Injection Mold Tooling Technician

We have a Direct Hire opportunity for a Tooling Technician at a leading provider of plastic injection molded parts.

We are offering $37.00-$44.00 per hour, depending on experience, operating on 1st shift with a two-week rotation — 7:00am-3:30pm, followed by 8:00am-4:30pm. Company benefits include health, dental, and vision insurance as well as PTO and paid holidays.

Key Qualifications

• High School diploma or GED/equivalent
• Experience in an injection molding, mold repair, and hot runner systems
• Tooling experience in close tolerance grinding, lathes, and mills
• Experience with making and reading prints
• Effectively communicates with others both verbally and in writing
• Able to reach all areas and components of equipment and move items weighing up to 50 pounds

As a Tooling Technician, you will be responsible for ensuring that molds are repaired and fully functional to optimize quality, mold utilization, and cavitation. The Tooling Technician troubleshoots quality problems with the mold to identify root causes of deviant parts and performs necessary repairs to ensure parts made are within quality specifications, as well as performing necessary tooling repairs to ensure optimized mold use.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates proficiency in utilizing machining equipment in the tool shop to improve and repair molds to their optimal levels.
• Analyzes existing molds and makes recommendations for mold corrections to improve customer satisfaction, cycle times, cavitation and life of the mold. Develops and implements an action plan to address these issues upon approval.
• Supports project/program management with insight and participation in design reviews, communicating improvements and learned advantages.
• Performs preventative maintenance activities to the molds and maintains the customer’s assets in peak functional condition.
• Utilizes production monitoring system to evaluate and continuously improve the mold preventative maintenance program on all molds.
• Properly documents all preventative maintenance and mold improvements.
• Initiates communication and interaction with the Manufacturing Team to maintain full cavitation and efficiencies of the molds.
• Actively participates in spare part analysis to develop cost efficient levels of spares.
• Maintains this established minimum inventory of spare components for each mold through coordination with the Supervisor and the approved tool vendors.
• For components removed from the mold, perform evaluation for repairability or order replacements with proper approvals.
• Assists the Maintenance team with Press and Equipment Maintenance.
• Supports the team concept by performing multiple functions as assigned by management.
• Supports the QMS by adhering to the system requirements.
• Understands and follows plant safety rules. Helps to identify and eliminate any safety hazard or concern. Assists in monitoring of quality of work output.
• Maintains compliance with company policy and procedures.
• Maintains a clean, neat, and orderly work area.
• Maintains good working relations with all other employees. Strives to have no conflicts with other employees.
• Requires regular attendance to perform essential element as contained herein between the assigned start and end times for work.
• Other duties as assigned.