Job Title: **** **** Tooling Technician

Shift: Monday-Friday 7am-3pm ($20/hr - based on experience)

Job Summary : Responsible to safely maintain production equipment and meet the departments scheduled preventive maintenance obligations while assisting with configuration and set-up of production molds. Experience and knowledge of proper operation of injection molding press, material handling equipment, overhead crane.

Responsibilities :

• Through troubleshooting, identify machine malfunctions and isolate the failure mechanism
• Repair the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner
• Perform calibrations and re-qualifications on equipment at specified intervals and schedules
• Read blueprints, ladder logic, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic schematics to troubleshoot machines
• Work on mechanical, electrical, hydraulic and pneumatic or computerized systems
• Assist process technicians and engineers with the installation and removal of process equipment
• Analyze and implement corrective action reports and process tracking mechanisms
• Record times and problems in equipment logs
• Provide daily equipment functioning activity information
• Set up standard and special purpose laboratory equipment to test, evaluate and calibrate other instruments and test equipment
• Disassemble instruments and equipment and inspect components for defects
• Align repairs, replaces, and balances component parts and circuitry
• Perform other duties as assigned

Essential skills and experience :

• High school diploma is required
• 3+ years’ experience in the plastics industry, maintaining and repairing injection molding machines
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Preferred skills and experience :

• 1+ year experience working in the manufacturing industry

Physical Demands : Subjected to lifting fifty (50) pounds, Repetitive bending, stooping, pushing, pulling, standing and sitting, with or without accommodation.

Work Environment : While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

The company reserves the right to revise and alter this job description as needed.