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Site Overview

At American Eagle Instruments Inc., we pride ourselves on manufacturing high-quality dental hand tools in beautiful Missoula, Montana. As an established industry leader, AEI offers excellent career growth opportunities, competitive salaries and benefits and a dynamic work environment. We are willing to train employees to start, with no experience necessary! Together with our parent company, Young Innovations, we manufacture, and market high quality dental instruments, equipment, and supplies. With an outstanding reputation for quality, our company has a broad portfolio of market-leading products across a variety of categories. At American Eagle Instruments Inc., we pride ourselves on manufacturing high-quality dental hand tools in beautiful Missoula, Montana. As an established industry leader, AEI offers excellent career growth opportunities, competitive salaries and benefits and a dynamic work environment. We are willing to train employees to start, with no experience necessary! Together with our parent company, Young Innovations, we manufacture, and market high quality dental instruments, equipment, and supplies. With an outstanding reputation for quality, our company has a broad portfolio of market-leading products across a variety of categories.

Position Overview

Performs repetitive bench or line assembly operations to mass-produce dental hand instruments by performing the following duties and responsibilities.

Essential Duties

• Condition of employment requires knowledge and conformance to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) as applicable to the position
• Be proactive with own safety and report any potential safety issues to supervisor
• Record product production and order details on specified forms, batch records and logs.
• Uses grinder and/or sharpening machine to sharpen steel tips to specific design specifications, for all dental hand instruments AEI manufactures that require sharp edges,
• Perform in process inspections and verify product meets established criteria
• Use measuring tool to confirm accuracy per specifications.
• Learn quality processes and procedures.
• Remove and report any incomplete or defective products for quality review as necessary
• Consistently meet or exceed production goals and efficiency while maintaining quality standards
• Follow all written and verbal instructions/guidelines
• Perform general equipment maintenance and keep work area clean and organized,
• May work at different workstations as production needs require
• Learn instruments and related product lines,
• Learns and applies quality processes and procedures,
• Become familiar with ISO, FDA and other regulatory standards,
• Other duties as assigned or necessary.