Die Maintenance Technician - 2Nd Shift

Summary 

This position is responsible for the repair and maintenance of all tools within the plant and the completion of work orders and preventative maintenance orders as assigned. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Experience troubleshooting, maintaining, and repairing steam molds, trim dies, water bucks, end of arm tools, and fixtures
• Completion of work orders and preventative maintenance orders

• Troubleshooting problems and determining proper resolution with minimum process interruption
• Assist in providing and maintaining a safe workplace
• Ability to perform preventative and corrective maintenance
• Ability to read blue prints and CAD drawings
• Tool setting, welding, cutting, and fitting experience
• Ability to use shop equipment: such as belt sander, bench grinder, hand grinder, pencil grinder, die grinders, band saw, horizontal saw, metal brake, drill press, mill, lathe, surface grinder, crane, forklift, heat treat oven, etc.
• Experience in oxygen acetylene torch, TIG, MIG, Arc welding
• Ability to research parts, drawings, diagrams 
• Ability to fabricate and machine parts with and without prints
• Ability to replace die and mold components and adjust as needed
• Ability to weld and grind die and mold components with surface grinder
• Ability to weld and grind die and mold components with hand grinders and pencil grinder
• Ability to adjust cutting clearances
• Ensures PM activities are completed as scheduled
• Works to develop and implement methods and procedures designed to eliminate operating problems and improve product quality
• Ability to perform all duties assigned with little or no supervision
• Ability to train team members to gain the skills required according to skill matrix
• Continuous improvement
• Kaizen
• Root cause analysis
• Predictive maintenance
• Safety
• Communicate effectively with all levels of the organization to ensure issues are addressed in a timely manner
• Ensure compliance with all related IATF-16949 and ISO-14001 policies and procedures
• Ability to work safely by following policies and procedures in a fast paced industrial environment

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education / Experience Preferred:

• High school diploma
• Experience with Kaizen and other continuous improvement processes is a plus 
• 5-10 years Die Maintenance experience

Language Ability:

• Ability to write reports and correspondence and to effectively present information is required

 Math Ability:

• Basic math skills are required

 Reasoning Ability:

• Ability to solve complex problems in situations where only limited standardization exists is required

 Computer Skills:

• Limited Word Processing, Spreadsheets, Internet, and E-mail is required
• Experience with Word, Excel, Power Point
• Experience with SAP

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk. The employee is required to talk or hear.  The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee is occasionally required to lift up to 50 pounds.  The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.  The employee is occasionally exposed to airborne particles.  The employee is occasionally exposed to extreme heat and outside risk of electrical shock.  The noise level in the environment is moderate.