Manufacturing Vision Systems Technician

Overview

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 improvement initiatives, you support process refinement and waste reduction. These efforts contribute to improved product quality, reduced waste, and more consistent production outcomes.
• Documentation and Communication: You maintain accurate and detailed records of downtime, reject rates, inspection results, TPM checks, and process changes using MES and other tracking systems. Through your thorough documentation and reporting, trends and performance issues become visible and actionable. You deliver end-of-shift reports to the Production Supervisor highlighting worst-performing product features, recurring defects, and equipment performance issues. By communicating effectively during shift changeovers, you ensure incoming operators are fully informed of machine conditions, recent issues, and production status.
  
  These efforts support clear visibility into performance, enabling proactive decision-making and reducing recurring issues.
• Training and Team Support: You support team development by training Production Operators on basic machine…