Assembler - Grand Rapids, United States - Leggett & Platt

Leggett & Platt

Verified Company

Grand Rapids, United States

1 week ago

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Mark Lane

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Description

We make life more comfortable.

Leggett & Platt's overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives - by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett & Platt's inventive heritage and leadership in the residential products industry span more than 130 years.

As _The Components People_, we are the leading supplier of a wide range of products and components for all areas of life, including mattress springs and carpet cushion, as well as bedding machinery and erosion-control products.

From aerospace tubing and fabricated assemblies to flooring underlayment and carpet cushion, Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products.

Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the aerospace, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, têxtile, and geo components industries.

Furniture
A Leader in the Upholstered Furniture Industry

In our Furniture Components business, we design, manufacture, and distribute a wide range of components and finished products that enhance comfort, motion, and style in upholstered furniture, including recliner mechanisms, seating support systems, and sofa sleeper units.

With a global footprint that includes international manufacturing, product development, distribution and sales, we are strategically positioned to support upholstered furniture manufacturers around the world.

Workplace Furniture Solutions

Leggett & Platt is North America's leading independent manufacturer of office furniture components and mechanism. Our Work Furniture business produces task and finished components, as well as select lines of private label finished seating.

From surface-critical bent tube assemblies and molded plywood components to chair mechanisms, bases, arms, seats, and backs, Work Furniture brings diverse world-class manufacturing capabilities together in the production and assembly of high-quality contract furniture products.

Learn more about Furniture components:
Furniture

Learn more about Work Furniture:
Work Furniture

Leggett & Platt, Incorporated is looking for someone to fill an Assembler position at our Genesis Seating location in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

REPORTS TO:
Production Supervisor

SUMMARY:

Responsible for production, quality and safety standards as they relate to assembling and packaging furniture products.

What you will be doing:

Other duties may be assigned.
Meet production schedules.
Interprets specifications, instructions and job orders.
Recommend measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality and safety methods.
Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency.
Analyzes and resolves work problems, or assists team members in solving work problems.
Initiates or suggests plans to motivate team members to achieve work goals.
Maintains time and production records.
Inspect production materials.
Confers with other team members to meet production schedules.
Responsible for the training and development of new and current employees working on the product line.
Responsible for pursuing further training opportunities for one's own self advancement.
Responsible for ensuring specified quality verifications and procedures are followed and quality parts are produced.
Coordinate with members of the team to operate the cell most efficiently.
Responsible for understanding nonconforming product procedure.
Ensure all safety standards are being followed and unsafe acts or conditions are reported.
Maintain the work area's cleanliness and organization.
Responsible for filling out required paperwork.
Responsible for completion and accuracy of cycle counts.
Ensure preventive maintenance is performed as required.
Communicate quality concerns/issues with supervisor, engineering and materials

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

A few things you will need.
- **LANGUAGE SKILLS**: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and product information books. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regula