RHB Technician- Nights

Responsible for RHB machine processing and daily machine production requirements.

Responsibilities

• Operate RHB machine processing systems within appropriate process guidelines.
• Work with the shift to maximize production requirements and provide general direction to packer and/or utility employees.
• Ensure the quality of all products produced meets the customer’s specifications.
• Review daily production performance to ensure the department is meeting efficiency goals.
• Serve as an example for housekeeping and safety standards.
• Troubleshoot all process-related issues, mold set-ups, and other technical duties for the RHB equipment.
• Work with maintenance staff to provide equipment maintenance for mechanical issues to ensure timely corrections.
• Complete all required process-related paperwork.
• Maintain the Food Safety Program (GMP).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Verify quality of finished product (measure/visual to control plan) and properly react to problems.
• Understand and demonstrate proper safety procedures, including LOTO (Lockout-Tagout) for all equipment.
• Demonstrate proper Daily PM (Preventive Maintenance) compliance with all paperwork completed.
• Knowledge of the RHB process, including loading preforms into the hopper, monitoring them in orientor and infeed rails, oven loading, transfer to molds, and closing/locking/compensation cycles.
• Ability to monitor all transfer points (spindle loading/unloading, preform transfer from oven to mold).
• Understand the importance of timing, stretching, pre-blow air, and blow air, and their impact on material distribution in the bottle.
• Monitor unlocking, opening, and bottle transfer extraction from the mold.
• Monitor the transfer of bottles to the bottle outfeed.
• Use all screens on PCC/Man Machine interface to understand the process.
• Understand oven setup and oven reheat curve.
• Basic theory and bottle fault recognition.
• Ability to set up and adjust all track work.
• Set up and adjust all downstream equipment (boxmakers, antistat booths, robots, laning, etc.).
• 3 or more years of experience in RHB processing or other plastic processing.

Qualifications

• Manual Dexterity: Ability to quickly move hands, hands with arms, or two hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble objects.
• Mechanical Aptitude: Strong mechanical aptitude with demonstrated knowledge of troubleshooting and basic mechanical repairs.
• Forklift Certification: Ability to operate a forklift safely in accordance with OSHA standards.
• Information Ordering: Ability to arrange things or actions in a specific order or pattern according to rules.
• Near Vision: Ability to see details at close range (within a few feet).
• Extent Flexibility: Ability to bend, stretch, twist, or reach with the body, arms, and/or legs.
• Wrist-Finger Speed: Ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists.
• Multilimbed Coordination: Ability to coordinate two or more limbs while sitting, standing, or lying down.
• Lifting Requirements: Ability to lift 30 pounds overhead to a total height of six feet.
• Walking/Standing: Ability to walk and/or stand for 12 hours per day.

PPE Required

• Proper hearing protection.
• Safety glasses (prescription if required).
• Steel-toed shoes.
• Hairnet.
• Beardnet (if employee has chin hair greater than 1/8 inch).

Authorities

• Perform essential functions and assigned duties while communicating any deviations from requirements to management.
• Report any safety concerns to management and shut down any equipment that presents a safety hazard.
• Make necessary adjustments to produce a quality product and stop production if there is a threat of nonconforming product.

Schedule

• 12-hour schedule that rotates as follows: two days on, two days off, three days on, two days off, etc.
• Flexibility for occasional overtime and call-in work required.

Organization Relationships

• Report directly to Shift Supervisor for scheduling, performance evaluation, and compensation assessment.
• Indirectly report to Department Manager for product requirements, quality requirements, and overall departmental goals.
• Indirectly report to Lead RHB Process Technician for direction of day-to-day responsibilities.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Paid time off, starting at 40 hours per year for full-time hourly employees (varies by location).
• Company-paid holidays starting at 8 days per year (varies by location).
• Wellbeing programs & Employee Assistance Program.
• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account.
• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary benefits.
• Paid Parental Leave.
• Retirement Savings Plan with company match.
• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval).
• Discretionary bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date).