Lead Operator

Description

JOB TITLE: Lead Line Operator

ORGANIZATIONAL UNIT: Sovereign Pipe Technologies

Supervisor: Production Supervisor

FLSA: Non-exempt

Pay Range: BOE

ALL FULL TIME POSITIONS:     In addition to your pay, your salary also includes Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance. The Biweekly deduction from employee paycheck is $40.00 for Employee Only, $95.00 Employee plus Children, $120.00 Employee plus Spouse, and $140.00 Employee plus family.  

JOB SUMMARY: 

· Assist the Sovereign Pipe Technologies Production Supervisor with all production items as needed within established guidelines. 

· The Lead Line Operator physically keeps up with the resin, by unloading the resin out of the railcars and into the silos, then changes to other silos and fills them also. 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 

· Organize and assign work and work schedules to utilize available skills, knowledge, and experience between the operators, labor hours, machines, and tooling to obtain favorable machining costs, quality, and workmanship. 

· Provide regular training, instruction, and guidance while maintaining close surveillance over set-up procedures and machining operations. 

· Verify production meets Quality standards for all work in progress and finished goods. 

· Resolve issues in a timely manner, with limited supervision. 

· Enforce company policies and procedures. 

· Maintain a clean safe work environment. 

· Monitor operating parameters of the extruders and downstream equipment. 

· Make necessary adjustments to extruder, die, water, or vacuum on a production line to ensure the highest quality product attainable. 

· Ensure pipe is marked with proper print line as specified in Quality Manual. 

· Ensure pipe dimensions are within tolerance including wall thickness, outside diameter, length, and overall appearance. Inform Supervisor of any changes in specification of pipe. 

· Help prepare early and perform all SDR and size changes including the setup and changeover of all the production lines. 

· As the level of difficulty increases, the incumbent considers differences in the courses of action and refines methods or develops new techniques, concepts, theories, or programs to solve problems. 

· Incumbent will frequently be faced with unusual circumstances and incomplete or conflicting data in addition to various staff and personnel who have special interests and individual priorities, which may conflict with existing policy and procedures. 

· The level of difficulty will vary from mild to extremely intensive and complex circumstances on a routine basis. 

· The incumbent is often required to depart from past approaches and to extend traditional techniques or develop new ones to meet major objectives and projects without compromising responsible methods and integrity principles. 

SCOPE AND EFFECT: 

· The purpose of the work is to conduct precise equipment operations in the production department and manage it with methods and contribute to the generation of a profit by providing quality services to our customers. 

SUPERVISORY CONTROLS: 

· Incumbent is under the immediate supervisor of the Production Supervisor. 

· Supervisor assigns work on information regarding the objectives, priorities, and deadlines. 

· Incumbent handles all work independently according to instructions, established policies, and generally accepted principles. 

· Supervisor assigns work in terms of objectives and basic priorities and is available for consultation in resolving complex or controversial issues. 

· Incumbent independently plans and carries out the projects and selects the approaches and methods to be used in solving problems. 

NOTE: 

· The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by an employee in this position. These statements are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of employees in this position.