Operator

Company Description

Join Sika, a global company established in 1910.  Sika is a leading supplier of specialty chemical products and industrial materials serving construction and industrial markets. With subsidiaries in 100 countries around the world and in over 300 factories, Sika employs more than 25,000 people.

Sika is a full building envelope company, helping you live your everyday life from below-grade waterproofing all the way up to the roof. From the Crypto.com Arena to the Lincoln Memorial to the Empire State Building to Disneyland, Sika is extremely integrated in the world around us.

Sika is a continually growing company with a variety of locations that offers opportunity to advance through career development. We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion.  

Job Description

Responsible for the operation of a manufacturing and/or packaging line(s), to ensure maximum production quantity and quality, while supporting the policies, goals, and objectives of the company. This position may also require cleaning of mixing vessels at times. This position reports to the Production Supervisor.

• Tends manual or semiautomatic systems that process chemical substances into industrial or consumer products, such as sealants, adhesives, primers, and intermediates.
• Loads specified amounts of solid and liquid materials into heating/cooling vessels or blending tanks. Turns valves to feed liquid and solid materials through equipment units, or sets controls in specified sequence on control panel to start automatic feed.
• Observes chemical reactions; monitors gauges, signals, and recorders; and receives notification from quality control laboratory, supervisor, or other workers to make specified operating adjustments.
• Draws samples of products for quality control analysis.  
• With the use of a forklift, packages, palletizes, shrink-wraps and stages Sika product into a staging area or directly onto a truck for transportation to external warehouses.
• Performs other duties of a similar or related level and assists with special projects as necessary or assigned.
• Responsible for conformance with all safety rules to maintain plant safety.
• Maintain good housekeeping, and performs minor maintenance of equipment, workstations and manufacturing areas.

Qualifications

• High School graduate, trade school certification in electronics or related field a plus.
• Able to read, write and comprehend documents in English.
• Able to lift up to 74 lbs repeatedly throughout work shift.
• Able to understand, analyze and resolve technical problems in work area.
• Able to work shift schedule where opening exists.
• Must be able to operate a forklift.
• Pass a Sika proficiency test which will test both reading comprehension and math ability.

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Sika Corporation is committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals that apply. As an equal opportunity employer Sika will consider all qualified applicants without discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, national or ethnic origin, or other protected characteristics.