Case Cleaner

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Veteran/Disability Employer

We make life more comfortable.

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 in the residential products industry span more than 130 years. As The Components People, we are the leading supplier of a wide range of products and components for all areas of life, including mattress springs and carpet cushion, as well as bedding machinery and erosion-control products.

From aerospace tubing and fabricated assemblies to flooring underlayment and carpet cushion, Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the aerospace, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile, and geo components industries.

Learn more about the history of Leggett: https://leggett.com/history

Furniture

A Leader in the Upholstered Furniture Industry

In our Furniture Components business, we design, manufacture, and distribute a wide range of components and finished products that enhance comfort, motion, and style in upholstered furniture, including recliner mechanisms, seating support systems, and sofa sleeper units. With a global footprint that includes international manufacturing, product development, distribution and sales, we are strategically positioned to support upholstered furniture manufacturers around the world.

Workplace Furniture Solutions

Leggett & Platt is North America’s leading independent manufacturer of office furniture components and mechanism. Our Work Furniture business produces task and finished components, as well as select lines of private label finished seating. From surface-critical bent tube assemblies and molded plywood components to chair mechanisms, bases, arms, seats, and backs, Work Furniture brings diverse world-class manufacturing capabilities together in the production and assembly of high-quality contract furniture products.

Learn more about Furniture components: Furniture

Learn more about Work Furniture: Work Furniture

Case Cleaner

Leggett & Platt, Incorporated is seeking a Case Cleaner/Sander at our Genesis Seating location in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This position will be located at the Davidson Plyforms Facility (5505 33rd St. SE Grand Rapids MI 49512)

REPORTS TO: Plant Manager

HOURS: 5AM - 3:30PM Mon-Thurs, Overtime as needed on Fridays. 

SUMMARY: Responsible for ensuring safety, quality, delivery and production standards are met as they relate to any task they have been assigned.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Include the following. Other duties may be assigned.
• Wood/veneer Sanding
• Ensure all safety standards are being followed and unsafe acts or conditions are reported.
• Maintain the work area’s cleanliness and organization.
• Responsible for ensuring specified quality verifications and procedures are followed and quality parts are produced.
• Communicate quality concerns/issues with Product Coordinator, management, engineering and materials
• Interprets product specifications, prints, control plans, work instructions, process maps and production schedules with assistance as necessary.
• Occasionally handle customer calls regarding scheduling, delivery or quality issues.
• Meets production schedules.
• Recommend measures to improve production methods, equipment performance, product quality and safety methods.
• Suggests changes in working conditions and use of equipment to increase efficiency
• Analyzes and resolves work problems or works with team members in solving work problems.
• Initiates or suggests ideas to help team members achieve work goals.
• Confers with other team members to meet production schedules.
• Coordinate with members of the team to operate the cell most efficiently.
• Reports direct and indirect labor times, production quantities and throughput measurements as required.
• Responsible for filling out required paperwork.
• Ensure preventive maintenance is performed as required.
• Assists in purchasing production materials when necessary.
• Receive and inspect production materials when needed.
• Responsible for understanding and following the non-conforming product procedure.
• Responsible for completion and accuracy of cycle counts as needed.
• Responsible for pursuing further training opportunities for one's own self advancement.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

A few things you’ll need:

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: 

One to three months’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

LANGUAGE SKILLS: 

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and product information books. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS:

 Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

REASONING ABILITY: 

Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions.  Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: 

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee frequently is required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT: 

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts.  The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

Reasons You’ll Love It Here

Our benefits may vary slightly from one location to the next, but what you will find, is that we offer: medical, dental, and vision insurance; as well as paid vacation, paid personal time, and various opportunities to give back to your local community.  One convenient fact about our medical plan, is that we offer tele-visits, so you don’t have to leave the comfort of your home when you are feeling under the weather!  We also strongly encourage and provide opportunities for learning and professional development.  Our Learning & Development team has put together in-house training on subjects like front-line supervisor essentials, how to manage conflict in the workplace, and many others.

What to Do Next

Now that you’ve had a chance to learn more about us, what are you waiting for!  Apply today and allow us the opportunity to learn more about you and the value you can bring to our team.  Once you apply, be sure to create a profile, and sign up for job alerts, so you can be the first to know when new opportunities become available.

Our Commitment to You

We're actively taking steps to make sure our culture is inclusive and that our processes and practices promote equity for all, including people of color, people from working-class backgrounds, women, and members of the LGBTQ+ community. We welcome and encourage applications from people with these identities or members of other historically marginalized groups.

Research shows that women and people of color tend not to apply to jobs unless they believe they are 100% qualified and apply to fewer senior-level positions. With that in mind, we encourage you to apply if you meet the minimum qualifications but perhaps not all of the preferred qualifications. We'd love to have the opportunity to consider you! In keeping with our commitment, Leggett & Platt Inc. will take the steps to assure that people with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.

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