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Machine Operator - 1st Shift

GA Richards
Zeeland, MI Full Time
POSTED ON 4/4/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/3/2026
Pay Scale: $17 - $21/hour

Shift: 6:00 AM - 2:30 PM

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision, 401k, and PTO after 90 days!

Summary: Passing, pulling, and adhering all required raw materials while maintaining quality. Plans, directs, coordinates, and controls the activities of workers engaged in assembling parts or manufacturing components by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
  • Under plant management guidance, schedules work, assists with employee selection, input on employee performance and training, administers work rules, recommends employee status changes, rewarding and disciplining employees.
  • Meet all delivery dates required on work schedule
  • Checking parts for aesthetics
  • Read and comprehend job tickets, drawings, quality policies, procedures, and standards
  • Ability to calibrate and use a tape measure, set-up, adjusts and uses small power tools, such as routers and drills.
  • Ability to inspect product to insure compliance to standards
  • Ability to adequately maintain inventory for all finishing supplies and requisition replenishment as requires


Requirements

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to walk; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.

Salary : $17 - $21

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