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SalaryPosition summary:
The Setup Technician is responsible for changeovers of creels and tufting machines, as well as loading and unloading creels to service creels and tufting machines, efficiently and in accordance with the specification sheets to ensure minimum downtime
Educational requirements:
The Setup Technician is responsible for changeovers of creels and tufting machines, as well as loading and unloading creels to service creels and tufting machines, efficiently and in accordance with the specification sheets to ensure minimum downtime
Educational requirements:
- High school diploma or GED required
Skills and experience:
- Intermediate math skills to include addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals and percentages required
- Good communication skills, verbal and written
- Previous tufting experience preferred
- Previous textile experience preferrred
- Must have normal color vision or average to above average shade discernment
- Interface White Belt and 6S training preferred
Essential duties:
- Locate paperwork and master for next run and place at machine
- Check next creel set for correct thread-up and stage at Tufting machines
- Cut out creels set and burn in new set
- Run burns through needles and check for misdraws
- Record changeover time on production report
- Operate Tufting machines
- Relieve Operators for breaks
- Load and unload all creels to the proper thread up
- Recognize quality problems and make corrections when operating Tufting machine
- Deposit all yarn and headers scrap into specific containers to be recycled
- Maximize recycling of all recyclable materials and minimize waste
- Maintain a daily log of production
- Maintain housekeeping
- Comply with safety rules
- Comply with environmental regulations
- Be aware of departmental Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS)
- Ensure ISO procedures are followed.
- Understand and support Interface commitment to sustainability.
- Perform other duties as assigned
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Physical demands:
Physical demands:
- Walking up and down stairs
- Considerable standing
- Continuous lifting of up to 15 lbs
- Pushing and pulling a wheeled cart with up to 360 lbs load
- Occasional lifting of up to 25lbs
Work environment:
Non climate-controlled factory environment
We are a VEVRAA Federal Contractor. We desire priority referrals of Protected Veterans for job openings at all locations within the State of Georgia. An Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans and Disabled.Non climate-controlled factory environment
