Full Certified Production Technician (CPT) 4.0 Key Activities

Safety

• Work in a safe and productive manufacturing workplace
• Perform safety and environmental assessments
• Perform emergency drills and participate in emergency teams
• Identify unsafe conditions and take corrective action
• Participate in safety training
• Participate in equipment safety training
• Suggest processes and procedures that support safety of work environment
• Fulfill safety and health requirements for maintenance, installation, and repair
• Monitor safe equipment and operator performance
• Utilize effective, safety-enhancing workplace practices

Quality Practices & Measurement

• Participate in periodic or statistically based internal quality audit activities
• Check and document calibration of gauges and other data collection equipment
• Suggest continuous improvements
• Inspect materials and product/process at all stages to ensure they meet specifications
• Document the results of quality tests
• Communicate quality problems
• Take corrective actions to restore or maintain quality
• Record process outcomes and trends
• Identify fundamentals of blueprint reading
• Use common measurement systems and precision measurement tools

Manufacturing Processes & Production

• Identify customer needs
• Production equipment operation
• Determine resources available for the production process
• Set up and verify equipment for the production process
• Set team production goals
• Make job assignments
• Coordinate workflow with team members and other work groups
• Communicate production and material requirements and product specifications
• Perform, monitor and document the process to make the product
• Document product and process compliance with customer requirements
• Prepare final product for shipping or distribution

Maintenance Awareness

• Perform preventive maintenance and routine repair
• Monitor indicators to ensure correct operations
• Perform all housekeeping to maintain production schedule
• Recognize potential maintenance issues with basic production systems, including knowledge of when to inform maintenance personnel about problems