Extrusion Technician

About the role

The Extrusion Technician supports production by operating, monitoring, and optimizing extrusion equipment to ensure consistent product quality and meet or exceed production targets. This role is responsible for maintaining high standards of safety, quality, efficiency, machine up-time, and scrap reduction, while contributing to continuous improvement efforts within the plastics department at the lowest possible cost.

Responsibilities

• Set extruder operating parameters
• Inspect the quality and correct any defects in the finished product
• Notify appropriate personnel when extruded product fails to meet standards
• Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, temperatures and amounts, dimensions and flow of materials or ingredients
• Operate controls to adjust machine functions, such as regulating air pressure or die gaps
• Review work orders, specifications or instructions to determine materials, ingredients, procedures, components, settings, and adjustments for extruding plastic sheet
• Examine, measure and weigh materials or products to verify conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as micrometers or scales
• Record and maintain production data such as meter readings and quantities, types and dimensions of materials produced
• Move materials, supplies, components and finished product
• Troubleshoot equipment and production issues
• Follow documentation procedures and ensure paperwork is complete
• Assist in training

Requirements

• Experience operating, troubleshooting, or maintaining industrial manufacturing equipment
• Experience working in a safety-focused industrial or manufacturing environment
• Experience reading gauges including a digital caliper and micrometer

Qualifications

• Experience with sheet extrusion for thermoforming applications
• Experience operating a sheet die
• Experience with the blending, crystallizing and drying process
• Experience working with GMP, food-safety and ISO procedures
• Experience working with thermoforming or injection molding equipment
• Bilingual in Spanish and English

Skills

• Sheet extrusion experience for thermoforming applications
• Experience operating a sheet die
• Experience with the blending, crystallizing and drying process
• Experience working with GMP, food-safety and ISO procedures
• Experience working with thermoforming or injection molding equipment
• Bilingual in Spanish and English

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision
• Educational assistance program
• Infertility support and Adoption/Surrogacy assistance
• Paid time off and Paid Holidays
• Mental Health Coverage and Support for you and your family
• 401k matching + Fixed Contribution Based on years of service
• Short term and long-term disability
• Retirement
• Legal and Financial advice

Pay

Compensation in this role will be commensurate with experience.

Schedule

The regular schedule in this role will be 2-2-3 schedule. We work rotating 12 hour shifts 6am to 6pm OR 6pm to 6am ($2 hourly shift differential for nights). Every other weekend and holidays will be required in this role.