Job Description
Overview
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, offering strategic talent solutions to clients worldwide. Our client is a leading microbiology-focused organization with more than a century of experience providing trusted microbiology products, services, and solutions. With a comprehensive portfolio of instruments, laboratory services, culture media, testing technologies, quality control products, and laboratory consumables, the company supports clinical laboratories, food and beverage laboratories, and pharmaceutical manufacturers across a wide range of applications. The company's solutions are designed to support infectious disease diagnosis, food and beverage safety and quality, and the detection and control of microbial contaminants in pharmaceutical manufacturing. With a strong commitment to microbiology, our client helps customers improve diagnostic accuracy, streamline laboratory workflows, maintain quality and compliance, and achieve reliable results through innovative and dependable solutions.
Position: Manufacturing Operations Associate
Location: Lenexa, KS 66215
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Location: Lenexa, KS 66215
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Onsite
Shifts:
2nd Shift - 02:00 PM to 10:30 PM
3rd Shift - 10:00 PM to 06:00 AM
Summary
We are seeking a Manufacturing Operations Associate to support continuous production activities through material dispensing and in-process product inspection. The role is responsible for ensuring materials and components are accurately dispensed to the manufacturing line while maintaining proper identification, traceability, and documentation. The position will also perform visual inspection of products during manufacturing to identify defects and ensure compliance with established quality requirements. The successful candidate will work in accordance with SOPs, GMP requirements, safety procedures, and production schedules while supporting line startup, changeover, line clearance, reconciliation, and other manufacturing activities.
Responsibilities
- Dispense required materials and components to assigned manufacturing lines and verify material identity, quantities, lot numbers, and other required information before use.
- Maintain a continuous supply of materials to prevent production interruptions.
- Complete required DHR documentation, production records, inspection records, and logbooks accurately and timely.
- Maintain material and product identification and traceability throughout the manufacturing process.
- Support production line startup, changeover, and line clearance activities.
- Account for unused, rejected, and scrap materials as required and support material reconciliation activities.
- Perform continuous visual inspection of products during manufacturing according to established procedures and acceptance criteria.
- Identify, document, and segregate defective or nonconforming products.
- Monitor product quality throughout production and escalate defects, abnormalities, or recurring quality issues to the Lead Operator.
- Verify that the work area and required materials are ready before beginning a new production job.
- Maintain a clean, organized, and compliant work area.
- Communicate material shortages, discrepancies, quality concerns, and other production issues to the Lead Operator or appropriate personnel.
- Follow all applicable SOPs, GMP requirements, safety procedures, and manufacturing practices.
- Provide ongoing production support and respond to manufacturing line needs throughout the assigned shift.
Required Skills
- High school diploma or equivalent required; additional education or technical training in manufacturing, life sciences, or a related field is a plus.
- Previous experience in a manufacturing, production, warehouse, materials, quality, or inspection environment preferred.
- Ability to accurately identify materials, components, quantities, lot numbers, and product information.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to identify product defects through visual inspection.
- Ability to accurately complete production documentation, DHRs, logbooks, and inspection records.
- Understanding of material and product traceability and reconciliation practices.
- Ability to follow SOPs, GMP requirements, safety procedures, and established work instructions.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple production requirements.
- Ability to communicate material discrepancies, quality issues, and production concerns clearly and promptly.
- Ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and maintain accuracy throughout the shift.
- Ability to support changing production priorities, line startups, changeovers, and other manufacturing activities.
- Strong commitment to quality, safety, compliance, and continuous production.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Lenexa, KS |
| Industry | Computer/IT Services |
| Salary | $17–$20.70 |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 2009 |
| Website | http://www.tekwissen.com/ |
About Company
WE THE TEKWISSEN PEOPLE
TekWissen offers you a broader portfolio of services, industry-leading solutions, and the meaningful innovations that give you greater flexibility and speed to respond to market dynamics, reduced costs and risk to improve enterprise performance, and increased productivity to enable growth.
To keep pace with global market demands, TekWissen keeps its finger on the pulse of change. Our organized approach to guiding a project from its inception to closure. Managing projects is becoming more and more important as we enter the digital era. To cope with the pace that this transition demands, a method is required to manage projects so they can yield quality work, while incorporating efficient use of time and resources.
Project involves identifying which quality standards are relevant to the project and determining how to satisfy them.
It is important to perform quality planning during the Planning Process and should be done alongside the other project planning processes because changes in the quality will likely require changes in the other planning processes, or the desired product quality may require a detailed risk analysis of an identified problem. It is important to remember that quality should be planned, designed, then built in, not added on after the fact.
Capabilities and accomplishments in one TekWissen business enhance the opportunity for success in the others. Put simply, TekWissen's unique combination of attributes promotes success.Skills
- Assembly Lineunmatched
- Biologyunmatched
- Clinical Laboratoryunmatched
- Clinical Supportunmatched
- Communication Skillsunmatched
- Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
- Detail Orientedunmatched
- Diversityunmatched
- Documentationunmatched
- Drug Manufacturingunmatched
- Eye Diseases/Disordersunmatched
- Food Safetyunmatched
- Food and Beverage Industryunmatched
- GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)unmatched
- High School Diplomaunmatched
- Infectious Diseasesunmatched
- Laboratoryunmatched
- Laboratory Managementunmatched
- Maintain Complianceunmatched
- Manufacturingunmatched
- Manufacturing Debuggingunmatched
- Manufacturing Operationsunmatched
- Manufacturing/Industrial Processesunmatched
- Medical Diagnosisunmatched
- Microbiologyunmatched
- Multimediaunmatched
- Operational Supportunmatched
- Organizational Skillsunmatched
- Production Scheduleunmatched
- Production Supportunmatched
- Quality Controlunmatched
- Quality Managementunmatched
- Quality Monitoringunmatched
- Reconciliationunmatched
- Record Keepingunmatched
- Requirements Managementunmatched
- Safety Complianceunmatched
- Safety Processunmatched
- Safety Trainingunmatched
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)unmatched
- Startupunmatched
- Testingunmatched
- Time Managementunmatched
- Traceabilityunmatched
- Warehousingunmatched
- Workforce Managementunmatched
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