Position: Production Associate (Pad Print)
Location: Primarily based in Cynthiana, KY (global manufacturing plant)
About Bullard:
At Bullard, we don’t just create products. We create life-saving solutions and experiences that turn customers into raving fans. We are a fifth-generation, family-owned company, manufacturing innovative personal protective equipment (PPE) that protects workers in the toughest environments—from the fireground to industrial jobsites. Our portfolio includes fire helmets, respiratory protection, thermal imagers, and head/face protection systems trusted for durability, comfort, and performance.
Through our vision to advance human safety to enable long, healthy, productive lives through innovative solutions, we question the norm. We collaborate and learn from each other and are to do differently to deliver value to our end user and distributor customers.
Essential Functions:
- Promote and maintain a safe, organized work environment
- Prompt and reliable attendance
- Work required overtime schedules
- Comply with all safety requirements
- Clean work areas and machinery applying 6S methods
- Read work instructions
- Obtain necessary information to complete orders
- Basic operation of a personal computer (ERP, Email, Excel, Word, etc…)
- Manage time effectively to accomplish required work schedules on time and meeting established deadlines
- Communicate, troubleshoot and provide feedback to other Bullard team members
- Identify and sort parts, hat styles, brands, colors and suspension types
- Assemble headband suspensions
- Operate packaging machinery
- Operate pallet jack
- Operate pad printing equipment and ink mixing operations
- Inspect product for quality
- Pack finished product for shipment
- Keeping pace with automated equipment
- Verify that product and quantity are correct per order specifications
- Apply proper order labeling to shipment boxes
Additional Functions as assigned:
- Maintain predetermined inventory levels of printed material for manufacturing and Marketing Communications
- Submit required Purchase Orders, stock, and ship printed materials from Kanban cards for manufacturing and from Literature Requests for Marketing Communications, Sales, customers, and distributors
- Set-up, operate, and perform basic maintenance on equipment for printing, trimming, cutting and folding documents, when necessary.
- Receive emails daily from bullardart.com replying to customer advising art status or requesting additional information, as well as notifying relevant internal contacts regarding status of email received
- Log and track status of all new, pending and approved jobs maintaining numeric log, assigning new plate numbers for each approved job, and maintaining backup computer files on disk for retrieval of artwork
- Design artwork and layouts for pad print orders using customer and Bullard stock logos
- Determine size and arrangement of illustrative material and copy, select style and size of type, and arrange layout based upon available space and aesthetic design concepts.
- Correspond with Bullard Customer Service Representative or customer regarding artwork issues
- Coordinate and process proofs for customer approval
- Prepare complete art packets including art, film processing, template creation, decoration form, and any relevant paperwork for each approved job to be used by pad print.
- Troubleshoot problems with computer programs, mechanical equipment (film processor) and pad print issues
Work Environment:
Work is performed mainly in a manufacturing environment, including an area with pad printing which utilizes inks and dyes; however, some work may be performed in an office environment.
Physical Requirements:
An employee may be required to perform the following functions all or a considerable part of their work day:
--Seeing (must be able to differentiate between colors) --Turning or twisting
--Eye-hand-foot coordination --Finger Dexterity
--Ordinary communication --Feeling
--Ordinary hearing --Sitting
--Pushing up to 60 pounds --Handling
--Lifting up to 30 pounds --Standing
--Carrying up to 30 pounds --Walking
Disclaimer:
This job description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills efforts or working conditions associated with the job; it is intended to be an accurate reflection of those principal job elements essential to the job. Incumbents may be required to perform other duties as assigned or as required by the needs of the business.
Bullard retains the discretion to change or add to the duties of the position at any time.