Finish Line Operator

Status: This is a full-time; hourly position
Hours: Monday- Thursday: 5:00am – 2:00pm & Friday: 5:00am – 11:00am; overtime as needed

Benefits Offered to Full-time Employees: Health, Dental, Optical, Medical FSA/HSA, Dependent Care (FSA), Basic Life Plan, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, 401K with Company Match, Profit Sharing (ROA), PTO (Vacation), Holidays, Jury Duty, and Funeral Leave

JOB SUMMARY: The Finish Line Operator is responsible for applying their working knowledge of various finishing techniques to ensure the artistic and aesthetic quality of memorials by blending and removing imperfections, polishing and highlighting memorials with a number of hand and power tools.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

• Transfer memorials from accumulating conveyor to the finishing booth; memorials weigh between 1 and 100 pounds, with the majority weighing between 20 and 50 pounds.
• Use a die grinder tool with a wire wheel to remove any excess paint from memorial boarders, sculpted designs and emblems.
• Use a hand wire brush to remove paint from small, detailed emblems.
• Use a die grinder with an abrasive pad to highlight any areas that were wire-wheeled to brighten bronze and give it an antique appearance.
• Use a high-cycle tool with a metal finishing wheel to remove excess paint and metal, polish any lettering and flatten emblems to their standard thickness.
• Control the frequency drive to adjust the speed of the metal finishing wheel to avoid over-sanding and removal of pertinent details on letters and emblems.
• Use a powered surface conditioning belt to polish the radius of certain designs and patterns.
• Apply touch-up paint on memorials with air brush.
• Use scrub brush and compressed air to clean memorials.
• Perform appropriate inspections to ensure quality standards are met.
• Scan bar codes on work orders to record work performed in the JDE system.

• Must have good hand-eye coordination.
• Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another, to avoid interruptions in production.
• Ability to work independently, with little or no supervision.
• Excellent problem solving and critical thinking skills, with an emphasis in time management, improving efficiencies and exercising independent judgment to determine work priority and urgency.
• General math skills.
• Must be able to read work orders or production tickets, which may include dimensional drawings.
• Ability to read a tape measure, imperial and metric.
• Work as a self-motivated team member who adheres to all safety protocols and is willing to cross-train as needed.