HWI has a fantastic opportunity to join our Production Team as a Production Technician. Summary The Production Technician is responsible for maintaining a clean & safe work environment as well as maintaining professional working relationships with co-workers. Job duties vary daily, but all are focused on the forming, finishing and packaging of fired brick, used in the refractory industry. Responsibilities • Actively demonstrates and promotes safety and a safe work environment and holds their team accountable to drive a best in industry safety culture. • Audits and observes to ensure our product meets or exceeds quality standards. Owns Quality Control compliance for their assigned working area. • Analyzes equipment operations, performance, and problems and secures resources to ensure issues are resolved quickly and properly. • Operates and programs presses, setters, pickers, scales and all of bearing equipment; off bears brick from press table to rack cark, kiln car or pallet, cleans loose material and flange before setting in prescribed manner. • Operates tram cab, high lift and other transport machinery to deliver materials to presses. • Transfers kiln cars; transports racks and/or rack cars to and from presses and ovens. • Gauges and cleans kiln cars. • Operates lift trucks to transport materials throughout the plant. • Performs SMS charting and analysis of process variables. • Performs minor preventative maintenance on equipment and/or partners with maintenance to solve equipment changes and problems. • Actively participates in report out and production meetings. • Ability to effectively receive and decipher both ambiguous and direct/detailed instructions, provides innovative solutions, and both work independently or as a team member. Requirements • Requires a high school diploma or equivalent preferred. • Previous forklift experience preferred. • Understanding of basic safety/OSHA standards. • Some mechanical aptitude. • Some manufacturing experience helpful. Physical and Environmental Requirements • Physical Activity: Requires more than 2/3 of the time standing, walking, using hands and fingers, reaching, climbing, balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, speaking, hearing, tasting or smelling; requires less than 1/3 of the time sitting. • Lifting: Requires lifting up to 10 pounds more than 2/3 of the time; and lifting more than 100 pounds less than 1/3 of the time. • Vision: Requires accurate close, distance, color and peripheral vision, including the ability to adjust focus and use peripheral vision. • Environment: Requires more than 2/3 of the time working near moving mechanical parts, and being exposed to fumes, airborne particles and outdoor weather conditions; 1/3 to 2/3 of the time in wet or humid conditions, in extreme heat or cold, and exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals; and less than 1/3 of the time in an office setting, in high places, at risk of electrical shock and near vibration. • Noise: Requires working in very loud conditions (over 85 decibels).