Changeover Specialist
Erdrich
Dublin, GA, USA
Posted on Jul 9, 2025
Change Over Specialist
Main Skills needed: Mechanical, Hands-On, Automotoive, troubleshooting Machines, Entry Level Maintenance.
Objectives:
(fundamental objectives for orientation of the job holder)
- Ensure the production program within the assigned production hall
- Organize and optimize the procedures within the assigned production hall
- Assurance/optimization of the manufacturing quality within the assigned production hall
- Manage repair and maintenance activities within the assigned production hall
- Maintain safety regulations and environmental protection
Duties:
(key primary duties in logical order)
- Implement the agreed setup-production program planning, while considering the existing system capacity and personnel capacity with appropriate response to possible interferences
- Ensure the scheduling, qualitative and quantitative achievement of goals
- Maintain current safety regulations, environmental protection regulations and other legal and internal rules and regulations
- Ensure and maintain all valid work instructions within the assigned area of responsibility
- Ensure the availability and readiness of production resources taking into consideration the maximum system availability and running times
- Ensure the organizational setup procedure including the professional training and guidance of setup operators and other departments involved in the respective setup processes
- Independent setup-preparation, setup-implementation according to the standardized work procedures including the corresponding follow-up and documentation
- Continual analysis of setup procedures and incorporation of improvement potentials in the existing standards
- Active support of preventive and ongoing maintenance work including maintaining operating equipment and tools and monitoring them to ensure they are complete and undamaged
- Active support in the further training of employees
- Active support in the shop floor management
- Active support in the the CIP process
- Active support in the 7S-process through demonstration and implementation of potentials
- Active support in the redesign and modification of work systems, production conversions and production processes as well as sharing practical experience and suggestions for design
- Active support in bottleneck situations through handling and operating machines and systems as well as operating equipment for the production of series products, if necessary, across all departments.
Competencies:
(special authorizations, approval authorization)
- Access to all relevant IT systems (SAP, Babtec, etc.).
- Occasional technical supervision of machine and setup operators involved in the relevant setup processes
Responsibilities:
(professional responsibility, responsibility for personnel)
- Responsible for implementing the agreed setup-production program planning, while taking into account the existing system capacity and personnel capacity within the assigned production hall, with appropriate response to possible interferences
- Responsible for the occasional technical supervision of employees/apprentices involved in the setup processes
- Duty to inform the Shift Team Leader, Supervisor and Production Manager regarding all relevant production incidents
Environmental conditions of the workplace:
- Combined workplace workshop/machines at which the company safety and environmental regulations are to be observed
- Sedentary/standing/physical activities, depending on the operational area
Required training:
- Completed vocational education in the metal industry, preferably tool mechanic (m/f) or industrial mechanic (m/f)
- Certificate for operating industrial trucks, such as a crane license
Professional experience:
- Several years of experience in the metal industry and metal forming.
- Knowledge of measurement technology and reading drawings.
- Experience in operating forklifts and cranes
- Experience in working shifts
- Good knowledge of MS Office, SAP, Babtec, etc.
Personal skills:
- Willing to work shifts - willing to adapt to the constant changes in daily working hours.
- Safety awareness - recognizes unsafe working conditions and complies with general as well as company-specific safety requirements
- Precise work methods - works with high precision, orients oneself and complies to the standards and instructions to be met
- Flexibility - willing to work at various workstations
- Detail oriented - ability to recognize and prioritize details Able to perform tasks while taking into account details
- Environmental awareness - uses resources responsibly