Molding Technician I

Overview

Operate and maintain injection molding machines, ensuring product quality and production efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• inventory control
• quality inspection
• machine setup
• process monitoring
• preventive maintenance
• mold handling

Tasks

-Maintains inventories of materials. -Performs quality assurance checks by observing continuous operation of automatic injection molding machines to ensure that products meet specifications and to detect jams or malfunctions, making adjustments as necessary. -Mixes and measures compounds, or weighs premixed compounds; then loads them into machine hoppers. -Assists with relieving breaks for production technician if needed. -Checks process of machines to regulate pressure, temperature, and speed and feed rates, and to set cycle times. -Performs preventive maintenance work on injection machines, molds and auxiliary equipment. -Cleans grease and fingerprints from machine after every mold change. -Removes and weighs scrap gaylords when full. -Reads specifications, blueprints and work orders to determine setups, temperatures, and time settings required to mold plastic materials, as well as to plan production sequences. -Sets up, operates, processes acceptable quality first piece parts and tend plastic injection molding machines to mold plastic parts and products. -Verifies machine process and records temperatures, pressures, and press-cycle times keeping record of process on process sheets. -Operates hoists to position molds. -Obtains and moves specified molds to work stations, manually, with lift truck or using hoists, sets and secures mold to machines, using various hand tools. -Retrieves reference process when setting up job. -Measures and visually inspects products for surface and dimension defects in order to ensure conformance to specifications, using precision measuring instruments. -Cleans inner surfaces of molds following standard procedures. -Installs molds into machines or presses according to MXL production schedule work order specifications. Reads QWI for any special items needed. -Preserves then removes molds from machines after production runs are finished and places in noted location. -Inventories and records quantities of materials and finished products; requisitions additional supplies as necessary.

Requirements

• press operation
• plant operation
• plastic grades

What You Bring

-Is able to startup and shutdown presses and plant. -Learns numerous grades and colors of plastic materials.

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About Plaskolite

-Pivoted from hula-hoops and flyswatters to acrylic sheet production. -Expanded portfolio to include polycarbonate, ABS, PETG, PVC, HDPE, and PMMA polymers. -Typical projects include glazing panels, safety shields, lighting fixtures, transportation components, signage, and point-of-purchase displays. -Made strategic acquisitions from Covestro and Trinseo to become the only North American producer of extruded, continuous-cast, and cell-cast acrylic.

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