Automotive Production Specialist

About the Role
As an employee-owned company, Amsted Automotive Group fosters a positive culture that respects and implements employee ideas, providing opportunities for career growth. This includes sharing in the overall financial success of the business.

The role we are looking to fill is a Header Operator position on our Taylor, MI team. Key responsibilities include:

• Setting up and operating machines that perform multi-operations.
• Performing first-piece inspections using optical inspection equipment or equivalent measurement tools.
• Adjusting controls to synchronize machine actions for various operations on customized jobs.
• Reading and understanding tool layouts and part progressions.
• Developing set-ups and prototyping new parts.
• Collaborating with other workers on machine setups and operational specifications.
• Observing operations to detect machine malfunctions and verify setups conform to specifications.
• Measuring and inspecting formed parts to ensure conformance to product specifications.
• Using blueprints to determine specified tolerances and sequences of operations for machine setup.
• Positioning and moving workpieces through dies to form impressions.
• Adjusting wedges and brass settings to set pressures and depths of ram strokes.
• Repairing, maintaining, and replacing tooling when worn, broken, or out of print.
• Removing tooling from machines when production runs are finished.
• Using overhead cranes, forklifts, and hand trucks to bring and remove supplies as needed.
• Recording quality information using measuring instruments.
• Training on the first shift before moving to the 2nd shift.