Join the Latham family and help make backyard dreams a reality. Latham is the largest designer, manufacturer, and marketer of residential inground swimming pools with a coast-to-coast operations platform consisting of over 2,000 employees across 32 facilities. As a Latham employee, you can experience a high-performing, engaged, quality-focused and safety-minded culture.

WHAT WE OFFER:

• A competitive starting wage
• Wage growth after successful cross-training
• Full time, year-round work with overtime opportunities
• Medical/dental/vision benefits after 60 days; 401k with a company match; generous Paid Time Off including 11 company-paid holidays
• A workplace that values safety, respect, employee engagement, recognition, and diversity

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with supervisors to ensure employees are using correct production methods and equipment is operating properly to produce quality products.
• Communicate with supervisor in regard to product that is out of spec or defective.
• Apply corrective actions when defects found and replace tooling when needed.
• Perform and report inspections on incoming and outgoing materials.
• Maintain working relationship with all supervisors, customer service and production employees as a team player.
• Maintain all instructions, records, equipment and samples pertaining to inspection, test and audit procedures, techniques, etc.
• Assist in the development/improvement of inspection processes and techniques.
• Provide above information and materials to guide supervisors in assuring operators are producing quality products.
• Develop work instructions.
• Responsible for timely reporting of information

Qualifications:

• Minimum of High School Diploma or GED; 2 year technical/associate degree preferred.
• 5 years’ experience in manufacturing/quality control preferred
• Must be able to work overtime as required.
• Computer and keyboarding skills. (Spreadsheets, Database and Word Processing.)
• Must be able to work overtime when necessary
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, written and verbal.

Essential Job Functions:

The physical 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.

Physical requirements of the position include but are not limited to prolonged standing, bending/reaching/stooping/climbing, and possible lifting up to forty (40) pounds.

Personal protective equipment (PPE) such as safety glasses with side shields, hearing protection, hard hat, gloves, and/or protective outerwear and safety shoes are required. Exposure to dust, odors/fumes, heat or cold (dependent upon weather conditions) and noise is typical.