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Machine Operator - Bar Stock

ASSA ABLOY Group
Salem, VA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/27/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/2/2026
Title: Machine Operator – Bar Stock Prep

Business Unit: Medeco Security Locks

Location: Salem, VA (on-site)

Department: Operations

Shift: 1st

EEO Job Class: Non-Exempt

Status: Full-Time

Reports To: Machining Area Manager

Position Summary:

Join our innovative team as a Machine Operator and play a crucial role in the smooth running of our automated bar feed machines. This position involves not only maintaining machines stocked with essential materials like bars, oil, and coolant, but also optimizing our production process to enhance efficiency and quality.

Key Responsibilities:

Preparation and Precision: Ready bars for production by sanding and cutting bar stock to supply multiple departments.

Maintenance and Upkeep: Manage and replenish oil and coolant levels, ensuring machines operate at peak performance. Handle routine maintenance tasks such as replacing air filters and changing tooling on equipment, along with monitoring and maintaining concentrate levels for precision tools. Efficiently remove bar ends and scrap, contributing to our sustainability efforts.

Cleanliness and Order: Maintain a pristine work environment through daily cleaning of machines and areas, adhering to our 5S cleanliness and organization standards.

Collaborative Problem-Solving: Actively participate in team meetings to boost performance, solve production challenges, enhance safety, and implement continuous improvement strategies.

Training and Development: Train peers in various job tasks across product centers and support areas, sharing knowledge and fostering a team-oriented culture.

Adaptability: Willingly work overtime as necessary and take on additional responsibilities to ensure seamless operations.

We’re looking for a team player with:

  • High School Diploma or equivalent.
  • Basic math and computer skills, including proficiency with tablets.
  • Skilled in using measurement tools such as micrometers and calipers.
  • Ability to read and understand blueprints.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of cutting tools, with expertise in swapping saw blades, turning inserts, and other equipment components.
  • Excellent communication skills.

Why Join Us?

You will be part of a forward-thinking company that values innovation and teamwork. With opportunities to influence the manufacturing process, develop your technical skills, and contribute to a safe and efficient workplace, your role here will be pivotal and rewarding.

Physical Requirements:

  • Normal, corrective vision range; ability to see color and to distinguish letters, numbers and symbols.
  • Frequently required to sit, stand, walk, talk, hear, bend and reach.
  • Ability to reach with hands and arms.
  • Occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds.

We review applications regularly, so don’t hesitate, apply today!

Medeco is committed to providing equal employment and advancement opportunity (“EEO”) to all qualified persons.

We are the ASSA ABLOY Group

Our people have made us the global leader in access solutions. In return, we open doors for them wherever they go. With nearly 63,000 colleagues in more than 70 different countries, we help billions of people experience a more open world. Our innovations make all sorts of spaces – physical and virtual – safer, more secure, and easier to access.

As an employer, we value results – not titles, or backgrounds. We empower our people to build their career around their aspirations and our ambitions – supporting them with regular feedback, training, and development opportunities. Our colleagues think broadly about where they can make the most impact, and we encourage them to grow their role locally, regionally, or even internationally.

As we welcome new people on board, it’s important to us to have diverse, inclusive teams, and we value different perspectives and experiences.

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