Job Description

Overview

Kohler Co. is seeking an Assembler I to join their manufacturing team in Bristol, PA. The role involves assembling and packing cabinets, doors, parts, and light fixtures while ensuring quality and safety standards are met.

Responsibilities

  • Accurately assemble cabinets, doors, parts, and/or light fixtures ensuring quality of the finished product.
  • Accurately cut, punch, or saw material in accordance to specific measurements and instructions.
  • Pack product accurately adhering to customer quality standards when assigned to a packing station.
  • Regularly check parts for tolerance compliance and quality standards.
  • Effectively utilize hand held tools and power tools such as a staple gun, screw gun, and drill.
  • Effectively read and interpret written instructions or procedures to accurately assemble products.
  • Maintain established efficiency goals on a daily basis.
  • Produce at necessary level of production to meet demand requirements as directed by volume and/or management.
  • Perform all work in accordance with quality standards and established safety procedures.
  • Perform regular quality work checks to ensure the product meets quality standards.
  • Identify product defects and take appropriate action in a timely manner.
  • Regularly maintain a clean and safe work area.
  • Regularly maintain and promote 5S initiative in work area.
  • Regularly maintain inventory of product in work stations.
  • All other duties as assigned.
  • Continuously display a high level of attention to detail.
  • Ability to work independently and in a team.
  • Ability to perform work accurately and thoroughly.
  • Ability to use basic problem solving skills.
  • Consistently display self-motivation.
  • Ability to follow direction and perform tasks as assigned.
  • Regularly contribute to team goals.
  • Regularly display a positive attitude.

Requirements

  • Must be able to work in the US without restrictions or sponsorship.
  • Effective communication skills for manufacturing production processes.
  • Must be at least 18 years old.
  • Physical capability to perform essential duties, including bending, lifting, and pushing weights of up to 45-106 pounds.
  • Successful completion of a drug screen, physical and background check.
  • Consistent attendance and work performance.
  • Follow all safety policies and procedures.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • PTO
  • 401k

Additional Information

  • Location: Onsite - Bristol, PA
  • Shift: 1st, Monday-Friday 7am-3pm

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
PTO
401k

How this job compares in Bristol, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $17/hr, this posting comes in about 43% below the $29/hr median for welding jobs across Pennsylvania, where the middle half runs $25–$36/hr across 168 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 2% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Bristol, PA

Bristol, PA currently has 6 other active welding openings besides this one, spread across 6 employers. 1 of them was added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 324 other active welding openings from 214 employers. That's enough local activity to be worth comparing two or three offers before committing. Browse every welding job in Bristol, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (13), Greene Tweed (9), and Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $36/hr and York at $27/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Bristol, PA

Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. Assembler I figures were last recalculated when this page was built.