MXL Engineering Tech

Job Title: MXL Engineering Technician

Department: Engineering

Reports To: MXL Engineering Manager

FLSA Status: ☐ Exempt X Non-Exempt

Job Type: X Full-Time ☐ Part-Time ☐ Temporary ☐ Intern

Location: Lancaster, PA

Job Summary

Responsibility for setup, troubleshooting, and repair of equipment and automation as required for support of production and engineering efforts. This position provides support to maintenance when required for complex troubleshooting and repair.

This position requires attention to detail, the ability to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, and a strong commitment to safety, teamwork, and quality—reflecting Plaskolite’s core values of Integrity and Improvement.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Sets up equipment and automation as required for support of production and engineering efforts
• Adheres to all applicable regulations, policies, and procedures for health, safety, and environmental compliance.
• Inspects finished products for quality and adherence to customer specifications.
• Sets up and operates production equipment in accordance with current good manufacturing practices and standard operating procedures.
• Calibrates or adjusts equipment to ensure quality production, using tools such as calipers, micrometers, height gauges, protractors, or ring gauges.
• Sets up and verifies the functionality of safety equipment.
• Monitors and adjusts production processes or equipment for quality and productivity.
• Troubleshoots problems with equipment, devices, or products.
  Will be placed in an on-call rotation.
• Tests products or subassemblies for functionality or quality.
• Plans and lays out work to meet production and schedule requirements.
• Starts up and shuts down processing equipment.
• Performs routine maintenance on equipment and determines when and what kind of maintenance is needed.
• Develops a thorough understanding of the operational theory, maintenance requirements, and operational procedures for all equipment under the engineering support technician’s control.
• Develops and validates operations and maintenance procedures as required to ensure reliability and availability of all equipment under the engineering technician’s control.
• Tests and/or troubleshoots PLC programs used for process automation and control.
• Monitors and maintains coating chemistry as required.
• Keeps well-organized written records of all troubleshooting, setup, and testing activities performed.
• Improves process reliability and automation, where practical, to the point that production personnel own the process and require limited engineering support.
• Recommends improvements to existing processes and procedures which will increase productivity, reduce operational costs, improve margins, improve safety, and/or improve MXL product quality.
• Assists others by providing professional, technical guidance.
• Attends meetings to provide technical support and direction.
• Communicates with co-workers, management, customers, vendors and others in a courteous, respectful and professional manner.
• Conforms with and abide by all regulations, policies, work procedures and instructions.
• Conforms to all safety rules and use all appropriate safety equipment.
• All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or GED
• Technical school - preferred
• 2 years of mechanical or maintenance trades
• PLC and Robotics troubleshooting - preferred

Skills and

Competencies:

• Accountability—Ability to accept responsibility and account for his/her actions.
• Analytical Skills—Ability to use thinking and reasoning to solve a problem.
• Customer Oriented—Ability to take care of the customers’ needs while following company procedures.
• Deductive Reasoning—Ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical problems.
• Detail Oriented—Ability to pay attention to the minute details of a project or task.
• Ethical—Ability to demonstrate conduct conforming to a set of values and accepted standards.
• Innovative—Ability to look beyond the standard solutions.
• Organized—Po…