Job Description

Job Location: Missoula, MT 59808Site Overview:
At American Eagle Instruments Inc., we pride ourselves on manufacturing high-quality dental hand tools in beautiful Missoula, Montana. As an established industry leader, AEI offers excellent career growth opportunities, competitive salaries and benefits and a dynamic work environment. We are willing to train employees to start, with no experience necessary! Together with our parent company, Young Innovations, we manufacture, and market high quality dental instruments, equipment, and supplies. With an outstanding reputation for quality, our company has a broad portfolio of market-leading products across a variety of categories.
Position Overview:
The Assembly Operator Performs repetitive bench or line assembly operations to mass-produce dental hand instruments by performing the following duties and responsibilities.

Essential Duties:  Places parts in specified relationship to each other. Metal tips, handles cements, or otherwise fastens parts together. Will use precise measuring tools to meet design specifications.
- Tends machines, such as presses, Radel and stainless assembly machine, dot-pin, laser marker, ink pad printer machine, tumbling, wash stations.
- Visually inspect work for accuracy or rejects. Use measuring tool to confirm accuracy.
- May work at different stations as production needs require.
- Consistently meet or exceed production goals and efficiency while maintaining quality standards.
- Learn instruments and related product lines.
- Learn quality processes and procedures.
- Become familiar with ISO, FDA, and other regulatory standards.
- Follow all written and verbal instructions/guidelines.
- Work and communicate with the team to meet quotas and goals.
- Record data (count, report accurately).
- Basic computer use.
- Demonstrate a positive and professional attitude.
- Observe safety guidelines and report safety concerns to management.
- Maintain and clean work area and equipment.
- Other duties as assigned or necessary.

QualificationsKnowledge, Abilities and Skills
- Manufacturing – Understanding of manufacturing processes and systems.
- Hand dexterity – Must have good hand dexterity.
- Eyesight – Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision, Depth perception and Ability to adjust focus for detailed work and inspection.
- Language Ability:
- Able to speak and read English.  Ability to read and interpret documents such as prints, drawings, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Math Ability:
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 common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
- Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information.  Works well in group problem solving situations; Uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.
- Technical Skills – Strives to continuously build knowledge and skills.
- Interpersonal - Focuses on solving conflict, not blaming; Maintains confidentiality; Listens to others without interrupting; Keeps emotions under control; Remains open to others' ideas and tries new things.
- Shows respect and sensitivity for cultural differences.
- Organizational Values – Follows policies and procedures.
- Dependability – Follows instructions, responds to management direction.  Is consistently at work on time.  Uses time efficiently.
- Professionalism – Accepts responsibility for own actions.
- Adaptability - Adapts to changes in the work environment; Manages competing demands; Changes approach or method to best fit the situation; Able to deal with frequent change, delays, or unexpected events.
- Quality - Demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness; Looks for ways to improve and promote continuous quality; Applies feedback to improve performance; Monitors own work to ensure quality.
- Quantity – Meets or exceeds productivity standards.
- Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures; Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; Uses equipment and materials properly.
- Computer Skills:
Knowledge of computers and software applications.
- Certificates and Licenses:
No certifications required.
- Supervisory Responsibilities:
This job has no supervisory responsibilities.
Physical Requirements:
The physical and working demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 20 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include Close vision, Depth perception and Ability to adjust focus. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
Working Conditions
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to work near moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet or humid conditions (non-weather); fumes or airborne particles and vibration.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.
Young Innovations, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and E-Verify participating employer.