Process Technician

J &O Plastics, a leading manufacturer of quality custom injection molding is a dynamic growing manufacturing company committed to operational excellence.

With a strong focus on innovation, efficiency, and quality products, Our team shows up every day to serve our customers and vendors with focus, ingenuity, and a commitment to quality. Each and every one of our employees is an integral part of our operations, and part of what makes J&O Plastics leaders in precision injection molding. We strive to create an inclusive environment that celebrates our different lived experiences, with the hope of fostering a community atmosphere.

We are seeking a highly capable Lead Injection Molding Process Technician to support and lead injection molding production on the assigned shift. This role is responsible for maintaining stable, repeatable molding processes while also providing technical oversight, direction, and support to other process technicians.

Process Technician is accountable for the quality, performance, process stability, and production output of the entire shift’s molding operation. This includes active production troubleshooting, technician guidance, process discipline, machine performance, quality support, escalation of major issues, and ensuring that currently running jobs remain controlled and productive.

• Monitor active injection molding processes to ensure machines are running within approved and documented process parameters.
• Maintain production output while protecting part quality, process repeatability, and customer requirements.
• Identify process drift, abnormal machine behavior, excessive scrap, downtime patterns, and quality instability.
• Make controlled process adjustments when needed to correct production or quality issues.
• Ensure process changes are made with discipline, documented properly, and communicated to the correct personnel.
• Communicate process concerns clearly to both the people who need to act on them immediately and the leaders who need visibility to recurring or higher-risk issues.
• Support startups, restarts, changeovers, and continuation of existing production jobs.
• Verify that cycle times, pressures, temperatures, cooling times, recovery, cushion, shot size, and other key process settings remain consistent with established standards.
• Drive corrective action for common molding issues such as flash, short shots, burns, splay, sinks, voids, warpage, dimensional variation, sticking parts, and color variation.
• Ensure that production is not allowed to continue in an uncontrolled or questionable process condition.
• Work closely with Quality, Production, and Shift Supervision to ensure molded parts meet customer and internal requirements.
• Support first-piece approvals, in-process inspections, quality alerts, containment actions, and production release activities.
• Respond quickly to quality concerns and help determine whether issues are process-related, material-related, tooling-related, machine-related, automation-related, or handling-related.
• Communicate quality concerns downstream so operators and technicians understand what to watch for, and upstream so supervisors, quality, engineering, and leadership understand risk, impact, and needed support.
• Help lead troubleshooting for recurring quality issues across the shift.
• Ensure technicians and operators understand quality risks and current defect concerns.
• Help protect customers by ensuring suspect product is contained, escalated, and addressed properly.
• Support root cause analysis and corrective action activities for scrap, rejects, customer complaints, or internal quality failures.
• Maintain consistent part appearance, function, dimensional performance, and production repeatability throughout…