Injection Mold Maintenance Technician

Louisville, KY

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.***