Process Technician

Job Summary:

Leads and supervises the shift. Sets and adjusts machine controls according to established process standards. Ensures efficiency levels and cycle times are sustained throughout the production run. Ensures product conformity & quality standards are upheld.

Key Accountabilities:

• OEE
• 5S and Safety (6S).
• Direct labor efficiencies (Resin consumed V. direct labor costs).
• Inventory accuracy
• Worker compliance

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Accurately records team members in ADP, assembly, or injection. Ensures team member time reports are accurate.
• Conducts production meeting with scheduler and key personnel.
• Authorizes full production once setup is complete and first piece approvals are validated.
• Records all process parameter changes on the process change log.
• Reviews set-up sheet & process parameters, using the process monitoring log to ensure quality standards are upheld.

• Manage IQMS downtime coding, end-of-shift reporting, cycle counts, scrap data entry, and resolving disposition errors.
• Monitor IQMS in real-time maintaining proper cycle times and responding quickly to presses going down.
• Enforce worker compliance with all work instructions, work orders, TWIs, quality inspections, procedures, employee handbook, molding shutdown and startup checklist, process discipline, and time and attendance policy.
• Assists in preventative maintenance and or repair on machines, injection molding screw assemblies, molds, and other auxiliary equipment.

• Completes mold verification, mold changes, and material changes.
• Diagnose and correct problems, and perform process troubleshooting on injection molding machines and auxiliary equipment.

• Monitors quality attribute charts, ensuring defects remain below the upper control limit.
• Completes reporting requirements to include, mold repair, equipment repair, damage, accident and injury, and production.
• Conducts shift change meetings to include end-of-shift reports for production status of mold, machine, man, method, and maintenance.
• Complies with three-point control, reporting changes, abnormal conditions, and worker compliance.
• Ensure shift personnel are safe, adhere to PPE requirements, follow safety policies, and safely complete assigned tasks.
• Provides constructive and timely performance evaluations.
• Additional responsibilities as assigned by the manager.

Supervisory Responsibilities

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Basic skills with computers including Microsoft Outlook, word, and Teams.
• Ability to complete assigned tasks with little or no guidance.
• Provide shift personnel with a safe and friendly work environment.
• Adhere to Starplast guiding principles including, positive can-do attitude, teamwork, coachability, respect, recognition, and accountability.
• Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally; expresses ideas and thoughts in written form; exhibits good listening and comprehension; keeps others adequately informed; selects and uses appropriate communication methods.

Education and Experience:

• Good knowledge of all aspects of the injection molding process including processing, tooling, maintenance, and material.
• Three years of experience in injection molding processing.

Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk, hear, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, use hands to finger, handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 35 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

EEO Statement

Starplast USA, LLC prohibits discrimination based on the following protected categories: race, creed, color, national origin, nationality, ancestry, age, sex/gender (including pregnancy), marital status, civil status, domestic partnership status, familial status, religion, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, atypical hereditary cellular or blood trait, genetic information, liability for service in the Armed Forces of the United States, or disability.