Molding Process Technician

Process Technician

The Process Technician is responsible for setting up and maintaining process controls on presses, molds and equipment to customer specifications. He or she is responsible for resolving manufacturing processes. The Process Technician is responsible troubleshooting, repairing and performing preventative maintenance on the equipment. Additionally, he or she will maintain equipment and prevent failures by suggesting and implementing improvement plans. He or she would coordinate manufacturing activities to ensure good production and quality through problem solving and continuous improvement activities.

Core competencies include time management, creative and innovative thinking, problem solving, accountability and dependability, research and analysis, decision making and judgment, ethics and integrity, planning and organizing, mathematical reasoning, communication, customer focus, energy and stress, and team work.

Flex-N-Gate training requirements include new employee orientation, core values, contractor control, environmental review of projects, environmental communication, environmental control, monitoring and measurement, storm water, air emissions, control of hazardous material, liquid waste transferring and manifesting, servicing of stationary refrigeration equipment, interceptor pit monitoring and disposal, waste oily and oily materials, solid waste handling, scrap room operations, waste water treatment operational instructions, outside storage, health and safety systems management, hot work permit, lockout training, legislation training, machine guarding, failure mode and effects analysis, advanced product quality planning design, equipment procurement, non-conforming materials, corrective action, deviation, pre-start health and safety training, master procedure flow, and quality management systems.

Job duties include optimizing all machine processes by reducing scrap, cycle times and mold change times, assisting with launches of new programs by building a new process to ensure quality products of parts and attending launch meetings prior to production start-up as needed, maintaining and securing controlled injection process by using part weights by using plastic data and using a systematic approach to optimizing current running process, directing set-ups for molds using efficient mold change systems and robotics, overseeing in-house tooling and material evaluations to ensure optimum performance, describing system, components, and parts operating characteristics and malfunctions by writing technical reports, setting-up injection molds and performing start-up and shut-down of molding systems, verifying systems performance by testing functioning of installed equipment, ensuring operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements, troubleshooting malfunctions, calling for repairs, and evaluating new equipment and techniques, setting up and maintaining process controls of presses, molds and equipment, being experienced with robotics and programming, with end of arm set-up and troubleshooting, developing and modifying robot programs to handle parts without causing damage to the equipment or parts, knowledge of TPO's/ABS/Nylons/PC's, monitoring production for accuracy and efficiency and working with quality inspectors to ensure part quality/performance, making minor electrical and mechanical repairs and adjustments to machines/tools and notifying supervisors when major service is required, providing ownership and analysis of injection molding process and equipment for the reduction in defects, overall process improvement and/or the reduction of downtime and continue improvements, compiling, storing and receiving production data, completing all paperwork as required, performing additional assignments per supervisor's direction, advising on improvements in tracking and reporting procedures, having experience with hot runners/valve gate sequencing/gas assist/insert molding, promoting safety by abiding to all related policies and procedures, and being responsible for the awareness, understanding, specific responsibilities and management of the Environmental Management System (EMS) as stated in EMS policy CEVPL.00005 and the Quality Management System (QMS) as stated in CQAM.00001 Corporate Quality Manual.

Working conditions include physical ability to lift up to 75lbs. This position may require hot work, standing up to 100%, overhead work, kneeling, bending, crawling, pushing, pulling, climbing, and working at heights.

This job description is not inclusive. The duties, experience, functions, and any other descriptions herein may be changed at any time and other duties may be assigned as necessary. The company reserves the right to add, delete, or otherwise alter these responsibilities when and as necessary.