Extrusion Technician

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin):
Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Extrusion Technician to join us  you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

• Ensure site compliance with Health and Safety policy and procedures, supporting risk assessments, new equipment commissioning and problem solving.
• Ensure that all activities undertaken conform to the appropriate standards and regulations.
• Ensure timely and effective line changes are completed in accordance with required outputs and the production plan.
• Assist production in optimising the extrusion processes for quality, line speed and weight.
• Participate in the development and implementation of improvement plans.
• Assist in the training and develop of production operators and other technicians.
• Carry out machine start / shut-down – hand-over to operators, tooling repairs, replacements and modifications, handing over to production across all extrusion lines.
• Develop own competencies on extrusion tooling, materials up-stream and downstream processes.
• Ensure all extrusion tooling is correctly serviced and maintained, completing autonomous maintenance tasks, per required schedules.
• Provide technical assistance in improvement plans, capital project and new product development.
• Support external tool servicing / repairs / replacements and ensure work is carried out to the required standard.
• Support material and development trials.
• Work with engineering or external sub-contractors on extrusion lines to ensure the relevant repairs/maintenance are carried out and are compliant with Health and Safety policy and procedures.
• Work with other operational departments should the need arise.

• Academic Level: Min. Secondary Education
• Knowledge/
  
  Experience:
  
  Extrusion tooling & manufacturing processes.
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Experience of short/medium size batch production.
• Autonomous in planning and organising activities for themselves.
• Able to communicate effectively.
• Flexible and adaptable work ethic, developing self and others to improve competencies.
• Health and Safety Level 1 responsibility statement.
• Willingness to embrace change and improve processes and systems develop.

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world.

Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

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