Roles & Responsibilities

Maintains equipment in working order to produce product within specified quality and quantity limits, adjusting, troubleshooting, cleaning, and repairing as necessary.
Is responsible for maintaining equipment logs for each piece of equipment, recording pertinent information about downtime and maintenance problems.
Assists the Maintenance Department, LTA/Production Mechanic or Manufacturing Technician in major repairs.
Performs preventative maintenance on the equipment as specified in the plant preventative maintenance (PM) program or as needed for smooth operation.
Starts up equipment and ensures proper functioning of machines and control panel.
Monitors / replenishes component inventories and ensures all safety guards are in position and functional.
Shuts machine cycle off when a jam occurs and after clearing the jam, restarts the machine cycle.
Maintains accurate production and downtime records (logbooks).
Maintains a neat and orderly production environment.
Observes all safety and environmental procedures and Quality System Requirements (QSR).
Supports upstream and downstream operations. Performs rework as required.

Experience Required

Has detailed operational knowledge of the equipment to the point that he/she can operate within specified quality/quantity limits.
Must have clear and legible handwriting.
Able to function in a team environment.
Soft skills, team oriented, continuous improvement.

Requires mechanical ability and knowledge of proper use of tools, proper troubleshooting and set up procedures, and machine blueprint reading.
Checks and cleans part tracks to ensure free travel of all component parts.
Notifies material handler if part supplies run low.
Continually monitors in-process quality, addressing issues as needed to prevent product holds.
Performs and documents all required Q.C. checks. Runs all required process challenges.

Full time,