Extrusion Technician

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Safely operate forklifts to move pipe and materials to and from the production areas, scales, and warehouse.
• Maintain operation of multiple lines, including packaging end product for shipment.
• Read pipe specification sheets to ensure products are made to proper tolerances and specifications and packaging requirements.
• Check product periodically with micrometers, O.D. tapes, tape measures, and visual checks to ensure product stays in proper specifications.
• Start up and shut down an extrusion line.
• Make proper machine adjustments with speed dial controls, heat controllers, and various other controls.
• Observe machine operations to detect product defects or machine malfunctions to ensure a safe working environment.
• Perform minor maintenance such as changing filters, and cleaning up equipment and work areas.
• Absorb and set up machines for product changeovers and machine shut downs.
• Prepare production reports and maintain records of machine settings on appropriate sheets.
• Perform proper quality control tests and measurements and log proper data to a quality control specification sheet.
• Enter all production data on appropriate sheets.
• Properly package finished products and transport them to an outside pad area using a forklift.
• Absorb and assist other operators when needed and work successfully in self-managed work teams.
• Attend required training sessions and wear required safety equipment such as hearing protection, safety glasses, and other safety equipment that might be required for certain jobs.
• Be responsible for training and supervision of temporary workers and new hires.
• Be willing to learn new tasks and take on individual responsibilities.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or ninety (90) days experience as operator # 8, demonstration of requisite skills, satisfactory attendance and safety record, and a passing grade to be certified in our Job Certification Program as a operator #8 from a related industry.
• You must be certified through our JCP within 90 days from your hire day.
• Experience with computers and basic keyboarding skills.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organizations.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rates, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Regularly stands and uses hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Frequently walks, reaches with hands and arms, talks, and hears.
• Occasionally stoops, kneels, crouches, climbs stairs, climbs ladders, and works at heights up to 50 feet.
• Lifts and/or moves up to 50 pounds and occasionally lifts and/or moves up to 70 pounds.
• Works near moving mechanical and hydraulic equipment.
• Exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes or airborne particles, and vibration.
• Work environment is usually loud.