Machine Operator

**Job Title: Clean Room Assembler**

**Job Description**

Our client is an electronic automotive manufacturer located in St. Charles, IL, where they manufacture and distribute OEM electronic parts for the automotive industry. They are direct suppliers for major automotive manufacturers including BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Honda, Ford, Chrysler, Jeep, Hyundai, etc. These parts are manufactured onsite in a state-of-the-art cleanroom environment. The parts include power window switches, push-to-start buttons, power seat controls, and car entertainment consoles with AC/Heat controls. The cleanroom has over 20+ machines, each with one operator responsible for maintaining the continuous flow of production to ensure the parts are assembled correctly. Candidates will run automated machinery to ensure manufacturing procedures are carried out. Our client has three departments within the production cleanroom that support different electronic components:

1. PSS Dept. (Power Seat Switch)
2. ECU Dept. (Electrical Component Unit)
3. SMT Dept. (Surface Mount Technology)

PSS/ECU Dept.
- 2nd Shift: 1:30 pm - 9:45 pm openings
- 3rd Shift: 9:30 pm - 5:45 am openings

Clean Room Assembler - Job Description:
- Follow specific verbal and/or written instructions and standard work instructions
- Make routine adjustments/setups of equipment for variables such as length, temperature, or process speed
- Load raw material into the machine, complete minor changeovers, monitor machine operations, and inspect completed parts to ensure job specifications are maintained
- Maintain and clean machines before and after each shift
- Maintain activity logs
- Participate in cross-training activities
- Support and participate in the Company's management and quality system, including continuous improvement efforts
- Notify group leader or supervisor of any problems or non-conforming product
- Support and implement the Environmental policy as it pertains to work activities
- Perform other duties as required or assigned
- Comfortable standing for the entirety of the 8-hour shift
- Excellent visual acuity to identify visual defects and manual dexterity to handle small components
- Lift materials weighing mostly under fifteen pounds

Breaks/Lunches:
- 30-minute (unpaid) lunch and (2) 15-minute breaks per shift

Overtime:
- Employees are working 8-10 hours of overtime each week, encouraged but not mandatory

Competitors / Direct Sourcing Strategy:
- Navistar (Lisle, IL)
- Molex Electronics (Lisle and Downer's Grove, IL)
- AMETEK (Warrenville, IL)

**Hard Skills**

+ 1 Year of Manufacturing Experience

+ Machine Operating or Assembly Background

+ Comfortable With Cleanroom Environment

**Soft Skills**

+ Attention to Detail

+ Ability to Follow Instructions

+ Problem-Solving Skills

+ Team Collaboration

**Job Type**

This is a Contract-to-Hire position with a duration of 720 Hour(s).

**Work Site**

This is a fully on-site position in Saint Charles, Illinois.

**Work Environment**

Our client's St. Charles location spans over 350,000 square feet with roughly 250 employees between production and the warehouse. The production area is a cleanroom environment with departments including PSS (Power Seat Switch), ECU (Electrical Component Unit), and SMT (Surface Mount Technology). Adherence to GMP (good manufacturing practices) is required, including wearing a gown, hairnet, and shoe covers. No jewelry is allowed. The warehouse area includes Shipping, Receiving, and Material Management departments, which require steel toe shoes but no GMP protocol. Both production and warehouse areas are clean, organized, and climate-controlled.

**About Aerotek:**

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry - from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies' construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.