to provide heat or welding using acetylene which is a colorless flammable gas.

Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum requirements to qualify for positions in this job classification:

• 1) One year of full-time work experience in the direction of employees in one of the following areas related to the manufacture/delivery of Iowa State Industries products or services:
  • a. Wood Furniture Fabrication: cutting, planing, shaping, routing, gluing, staining, and assembling wood furniture.
  • b. Upholstery Fabrication: cutting patterns, sewing, stitching, tacking, gluing, and assembling fabric and foam upholstery items.
  • c. Braille Production: translation of printed documents into Literary and/or Nemeth Code Braille using the Perkins Braille writer and/or computer translation programs, thermoforming, binding, producing raised line drawings.
  • d. Graphics Arts Production: layout, proofing, darkroom operation, screen-printing, press operation (offset, duplicator, desktop publishing), binding, and cost estimating.
  • e. Chemical Formulation: mixing, blending, bottling, packaging, and labeling personal care, floor care, kitchen, laundry, and bathroom chemical products.
  • f. Sign Fabrication: blanking, shaping, and forming metal, wood, and plastic into sign substrate. Application of reflective or non-reflective sheeting to substrate to produce traffic control signs.
  • g. Warehouse Operations: receiving, accounting for, storing, and disbursing raw materials, component parts, and finished products. Loading, unloading, routing, and dispatching delivery vehicles.
  • h. Service Center Operation: receiving, processing, recording, and fulfilling incoming telephonic calls. Initiating, recording, and servicing outgoing calls. Responding to and servicing mailed and electronically transferred requests for information; using computers to provide services.
  • i. Industrial Safety: implementing and administering programs to ensure compliance with the standards of regulatory agencies (OSHA, EPA, etc.) in manufacturing plants. Providing safety training to personnel in industrial plants.
  • j. Manufacturing Support Services and Production Control: coordinating the disbursement of raw materials and component parts to production shops; scheduling the output of production shops to ensure efficient final assembly; scheduling and routing delivery of finished goods; coordinating on-site installation of large projects between production, delivery, contracted vendors, and customers; inventory control; quality control; micrographics, or computer-based production control and support.
• 2) One year of full-time work experience in the supervision and training of correctional residents or employees in the manufacture and delivery of products or services.
• 3) Current, continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes one year of full-time work in the Iowa Department of Corrections in a position requiring direct offender supervision.

Within a period of time after hire, as determined by the appointing authority, persons in this class may be required to obtain a Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and endorsements.