Are you an experienced Injection Molding Technician who thrives in a fast-paced manufacturing environment? If you excel at troubleshooting molding processes, solving technical challenges, and maintaining high standards of safety and quality, we'd like to hear from you.
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Set-Up technician is responsible for troubleshooting molding processes, supporting production efficiency, and maintaining high standards of safety and quality. The ideal candidate possesses strong problem-solving, communication, and technical skills.
Responsible for:
- Managing and directing resources to tackle technical issues that arise during the shift that results in meeting safety, quality and delivery targets
- Fostering a working environment that is fair, equitable and driven to continuous improvements
- Setting, starting up and troubleshooting moulding machines for production runs
- Providing support to the Shift Supervisor
- Covering for Shift Supervisor as and when required
- Following and complying with Cube Management System (CMS)
Duties:
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Set up and start up injection moulding machines
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Complete mould and insert changes
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Follow-up, trouble-shoot and adjust processes for any quality issues, including flash, long gates, warping, blooming, witness marks, cloudiness, etc.
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Identify and communicate mould/machine problems to Shift Supervisor and Maintenance Technicians
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Provide back-up for Shift Supervisors
- Provide back-up for Material Handlers
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Maintenance and storage of moulds and inserts (tooling)
- Assist Shift Supervisors as required – training of new staff, incident investigations and audits to determine root causes and corrective actions
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Communicate with previous and next shift to understand any technical or quality issues
Requirements
Knowledge/Qualifications
- High School Graduate
- Vocational school an asset
- 5 years minimum of technical experience in injection moulding
- Working knowledge of pneumatics and hydraulics
- Basic tooling background an asset
- Demonstrated ability to solve problems and produce results
- Communicate effectively in English, both verbally and in writing
- Crane, scissor lift and forklift certification required
Soft Skills
- Problem solving - the individual identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner and gathers and analyzes information skillfully.
- Interpersonal Skills - the individual maintains confidentiality, remains open to others’ ideas and exhibits willingness to try new things.
- Oral communication - the individual speaks clearly and persuasively in positive or negative situations, group presentations and meetings.
- Written Communication - the individual edits work for spelling and grammar, presents numerical data effectively and is able to read and interpret written information.
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Planning/organizing - the individual prioritizes and plans work activities, uses time efficiently and develops realistic action plans.
- Quality control - the individual demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness and monitors own work to ensure quality.
- Adaptability - the individual adapts to changes in the work environment, manages competing demands and is able to deal with frequent change, delays or unexpected events.
- Dependability - the individual is consistently at work and on time, follows instructions, responds to management direction, and solicits feedback to improve performance.
- Safety and security - the individual actively promotes and personally observes safety and security procedures and uses equipment and materials properly.
Other Job Requirements
- Must be able to speak, read and write English
- Must have reliable transportation
- Must have full range of motion
- Must be able to sit, stand/walk for long periods of time
- Must be able to bend, twist and lift up to 30lbs
- Able to work 12 hour rotating continental shifts
Benefits
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Extended dental, health and vision coverage upon completion of 3 month probationary period.
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RRSP match upon completion of 3 month probationary period.
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Bonus potential in addition to base pay upon completion of 3 month probationary period.
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Free on-site parking.
