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Production Technician III

Kansas City, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 15 Aug 2025

About the role

Shift: Monday-Friday 7AM - 4PMSummary: This position requires working with minimal supervision to perform disassembly, quoting, customer contact, assembly, testing, and transport of tooling, machine sub-assemblies, and machines and equipment in need of remanufacture or new assembly. This position requires strong knowledge of packaging machine functions, diagnostics and troubleshooting, package criteria and end customer needs. Time Utilization: Normal business hours are 8:00am to 5:00pm. Schedule needs to be flexible to accommodate internal and external customer’s schedules as overtime may be required. This position may travel up to 5% of the time. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned:

Follows the directives from the supervisor to execute the manufacturing production schedule and to fulfill the order requirements of quality machines at the agreed upon due date

Schedules ownership for all assigned activities in related work centers, managing daily to ensure material are on schedule to meet the agreed upon schedule

Order processing in SAP for releasing, printing, confirming, and inventory movements for all production orders and projects assigned

Diagnoses, troubleshoots, repairs, and operates machines and equipment in all 3 major departments of mechanical, electrical, pneumatic

Handles absorption tracking for yourself, meeting the efficiency your supervisor has set

Handles a project from a BOM to shipping with little direction or assistance, meeting quality standards, budgets, in the agreed upon time

Communicates directly with our customer (if required) to provide pricing and delivery. Assists customers with emergency situations requiring rapid turnaround of machines or equipment.

Adheres to established work schedules, order priorities and practices efficient time management to achieve these detailed schedule goals.

Performs complex troubleshooting and diagnostics of equipment to determine the required project scope of work relating to machinery

Confirms the form/ fit and function of the project and performs “early” risk analysis to determine if the BOM/ components appear complete as needed. Provides immediate feedback to the supervisor if risks are detected.

Performs all manufacturing requirements associated with mechanical, electrical, pneumatic, vacuum, safety, programming components. Assembles and installs physical components into quality assemblies, many times without the benefit of written assembly instructions. Performs remanufacturing activities to return machines and components back to OEM specifications.

Recommends changes as needed to the configuration of production items. Performs modifications when approved by supervisor. Confirms items not on the provided BOM are attached to production orders for inventory relief.

Confirms all floor work is performed to correct standards of performance, alignment, seals, tensioning, attaching, marking, testing, safety, documentation and component integrity

Confirms machines are prepared for customer shipment by confirming all required components, i.e. gaskets, spares, manuals, tool boxes, film, etc. are present and accounted for. Documents outbound items by photographing prior to transfer.

Confirms documents verifying quality assurance, performance testing, settings, risk areas, exceptions are filled out, sent to the proper contacts and filed for future reference