Machine Assembler
Date: May 18, 2026
Location: Carthage, MO, US
Company: Leggett & Platt
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Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.
Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership span more than 130 years. Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products for all areas of life. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the automotive, furniture, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile and geo components industries.
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Leggett & Platt Automotive is a global provider of wire forms, mechanical control cables, wireless charging, as well as seat lumbar, suspension, bolster, actuator, and motor systems. In addition to these award-winning, category-leading products, we offer tailored goods due to our expertise in product development and attention to market trends. Our unique competitive advantages give us unmatched insight into the demands of the consumer.
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Summary of Position:
Perform complete and independent setup of various machine tools and perform any operation within the machine’s capacity, working from prints sketches, oral and written instructions to determine the sequence of operations to be performed, dimensions and tolerances to be held, tools to use, method of locating, aligning, and holding work, and feeds and speeds.
Skills Required:
- Must be knowledgeable in machine shop operations
- Capability to use various machine shop tools and equipment.
- CNC Mills, Manual Mills and Lathe
- Work independently as well as in a team atmosphere with minimal supervision
- Ability to read various measuring devices and perform accurate inspections
- Must be able to read blueprints and machine parts to tolerance
- Good organization and problem-solving skills
- Must be able to lift, push, or pull 40 to 80lbs
Task Descriptions:
- Makes engineered parts for machinery from sketches and blueprints
- Perform set-up and operate various machine tools to accomplish production machinery functions
- Use milling, drilling, grinding, and other machine shop equipment
- Decipher sketches, blueprints, and engineering details
- Run electronic equipment and systems to perform work
- Assemble in-house tooling
- Perform other duties as requested or as deemed appropriate
- Conform with the environmental policy and procedures and with the requirements of the environmental management system
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Our Values
Our values speak to our shared beliefs, and describe how we approach working together.
- Put People First reflects our commitment to safety and care of each other, learning and development, and creating an environment of mutual respect, empathy and belonging.
- Do the Right Thing focuses us on acting with honesty and integrity, delivering the results the right way, taking pride in our work, and speaking the truth – good or bad.
- Do Great Work…Together occurs when we engage without hierarchy, collaborate as a team, embrace challenges, and work for the good of all of us.
- Take Ownership and Raise the Bar demonstrates our responsibility to add value and make a difference, challenge the status quo and biases to make things better, foster innovative and creative solutions to drive impact, and explore new perspectives and embrace change.
Our Commitment to You
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