Mechanical Assembler

Skills :     Assistant Manager

Job Description:

About Us:

BW Papersystems, part of the Barry-Wehmiller Group, builds capital equipment that transforms paper into products for consumers - every day, around the world. We offer innovative technologies, service and parts, and years of global experience in corrugating, finishing; slitting and packaging; stationery; bookbinding and security documents. Customers rely on our machines to produce and convert items such as corrugated boxes, folding cartons, passports, notebooks, copy paper, board, and coated and other specialty papers. For more information, visit bwpapersystems.com.

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

Job Description:

BW Papersystems is looking for talented Mechanical Assemblers, who will plan and perform a normal range of operations connected with the assembly and erection of company-produced machines. Being responsible for the mechanical assembly of box-making machines; of which are comprised of feed, printing, cutter, scorer-slotter sections, and related units in accordance with design specifications. Your work involves working from complex drawings and a considerable number of component parts that require skill and care to align, fit, and assemble into units and obtain exacting operating performance and appearance.

Responsibilities/Complexities:

• Work from assembly drawings, blueprints, specifications, and instructions to plan work in proper sequences.
• Assemble sections of machines of various combinations thereof as indicated by customer specifications.
• Perform complex assembly operations to exacting tolerances, work with rotating shafts, gear trains, mechanical structures, and sprockets.
• Utilize measuring instruments to level and align work, detect, and eliminate run-out, work to close tolerances with a demand for square, concentricity, and parallelism.
• Detect defective material, unusual conditions or operating difficulties and report to proper supervision.
• Complete necessary documentation to ensure quality and production requirements.
• Collaborate with other departments regarding process and design initiatives; use knowledge, skill, and experience to make recommendations for improvements to design and/or processes.
• Assist in generating standard work instructions/procedures, train others on proper procedures.
• Act as a backup to the group lead, reporting daily team needs/opportunities to the team leader.
• Capable of multi-tasking various duties throughout the day, working with a positive attitude with an ability to be versatile and flexible.
• Work independently and solve problems while interacting with various steams and teammates on a daily processes and flow.
• Attend regular scheduled shifts at the worksite that is required for this position; ability to work overtime as needed.

Basic Qualifications and Competencies:

AND/OR

• 5+ years’ experience operating various hand and power tools involved with mechanical assembly.
• Team player.