Manufacturing Vision Systems Technician

$24.00-$28.00/hour

This position requires working 12-hour shifts from 5:30pm to 5:30am, following a rotating schedule of three days on and four days off, alternating with four days on and three days off. You will enjoy every other weekend off, providing a well-balanced schedule. We offer a premium shift differential of 10% for all nighttime hours, ensuring your dedication is both recognized and rewarded.

Overtime pay is provided at a rate of one and one-half times the regular hourly rate for any hours worked over 40 in a workweek, in accordance with federal and state labor laws.

As a Manufacturing Vision Systems Technician, you play a vital role in maintaining production efficiency and product quality. You are responsible for monitoring quality inspection (QI) data and defect trends, identifying negative patterns, and escalating issues to prevent impact on production output. In this role, you operate, maintain, and perform advanced troubleshooting on backend vision and inspection equipment, ensuring minimal downtime and optimal system performance.

Your work directly supports continuous improvement efforts, helping to enhance yield, reduce defects, and keep manufacturing operations running smoothly. You follow established standards and execute reaction plans to address challenges such as excessive rejects and machine downtime in a timely and effective manner. Your strong attention to detail supports accurate documentation of machine performance, while proactive communication during shift changeovers ensures smooth transitions and operational continuity.

Serving as a key link between front-end and back-end operations, you help identify and communicate quality trends to reduce in-process scrap and improve overall output. By consistently adhering to company policies, safety standards, and procedures, you support production goals and reinforce a commitment to delivering high-quality products.

Machine Operations and Troubleshooting: You assist in operating inspection units and all backend equipment within designated zones, including quality inspection systems, palletizers, de-palletizers, and reinspection stations, while ensuring adherence to Standards of Operations (SOPs) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) procedures. Through your involvement in trials and feedback, you support the creation, enhancement, and validation of SOPs and TPMs. Operating at an elevated level of troubleshooting, you bridge the gap between Production Operators and Automation Technicians by resolving intermediate equipment issues and escalating complex problems appropriately.

By providing operational coverage for backend production roles as needed, you help ensure minimal disruption during staffing gaps or peak demand periods. These efforts contribute to steady and efficient operations, reducing downtime and optimizing overall equipment performance.

Quality Monitoring and Continuous Improvement: You continuously monitor production quality through the manufacturing execution system, identifying and escalating negative QI defect trends to minimize in-process scrap rates. This is achieved through effective communication with relevant personnel, including sample collection and verification of in-process defects in collaboration with the Quality department. When defects are confirmed, issues are escalated in a timely manner to Press Technicians and Production Supervisors.

You lead TPM activities on backend equipment, including daily validation and testing of red rabbit samples, ensuring equipment reliability and early detection of defects or performance drift. By participating in root cause analysis, problem-solving sessions, and continuous…