Philips looking for workers to assemble badly needed ventilators

[IronLionZion]

https://www.post-gazette.com/business/healthcare-business/2020/03/19/Philips-ventilators-assembly-jobs-COVD-19-Murrysville-employees/stories/202003190107

With health officials warning of a possible shortage of ventilators for the sickest COVID-19 patients, Philips Respironics in Murrysville is ramping up its production and looking for production line workers to help.

The company’s website says it needs second-shift production line workers to assemble and package “various Respironics medical devices,” including ventilators from 2:45 p.m. to 10:45 p.m. Workers also must be able to work overtime if needed.

A Reddit posting linking to the job description says the company is making ventilators and other oxygen-related medical devices “that are essential for the most severe cases of COVID-19” and it is gearing up for round-the-clock mass production.

“They need help and fast,” the post said.

The job requires a high school diploma, GED or equivalent work history and “experience in manufacturing, service or assembly, in a regulated environment.” English proficiency is also required.

The ad says the position offers “a competitive salary,” vacation and sick time, medical, dental and vision coverage, a 401K and “an opportunity to earn a yearly bonus.”

Applications can be filled out online at https://bit.ly/2QtEsNn.

Get these jobs! Share this with your laid off friends. Time to make stuff in America again.

[fleur-de-lisa]

1. K&R

[Hoyt]

2. Excellent.

[Cirque du So-What]

3. These jobs should pay well n/t

[JustAnotherGen]

4. My company increased hourly pay for non bargaining employees

By 30% to continue to work (in a one week on and one week off capacity to increase distance between stations). Some businesses are indeed necessary.

I hope they find awesome people. I would bet they are prepared to have distance on their floor with sanitation methods between shifts.

Happy to read this!

[sanatanadharma]

5. Are there excess educated people living in/near Murrysville?

If people come for jobs, is there any housing?
Would families want to live there?
Good schools, library, bookstores, parks, hospital, entertainment other than bars? Perhaps a college and public transportation?

The capitalist just-in-time theory doesn't work when a factory closes and a town dies.
Unless of course the capitalist horse is talking, Mr. ED, about boarded-up 16-ton company-towns just waiting to be recalled from the mothball fleet of forgotten fairness, towns now moored in the backwaters of outsourced communities far from the gated mansions of CEOs' innate corruption.

[IronLionZion]

6. Trump uses just in time theory for doctors and infectious disease scientists

because he's a fucking idiot.

This case is an existing factory in the Pittsburgh metro area ramping up production and adding shifts. Think WW2 attitudes now with a virus instead of Nazis.

[sanatanadharma]

7. Pittsburg area, excellent.

A city has resources, occasionally in excess of needs, except money for everything and housing for those without money.
Sadly, no city has resources to do the Federal Government's job.