Tufting |Reliability Tech C| 2Nd Shift

Job Title

Tufting |Reliability Tech C| 2nd Shift

Position Overview

Shaw Industries is looking a Reliability Tech C to serve the Tufting/Warping Department by making necessary repairs and/or adjustments to tufting machines for the purpose of maintaining their efficient and accurate operation.

Shaw Industries Group, Inc. is a leader in flooring and other surface solutions designed for residential housing, commercial spaces and outdoor environments. Leveraging strengths in design, innovation and operational excellence, the company takes a people-centered, customer-focused, and growth-minded approach to meet diverse market needs. It creates differentiated customer experiences through its expansive portfolio of brands: Anderson Tuftex, COREtec, Shaw Floors, Patcraft, Philadelphia Commercial, Shaw Contract, Shaw Sports Turf, Shawgrass, Southwest Greens, Watershed Geo and more.

Headquartered in Dalton, Georgia, Shaw is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. with more than $6 billion in annual sales and 18,000 associates worldwide.

I. Essential Duties:

• Make necessary repairs to tufting machines and warpers.

• Perform preventative maintenance on tufting machines and warpers.

• Make major changes of blades, loopers and needles on tufting machines

• Make necessary speed adjustments to tufting machines

• Obtain dissection weight checks for the purpose of determining the nature of tufting machine adjustments and make the needed adjustments pending the analysis of the dissection weight checks

• Make necessary tufting machine adjustments to accommodate style changes

• Troubleshoot machines and warpers for mechanical issues.

• Perform minor and major overhauls of tufting machines when machine shop work is not required

• Repair mending guns and other Tufting/Warper Department equipment.

• Attend periodic departmental meetings as well as training that will foster continued job improvement

II. Non-Essential Duties:

• Serve on task forces and committees as necessary

• Perform other non quality-related duties as directed by Supervisor

Physical Requirements:

• Sit or stand intermittently for at least 8 hours

• Climb steps several times per day

• Walk through plant several times per day

• Withstand exposure to changes in both temperature and humidity

• Apply forces to tools necessary to accomplish the work

VI. Other Requirements

• Communicate to other employees both in speech and in writing

• Ensure the work environment is free of harassment and that employees feel free to express problems and concerns

• Assure compliance of all corporate policies

VII. Training Requirements:

• EQA

VIII. Tools, Equipment & Material Requirements:

• Various wrenches, hammers & other hand tools

• Support equipment

• Gauge Parts

IX. Safety & Security Requirements:

• Abide by and enforce plant safety rules and regulations

• Know evacuation routes and gathering location

Shaw benefits include:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• Life insurance and disability coverage

• Tuition reimbursement

• Employee assistance program

• Health savings account

• Paid Time Off

• Parental Leave

• 401K and Retirement Plans

• Product discounts for employees

• Adoption assistance

• Shaw Family Health Center (Dalton, GA, and Cartersville, GA, locations)

• And much more.

Work Shift

8 Hr non-rotating shift, Hrs fall to in punch day, Observed Calendar, shift starts PM

Shaw Industries is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.