Vault Manufacturing
Injection Mold Maintenance Technician
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.***