Molding Maintenance Technician

Location: Grandview, MO

Reports To: Molding Maintenance Supervisor

SUMMARY:

Repairs and maintains machinery and equipment such as motors, conveyor systems, and injection molding machines and equipment by performing the following duties.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

· Observes equipment in operation and evaluates potential problems for future repairs.

· Dismantle equipment to gain access to and remove defective parts. Repairs or replaces defective parts

· Fabricate, install electrical circuits and design electrical prints.

· Ability to read and interprete electrical, mechanical, and hydraulic drawings.

· Adjust function parts of equipment and control instruments.

· Installs special functional and structural parts in equipment.

· Lubricates and cleans parts.

· Starts equipment to test their performance.

· Set up and operate lathe, drill press, mill, grinder, and other metalworking tools to repair or make spare parts.

· Repairs electrical equipment.

· Dismantle hydraulic cylinders valves and components and rebuild by replacing worn parts. Locate and repair hydraulic leaks.

· Replace motors, repair and troubleshoot motor controls.

· Trouble-shoot and repair electric motors.

· Replace conveyor belts by removing and disassembling conveyors.

· Develop cost savings ideas.

· Install and set up molding machinery.

· Understand and have the ability to troubleshoot servo, and frequency controls.

· Develop and install special machine functions to work with molds.

· Must be able to work mandatory overtime. The regular schedule for this position exceeds 8 hours per day, 40 hours per week.

· Must follow all work rules and policies.

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

One year certificate from college or technical school is preferred; or six months to one year of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. One to three years of experience in Injection Molding Maintenance is preferred.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to other employees of the organization.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio and percentage.

REASONING ABILITY

Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to handle problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, talk and hear. The employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and sit, bend, stoop, twist, kneel, squat, or crawl.

The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 58 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essenti