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Company: Kelly Services
Location: Fowlerville, MI
Career Level: Entry Level
Industries: Recruitment Agency, Staffing, Job Board

Description

Machine Operator & Assembly Associate
Location: Fowlerville, MI
Shifts Available: 1st, 2nd & 3rd
Industry: Automotive Manufacturing
Kelly® is hiring Machine Operators and Assembly Associates to join a top-tier automotive manufacturer in Fowlerville, MI. If you're looking for stable work, competitive pay, and a company that values safety, quality, and teamwork—this is your opportunity.

Pay & Shifts

  • Assembly – 1st Shift (7:00 AM – 3:30 PM): $17.00/hr
  • Machine Operator – 2nd Shift (3:00 PM – 11:30 PM): $17.75/hr
  • Assembly – 3rd Shift (11:00 PM – 7:30 AM): $18.00/hr
  • Overtime available

Position Overview
As a Manufacturing Associate, you will be responsible for operating production equipment and assembling components into machined valve bodies. This role includes hands-on assembly, machine operation, quality checks, and material handling to support a high-volume automotive manufacturing environment.
You may also assist with washing, deburring, packing, and replenishing parts while maintaining accurate production and quality records.

What You'll Do
  • Operate assembly and production machinery
  • Load and unload small automotive parts (3–7 lbs)
  • Assemble components into machined valve bodies
  • Perform visual and quality inspections
  • Use gauges, micrometers, and measuring tools
  • Reset machine faults and assist with changeovers
  • Track counts, lot control, and quality data
  • Pack parts into dunnage and move materials using pallet trucks
  • Keep work areas clean and safe
  • Follow all safety, quality, and production procedures

What We're Looking For
Required:
  • Ability to read and write in English
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Good hand-eye coordination
  • Ability to follow instructions and work as part of a team
  • Comfortable with repetitive motion, standing, bending, and lifting
Preferred (not required):
  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • Manufacturing or assembly experience
  • Basic computer skills
  • Experience with quality inspection, SPC, or lot control

Physical Requirements
  • Stand up to 8 hours per shift
  • Lift up to 10 lbs continuously; 25–50 lbs occasionally
  • Repetitive hand and arm movement
  • Bending, stooping, reaching, pushing, and pulling
  • Ability to work safely around machinery
  • Wear safety gear, ESD straps, and protective equipment

Work Environment & Policies
  • Clean, safety-focused facility
  • No smoking, weapons, or solicitation on site
  • Background check & 5-panel drug screen required
  • Random drug testing
  • Must follow attendance policy
  • Paid orientation and training
  • Timeclock punching required

Why Work with Kelly®?
  • Paid training & orientation
  • Long-term assignment potential (up to 1 year)
  • Supportive team environment
  • Weekly pay
  • Up to $1,000 referral bonus for friends and family

Ready to Get Started?
Apply today and take the first step toward a stable, well-paying manufacturing career. If this role isn't the perfect fit, you'll stay in our system for future opportunities.
Let's get to work. Apply today!
 

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

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About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we're obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it's about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It's the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It's the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California's state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.


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