Damon Walker

-Achieve productions goals and efficiency while maintaining a safe environment.

-Ensure that department machinery and equipment is well maintained and repaired when needed.

-Complete the appropriate paperwork needed to effectively monitor and record departmental productivity, quality and performance.

-Work any schedule needed to accomplish job tasks in a timely manner.

-Assist employees in resolving any job-related problems or concerns.

-Assist R & D with samples and TPRs.

-Attend and/or conduct FDB and periodic departmental meetings.

-Line up crews before shift start-up.

-Identified problems and implemented effective solutions.

-Performed accident investigations.

-Communicated job expectations and monitored employees.

• Self-motivated, with a strong sense of personal responsibility.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Proven ability to learn quickly and adapt to new situations.
• Skilled at working independently and collaboratively in a team environment.
• Drive production results while maintaining high quality
• Monitor and regulate personnel
• Check/Load production panels
• Create tufting tickets for each panel
• Enter coded machine stops
• Change hooks, blade blocks, and needles on tufting machine
• Assisted with day-to-day operations, working efficiently and productively with all team members.

• Maintaining efficiency on tufting machine
• Set up machine for production
• Identify quality defects
• Thread needles on machine
• Doffing completed tufted rolls
• Change blade block, needles, and hooks on tufting machine
• Identify end outs
• Enter coded stops
• Upheld strict quality control standards while maintaining high levels of productivity during peak periods of demand.
• Reduced downtime by troubleshooting and repairing mechanical issues in a timely manner.
• Maintained high-quality output by performing routine inspections and correcting any defects.

• Hang yarn on tufting creels and mobile creels
• Read tufting description sheets
• Identify lot numbers on yarn cones
• Mend end outs using mending guns
• Splice in yarn using splicers
• Blowback break outs
• Fix pull tights
• Pack out yarn creels or mobiles
• Assist operator on machine efficiency

• Unload General Merchandise trucks
• Unload remix grocery trucks
• Sort and stock merchandise on shelves
• Maintain shelf capacity by stocking
• Keep work area clean
• Attend to costumers in need of assistance
• Monitor backroom inventory