Truss Assembler

Builders FirstSource, Inc.; Kenai (AK); On-site; USD 42,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

Builders FirstSource in Kenai, AK is seeking a Truss Assembler to build and assemble pre-fabricated trusses for residential and commercial projects.

You will place parts, fasten components, cut products to measurements, and tend machines on the assembly line, while adapting to different models and ensuring safety procedures. No formal education is required; prior carpentry experience is helpful. The role requires standing, lifting, and working in a loud environment.

Qualifications

• No formal education or experience required.
• Prior carpentry experience is helpful.

Responsibilities

• Place parts in specified relationships to each other.
• Fasten parts together using bolts, clips, screws, cement, or other methods.
• Cut products to specific measurements as needed.
• Remove defective products as required.
• Tend machines to perform force fitting or fastening operations on the assembly line.
• Work at different workstations as production needs require.
• Adapt to changes in tasks as varying models of product are produced.
• Clean equipment, floors, and work areas according to safety procedures.

Skills

Carpentry

Job description

Spenard Builders Supply is a leading supplier of building materials in Alaska, serving residential and commercial builders, specialty contractors, government agencies, and do‑it‑yourselfers.

Truss Assembler

Location

Kenai, AK

Responsibilities

• Place parts in specified relationships to each other.
• Fasten parts together using bolts, clips, screws, cement, or other methods.
• Cut products to specific measurements as needed.
• Remove defective products as required.
• Tend machines to perform force fitting or fastening operations on the assembly line.
• Work at different workstations as production needs require.
• Adapt to changes in tasks as varying models of product are produced.
• Clean equipment, floors, and work areas according to safety procedures.

Minimum Requirements

• No specific education or experience requirements.
• Prior carpentry experience is helpful.

Work Environment / Physical Activity

• Employee must continuously stand, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, reach with hands and arms, and talk or hear.
• Employee must continuously walk.
• Employee is occasionally required to climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Employee must continuously lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds with assistance as reasonably needed.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Employee is continuously exposed to moving mechanical parts and may be exposed to airborne particles.
• Employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions, extreme cold, extreme heat, risk of electrical shock, and vibration.
• Noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• Employee must wear ear plugs for noise protection as well as eye protection and other personal protective equipment required by the location.

Builders FirstSource is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or status as an individual with a disability.

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