General Shop Worker
We are currently recruiting for General Shop Workers.

South Plainfield NJ $14/hr 1st shift 7am-3:30pm.

2nd shift Machine Shop from Monday to Friday from 3 pm to 11 pm – Paid time for lunch.

We Offer a Competitive Benefit Package Including:

• Medical
• Voluntary Employee & Dependent Life Insurance/Accidental Death & Dismemberment, LTD
• Retirement Plan
• Vacation, Sick Days, and Holiday

Responsibilities
This position assists workers engaged in fabrication of structural or sheet metal products by performing the following duties.

• Lifts, positions, and removes work pieces from machines to assist in fitting and packaging
• Holds tape measuring and other measuring devices top perform dimensional verification of finished products
• Assist line operator in record keeping of production and material utilization
• Loads, stack, transports stocks and work in process by hand or truck
• Cleans up and trim metal preparatory to manufacturing, packaging or shipping
• Picks up, stacks and straps scrap from work area
• Perform general shop floor clean up and maintenance
• Performs other routine duties
• Observes safety and SOP’s. Reports potentially unsafe conditions and uses equipment and materials properly

Qualifications

• Less than high school education; or up to one month related experience or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee is occasionally required to walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl and talk or hear.
• The employee must frequently lift or move 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision and peripheral vision.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts such as conveyors rolls and power industrial trucks also known as Forklifts.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually very load.
• Works around manufacturing equipment such as roll forming lines, automated packaging systems, wood saws and forklift traffic.

In addition to the benefits package, we also have a growth plan for all of our production staff. Each time an employee trains and becomes knowledgeable is eligible to increase their pay rate $.75 to $1.00 depending on the position. Our goal is for our employees to become operators, being the highest operator a level 7 operator.

Machines Operated, Just to name a few:

Stamping Press- metalworking machine tool that can precisely shape or cut metal to your specifications. Used for both sheet and coil forms of metal. The press is composed of a bolster plate and ram. The stamping process works by forming the metal between two halves of the press tool.

Roll Slitting- roll of a slitting machine is to convert raw large steel coil material into smaller narrow rolls/coil, by cutting the material in the desired size. The machine consists of three main parts; the unwind, the slitter, and the rewind

Press Brake and Shear Machine- machine pressing tool for bending sheet and plate material, most commonly sheet metal.

Heavy Gauge Forming Machine- makes large material such as larger studs for commercial buildings

Light Gauge Forming Machine- makes smaller and lighter studs and other steel material for commercial buildings