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Summary:
This position functions as part of a team ensuring the continuous operation of the related production area to meet production requirements. This job is responsible for visual inspection of semi-finished products while ensuring a continuous flow of material to facilitate production, good documentation practices and maintaining house-keeping and order within the production department. On an annual basis (determined by the calendar year), all Visual Inspectors will be required to complete 1 demonstration test per inspection station a total of 4 tests per year to confirm the performance of Visual Inspectors and to ensure patient safety.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
* Visual inspection of semi-finished products, including plastic parts, at multiple automated stations by following a pre-defined inspection sequence and knowing/ applying proper criteria for making pass/fail quality decisions.
* Responsible for properly handling waste at multiple automated stations and communicating scrap trends to the Visual Lead Inspector.
* Responsible for knowing and following compliance requirements by ensuring proper hygiene in work areas at all times and maintaining good documentation practices on all required paperwork.
* Responsible for knowing and following safety procedures for associated equipment and maintaining orderliness within department.
* Performs other tasks as assigned.
Physical Requirements:
* Must be able to work in an environment without daylight/ windows.
* Ascends/descends ladders to access machinery.
* Lifting and/or moves up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move in excess of 50 pounds using lifting aids, techniques, or appropriate assistance.
* Duties may require overtime work, including nights and weekends.
* Use of hands and fingers to manipulate equipment is required.
* Requires standing, walking, bending, pulling, pushing, climbing, and crawling.
* Ability to work 12-hour rotating shifts to include day and night time hours.
* Normal visual acuity and the ability to distinguish color are necessary.
Qualifications:
* 1-2 years of manufacturing experience.
* Team player and able to function as part of a team.
* Ability to work independently.
* Basic computer skills.
* Basic math skills.
* Capable to perform visual inspection of products.
Education and/or Experience:
* High school diploma or equivalent required.
* Normal visual acuity and the ability to distinguish color are necessary
Equal Employment Opportunity
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Deerfield, IL
Baxter International Inc., through its subsidiaries, develops and provides a portfolio of healthcare products. The company operates through North and South America; Europe, Middle East and Africa; and Asia-Pacific segments. The company offers peritoneal dialysis and hemodialysis, and additional dialysis therapies and services; renal replacement therapies and other organ support therapies focused in the intensive care unit; sterile intravenous (IV) solutions, IV therapies, infusion pumps, administration sets, and drug reconstitution devices; and parenteral nutrition therapies.
It also provides biological products and medical devices, and surgical hemostat and sealant products used in surgical procedures for hemostasis, tissue sealing, and adhesion prevention; premixed and oncology drug platforms, inhaled anesthesia and critical care products, and pharmacy compounding services; and generic injectable pharmaceuticals. Its products are used in hospitals, kidney dialysis centers, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, doctors’ offices, and by patients at home under physician supervision.
The company sells its products through direct sales force, as well as through independent distributors, drug wholesalers, and specialty pharmacy or other alternate site providers in approximately 100 countries. It has an agreement with Celerity Pharmaceutical, LLC to develop acute care generic injectable premix and oncolytic molecules. Baxter International Inc. was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois.