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Shaw Industries Group

Makes flooring for homes, businesses and outdoor spaces

Tufting Operator - NSP Samples

Full-Time
No salary listed
Entry
Cartersville, GA, USA
In Person
Manufacturing & Production OperationsMachine & Process Operation

About the job

Requirements
  • A high school diploma or GED is required.
  • Ability to operate lift trucks, including squeeze, fork, or pole trucks.
  • Flexibility to cover shifts and workload, including multitasking.
  • Ability to work the assigned schedule and accept assignments that may require additional training.
  • Ability to travel between facilities.
  • Ability to communicate with groups and individuals.
  • Ability to stand for long periods, repeatedly lift 10 or more pounds, and work around noise.
  • Ability to work in plant conditions including heat, humidity, and cold.
  • Ability to attend seminars and classes.
Responsibilities
  • Operate back winders and stationary lifts, and pull and relocate yarn.
  • Break down yarn, load yarn onto creels with different thread-ups, and blow yarn into a mobile cross-creel as a Y Feed Operator.
  • Print orders and operate air-entangled and twister machines to use single-denier yarn to make yarn of different denier sizes.
  • Set up and operate all gauge-group tufting machines, burn in mobile creels, perform crossed and twisted end checks, identify and eliminate shift chop, troubleshoot roller thread-ups and complex thread-up problems, retrieve setup sheets, run Predictor, update specifications, and transfer samples.
  • Serve on teams or committees as needed.
  • Assist with projects as needed.
  • Work a 40-hour week, plus overtime during the week and weekends when needed.
Desired Qualifications
  • Tufting or warping machine experience is preferred.
  • Demonstrate full knowledge of and compliance with company quality and good manufacturing practices policies and procedures.
  • Maintain appropriate knowledge of and adherence to SMS requirements for safety and environment, quality, and TPM.
  • Communicate effectively.
  • Adapt and change.
  • Collaborate.

About the company

Shaw Industries Group designs and makes flooring for homes and commercial buildings, selling through a portfolio of specialist brands worldwide. Its products include carpet and hard surfaces, while other businesses supply synthetic turf for sports fields and outdoor spaces. The group combines manufacturing with an integrated supply chain, moving finished products from its factories to the businesses that sell or install them. It earns revenue from sales of these surfaces and related products, with its residential and commercial operations serving different customer needs. Founded in 1967, Shaw Industries Group is headquartered in Dalton, Georgia.

Company Size

10,001+

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Dalton, GA

Founded

1967

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What believers are saying

  • Education has support: Shaw lists education assistance and GED support for U.S. associates.
  • Family care extends beyond insurance: Shaw's health centers serve U.S. associates and household members regardless of coverage.
  • Training includes housing: Shaw's operations management trainees receive accommodation during their initial eight-week training.

What critics are saying

  • Production changes sleep schedules: Shaw's Andalusia entry-level manufacturing job requires rotating 12-hour shifts with changing day and night starts.
  • Installation means extended travel: Shaw Sports Turf's installer job specifies approximately 300 days of out-of-state travel.
  • Permanent placement has another step: Shaw's trainee program offers interviews for engineering roles after roughly six months.

What makes Shaw Industries Group unique

  • Ownership is concentrated: Shaw is a wholly owned Berkshire Hathaway subsidiary.
  • Certification spans production: Shaw's April 2026 report puts Cradle to Cradle Certified products at almost 90%.
  • Recycling has scale: Shaw's April 2026 report records nearly one billion pounds of flooring reclaimed since 2006.

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