Maintenance Assistant/Parts Clerk

Summary: 

This position is responsible for the ordering and maintaining inventory of all machine parts used in production equipment.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. 

• Tracks all purchases and costs, maintains a budget on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis.  Keeps running YTD and MTD budget figures.  Provide it to management periodically.
• Maintains all the parts areas in regard to cleanliness and organization.
• Inventories parts on daily basis, orders parts when quantities are at minimum.   Maintain inventory at established levels.
• Maintains parts requisition log and orders parts when appropriate.
• Enter receiving and relieving information into MP2 when parts are received or services completed.
• Create reports, complete forms, and otherwise communicate in writing anything that may be passed on to an employee, vendor, customer, potential customer or members of management.

• Follow all safety procedures and participate in safety training. Maintain safe and efficient use of equipment, tools, and person. Report any injury or accident immediately to supervisory and/or any unsafe condition.
• Supports food safety, quality and legality.
• Support, and comply with all quality management systems, continuous improvement programs, food safety, employee safety, preventative maintenance programs.
• Support and comply with GMP’s
• Participate in TPM initiatives.
• Follow all company policies and procedures.

• Other duties as assigned

Reports To:  Maintenance Manager

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

• High school diploma or equivalent and ability to read, speak and write English so as to assimilate, retain, and apply training and knowledge of job functions and recognize and communicate problems and recommended solutions.
• Computer Skills -- Proficient in MS Windows applications, especially MS Excel
• 1-2 years prior work in parts room in a manufacturing environment
  • purchasing experience
  • inventory management experience

Physical Demands

The physical 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. 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.  The employee frequently is required to stand for a prolonged time, walk, and sit.  The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; and extreme cold.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate