How to hire employees for your manufacturing company
It is always challenging to find the right employees for any business. This is also true when it comes to hiring employees for a manufacturing company. Business owners want to find the right employees who can help their plant to be as efficient as possible. This means that hiring the right people for the right job and providing enough incentive to retain those employees must be a top priority. When an organization of any type does not make hiring a priority they are often left to fill jobs with candidates who are not qualified or worse yet not interested in helping to make the business a success. Because manufacturing is such an employee driven type business, owners must do all they can to avoid having this happen. Here is what you need to know about how to hire employees for your manufacturing company-
Six Sigma and Recruiting
You may be surprised to learn that many recruiters and staffing departments are using the Six Sigma methodologies, to adopt and implement some form of internal process improvement. This is a direct reflection of the fact that Six Sigma is the most talked about process-improvement methodologies that is being used in business today. Because of this it raises several questions among recruiting professionals. Some of these questions are:
Is a career in manufacturing right for you?
The manufacturing world is an exciting industry. Many of the careers in manufacturing are rewarding and quite profitable depending upon the industry and company you choose to work for. The jobs you will be able to have experience with include materials science and quality control. Manufacturing is an industry that has been around for hundreds of years and the need for it continues to grow as new technology is expanding the manufacturing world. Individuals in the manufacturing industry often have careers that are focuses around advanced electric circuits, mathematics, machine tooling, and automated manufacturing,
How To Hire an ISO Consultant
Companies that are pursuing their ISO certification and registration need to hire an ISO consultant. The ISO consultant will help your company speed up the process of getting your certification and they can help you overcome any obstacles that may be hindering your company. ISO contractors are not the same as ISO consultants. It is easy for companies to get confused about them. Here are a few tips to help you understand the difference between an ISO contractor and an ISO consultant.
An ISO contractor is similar to a tax auditor. They will spend a long time at your company and review multiple documents. They will perform audits and go over different writing procedures. They will remain with your company for several months and they will spend half of their time working with you. They are not an advisor; they are actually a worker that is there to help you perform certain tasks. They do not help you achieve your ISO registration and they do not help with the strategic project planning.
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Hiring a good employee can be one of the biggest assets to your company. Hiring a bad employee can be a huge liability. How can you go about hiring the right machine operator for your manufacturing plant without winding up with the wrong employee? Here are some simple tips to help:
Hiring someone for manufacturing quality control
The manufacturing industry has a lot of procedures that have to be followed when producing a product. One procedure that manufacturing companies have is quality control. Quality control can be a great tool for manufactures in all the different industries. Quality control helps to get the most out of a company's money. Quality control helps to have less waste which in return helps to save manufacturers money by not having to buy more product than needed. There are different ways to go about doing manufacturing quality control. There are even different ways that you can hire someone for manufacturing quality control. Here are some different ways that manufacturers look for when hiring someone for manufacturing quality control, and the different positions that a company might have when hiring someone for manufacturing quality control.
The first thing that a company might look for when hiring someone for manufacturing quality control is how organized and detail oriented a person is. It is very important that a person that is doing manufacturing quality control be detail oriented because they have to make sure that they inspect the product over and make sure that there are not any flaws. Some products for example an airbag can't have flaws in it because if it does it will not deflate right. It is up to the manufacturing quality control person to make sure that there are no flaws before it gets shipped out. If a faulty product goes out and it Mal functions the company can be held liable for it and will be spending a lot of money to make up for the damages. This is why it is very important that when hiring someone for manufacturing quality control that they pay close attention to the persons attributes to make sure that they will be able to fulfill the position.
How to choose a packing supplier
For general purposes, the most dependable place for you to purchase packing materials to secure your packages is at your local post office. They can provide you with the best quality materials such as boxes, tape, and even mailing tubes for the average citizen that just wants to send a gift to a distant relative.
However, there are more extensive packing needs that exist for some small business owners as well as large companies.They need to have the ability to ship large quantities of products to many different locations.For these people there are packing suppliers that ship the packing supplies to you and you pack it yourself.There are also suppliers that have specialized equipment that will pack and ship your product for you.We will cover both of these types of suppliers.
It is important for you to find a credible company that will help you in the packaging of your product so that it will be noticed by buyers and protect your product at the same time. The best thing for you to do is to visit the site of the leading search engines and find the noted companies that do such services.One site that I have found useful that offers listings of different suppliers is Business.com.
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Companies pursuing ISO certification or registration frequently begin the process by hiring consultants. Consultants help speed the process along and help you overcome any road bumps.
So how do you hire a consultant?
First and foremost know what it is you are getting: Many people think they are hiring a consultant to do a contractor's work. Don't confuse contractors with consultants. The difference between the two will affect outcomes, expectations and fees.
Contractor: A contractor will spend a significant amount of time at your company performing tasks such as conducting audits and writing procedures. The contractor provides an additional set of hands to do certain tasks for you. Contractors may spend 50 percent or more of their time working with you over several months. The contractor is a worker, not an adviser, and generally doesn't take part in the strategic project planning necessary to achieve registration.
Continue reading "How To Hire an ISO Consultant"Damaged floors? Hiring a concrete repair service
Just as with any construction problem, when considering hiring a concrete repair service to fix a damaged floor, there are many things you need to keep in mind.Everyone knows someone who had a bad experience with a contractor who either didn't do the job right, charged way too much to do the job, didn't pay their subcontractors and the home or business owner now has a mechanics lien on their property, or some other horrible experience.Let me give you a few helpful hints in finding yourself a good contractor who won't take advantage of you and can guarantee his/her work.
There are several web sites that host licensed contractors such as contractor.com and 1800contractor.com.These sites are valuable because in order to subscribe, you need to be reputable, have a license and be insured.These contractors know their reputation is on the line and probably get a large amount of business from these sources and are probably a little more motivated to satisfy their customer.
Damaged floors? Hiring a concrete repair service
Just as with any construction problem, when considering hiring a concrete repair service to fix a damaged floor, there are many things you need to keep in mind.Everyone knows someone who had a bad experience with a contractor who either didn't do the job right, charged way too much to do the job, didn't pay their subcontractors and the home or business owner now has a mechanics lien on their property, or some other horrible experience.Let me give you a few helpful hints in finding yourself a good contractor who won't take advantage of you and can guarantee his/her work.
There are several web sites that host licensed contractors such as contractor.com and 1800contractor.com.These sites are valuable because in order to subscribe, you need to be reputable, have a license and be insured.These contractors know their reputation is on the line and probably get a large amount of business from these sources and are probably a little more motivated to satisfy their customer.
Hiring freight lines to ship finished products
Shipping your finished products to where they can be purchased by the consumer is obviously an important step in the manufacturing process.After all, the reason why you are in business is to make money and if you cannot satisfy your customers by getting them their product in a timely manner, you lose that money.There are a wide range of methods to getting your finished products from one place to another.Some manufacturers have their own fleets, others hire pilots and own planes for international deliveries.But the vast majority of manufacturers, who do not have the resources to create their won fleet, will hire freight lines to ship finished products. Below you will find some examples of the advantages and disadvantage of hiring freight lines to ship your manufacturing plant's finished products:
Hiring and retaining manufacturing plant employees
Trying to find the best employees for your manufacturing plant can sometimes be difficult task.After all, you want the plant to be efficient which means you must find and hire the best employees and keep them around to do the job.Hiring and retaining manufacturing plant employees can sometimes be like finding the right roommate and when they leave it has a rippling effect on the rest of the organization.It creates unbalance, and that can cost you money..Here are some tips on hiring and retaining manufacturing plant employees.
Hiring Employees
- What are you getting into?This is an important question to ask yourself, as hiring employees takes a lot of preparation. Do you want or need to hire full or part time employees? Do you need independent contractors? Do you want to outsource? These are all important questions to ask yourself. Continue reading "Hiring and retaining manufacturing plant employees"
Hiring and retaining manufacturing plant employees
Trying to find the best employees for your manufacturing plant can sometimes be difficult task.After all, you want the plant to be efficient which means you must find and hire the best employees and keep them around to do the job.Hiring and retaining manufacturing plant employees can sometimes be like finding the right roommate and when they leave it has a rippling effect on the rest of the organization.It creates unbalance, and that can cost you money..Here are some tips on hiring and retaining manufacturing plant employees.
Hiring Employees
1. What are you getting into?
This is an important question to ask yourself, as hiring employees takes a lot of preparation.Do you want or need to hire full or part time employees?Do you need independent contractors?Do you want to outsource?These are all important questions to ask yourself.
Cutting costs, not quality when hiring
How much does it take to get the attention needed to obtain applicants?
Who will do the review of the resumes and complete interviews?
Where and who will be doing checking on credential, previous work, and references?
What are the costs of administrative services for the interview process?
With out training, pay prior to efficiency, and the skills needed. Just in the hiring process a company is likely to spend $3000 or more to hire. That is if they can find enough candidates in the right amount of time. It can simply grow from that in cost.
Continue reading "Cutting costs, not quality when hiring"Choosing respirators for your business
You must choose respirators for your business.You may or may not have experience in this area.This article will give you the basics to determine what you need and what your options are to cover those needs.The most important requirement is to protect your employees and yet keep costs at a minimum.
Let's begin with the basics. Respirators are devices that protect workers from inhaling harmful substances. These substances can be in the form of airborne vapors, gases, dust, fogs, fumes, mists, smokes, or sprays. Some respirators also ensure that workers do not breathe air that contains dangerously low levels of oxygen. There are two major types of respirators:
Continue reading "Choosing respirators for your business"Using outside cleaning services:
So your office needs to be cleaned and your secretary's not willing to do it, what do you do? You could ask your spouse? Or my personal favorite, the person you're dating is always a little more willing to please right now. Are any of these options going to work for you? If not then it's probably a good idea to hire a cleaning service.
The first thing you need to think about is who can you trust? You can never know perfectly without establishing your own relationship with someone, but there are a few questions you can ask that will help.
Spanish in today's workforce, the importance of bilingual communication:
Today the Spanish speaking populations makes up fourteen percent of our society - fourteen percent! That's huge! Whether from a marketing, a political, or a general public perspective that is a large percent of people in our little Northern America who speak Spanish. It's true, there is no official language of the United States of America, but come on, a little common courtesy would say pick up the language of the country your living in. However, that's not how it is. And as it is, we have to cater to it.
As long as you're going to cater to it, go all the way.You have to know that Spanish speaking does not necessarily, Mexican. In America there are Spanish speakers that come from many different Spanish countries; we have Brazilians, Mexicans, Chileans, Argentines, Spanish, as well as many others. This is important to know because not all Spanish countries have the same culture; in fact many of the Spanish cultures are very different. Just as you wouldn't fly a British flag on Independence Day just because we speak a common language, be careful when catering to your Spanish speaking customers not to offend them in the same manner.
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In The Office season one and two a well know character, Ryan, fills the role of the office temp. Ryan accepts this job in the first episode of the first season, and you can see from episode one that he is not thrilled to be working at this office (as he is seen calling corporate helping to spread a rumor that the company is going under). Although Ryan is never ecstatic about working at Dunder Mifflan and Co, the office Manager, Michael, puts him to good use, and by so doing shows us, the quizzical, how useful a full time temp can be.
Mainly the temp, Ryan, is useful because he doesn't have a permanent job at Dunder Mifflan and Co, and so he can be used for any job or assignment that comes up. Sometimes this is filing (which is what he seems to have been hired for) but other more useful times this is assignments such as, cleaning out the bosses car, organizing spring cleaning, helping the boss play pranks on other employees, or my favorite, showing up before dawn to bring the boss breakfast. In this example, if you are the boss, hiring a temp worker is nothing but advantages as it would seem you have more a personal slave (or friend) than anything.
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