2nd Shift - Molding Process Technician
About the role
Flex-N-Gate is a leading manufacturer and supplier of components for the automotive industry, recently ranked 10th of the 150 Top North American Suppliers in “Automotive News.” A growing and vital company, Flex-N-Gate provides a great opportunity for hard-working and skilled individuals. The Process Technician is responsible for setting up and maintaining process controls on presses, molds and equipment to customer specifications, resolving manufacturing processes, troubleshooting, repairing and performing preventative maintenance on the equipment, maintaining equipment and preventing failures by suggesting and implementing improvement plans, and coordinating manufacturing activities to ensure good production and quality through problem solving and continuous improvement activities.
Responsibilities
- Optimizes all machine processes by reducing scrap, cycle times and mold change times
- Assists with launches of new programs by building a new process to ensure quality products of parts and attends launch meetings prior to production start-up as needed
- Maintains and secures controlled injection process by using part weights by using plastic data and using a systematic approach to optimising current running process
- Directs set-ups for molds using efficient mold change systems and robotics
- Oversees in-house tooling and material evaluations to ensure optimum performance
- Describes system, components, and parts operating characteristics and malfunctions by writing technical reports
- Sets-up injection molds and performs start-up and shut-down of molding systems
- Verifies systems performance by testing functioning of installed equipment
- Ensures operation of equipment by completing preventive maintenance requirements, troubleshooting malfunctions, calling for repairs, and evaluating new equipment and