Manufacturing Technician

**Career Area**:
Manufacturing

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**Role Definition**
Performs basic activities to assist in the manufacture and assembly of various products per established facility processes including set-up, calibration, testing, maintenance and production operation.

**Responsibilities**
- Conducting basic equipment calibration, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting, spares, and sustained production.
- Operating basic production equipment and tools in the manufacture, assembly and packaging of various products.
- Following blueprints, guidelines, diagrams and schematics to ensure product and customer specifications and tolerance levels are met.
- Assisting as part of manufacturing team in modifying existing equipment or designing new equipment for continual manufacturing process improvement, as well as quality control and in-process production testing.

**Skill Descriptors**

Level Basic Understanding:

- Identifies the primary operational functions of the organization.
- Explains operational functions and key functional roles of own dept or unit.
- Describes the interdependence of support functions and line operating functions.
- Clarifies the role of each department and its relevance to the enterprise strategy.

Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment.

Level Working Knowledge:

- Applies an assigned technique for critical thinking in a decision-making process.
- Identifies, obtains, and organizes relevant data and ideas.
- Participates in documenting data, ideas, players, stakeholders, and processes.
- Recognizes, clarifies, and prioritizes concerns.
- Assists in assessing risks, benefits and consideration of alternatives.

Judgment and Decision Making: Knowledge of the decision-making process; ability to carefully evaluate the impact of emerging business situations and choose the best path forward communicating actions and activities that maximize organizational performance.

Level Basic Understanding:

- Identifies a defensible course of action from among alternatives.
- Demonstrates the ability to follow directions.
- Applies the concept of discernment to narrow a set of choices or rank-order options.
- Seeks help to confirm or support difficult decisions.

Engineering - MFG: Knowledge of processes, techniques and methods of engineering in a manufacturing environment; ability to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems and processes that safely realize a desired objective or invention.

Level Basic Understanding:

- Describes where and how to obtain additional engineering information and expertise.
- Explains engineering concepts and features in a manufacturing environment.
- Identifies major initiatives, key issues and benefits of engineering in manufacturing.

Lean Manufacturing: Knowledge of the philosophy, principles and implementation approaches of lean manufacturing; ability to integrate and implement lean manufacturing philosophy into existing production and management processes.

Level Basic Understanding:

- Cites examples of benefits and risks associated with implementing lean principles.
- Describes basic tools for observing existing processes and identifying waste.
- Cites industry or company examples of successful and unsuccessful lean implementations.
- Identifies key lean principles and highlights of the lean manufacturing process.

Manufacturing Equipment: Knowledge of the electrical, mechanical and logistics equipment used in manufacturing; ability to safely operate, maintain, update and store them.

Level Basic Understanding:

- Describes the roles and responsibilities of equipment vendors and own staff.
- Explains where and how to obtain more equipment-specific information.
- Lists basic aspects of routine and preventive maintenance.
- Identifies uses and features of diverse types of manufacturing equipment.

Manufacturing Processes: Knowledge of existing product manufacturing methods, technologies and processes; ability to execute, plan, manage and monitor the entire manufacturing process.

Level Working Knowledge:

- Assesses associated phases, activities, deliverables and processes.
- Documents relevant standards, policies and practices.
- Follows standard manufacturing processes to conduct production activities.
- Researches new technologies to be integrated into existing manufacturing process.
- Explains