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Form of workTitle:Apprentice Process Tech
Reports To: Shift Manager
Status: Full Time/Hourly (40 hours/week; additional hours as needed to support organization and individual goals)
Location: Gemini Plastics, Inc.
Job Requirements
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Mechanical skills
- Ability to perform repetitive tasks and lift up to 45 pounds
- Motor coordination, manual & finger dexterity
- Industrial Truck License
Job Preferences
- Previous experience with extrusion die operations
- Proficiency with measuring devices (calipers, optical comparators, pin gages)
- Blueprint reading
Job Summary
To operate the extruder machine to produce quality plastic parts to fill all production and work orders.
Essential Job Functions
- Set-up and maintain production extrusion lines and maintain process stability throughout the production run.
- Complete and record dimensional measurements of the profile extrudate.
- Document extruder heat settings.
- Document the raw material used to produce the parts.
- Follow all safety procedures including lockout of equipment.
- Inspect and package parts when necessary.
- Test run new extrusion dies and fabrication dies when requested.
- Perform machine, slug, and length capability studies.
- Grind all plastic off-fall and non-conforming parts for recycle.
- Proper handling of recycle material.
- Proper spill clean-up procedures.
- Use of computer for tracking production and labor.
- General housekeeping.
