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Form of workSunstar Americas, Inc. Position Description
At Sunstar Americas, Inc., we firmly believe that our people are the foundation of our success. We foster a collaborative, innovative, and agile culture that ensures we deliver high-quality, innovative products to consumers and oral care professionals. Our team-oriented approach encourages creative thinking and nurtures a positive work environment and productive relationships. With dedication, hard work, and a shared vision, we can continue to make SAI a leader in our industry.
Join us and become part of our global team, where together, we can achieve success and contribute to a better future.
Why Work at Sunstar? Sunstar’s mission is to enhance the health and well-being of people everywhere via its four business areas: mouth and body, health and beauty, healthy home, safety and technology.
Position Summary:
Support Injection Molding Manager and Manufacturing floor to perform duties which include set up, changeover and maintaining molds.
Essential Job Functions:
Work from work orders, standard operating procedures and instructions:
- Review production run with all shifts to determine unusual conditions, equipment functioning and production levels.
- Monitor molding equipment and robotics to ensure quality standards met and production cycle time maintained.
- Troubleshoot production or quality problems such as excess flash, discoloration or short fills, make necessary adjustments to materials or equipment settings and notify Team Leader of situation.
- Perform changeovers and support setups: Insert changes, set programming to control robotics and set speeds.
- Clean molds as needed.
- Communicate with machine and mold maintenance departments daily to keep repairs and preventive maintenance up-to-date.
- Fill out maintenance work orders to initiate necessary repairs.
- Complete required production and inspection reports.
- Follow safety rules and keep work area in a clean and orderly condition.
- Ability to gather data, analyze and communicate with Management.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- Proven experience as an Injection Molding Process Technician or in a similar role within the Injection Molding industry.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to apply Injection Molding principles to identify and resolve process-related issues.
- Detail-oriented mindset with a focus on precision, accuracy, and quality.
- Make improvements to Molding Process to reduce cycle times to the lowest time possible without sacrificing part quality.
- Work with Production to improve mold change over times eliminating all waste during the internal and external change over elements.
- Prepare and maintain Molding Process workbooks.
Education
- High School Diploma or equivalent.
- RJG or Equivalent training.
Knowledge/Experience
- Use mathematics together with the analytical use of computerized programming. Equivalent to 1 to 2 years applied trades training on a particular or specialized occupation, requiring knowledge of Injection Molding.
- Experience with hand tools is required.
Skills
- Proper set up of automated equipment programming.
- Self-starter with strong interpersonal skills
- Communication skills: Written and Oral
Abilities
- Ability to work in a team environment.
- Ability to communicate, interact and work effectively and cooperatively with people from diverse ethnic and educational backgrounds.
- Attention to Detail
- Listening
- Ability to make sound judgment decisions
- Diversified work. Perform duties to set up, changeover and maintain the Injection Molding operations. Exercise judgment to troubleshoot production and quality problems, within the limitations of standard methods and procedures.
- Ability to stand for long periods of time.
Injection Molding Process Technician
(Job Code: TEC21023)
