1. Demonstrate the ability to comply with federal, provincial, or municipal workplace legislation and regulations, including the OSHA Standards.
2. Demonstrate the ability to adhere to personal grooming requirements in the facility.
3. Demonstrate the ability to use personal protective equipment including eye, ear, hand, respiratory, body and foot protection, in accordance with applicable safety legislation, government regulations, manufacturers' specifications and company standards/procedures.
4. Demonstrate the ability to practice good housekeeping in the workplace, by ensuring that the workplace is clean, organized, and free of obstructions, spills, or fire hazard and that materials and equipment are cleaned and sorted in designated areas after use.
5. Demonstrate the safe use of hand and power tools.
6. Demonstrate the correct way to clean machines and floor area.
7. Demonstrate the proper operation of lifting equipment including hoists, overhead cranes, chain falls, lift pins, eyebolts, slings, cables, and chains, to remove, transport, and store materials, parts, or equipment in compliance with standards/procedures.
8. Demonstrate the ability to identify all pinch points on primary and supportive machine tools and the proper placements of guards as part of a pre-operational check of the equipment in compliance with company standards.
9. Demonstrate both emergency and standard shut down of all required equipment.
10. Demonstrate the ability to follow fire safety procedures including: determining the potential for fire posed by the work being performed; locating and assessing the severity of the fire; selecting and operating fire extinguishing equipment; suppressing minor fires; activating alarms; following fire evacuation plans; and, reporting incidents; in accordance with applicable Acts, Regulations, Legislation, and Codes, manufacturers’ specifications, and company standards or procedures.
11. Demonstrate the proper fuel source and select the corresponding fire extinguisher.
12. Demonstrate the ability to identify the impact of climatic extremes of wind, temperature, or precipitation on job functions, to ensure personal safety and efficient job performance.
13. Demonstrate the ability to work around energy sources by observing limits and procedures for approaching energy sources to ensure personal safety and protection of equipment in accordance with standards.
14. Demonstrate the ability to adhere to arc flash safety requirements in the workplace.
15. Demonstrate the ability to report injuries to a supervisor or safety personnel promptly, ensuring that the injured person is attended to and information is reported precisely and accurately describing how the incident occurred, so that future recurrence of similar accidents is prevented.

1. Demonstrate the ability to handle and store hazardous materials as assigned, while adhering to safe practices in accordance with OSHA and EPA requirements and guidelines, including completing the required documentation.
2. Demonstrate how to identify and recognize hazardous situations and apply proper procedures (includes following guidelines to prevent spread of blood borne pathogens and spill control).
3. Demonstrate how to locate a material Safety Data Sheet (SDS) and describe how you interpret the information.

1. Demonstrate how to convert fractions to decimals form.
2. Demonstrate how to convert dimensions to metric equivalent.
3. Demonstrate how to calculate a missing angle from a triangle.
4. Demonstrate how to solve missing measurements in right angles.

1. Demonstrate the ability to record points on a control chart.
2. Demonstrate the ability to identify a process that is in or out of control.
3. Demonstrate the ability to work towards the mean during process.
4. Demonstrate the ability to identify a production problem, propose a remedy, having been given the authorization to implement the process improvement and carry it out.

1. Demonstrate the tracing of defects to the originating section of their root cause.
2. Demonstrate the use of cause mapping when performing Root Cause Analysis.
3. Demonstrate the ability to conduct a triage level of troubleshooting and communicate findings to maintenance technician.

1. Demonstrate adherence to performing lock-out/tag-out procedures and energy isolation for assigned machinery in accordance with facility regulations.
2. Demonstrate the ability to adhere to the Point of Operation during stamping operation safeguarding.
3. Demonstrate the ability keep a safe distance from stamping operations.
4. Demonstrate the ability to identify press controls and their purpose.
5. Demonstrate the ability to clean and organize the work area, eliminating any safety hazards.
6. Demonstrate the ability to complete a maintenance checklist, inspection of the press and the components prior to operation.
7. Demonstrate the ability to fill and refill the lubrication reservoirs as necessary with appropriate lubricants and fluids.
8. Demonstrate the ability to inspect and power up all safety devices and auxiliary equipment.
9. Demonstrate the ability to operate coil handling equipment; lifting devices (crane, hoist, forklift), lifting tools (slings, c-hooks, coil grabs, coil lifters).
10. Demonstrate the ability to identify adverse material conditions (excessive coil set, camber, crossbow, coil break, edge wave) and their effects on production.
11. Demonstrate the ability to align and load a stock material reel into the feed.
12. Demonstrate the ability to adjust feeders to present stock to each tooling station at an appropriate rate.
13. Demonstrate the ability to adjust cradles and payout reels to provide material to other auxiliary devices or tooling.
14. Demonstrate the ability to adjust conveyors, magazines, take-up reels, and unloaders.
15. Demonstrate the ability to monitor loop control devices and troubleshoot faults.
16. Demonstrate the ability to walk or inch the strip through the die, manually or inch or job control.
17. Demonstrate the ability to monitor stamping operations to determining correct or incorrect operation (incorrect shearing, worn edges in die assembly, incorrect forming, burnishing, damaged/dull/worn punch and die, sharp dull/worn tooling).
18. Demonstrate the ability to adjust feeder.
19. Demonstrate the ability to segregate and recycle scrap material, in accordance with facility procedures.
20. Demonstrate the ability to reset the machine if E-stop is pressed.
21. Demonstrate the ability to ensure that sensor fields targets on the part, part feature, the object, surface, or in the tooling.

1. Demonstrate the ability to install a piece part in a fixture gage and measure the part on the fixture gage.
2. Demonstrate the ability to find tolerance limits using engineered drawing and specifications.
3. Demonstrate the ability to complete work documentation including tracking sheets, sign-off sheets, inspection reports, or procedure sheets, to record the finalization of jobs and to facilitate traceability of work-in-process, ensuring that all data is recorded accurately and clearly in accordance with engineering drawings and job specifications.

1. Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team, contributing to the group’s effort to achieve goals.
2. Demonstrate the ability to identify and commit to the goals, norms, values, and customs of the team.
3. Demonstrate the ability to choose behaviors and actions that best support the team and accomplishment of work tasks.
4. Demonstrate the ability to use a group approach to identify problems and develop solutions based on group consensus.
5. Demonstrate the ability to identify elements of successful teamwork.
6. Demonstrate the ability to bring others together to reconcile differences.
7. Demonstrate the ability to handle conflicts maturely by exercising “give and take” to achieve positive results for all parties.
8. Demonstrate the ability to reach formal or informal agreements that promote mutual goals and interests, and obtain commitment to those agreements from individuals or groups.

1. Demonstrate the ability to work train others through best practices in on on-the-job training.

Observe safe practices, in accordance with OSHA, FDA and organizational requirements, when performing tasks within the working environment.

Observe safe practices, in accordance with OSHA, EPA and organizational requirements, when handling and storing hazardous materials at the workplace.

Apply a working knowledge of the expectations an apprentice, including an understanding of general housekeeping and maintenance responsibilities and how manufacturing needs to run like a business.

Apply a working knowledge of general stamping press components and process.

Apply good practices in the exchange of information between two or more people in casual conversation or within a formal discussion through verbal and or written means.