Manufacturing Production Technicians

Tasks

Core Tasks Include:

• Adhere to all applicable regulations, policies, and procedures for health, safety, and environmental compliance.
• Inspect finished products for quality and adherence to customer specifications.
• Set up and operate production equipment in accordance with current good manufacturing practices and standard operating procedures.
• Calibrate or adjust equipment to ensure quality production, using tools such as calipers, micrometers, height gauges, protractors, or ring gauges.
• Set up and verify the functionality of safety equipment.
• Monitor and adjust production processes or equipment for quality and productivity.
• Troubleshoot problems with equipment, devices, or products.
• Test products or subassemblies for functionality or quality.
• Plan and lay out work to meet production and schedule requirements.
• Start up and shut down processing equipment.
• Prepare and assemble materials.
• Provide advice or training to other technicians.
• Measure and record data associated with operating equipment.
• Assist engineers in developing, building, or testing prototypes or new products, processes, or procedures.
• Prepare production documents, such as standard operating procedures, manufacturing batch records, inventory reports, or productivity reports.
• Install new equipment.
• Keep production logs.
• Clean production equipment or work areas.
• Collect hazardous or non-hazardous waste in correctly labeled barrels or other containers and transfer them to collection areas.
• Provide production, progress, or changeover reports to shift supervisors.
• Select cleaning materials, tools, or equipment.

Supplemental Tasks Include:

• Build product subassemblies or final assemblies.
• Ship packages, following carrier specifications.
• Maintain inventory of job materials.
• Build packaging for finished products.
• Package finished products.

Tasks Include:

• Clean scrap materials for recycling or reuse, such as preparing aluminum scrap for cold-bonding processes or preparing paper for pulping or ink removal processes.
• Conduct environmental safety inspections in accordance with standard protocols to ensure production activities comply with environmental regulations or standards.
• Separate scrap or waste materials for recycling, reuse, or environmentally sound disposal.
• Transfer hazardous or non-hazardous waste materials to collection areas for disposal, recycling, or reuse.

The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™ 16.0.