Extrusion Technician (All Shifts)

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for sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. No filler. Must not repeat job title. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate. Must preserve all substantive info. We need to parse the posting. Content: - Intro paragraph: "The Extrusion Technician provides technical support to Aptyx's extrusion manufacturing operations within commercial and medical device environments. This role is responsible for setting up, operating, troubleshooting, cleaning, and maintaining extrusion equipment in accordance with established standards and ISO 13485 quality system requirements. The Extrusion Technician ensures product quality, accurate documentation, effective raw material management, and safe operations while serving as a technical mentor to team members. Develop and implement precision extrusion and interventional extrusion processes specifically for medical device tubing to ensure high precision product and compliance with tight medical tolerances and standards." That's about the role. Then "Key Responsibilities" list: many bullet-like sentences. We'll need to put them in

• . Then "Employment And Educational Requirements": list of requirements. Then "Physical Demands & Working Conditions": maybe part of Requirements or separate? Could be a section like "Working Conditions" but not in allowed headings list. The allowed headings are limited: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We can map content accordingly. We have: - About the role: intro paragraph. - Responsibilities: the list under "Key Responsibilities". - Requirements: maybe "Employment And Educational Requirements" plus physical demands? Could be Requirements. - Qualifications: maybe overlapping with Requirements? Might need separate Qualifications for education/experience? But we can combine. - Skills: maybe list of skills like computer skills, communication, problem solving, etc. - Benefits, Pay, Schedule: not present. So we should not include those sections. We must not create sections with filler like "not specified". So omit Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to ensure we include all substantive info. Let's extract details. Intro paragraph (About the role): "The Extrusion Technician provides technical support to Aptyx's extrusion manufacturing operations within commercial and medical device environments. This role is responsible for setting up, operating, troubleshooting, cleaning, and maintaining extrusion equipment in accordance with established standards and ISO 13485 quality system requirements. The Extrusion Technician ensures product quality, accurate documentation, effective raw material management, and safe operations while serving as a technical mentor to team members. Develop and implement precision extrusion and interventional extrusion processes specifically for medical device tubing to ensure high precision product and compliance with tight medical tolerances and standards." We'll put that in

  . Responsibilities: list items: - Set up, operate, monitor, and adjust extrusion manufacturing equipment in accordance with established process parameters and work instructions. - Troubleshoot equipment and process issues to minimize downtime and maintain product quality. - Perform in-process quality inspections to ensure product compliance and identify defects. - Use precision measurement tools including calipers, micrometers, pin gauges, vision systems, and laser micrometers. - Responsible for all aspects of the polymer extrusion line, including but not limited to; set-up and tear down, equipment maintenance and workflow. - Execute existing complex processes such as (including but not exclusive to) multi lumen, taper tubing or co-extrusions; Balloon tubing. - Drive process optimization. - Work with production personnel and R&D to ensure high precision extrusion requirements meeting customer specifications and tolerances. - Diagnose and resolve issues related to the extrusion process to minimize downtime and defects. - Trouble shoot processing parameters when needed using problem solving methodologies. - Support, coach and align with all Health and safety company policies. - Provide extrusions in a timely manner in order to ensure production and development schedules are met. - Collaborate with external vendors to develop tooling and fixtures that result in producing high precision quality products. - Manage raw extrusion materials in a way that ensures traceability and prevents contamination. - Maintain comprehensive records and documentation of all extrusion processes, improvements, and compliance with regulatory requirements. - Generate documentation on extrusion runs that is used to control traceability and ensure reproducibility. - Write and execute process and equipment validations (IQ/OQ/PQ). - Work with Production development, Engineering, Quality, and Manufacturing Departments during concept, prototyping, and release of new products. - Support productivity improvement, reducing unnecessary scrap, down time/set-up time. - Work as part of a team to ensure products and processes comply with the relevant requirements of the quality management system. - Support scrap-reduction, cost savings and quality improvement teams, with focus on process and material optimization. - Provide technical support and training to production staff to ensure adherence to best practices and quality standards. - Work independently with minimal supervision while maintaining accountability for assigned tasks. - Adhere to all applicable Aptyx policies, procedures, and regulatory requirements related to health, safety, and environmental compliance. - Train and mentor extrusion operators and peers as assigned. - Other assignments as requested. We'll put each as

• . Now Requirements: "Employment And Educational Requirements" includes: - Minimum 2 years' experience of hands-on precision extrusion for medical grade products. - Including medical TPE and TPU extrusion experience. - You know how to set up equipment and run the product. - Post-Secondary education in a engineering/technical field or relevant technical experience & skills - Able to work 1st, 2nd or 3rd shifts - Perform complex medical extrusion processes, including multi-lumen, multi-layer, and bump tubing. - Ability to execute existing complex processes such as (including but not exclusive to) multi lumen, taper tubing or co-extrusions - Experience and understanding of extrusion equipment design - Extensive knowledge in the extrusion of various polymers. Including medical TPE and TPU extrusion experience. (Pebax, Arnitel, Hytrel, PET, PU, HDPE, LDPE, PBT, Polypropylene, Nylons etc as well as tooling and die design and process parameters. - Expert understanding the effects that viscosity and velocity have on profiles and multi lumen extrusions and the concepts used in tool design to counteract these effects. - Understanding the effects that residual moisture has on material viscosity and resin degradation in the process. - Expert understanding of the relationships of the process instrumentation to the observed effects on the process. - Work as part of a Cross-functional team and independently with excellent personal time management skills, creating a collaborative project environment is essential. - Able to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and Problem-solving capabilities. - Flexible during times of change. - Good verbal and written communication skills required. - Good computer skills including understanding databases, spreadsheets and word processing. - Ability to read and write English, numeracy abilities, manual dexterity. Also Physical Demands & Working Conditions: - Manufacturing environment with exposure to machinery, noise, and temperature variation. - Prolonged standing and repetitive motion required. - Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is required. - Working conditions are typical of a regulated manufacturing environment. We could incorporate physical demands into Requirements or maybe a separate section like "Working Conditions" but not allowed. Could put under Requirements as well. Qualifications: maybe we could separate education/experience vs skills? But we have many skill-like items. Could create Qualifications for education/experience and Skills for abilities like communication, computer skills, problem solving, etc. However we must not create thin sections; better to combine into Requirements and Skills. Let's decide: - About the role: intro. - Responsibilities: list. - Requirements: include experience, education, shift ability, physical demands. - Skills: include communication, computer skills, problem solving, analytical, teamwork, etc. But we need to ensure we don't duplicate content. Let's parse. From Requirements list we have many items that are more like skills/knowledge: understanding of extrusion equipment design, knowledge of polymers, expert understanding of viscosity effects, etc. Those could be qualifications/skills. But we can keep them under Requirements as they are requirements. Skills section could include: Good verbal and written communication skills, Good computer skills including understanding databases, spreadsheets and word processing, Ability to read and write English, numeracy abilities, manual dexterity, Ability to work independently, etc. But we also have "Work as part of a Cross-functional team and independently with excellent personal time management skills", "Able to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and Problem-solving capabilities.", "Flexible during times of change." These could be skills. Thus we can split. Let's create: - About the role: intro paragraph. - Responsibilities: bullet list. - Requirements: Minimum 2 years' experience hands-on precision extrusion for medical grade products; including medical TPE and TPU extrusion experience; know how to set up equipment and run product; Post-Secondary education in engineering/technical field or relevant technical experience & skills; Able to work 1st, 2nd or 3rd shifts; Perform complex medical extrusion processes, including multi-lumen, multi-layer, and bump tubing; Ability to execute existing complex processes such as multi lumen, taper tubing or co-extrusions; Experience and understanding of extrusion equipment design; Extensive knowledge in extrusion of various polymers (list); Expert understanding of effects that viscosity and velocity have on profiles and multi lumen extrusions and concepts used in tool design; Understanding effects that residual moisture has on material viscosity and resin degradation; Expert understanding of relationships of process instrumentation to observed effects; Work as part of a Cross-functional team and independently with excellent personal time management skills; Able to conform to shifting priorities, demands and timelines through analytical and Problem-solving capabilities; Flexible during times of change. - Skills: Good verbal and written communication skills; Good computer skills including understanding databases, spreadsheets and word processing; Ability to read and write English, numeracy abilities, manual dexterity; Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while maintaining accountability; Train and mentor extrusion operators and peers; Provide technical support and training to production staff; Support productivity improvement, reducing unnecessary scrap, downtime/set-up time; Support scrap-reduction, cost savings and quality improvement teams; Collaborate with external vendors to develop tooling and fixtures; Manage raw extrusion materials ensuring traceability and prevent contamination; Maintain comprehensive records and documentation; Generate documentation on extrusion runs; Write and execute process and equipment validations (IQ/OQ/PQ); Work with Production development, Engineering, Quality, Manufacturing Departments during concept, prototyping, release; Diagnose and resolve issues related to extrusion process; Troubleshoot processing parameters using problem solving methodologies; Support, coach and align with all Health and safety company policies; Provide extrusions timely to meet schedules; Adhere to Aptyx policies, procedures, regulatory requirements related to health, safety, environmental compliance. But many of these overlap with responsibilities. Might be duplication. Better to keep responsibilities as the core duties, and skills as abilities needed. We must not repeat content verbatim? The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." So we need to keep all info, but we can reorganize. Duplication is okay as long as we keep it. However we should avoid unnecessary duplication? Not explicitly forbidden, but we should aim to not repeat same sentence in multiple places? It says "do NOT invent or summarize away detail." Duplication is not summarizing away; it's preserving. Might be okay but could be considered redundant. However we can try to avoid duplication by splitting logically. Given the complexity, maybe simplest: Keep About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (including education, experience, shift, physical demands), Skills (communication, computer, problem solving, teamwork, etc). We'll ensure we include all items from the posting somewhere. Let's list all distinct statements from posting and assign. I'll extract each sentence or clause. Intro: 1. The Extrusion Technician provides technical support to Aptyx's extrusion manufacturing operations within commercial and medical device environments. 2. This role is responsible for setting up, operating, troubleshooting, cleaning, and maintaining extrusion equipment in accordance with established standards and ISO 13485 quality system requirements. 3. The Extrusion Technician ensures product quality, accurate documentation, effective raw material management, and safe operations while serving as a technical mentor to team members. 4. Develop and implement