Purpose of the Job** The Technical Operator 1 will direct, operate, and attend to all production activities and machinery on a specific production line within a business unit including starting and stopping machinery, ensuring components and other packaging materials are available and loaded into machines, ensuring quality of product, troubleshooting, doing minor machinery repairs and maintenance, monitoring the speed of the equipment, gathering data, and completing production-related reports. **Who You Are & What Youll Do ** * Operate production equipment, troubleshoot process faults, and make required adjustments to ensure quality and efficiency * Lead effective and safe changeover, start-up, and shutdown of all equipment in assigned work area * Perform routine cleaning, lubrication, and basic maintenance of equipment. Develop, maintain, and follow cleaning, lubrication, and inspection standards. * Understand WCM principles and demonstrate a commitment to those principles. Lead WCM small group activities including development of necessary documents to complete AM Steps and participating in presentations for step audits. * Ensure production, reconciliation, and inventory documents are completed neatly and accurately * Direct and train new teammates * Collect data as needed to calculate OEE and determine major and minor losses * Submit focused improvement ideas and participate in improvement activities using 5-Why analysis, CAP-Do, and other problem solving techniques * Assist with major repairs, installations, and maintenance * Coordinate activities between compounding, operations, and the warehouse * Understand interaction of equipment and systems, identify equipment abnormalities, monitor equipment condition to improve outputs, interpret data (SPC, graphs, charts, OEE), identify problems (5-Why Analysis, CAP-Do Cycle), and formulate proper decisions * Understand basic manufacturing principles including operation and maintenance of packaging equipment * Perform quality checks on line. Understand and implement quality concepts and controls as related to specific equipment and processes. Locate, understand, and apply Standard Operating Procedures and One Point Lessons. Write and train other team members on SOPs and OPLs. * Demonstrate a personal commitment to plant safety procedures. Work in a safe manner. Follow LOTO procedures. Communicate unsafe conditions to appropriate personnel. Understand how to locate and use MSDS documents.