Production Technician, Oxygen Transfill
Owens & Minor
- Lenexa, KS
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, available on first working day
- 401(k), eligibility after 30 days of employment
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Development opportunities to grow your career with a global company
- Inspect and prepare aluminum and steel cylinders.
- Connect cylinders to filling manifolds.
- Fill high pressure cylinders with oxygen.
- Disconnect, Test, and Inspect cylinders - verifying filling requirements.
- Perform post-fill processes.
- Store oxygen cylinders in appropriate section of department/warehouse.
- Document all worked performed according to written policy.
- Maintain accurate files of all work performed. Files contain such information as lot and batch numbers, cylinder maintenance and inspection logs, and materials required by the F.D.A.
- Ensure all workstations are maintained in an efficient, clean, and safe manner.
- Performs other duties as required.
- Successful completion of internal Medical Gases Training, Hazmat and PIT (Power Industrial Trucks, i.e., Stacker, Tilt, Forklift)
- Must be at least 18 years of age.
- High school diploma or equivalent.
- Pass company standard background check.
- Three years’ experience in a manufacturing or similar environment.
- Must be a strong team player with the ability to work in a team environment
- Ability to work an 8-hour shift.
- Ability to communicate effectively in-person.
- Knowledge of manufacturing and basic warehousing
- Specific job-related training (Medical Gases P&P) and competency test will be provided, wherein a passing test score is required.
- English (reading, writing, verbal)
- Basic problem solving (addition, subtraction, division, multiplication)
- Technical degrees or relevant technical training.
- Experience with chemicals, hazardous gases, and gas analysis
- Experience in an FDA regulated production environment
- May be asked to become certified to work with oxygen by various state or federal agencies, where required.
- Successful completion of internal Medical Gases Training programs, Hazmat and PIT Training (Powered Industrial Truck, i.e., Stacker, Tilter, Forklift)
- Prior forklift experience
- Regularly required to use hands to handle tools and equipment
- Regularly required to read documents and write neatly, legibly and transcribe accurate information and numbers/values.
- Required to use a variety of personal protective equipment (PPE), typically safety shoes, eye and ear protection, exam-style gloves as well as cut resistant gloves.
- Continually engages in activities that requires team collaboration, listening, talking and hearing.
- Frequent variations including sitting, walking, standing, kneeling, reaching or stooping.
- Specific vision abilities required to perform this job safely include close vision, distant vision, and the ability to adjust focus to read documents.
- Frequent use of basic hand tools, material handling equipment, carrying devices, cleanup equipment
- Strength Aspects:
- Ability to frequently and repetitively grip with hands and lift 15 lbs. or less above shoulder height up to 72” (6ft).
- Ability to hold an object in place while utilizing the other hand to scrape off tags and labels.
- Utilization of a pallet jack and or tilter to move (via push/pull) cylinder containers weighting up to a max weight of 1,200lbs.
- Body Position and Flexibility Elements
- Frequently and repetitively removing cylinders from containers (floor) and placing onto the inspection table (waste high), then to the filling rack (2ft to 6ft high) after per-fill tasks are completed.
- Frequently required to reach, on average, 20” away from the body.
- Frequently required to reach, bend or squat to perform many of the above tasks.
- Noise levels can range from low to high level industrial noise. Noise protection devices are provided and available as needed
- Weather and temperature range from indoor climate-controlled environment in buildings and various outdoor seasonal conditions and temperature extremes encountered throughout the year in a variety of US states.
- Lighting is generally provided via warehouse lighting, LED and or fluorescent.
- Wearing proper protective equipment required while working in the high pressure Transfill plant.