| Skill | What it means | Level needed |
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| Wears required PPE, keeps guards in place, knows where the E-stops, exits, eyewash, fire equipment, and alarms are, raises the alarm and contacts emergency help the way the company procedure says, reports any injury or exposure immediately, can find what they need on an SDS, respects lockout/tagout tags on equipment, and follows the shop's safety rules around bench and line equipment. | |
| Reads a work order, traveler, or production ticket to find out what to build, how many, from which materials, and to which instruction. | |
| Interprets assembly drawings and exploded views, including part callouts, dimensions, tolerances, and the bill of materials, well enough to build the assembly shown. | |
| Uses tape measures, steel rules, calipers, and simple gauges to check that parts and finished assemblies match the dimensions on the drawing. | |
| Does the counting, fractions, decimals, and unit conversions needed to follow work orders, count parts, and check dimensions. | |
| Selects and safely uses common assembly hand tools such as screwdrivers, hex keys, wrenches, pliers, and tweezers without damaging parts or fasteners. | |
| Drives threaded fasteners to the specified tightness using hand drivers, powered drivers, and torque tools, without stripping threads or cross-threading. | |
| Checks the parts staged for a job against the work order and parts list and flags anything wrong, missing, or visibly damaged before building with it. | |
| Counts small parts accurately, by hand and by counting scale, into kits, bags, or cases to the exact quantity on the work order, so the next operation gets complete kits. | |
| Stages the parts, fixtures, and tools for a job at the workstation the way the setup instruction shows, and confirms the equipment is in working order and current on its PM or calibration tag before starting. | |
| Builds the first unit of a run, checks it against the drawing and specification, and gets it approved before running the rest. | |
| Assembles multi-part components at a bench in the documented sequence, running the station's assembly tools and equipment the way their machine requirements say, producing units that pass inspection and go on to the next station. | |
| Performs a repeated assembly operation at a paced line station, keeping up with the line rate and passing only conforming work to the next station. | |
| Applies the specified adhesive or sealant in the right amount and place, clamps or cures the joint per the procedure, and produces bonds without squeeze-out or starved joints. | |
| Inspects and function-tests own assembled work against the specification at the required checkpoints and records the result. | |
| Labels, segregates, and reports parts or assemblies that fail a check so bad product cannot mix back into good stock. | |
| Where the plant keeps lot traceability (medical-device and similar regulated or recall-exposed product), records the lot or batch number of the materials used onto the job's paperwork and labels so any finished unit can be traced back to its material lots. | |
| Follows controlled-area rules - gowning, gloves, hairnets, no food, and no wood pallets or open cardboard past the line - whenever working in or supplying a controlled production area. | |
| Builds or selects the right package for the finished product, protects and seals it, and stages it so it survives shipping undamaged. | |
| Verifies the packing slip, labels, manuals, and tags match the packaged product and the work order, and applies or forwards them correctly. | |
| Moves parts, kits, and finished product between the station, stock, and staging by hand, cart, or pallet jack without damaging product or straining themselves. | |
| Keeps the workstation clean, organized, and stocked to its 5S standard during and at the end of every shift. | |
| Performs the assigned routine care on station equipment - cleaning, lubrication, and simple checks - and reports anything running abnormally instead of working through it. | |
| Completes the production counts, shift paperwork, job records, and the station's equipment use and maintenance log entries accurately, on paper or in the shop's computer system. | |
| Tells the lead or the next station about problems, parts shortages, and job status early and clearly, and hands work off so the team's flow keeps moving. | |
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