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Job Summary:
The Tool Room Technician is responsible for working with the team to deliver clean, production ready molds to the production floor or putting clean molds back onto the shelf ready for use. Critical job responsibilities include ensuring: molding surfaces are free of rust, contaminants, gas marks or other debris. Providing sufficient lubrication to moving components in the mold including slides, bushings, leader pins, ejection systems, o-rings return pins, and ejector pins, slides, gibbs and wear plates. Additionally, the Tool Room Technician, should inspect the molds and report any damage detected on molds to appropriate tool room personnel, production staff and project management. Perform water leak and flow verification on all molds and fill out appropriate tags to alert production personnel of mold status.
Essential Job Functions and Responsibilities:
- The role is responsible for Mold maintenance shop processes & resources.
- Responsible with all safety requirements promoting a Safety First culture striving for an injury free workplace.
- PPE such as Safety glasses, safety shoes, hearing protection as needed.
- Tasks may include lifting, standing, walking, bending, and sitting.
- Performing all levels of mold cleaning operations per SG Mold Maintenance and Care procedure.
- Cleaning inserts, mold faces, ejector pin holes, bushings leader pins, slides, gibbs, wear plates, hydraulic cylinder assemblies, water lines, vents and all other mold components to ensure proper mold operation.
- Delivering clean molds to production floor or put onto shelf that are ready for production.
- Ensuring in thoroughly test water lines for flow and leaks to prevent extra setups in production.
- Inspecting molds during assembly and report damage, uneven wear, tight components, galled components or other signs of potential damage to appropriate personnel.
Core Competencies:
- Team oriented
- Basic computer use
- Mechanical aptitude
- Care in interacting with delicate complex medical molds
- Organized
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Safe practices around heavy equipment and heavy molds.
- Ability to move heavy molds without causing injury to self or others.
- Understands the importance of the PM process on complex medical molds is a plus.
- Ability to use heater control test units to test heater zones on manifold systems during PM process.
- Ability to use general tool shop tools for disassembly and assembly of molds.
Education and/or Experience:
- Minimum 5 years in a Mold/tool room environment.
- General
- High school diploma
Physical Demands:
- Ability to lift 35 pounds
Personal Protective Equipment:
- Safety glasses
- Protective Gloves
- Steel toe work shoes
Work Environment:
- Tool room, Production floor and warehouse
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