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Durham, North Carolina, United States

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Performs routine changeovers including, but not limited to, lot changes, end of arm tooling changes, and mold changes.Perform proper startup and shutdown procedures on equipment and verification of equipment status.Assist operations team with routine line issues, resets, and restarts. Completes required preventive maintenance at defined intervals.Trains and mentors other associates within maintenance and operations.Monitor output quality and quantity; troubleshoot as needed to make necessary machine and parameter adjustments where applicable; and alleviate minor jams.Troubleshoots equipment breakdowns and performs mechanical and pneumatic maintenance whenever required to ensure uninterrupted customer supply. Process tuning equipment to meet or exceed quality expectations, within validated state. Works with quality and operations to evaluate and address non-conformances, product quality defects, and other output issues.This includes verifying the correct set-up of machines and auxiliary equipment. Works with hand tools and/or power tools while troubleshooting, conducting preventative maintenance (PM), or repairing equipment.Demonstrates safe techniques and proper use of all tools.Uses inventory management systems (maximo) to obtain replacement parts for corrective/ preventative maintenance, and proactive replacement efforts. Document all troubleshooting and maintenance activities in appropriate Computer Maintenance Management Systems (CMMS).Ensures accuracy and good documentation practices per company and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards. Communicates status of technical issues within the maintenance team and to operations team.Repairs, rebuilds, adjusts, inspects, and monitors production and/or facility related equipment and machinery.

Mebane, North Carolina

Lead and coordinate the work of team members within the cell to meet daily production objectives and achieve results, while following local and GKN Driveline policies, procedures, and processes. Recognize, resolve, and escalate in-cell problems to support achievement of results. Send and receive key information, results, and conditions verbally, visually and in writing. Responsible for identifying and escalating performance issues appropriately. SMT role still applies to this role.

Mebane, North Carolina

Performs setup/changeovers of the machinery within the production lines. Achieve 1st pc samples from each machine that has been changed over. Process production material, monitor the operation and ensure production equipment is functioning properly, this includes robots, Okuma and Mazak lathes, Nova and Emag grinders, Hass milling machines and troubleshooting issues that prevent the machines from producing acceptable parts. Maintain the process and analytical equipment while maintaining accuracy and adherence to specifications. Handle production flows across shifts. Assist maintenance in resolving equipment repair issues.

Mebane, North Carolina

Measure components using engineering blueprints to verify machine operations met specification. Use precision test equipment to measure geometric features found on engineering blueprints. Set up floor test fixtures for use in the production cells. Assure accuracy with test fixtures and calibration up to date prior to distributing to the production cells. Document and communicate results to production and engineering as needed. Support the needs of production with accuracy and timeliness.

Mebane, North Carolina

Performed machine operations on multiple machines while producing the desired quality and quantity of parts having shoulders, steps, tapers, threads, unusual contours, exact tolerances, and other precise machining functions.