Wood Truss Assembler

Job Description

Job Description

Overview:

Reporting to the Wood Truss Supervisor, the Wood Truss Assembler is responsible for assembling precut wooden trusses according to specifications in a safe and efficient manner to meet internal and external customer needs.

Essential Functions:

• Promote and drive safety-first culture, ensuring the safety of employees, contractors, and visitors
• Know and follow safety and emergency procedures as needed
• Operate assembly equipment and tools in a safe and responsible manner to assemble wooden trusses as per customer orders, while adhering to quality specifications
• Routinely perform quality checks and make adjustments as needed to provide customer with accurate and damage-free product
• Complete all daily orders
• Maintain clean work area and workstation prep throughout shift
• Complete housekeeping and workstation prep tasks prior to end of shift
• Routinely perform preventative maintenance on machinery as per training
• Troubleshoot and/or notify immediate supervisor of machine breakdowns or issues
• Maintain and/or update department visual tracking metrics boards
• Cross-train on other functions in the department
• Provide support in meeting and/or exceeding department and plant goals such as safety, quality, scrap prevention and operational excellence
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills/Experience Requirements:

Ability to

• Properly utilize and maintain all personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Read and write
• Effectively communicate with others
• Read a tape measure, use a mallet and/or pneumatic staple gun and read blueprints
• Maintain a dependable attendance record
• Receive instruction and follow direction, including technical and multi-step instructions
• Work indoors or occasionally outdoors in all weather conditions
• Work independently as well as in a team
• Work safely, remain calm and make decisions in a fast-paced environment

Ability and willingness to

• Contribute innovative solutions to work-related challenges
• Learn, align with and support company goals, values and mission statement
• Lead from any role within the organization and contribute in developing fellow team members

Preferred attributes

• High school diploma or GED
• Previous field-related, forklift and/or manufacturing experience
• Construction experience
• Reading a tape measure
• Pneumatic nail gun

Physical Requirements:

• Standing for long periods of time
• Routine lifting up to 50 lbs (occasional lifting up to 60 lbs)
• Frequent to occasional lifting, stooping, squatting, kneeling, reaching, bending, twisting, pushing and pulling