Process Technician

JOB DESCRIPTION

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Initiate machine process, adjust within process tolerance and recommend any changes for improved efficiencies to the Molding Process Engineer.
• Continually monitor all processes related to injection molding.
• Analyze and resolve any process problems.  Resolve any product non-conformity issues that may arise per quality standard.
• Assist the Molding Process Engineer in the set-up and start-up of new tools and resins for trials.
• Optimizing robot programs to minimize cycle time and adhere to gripper confirmation standards for injection molding process.

Environmental, Health & Safety:

• Support the protection of the environment, personal safety, prevention of pollution and the continual improvement of the Environmental Management System.  
• Providing leadership to Engineering team in preventing accident and ensure compliance with OSHA and EPA/TCEQ standards.  This includes continuously monitoring the workplace for hazardous environmental, health, and safety conditions.
• Ensure environmental, health and safety hazards are corrected, eliminated or guarded as related to Engineering team
• Assisting in the investigation of accidents. 
• Having the authority to: Stop and prevent unsafe actions; stop the use of unsafe equipment and tools, stop work and/or have employees leave the work area
• Ability to participate in investigation of near misses and other environmental/safety-related incidents that have occurred
• Ensure that all department related incident reports are completed in a timely and accurate manner

Customer Requirements:

Must understand and comply with all applicable Customer Specific Requirements (SQAM)

Qualification Requirements:

To perform this job successfully, the Injection Molding Process Technician must be able to perform each essential duty properly. Must have advanced analytics, mathematical and problem-solving skills.

Education and Experience:

• Must have experience processing plastics and setting tools as well as knowledge of automation systems and controls.
• 2 years minimum injection molding experience required. Experience with large tonnage injection molding (1500 ton +) is preferred.
• Husky and Haitain machine experience is a plus.
• Automotive injection molding experience is preferred.
• Sepro and Husky robot programming is preferred.

PRIMARY LOCATION

Avanzar San Antonio Facility