What are the responsibilities and job description for the Laborer Production, Assoc position at The Greenbrier Companies?
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Summary
The Laborer Production, Associate assists in disassembly of cushioning units, snubbers, or yokes while complying with and following all work instructions, safety and quality requirements, and ensuring all company guidelines and safety rules are followed when performing duties.
Duties and Responsibilities
To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform the following essential duties satisfactorily. Other duties may be assigned to address business needs and changing business practices.
- Complies with The Association of American Railroads regulations, quality assurance standards, and Greenbrier Rail Services Environmental Health and Safety policies
- Disassembles and reassembles cushioning units, snubbers, or yokes
- Performs assigned tasks under the direction of Supervisor and notifies Supervisor of materials and equipment needed to complete job tasks
- Interacts with Supervisor and crew members in a team environment
- Complies with special processes assigned, based on work orders
Qualifications
The following generally describes requirements to successfully perform the assigned duties.
Minimum Qualifications
- Ability to prioritize multiple tasks while ensuring attention to detail.
- Ability to use hand tools and power tools such as hammers, tape measure, screwdrivers, wrenches, and die grinder, impact, and cut off wheel
- Ability to work and communicate within a team setting
Preferred Qualifications
- One years’ work experience in a manufacturing environment
Work Environment and Physical Requirements
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The physical environment requires the employee to work in hot and cold environments, in and out of the weather, work safely around heavy equipment and on top of and under railcars, as well as around railroad tracks. Employees are required to use personal protective equipment such as steel toe boots, hard hat, hearing protection, safety glasses, welding and grinding shields, etc. or as environmental conditions dictate
Physical Activities and Requirements
Frequency Key
Not Applicable: Activity is not applicable to this occupation
Occasionally: Occupation requires this activity up to 33% of the time (0- 2.5 hours/day)
Frequently: Occupation requires this activity from 33% - 66% of the time (2.5: 5.5 hours/day)
Constantly: Occupation requires this activity more than 66% of the time (5.5 hours/day)
Working Postures
- Sit: Occasionally
- Stand: Frequently
- Walk: Constantly
- Bend: Frequently
- Kneel/Squat: Frequently
- Crawl: Frequently
- Climb: Frequently
- Reach Forward: Frequently
- Reach Upward: Frequently
- Handling/Fingering: Frequently
Lift / Carry Requirements
- 5-10 lbs: Frequently
- 10-25 lbs: Frequently
- 25-50 lbs: Frequently
- 50-75 lbs: Not Applicable
- 75 lbs: Not Applicable
Push / Pull Requirements
- Less than 10 lbs: Frequently
- 10-25 lbs: Frequently
- 25-50 lbs: Frequently
- 50-75 lbs: Not Applicable
- 75 lbs: Not Applicable
EOE including Vet/Disability
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Greenbrier makes reasonable accommodations in the application and hiring process for individuals with known disabilities, unless providing accommodation would result in an undue hardship. Any applicant believing that he or she may need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact Greenbrier Human Resources at careers@gbrx.com or call us at 503-684-7000. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Email communication from The Greenbrier Companies (Greenbrier) will always come from a corporate email address that ends in @gbrx.com or from our applicant tracking system, iCIMS, after you have created a secure account and submitted your application. During the application process, you will create a secure account in our secure applicant tracking site that ends with “-gbrx.icims.com”. In this portal, we will ask you to provide your contact information, past employment history, education history and other job-related information.
