Process Technician Hourly - 3rd Shift (Sunday - Thursday)

SUMMARY: To assist in establishing and maintaining a safe, productive and well-organized manufacturing department.
Sets up and adjusts machine tools, such as milling machines, boring machines, drills, and punch presses, and plastics molding machines for other workers, to maintain workflow, by performing the following duties.
ESSENTIAL ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Include the following and other duties may be assigned Must work within guidelines established by the Quality Control Department and customer requirements.
Must maintain an open line of communication with all employees, maintain, and other supervisory personnel.
Attendance expectations would be to remain below the level of 1st written warning.
Required to solve production problems, make necessary equipment adjustments, and maintain machine cycles.
Assure that personnel and equipment is safe daily.
Assist Production Control Coordinator.
with the role of supervisor upon absence of the regular shift supervisor and also fill in for vacationing supervisor on any shift when necessary.
Required to do job set-ups, fixture set-ups, and production start-ups as needs arise.
Must follow cell-layout per set-up book and product book.
Helps give breaks when necessary.
Must promote a positive attitude and be courteous to all employees.
Must use and respect safety power lockout procedure.
Must have a valid forklift operator’s license and operate in such a manner to avoid damage to equipment, property or personnel.
Required to use certain computer programs and software.
Promote a clean, organized work environment guided by the principles of 5S.
Promote a culture of continuous improvement opportunities.
Actively participate in TLBO initiatives.
And any jobs duties assigned by Supervisor.
Reads setup sheets for tooling instructions, such as head tool size, mold positioning, machine parameters, fixtures, other instructions, as required.
Generates new and updates existing setup sheets, as required.
Must work in a safe, responsible manner at all times to protect yourself and co-workers.
Must wear company provided personal protective equipment.
Must abide by all of the organization’s work rules, policies and procedures.
Installs and adjusts head tooling for a straight parison drop, with all stop nuts set correctly.
Responsible for housekeeping and a clean, organized work environment guided by the principals provided by 5S+1.
Must maintain a positive attitude and be courteous to all employees.
Installs mold onto platens, adjust any stop nuts on platens if need be, connects all water, air, and/or hydraulic lines to the molds.
Check all connections for proper flow and/or operation.
Uses spacer bars on platens, when needed.
Sets all machine parameters, such as temperatures, clamp positions, clamp speeds, screw and injection speeds, parison programming, and timer settings to what the setup sheet specifies.
Sets up machines and equipment other than molding machines, such as drill presses, punch presses, boring machines, cooling racks and other fixtures.
Starts machine to obtain first fully formed part that is close to part weight.
Checks all fixtures for proper part fit and operation.
Removes molds, fixtures, and tooling from equipment and work area, when scheduled.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
COMPETENCIES: To perform this job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies: Problem Solving – Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; Gathers and analyzes information skillfully; Develops alternative solutions; Works well in group problem solving situations; Uses reason even when dealing with emotional topics.
Teamwork – Balances team and individual responsibilities; Exhibits objectivity and openness to others’ views; Gives and welcomes feedback; Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Puts success of team above own interests; Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and objectives; Supports everyone’s efforts to succeed.
Interpersonal Skills – Includes cell members in planning, decision-making, facilitating and process improvement; Takes responsibility for subordinates’ activities; Makes self available to cell members: Provides regular performance feedback; Develops subordinates’ skills and encourages growth; Solicits and applies customer feed (internal and external); Fosters quality focus in others; Improves processes, products and services; Continually works to improve cell leader skills.
Dependability – Follows instructions, responds to management direction; Takes responsibility for own actions; Keeps commitments; Commits to long hours of work when necessary to reach goals; Completes tasks on time or notifies appropriate person with an alternate plan.
EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE: High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or one to three months’ related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
LANGUAGE SKILLS: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees.
MATHEMATICAL SKILLS: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
REASONING ABILITY: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete situations.
Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written or oral, diagram, or schedule form.
CERTIFICATES LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Valid driver’s license with no restrictions, and a valid forklift truck license.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.
The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; climb or balance, and reach with hands and arms.
The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perceptions, and the ability to adjust focus.
WORK ENVIRONMENT: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions; moving mechanical parts; high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; chemicals; outside weather conditions; extreme cold; extreme heat;.
The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.