About the role
This position is a co-op/work-based learning position on our Metals Team. The position is designed to allow students the opportunity to learn and apply welding techniques and skills in a manufacturing environment. Below is our standard Metals Team Member job description. Students will learn alongside our current welders in all aspects listed below. A training agreement between Landscape Forms and the student's school is required to participate in this work-based learning program.
How You Contribute To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Operate within facility safety guidelines and promote the use of safe practices.
- Knowledge of product descriptions, use of scheduling systems, and prioritize work to meet daily production.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings and use measuring equipment.
- Maintain accurate documentation.
- Responsible for learning all operational skills and processes through cross training; i.e. welding, metal finishing, loading fixtures, cutting, etc.
- Setup, operate, and maintain machinery and equipment.
- Ability to weld/fabricate using either MIG and/or TIG and weld to product quality standards.
- Ability to work independently or as a team member to communicate daily goals and run production.
- Maintain inventory control of materials using the Kan Ban system and other material systems.
- Actively promote workplace organization following established 5S criteria.
- Recognize and prep critical areas to meet established product quality standards.
- Produce a smooth, continuous flow of product through cell to achieve at least 95% on-time delivery.
- Participate and implement suggestions to continuously improve products and processes.
- Adhere to the guidelines as established in the Employee Handbook.
Criteria For Success Physical Requirements and Work Environment Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds, bend and twist 80% of the time, and stand up to 10 hours. The work environment is on the shop floor in a noisy and sometimes hot location. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the principal accountabilities.
Physical Requirements And Work Environment Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds, bend and twist 80% of the time, and stand up to 10 hours. The work environment is on the shop floor in a noisy and sometimes hot location. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the principal accountabilities.
About Landscape Forms, Inc
Landscape Forms is the industry leader in integrated solutions of high-design site furniture, advanced LED lighting, structure, and custom environments. For more than 50 years we have developed and created solutions that help designers and other clients achieve beautiful, functional landscapes that enhance the experience of outdoor space. Our secret is simple. Design, Culture and Craft drive everything we do. DESIGN is our identity and first priority. We collaborate with world-renowned designers to create world-class design and cultivate design consciousness at all levels of our company. Our efforts are driven by innovation and focused on providing targeted landscape solutions. CULTURE is the shared passion and common purpose that inspire us. Our culture of participation, responsibility and integrity is laser-focused on providing outstanding products and service. CRAFT is our merging of art and technology at the highest level. It is experience and skill, precision and pride made visible in the signature site furnishings that Landscape Forms customers depend on. Landscape Forms solutions include a wide range of elements from adaptive outdoor structures to seating, shelters and signage, to bike racks and bollards, litters and LED lights. Our solutions are evidence - and experience - based. We pursue ongoing dialog with the movers and shakers in design and sponsor intelligence-gathering events, including Roundtables on targeted issues, Xtreme Landscape Architecture (XTLA) charettes for future leaders of the profession and students, and seminars such as Lighting Leadership Exchanges (LLXC) at leading universities. We apply our findings to designing and manufacturing products that address the needs of our customers and emerging issues in the landscape; and we work with designers who are experts in their fields and bring unique aesthetic viewpoints. We are a North American-based company that since our founding in 1969 has earned a reputation for exceptional products and service. Our headquarters and primary manufacturing facility are located in Kalamazoo, Michigan with two satellite facilities nearby and one in Phoenix, Arizona. We have sales representatives throughout North America, South America, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and Asia and have formed global marketing partnerships with select companies that share our commitment to design. We have an installed base of products in the U.S. and around the world. Our clients include municipalities, transit centers, corporate, college and health care campuses; and familiar brand leaders such as Harvard University, Linked In, New York Central Park Conservancy, Bryant Park, Google, Coca Cola, Oculus, U.S. Tennis Association (USTA), Nike, National Museum of African American History (Washington, D.C.), Barclays Center, Adidas, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Microsoft, and Uber. We were recently named a Great Place to Work-Certified company, https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/1413946.
About the role
This position is a co-op/work-based learning position on our Metals Team. The position is designed to allow students the opportunity to learn and apply welding techniques and skills in a manufacturing environment. Below is our standard Metals Team Member job description. Students will learn alongside our current welders in all aspects listed below. A training agreement between Landscape Forms and the student's school is required to participate in this work-based learning program.
How You Contribute To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
- Operate within facility safety guidelines and promote the use of safe practices.
- Knowledge of product descriptions, use of scheduling systems, and prioritize work to meet daily production.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings and use measuring equipment.
- Maintain accurate documentation.
- Responsible for learning all operational skills and processes through cross training; i.e. welding, metal finishing, loading fixtures, cutting, etc.
- Setup, operate, and maintain machinery and equipment.
- Ability to weld/fabricate using either MIG and/or TIG and weld to product quality standards.
- Ability to work independently or as a team member to communicate daily goals and run production.
- Maintain inventory control of materials using the Kan Ban system and other material systems.
- Actively promote workplace organization following established 5S criteria.
- Recognize and prep critical areas to meet established product quality standards.
- Produce a smooth, continuous flow of product through cell to achieve at least 95% on-time delivery.
- Participate and implement suggestions to continuously improve products and processes.
- Adhere to the guidelines as established in the Employee Handbook.
Criteria For Success Physical Requirements and Work Environment Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds, bend and twist 80% of the time, and stand up to 10 hours. The work environment is on the shop floor in a noisy and sometimes hot location. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the principal accountabilities.
Physical Requirements And Work Environment Must be able to lift up to 50 pounds, bend and twist 80% of the time, and stand up to 10 hours. The work environment is on the shop floor in a noisy and sometimes hot location. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities to perform the principal accountabilities.
About Landscape Forms, Inc
Landscape Forms is the industry leader in integrated solutions of high-design site furniture, advanced LED lighting, structure, and custom environments. For more than 50 years we have developed and created solutions that help designers and other clients achieve beautiful, functional landscapes that enhance the experience of outdoor space. Our secret is simple. Design, Culture and Craft drive everything we do. DESIGN is our identity and first priority. We collaborate with world-renowned designers to create world-class design and cultivate design consciousness at all levels of our company. Our efforts are driven by innovation and focused on providing targeted landscape solutions. CULTURE is the shared passion and common purpose that inspire us. Our culture of participation, responsibility and integrity is laser-focused on providing outstanding products and service. CRAFT is our merging of art and technology at the highest level. It is experience and skill, precision and pride made visible in the signature site furnishings that Landscape Forms customers depend on. Landscape Forms solutions include a wide range of elements from adaptive outdoor structures to seating, shelters and signage, to bike racks and bollards, litters and LED lights. Our solutions are evidence - and experience - based. We pursue ongoing dialog with the movers and shakers in design and sponsor intelligence-gathering events, including Roundtables on targeted issues, Xtreme Landscape Architecture (XTLA) charettes for future leaders of the profession and students, and seminars such as Lighting Leadership Exchanges (LLXC) at leading universities. We apply our findings to designing and manufacturing products that address the needs of our customers and emerging issues in the landscape; and we work with designers who are experts in their fields and bring unique aesthetic viewpoints. We are a North American-based company that since our founding in 1969 has earned a reputation for exceptional products and service. Our headquarters and primary manufacturing facility are located in Kalamazoo, Michigan with two satellite facilities nearby and one in Phoenix, Arizona. We have sales representatives throughout North America, South America, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and Asia and have formed global marketing partnerships with select companies that share our commitment to design. We have an installed base of products in the U.S. and around the world. Our clients include municipalities, transit centers, corporate, college and health care campuses; and familiar brand leaders such as Harvard University, Linked In, New York Central Park Conservancy, Bryant Park, Google, Coca Cola, Oculus, U.S. Tennis Association (USTA), Nike, National Museum of African American History (Washington, D.C.), Barclays Center, Adidas, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Microsoft, and Uber. We were recently named a Great Place to Work-Certified company, https://www.greatplacetowork.com/certified-company/1413946.