Line Operator - Titusville, PA.
About the role
The Line Operator will work as part of a team to support one of the production lines with a focus on operating, caring for, and maintaining the extrusion equipment, and improving the machines performance. Key activities include process monitoring, minor maintenance, troubleshooting, and process improvement. The Line Operator reports to the Production Supervisor or Lead Operator at the manufacturing facility.
The company provides training in safety, equipment operation, and quality requirements. Travel to other cities or manufacturing facilities may be necessary for training or benchmarking purposes, although travel is not usually required.
Safety is the most important part of all jobs within WL Plastics; candidates and employees must be able to demonstrate the ability to initiate, lead, and uphold safety policies, procedures, and housekeeping standards at all times.
Responsibilities
- Adjust controls to draw product into specified diameter.
- Assist with changeovers on extrusion machines according to production line changes.
- Clean work areas.
- Load machine hoppers with mixed materials.
- Measure and examine extruded products for defects, and to check for quality conformance to specification; adjust controls as necessary to alter product.
- Reel extruded products into rolls of specified lengths.
- Start machines and set controls to regulate vacuum, air pressure, sizing rings, temperature, and synchronize speed of extrusion.
- Document machine operating conditions and product measurements.
- Report major process change to