Joseph Penilla

First Inspector

• As tile comes down a conveyor, my job is to pick out the bad tile which consist of foreign color, off

shades, any sort of contamination that stands out and is against company protocol.

• As first inspector it is my responsibility to do shade checks, and gauge checks. Every 15 minutes. These

are basically quality checks I am required to do. There is a piece of tile on a board put up by the last first

inspector with the time and shade letter. I am to put up a piece of tile 15 minutes when I first take shift

and every 15 minutes so on and so forth. If I notice the tile is significantly lighter or darker, my job is to

let the operators on the packer and palletizer side. To know that there is a shade break meaning the tile

is now coming out either lighter or darker, and they are to finish their skid of 24 cartons and once that

skid is finished, they can now start on the new shade which I noticed, and informed them of, so that way

we aren’t sending out two shades of tile to customers.

• I am also responsible for doing gauge checks which means as the tile comes down the conveyor. There

is an east side and the west side. I am to take tile from the East and west side and measure the corners

and get a gauge reading of at least 120 to 125 which is company protocol that is the thickness of the tile.

• It should be within this range. I am responsible to reset counter machines, which it basically stacks

45 pieces of tile neatly together, and gets packaged afterwards. Sometimes this machine jams up, I am

simply to reset and start again when this happens to avoid excessive scrapping.

• Also, from time to time I am responsible to do die changes die changes are what punches the tile to

the square pieces they are so there’s different styles of tile we make depending on what the schedule

consist of. We may have to do a die change for a certain kind of tile. This has to be done with locking out

and tagging the air and electricity, and using a crane to maneuver the die out and to put the new die

in. Another job duty I am required to do is keep track of how many cartons we make for each shade and

how many cartons we make total for the shift and turn it in to my supervisor.

• Packer Operator-• Stacks of tile goes down a conveyor that leads into a packing machine. This packaging machine packs

stacks of tile into boxes that eventually gets sealed with glue on all flaps. Sometimes the boxes gets

caught on machinery as it indexes through the packaging sequence and causes jam ups. When this

happens, I simply clear the jam. Reset the machine and start up the machine again once everything is

clear reset and ready to go.

• And once the cartons aka boxes of tile makes it out of the packaging machine, it then gets indexed

to printer/labeler machines which prints labels on the boxes as they index to the palletizer machine. As

with the printer label machines, they too, can get jammed up and bunched up with film and labels when

this happens we power off the label machine and proceed to clear the jam where the labels are bunched

up. Re-thread the labels , close everything back up and start the printer labelers back up. Also, whenever

the labels run out, we simply take them out and re-thread new labels through the machine. Preferably

before the next shift comes in, so they have a new roll on both printer label machines.

• As the cartons make their way to the palletizer machine which has a skid that holds 24 cartons of

tile this machine too also can have jam ups which can cause a domino effect and bag the lineup so it’s

imperative to concentrate on the whole line to make sure everything is running. Reset the machines

asap clear jam ups and keep the flow of production going. We do perform OPM’s which are operator

preventative maintenance on our machines. This can consist of checking oil canisters and filling them up

as needed using a grease gun and greasing grease zerts keeping machines lubricated, changing filters

when necessary. And cleaning our machines blowing them off with an air gun to keep them clean and

clear of debris also wiping sensors and reflectors so our machines can perform at its best.

I would pull semis into the bay as needed and use a pressure washer to wash all of the semi

I would also clean the insides of the semis as well

Tarp repair I would take the tarps and open them up on the floor look for all of the rips and then cut material and patch the tarps with a heat gun

Everyday we would be assigned to different lines

To begin the day we would go to each machine in our line and clean out the wax buildup inside of the machines with scrappers

When they’re was jams in the machines I would go clear them out and restart the machines

We would have to do opms to were we would lock out a machine inspect all operating components take them out and if one needed replaced we would replace them we would take the parts and put them in our heated water bed and let them soak for about half an hr or as needed

Also ran what is called necker machines which are the machines that make the neck shape of the can just clear jams as needed

Also I would have to go see why the palletizer wasn’t functioning properly which would mean a can fell got in the tracks of the palletizer so you clean the tracks off and go to the operating board and move the pallets to there location as needed

I was on the trim line my job including using a tire machine as each car went by and place a tire underneath the cars as they went by

On another part of the line I would install wheel wall liners as each car went by there was numbers on them which would be which different liner I would put on and the process of doing so would be taking the liner lining it up with the holes on the wheel well take a air power screw gun and screw them in

I also installed bottom covers on the cars as the cars went by a team of 2 of us would grab the covers place them and line the holes up use air powered guns and screw the covers on

• Did all the landscaping and daily upkeep for 3 different townhome sites

• Drive a telehandler which included ex picking up equipment to get the fracking site complete or to take up the job site when we were finished
• Operator sand hogs process that involves pumping a fluid into a well to break open rock formations and extract oil and natural gas. The fluid is a mixture of water, sand, and chemicals, and the sand used in fracking is called frac sand. Frac sand is made of uniform quartz grains that are very round and hard

• Clean graves, dig graves, trim hedges with a gas powered trimmer, drive the trucks or vehicles wherever needed, keeping up with whatever landscaping needed.

• Dishes, cash register, served patients