Tool Maintenance Technician

Tool Room Technician

The Tool Room Technician produces effective mold and die repairs through the following: fitting components into molds; finishing new products, components, or inserts; assembling pieces when complete; as well as documenting mold repair procedures in IQMS.

Responsibilities include:

• Support the Tool Room Supervisor in the process of setup, testing, procedures, training, and updating of IQMS relative to tooling and operations.
• Perform accurate, safe and correct setups prior to commencement of operation.
• At point of startup, assure no flash, water leaks and other potential issues. Address any known previous problems or issues. Properly test for water leaks and test electrical for any issues.
• Comply with the established standardization of mold setup and teardown procedures. Apply learned best practices.
• Select, align and secure fixtures, cutting tools, attachments accessories and materials on machines
• Starts and observes machine operation to detect malfunctions or out-of-tolerance machining and adjusts machine controls as required.
• Verifies conformance of finished work piece to specs.
• Fits and assembles parts into complete assembly.
• Verifies dimensions and alignment of assembly.
• Perform work within the Tooling Preventive Maintenance program including but not limited to in-mold closings, hoses and water fittings. Utilize IQMS/Kanban to maintain processing related to equipment.
• Change non-production molds in advance as needed.
• Follow proper procedures including lock-out / tag-out, mold maintenance sheets and others.
• Maintain consistent and effective component cleaning and storage.
• Maintain liner dies needed for production.
• Support OEE/SEE metrics and related goals of cycle attainment, zero-block cavitation, mold set-up compliance, and changeovers to maximize mold efficiency.
• Follow the escalation process for tool issues by consistently and openly sharing information with the Tool Room Manager.
• Document, standardize and create procedures for repeatability, predictability and improved efficiency specific to related activities.
• Perform data entry on shop floor as needed.
• Collaborate with Engineering to enable effective vendor sourcing.
• Participate in internal machining projects.
• Actively participate in tool teardown meetings.
• Participate in shift hand-off activity to ensure a smooth shift transition.
• Other duties as assigned.

Safety

Responsibilities include:

• Supports a culture where employees address unsafe conditions and behaviors, make suggestions for improvements, and actively participates in implementing solutions
• Identifies safety gaps and self-initiates corrective actions
• Strictly adheres to plant safety, housekeeping, and 5S efforts
• Understands, identifies, and corrects safety hazards
• Drives a culture which empowers employees to understand and embrace what they own

Food Safety

Responsibilities include:

• Monitors and verifies activities to ensure that finished goods and raw materials are coming in and out of the facility meet consumer safety and quality standards.
• Complies with all company food safety and quality assurance procedures
• Reports any product or process failures that could impact food safety of manufactured products to the location's Food Safety Team Leader and submits an appropriate incident report

Physical requirements include:

While performing the duties, the employee will be required to sit and/or stand, talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands, fingers and arms to feel objects or controls, reach with hands and arms. Prolonged standing/walking periods of 12 hours. May be required to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch and lift to 50 pounds.