Brushmaker - 3rd Shift

The employee will become part of the Purdy paintbrush manufacturing team in the Line Brushmaking department. Purdy manufactures professional painting tools of the highest quality. This position will be required to make quality brush heads.

Additional Information:

3rd Shift: 10:00pm - 6:15am

Will train Monday - Friday 10:00am - 6:15pm before moving to 3rd Shift

Shift Differential: $0.75/hr

This position is also eligible for bonus based on performance and subject to the terms of the Company's applicable plans.

This position is eligible for health benefits, such as medical, dental and vision coverage, Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), disability coverage, security, retirement and saving benefits, and more. Additional benefits include a generous time away from work package, including personal leave, paid parental leave, medical leave, vacation, holidays, among other benefits. For more information about our benefits, visit http://www.myswbenefits.com/.

Job duties include contact with other employees, operating heavy machinery, and access to proprietary information, raw materials, finished merchandise, and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and vendors.

• Use a scanner to scan on and off orders.
• Gather materials - ferrules, plugs, inserts, labels, pull down, pull down magnet
• Set up the power chisel with correct chisel bar and set up the clamp
• Remove a brush head from the lower conveyor belt
• Loosen the filament in the brush head by holding the ferrule and pushing the filament down to drop the plug and center it.
• Butt down the brush
• Pull out any loose filament
• Split the butt end of the filament
• Put wooden plug(s) into the split, if no plug was inserted by the MGG
• Butt down again
• Chisel the brush using the power chisel
• Place the brush head on the pull down and close the clamp
• Pull down the ferrule over the pull down
• Release the clamp and fan top of brush forward
• Take the brush off pull down
• Comb brush straight
• Put insert into the ferrule
• Put Brushmaker name label onto the ferrule, can be done before or after
• Inspect the brush head for quality
• Place completed brush head on top conveyer
• Place brush heads onto the upper conveyor belt
• Keep work area clean and conduct a final cleaning near the end of each shift.

Minimum Requirements:

• Must be at least eighteen (18) years of age
• Must be legally authorized to work in the country of employment without needing sponsorship for employment work visa status now or in the future

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in an environment where you rotated from department to department
• At least one (1) year of work experience monitoring the quality of raw materials and/or finished goods
• Experience with fine manipulation (such as sewing, cutting hair or related activities)

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