Sharpener

Description

Site Overview:

At American Eagle Instruments Inc., we pride ourselves on manufacturing high-quality dental hand tools in beautiful Missoula, Montana. As an established industry leader, AEI offers excellent career growth opportunities, competitive salaries and benefits and a dynamic work environment. We are willing to train employees to start, with no experience necessary! Together with our parent company, Young Innovations, we manufacture, and market high quality dental instruments, equipment, and supplies. With an outstanding reputation for quality, our company has a broad portfolio of market-leading products across a variety of categories.  At American Eagle Instruments Inc., we pride ourselves on manufacturing high-quality dental hand tools in beautiful Missoula, Montana. As an established industry leader, AEI offers excellent career growth opportunities, competitive salaries and benefits and a dynamic work environment. We are willing to train employees to start, with no experience necessary! Together with our parent company, Young Innovations, we manufacture, and market high quality dental instruments, equipment, and supplies. With an outstanding reputation for quality, our company has a broad portfolio of market-leading products across a variety of categories.

Position Overview:

Performs repetitive bench or line assembly operations to mass-produce dental hand instruments by performing the following duties and responsibilities.

Essential Duties:

• Condition of employment requires knowledge and conformance to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) as applicable to the position
• Be proactive with own safety and report any potential safety issues to supervisor
• Record product production and order details on specified forms, batch records and logs.
• Uses grinder and/or sharpening machine to sharpen steel tips to specific design specifications, for all dental hand instruments AEI manufactures that require sharp edges,
• Perform in process inspections and verify product meets established criteria
• Use measuring tool to confirm accuracy per specifications.
• Learn quality processes and procedures.
• Remove and report any incomplete or defective products for quality review as necessary
• Consistently meet or exceed production goals and efficiency while maintaining quality standards
• Follow all written and verbal instructions/guidelines
• Perform general equipment maintenance and keep work area clean and organized,
• May work at different workstations as production needs require
• Learn instruments and related product lines,
• Learns and applies quality processes and procedures,
• Become familiar with ISO, FDA and other regulatory standards,
• Other duties as assigned or necessary.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

Training and Experience

High school diploma or general education degree (GED); one to three months related experience and/or training is an added bonus.

Knowledge, Abilities and Skills

• Manufacturing – Understanding of manufacturing processes and systems.
• Hand dexterity – Holding the instrument at a sharpening wheel in a steady and calculated manner.
• Eyesight – Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision, Depth perception and Ability to adjust focus for detailed work and inspection,
• Language Ability—Able to speak and read English.  Ability to read and interpret documents, such as prints, drawings, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence,
• Math Ability - Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning Ability - Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information.  Works well in group problem solving situations; Uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.
• Technical Skills – Strives to continuously build knowledge and skills.
• Interpersonal - Focuses on solving conflict, not blaming; Maintains confidentiality; Listens to others without interrupting; Keeps emotions under control; Remains open to others' ideas and tries new things.
• Shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences. 
• Organizational Values – Follows policies and procedures.
• Dependability – Follows instructions, responds to management direction.  Is consistently at work on time.  Uses time efficiently.
• Professionalism – Accepts responsibility for own actions.
• Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment; Manages competing demands; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation; Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
• Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote continuous quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.
• Quantity – Meets or exceeds productivity standards.
• Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures; Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; Uses equipment and materials properly.     
• Computer Skills:
  • Knowledge of computers and software applications. 
• Certificates and Licenses:
  • No certifications required.
• Supervisory Responsibilities:
  • This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

The physical and working 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.

The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision, Depth perception and Ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

Working Conditions

Office environment and occasional exposure to manufacturing plant environment, with some abnormal variations in temperature, unavoidable fumes, noise, dust and atmospheric conditions.

No travel required.

Young Innovations, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and E-Verify participating employer.