Pro Bat Finishing in Washington, Missouri at Rawlings Sporting Goods Company Inc

Job Title: Pro Wood Bat Finisher

Location: Rawlings Performance Lab Center – O'Fallon Missouri

NOTE: This position will train and work at our Washington, MO location until the move to O'Fallon

General Overview: This position executes work orders for pro and custom wood bats ensuring the highest quality and accurate production. This position is also expected to assist with bat production as needed.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Build a comprehensive understanding of wood bat finishing, including processes, specifications, standards, measurements, and equipment used.
• Interpret and follow work orders and art specification files.
• Prepare materials and surfaces for finishing product application.
• Apply surface coatings.
• Perform basic preventative maintenance on finishing-related facilities and commonly used equipment such as but not limited to cleaning spray guns and changing downdraft booth air filters.
• Utilize basic measurement tools and equipment, such as scales and mixing machines to support production process.
• Identify and understand common wood defects to aid in identifying non-compliant bats.
• Accurately perform data entry and record-keeping tasks such as bat weight tracking, finishing ingredient consumption, and preventative maintenance-related logs.
• Research and evaluate new finishing techniques, materials, and design options.
• Maintain organization, cleanliness, and good storage practices of hazardous material storage and working area
• Assist in training and onboarding new team members.
• All other duties as requested.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• High school diploma or equivalent, preferred.
• Strong organizational skills with a high level of attention to detail required.
• Spray application experience is highly preferred.
• Effective time management and ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability and willingness to work collaboratively with others.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience working with custom cutting machines such as Cricut is preferred
• Experience creating mixtures and handling chemicals is preferred
• Ability to obtain certification to operate required equipment
• Strong computer skills are preferred, with proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Word highly desired (Basic computer experience preferred.)
• Ability to read and interpret orders, instructions, and related documents.
• Ability to prepare and understand reports and correspondence.
• Basic math skills with the ability to accurately calculate quantities and totals.
• Ability to follow written, verbal, and diagram-based instructions.
• Capable of dealing with problems involving several variables in standardized situations.
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
• Flexible and able to adjust priorities to meet business needs.
• Ability and willingness to work overtime as needed.
• Ability to stand for extended periods, up to the majority of the shift

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disability to perform the essential functions.

• While performing duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, bend and lift for full shift
• Regularly required to lift/move/push or pull weight of up to 30 lbs.
• The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms requiring dexterity and handling or working with packages or equipment
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and color vision.
• Employee is required to hear warning horns, bells, alarms and oral instructions for safety purposes.

Working Conditions:

• Combination of office and production-like working conditions.
• Some extended hours and/or weekends required as needed.
• Climate controlled environment

This job description does not list all the duties of the job. Employee may be asked to perform other instructions and/or duties as necessary. Employee will be evaluated in part based upon performance of the tasks listed in this job description.