Compounding Support - Midnights

Job Title: Compounding Support

Date: 2025

Would you like to work for a company where ambitious spirits and creativity thrive? L&L Products offers a culture that grows talent and flourishes with innovation. It is a place where you are encouraged take control of your own professional development by using L&L’s extensive training opportunities to craft solutions to the industry’s hottest problems. Here is where quality of work, product and relationships are a priority.

L&L Products is built on the basic philosophy that good people working together, listening to each other’s ideas with an open mind and everyone wanting to do a little better each day will ensure our success. Our existence is full of wise principles, sacrifices and victories, laughs, and lasting memories that tell exactly who we are. How we came to be the great company, the caring family that we are today.

What you’ll do: As a Compounding Support, you will complete weigh-up activities, monitor and adjust equipment process based on machine and engineering feedback, assist with providing direction to production technicians, complete require equipment maintenance, assist in counting / maintaining inventory, and cross train in all compounding areas. Perform setup to keep pultruder supplied with all needed materials and set up the next shift with proper materials.

Duties / Responsibilities of this position:

• Perform weigh-ups to keep all Twins/Batch Mixer/CCS supplied with all needed materials and setting up the next shift with proper materials.
• Instruct and assist production personnel on proper procedures and quality standards to produce parts efficiently to ensure 100% on time delivery of finished product, samples, prototypes, engineering changes and kick-offs.
• Maintain machine and equipment in the best condition as possible by:
  • Cleaning and AM-TPM for general upkeep.
  • Interface and contact proper personnel to resolve machine and equipment issues quickly.
• Cross train on all machines in Twin, Batch Mixing/CCS groups.
• Follow Twin Screw, Batch Mixer and CCS standard operating procedures.
• Perform safety check lists as required (Mixer, Twin, CCS equipment, hilo, hoist, crane, etc.)
• Must be flexible to cover other shifts as needed.
• Participate in meetings, continuous improvement and team activities.
• The associate in this role - will be included in Twin Support job classification for overtime and vacation by L&L seniority.
• Perform other specific projects as assigned by Group Leader.
• Discontinue any operation or activity which is unsafe. Request and/or work with the appropriate personnel to resolve the issue immediately.
• Work with Quality to revise/update paperwork to manufacture
Assign production techs to work areas as needed.

Job Requirements:

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Manufacturing setup and shutdown experience – 1-2 years.
• Computer skills: ERP Oracle, Excel, Word.
• Good communication and precision skills.
• Ability to assess and troubleshoot processes quickly as well as call for assistance as needed.
• Hilo License.
Experience with die handling, pressure equipment, fiberglass PPE, carbon fiber precautions, isocyanate handling, safety systems, hot surfaces.

Core Competencies:

• Performance Driven
• Communication
• Customer Centric
• Passion/Values
• Innovation
• Safety/Sustainability
• Collaboration
Expertise

Physical Demands Analysis:

• Frequent lifting or lowering an object from one level to another up to 55 lbs.
• Frequent transporting/carrying an object by hands up to 55 lbs.
• Frequent reaching at or below shoulder and forward.
• Frequent bending, stooping, and crouching.
• Frequent standing or walking for long periods of time.
• Frequent contact with fiberglass and carbon fiber during setup, PPE required.
• Frequent cleanup of isocyanates and polyols using PPE.
• Frequent handling/proximity to dies >500 lbs. heated to >300 deg F using PPE and hoists.
• Safe use of various saws/cutting devices for test sample preparation.
• Continuously wear required respirator (e.g., N95, PAPR, Half-Face) when performing specific tasks.

Environmental Conditions:

• Inside Work – continuous
• Outside Work – occasional
• Hot/Cold – occasional
• Humid/Dry – occasional
• Dust/Vapor Fumes – frequent
• Hazardous Machines – frequent
• Moving Objects – frequent
• Loud Noise – frequent

Never = Not Required/Never (0%)

Rare = Seldom/Rare (Not daily – 1-10%)

Occasional = Minor/Occasional (Less than 3 hours – 11-33%)

Frequent = Required/Frequent (For 3-5 hours – 34-64%)

Continuous = Major/Continuous (More than 5 hours – 64-100%)

Benefits

• Excellent total compensation package
• 100% company paid medical, dental, and vision
• Onsite medical clinic
• Generous 401K contributions
Top-notch wellness program with a focus on your total well-being

Equal Opportunity Employer

L&L Products does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. L&L Products will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with known disabilities unless doing so would result in undue hardship.