Mold Setter

Job Details:

Job Location:

Gainesville - Gainesville, GA 30501, Position Type:
Full Time, Education Level: None,

Travel Percentage :
None, Job Category:
Manufacturing,

Position Summary:

Setup, operate, and change tooling for various specific manufacturing equipment in accordance with procedures to ensure optimum product quality. Ensuring Cellofoam safety requirements and core competencies are met.

• SAFETY FIRST – Every employee of Cellofoam North America Inc. must demonstrate a strong commitment to safety ownership and accountability by observing all safety standards, procedures, and practices to ensure a safe working environment for themselves and others.
• Adhere to Cellofoam North America Inc. company focus areas:
  Safety, Financial, Customer, and People.
• Embody the Cellofoam North America Inc. employee core values of Humility, Hunger, Responsibility, and Intelligence.
• Understand and adhere to Emergency Action Plan and safety absolutes.
• Understand and adhere to Lock out/Tag out procedure.
• Operate manufacturing equipment and PLC to adjust, index, and prepare for mold changes.
• Full understanding of the manufacturing processes, quality standards, equipment operations, safety requirements and departmental procedures.
• Maintain a clean and organized work area.
• Read work orders or production schedules to determine specifications, such as materials to be used, locations of cutting lines, or dimensions and tolerances.
• Verify order information and produce part(s) with the correct material, density, weight, size, and/or shape within quality tolerance to meet specific job requirements while meeting productivity standards.
• Install dies onto machines or presses and coat dies with parting agents, according to work order specifications.
• Install, align, and lock specified punches, dies, cutting blades, or other fixtures in rams or beds of machines, using gauges, templates, feelers, shims, and hand tools.
• Remove parts, such as dies, from machines after production runs are finished.
• Perform other production duties as requested by manager, supervisor, or lead.
• Use appropriate judgment in upward communication regarding plant or employee concerns.
• General understanding of the manufacturing processes and safety requirements.
• Supporting and working with other plant employees performing various tasks as required. Lifting, inspecting materials, finished parts off the machine, product, packaging, wrapping, boxing, and assembling as required.
• Accurate completion of documentation for mold maintenance and start up approval.
• Ability to organize mold changes, prep molds, effectively operate hoists, and utilize power tools.
• Maintain all molds regarding loaders, manifolds, core venting, seals, and alignments to insure safe and efficient operation.
• Diagnose needed mold repairs and implement preventive maintenance measures.
• Set up, operate, or tend metal or plastic molding, casting, or coremaking machines to mold or cast metal or thermoplastic parts or products.
• Smooth and clean inner surfaces of molds, using brushes, scrapers, air hoses, polishers or grinding wheels, and fill imperfections.
• Repair or replace damaged molds, pipes, belts, chains, or other equipment, using hand tools, hand-powered presses, or jib cranes.
• Clean and lubricate equipment.
• Work in conjunction with other departments to resolve issues.
• Maintain a positive work atmosphere with a culture of respect for others.
• Uses appropriate judgment in upward communication regarding plant or employee concerns.
• Maintain a working knowledge and is in full compliance with corporate standards for business conduct and Federal anti-trust laws.

• High School diploma or GED preferred but not required.