Senior Injection Moulding Process Lead - Mentor

Prince Personnel; Telford; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave

Job summary

Prince Personnel are recruiting a Senior Process Technician for a leading plastics injection moulding operation in the UK. You will act as the technical expert within the moulding department, supporting production, Engineering, Quality and Maintenance to optimise processes and drive continuous improvement across the shop floor.

The role focuses on providing technical support, setting up and validating processes, driving cycle time reductions and mentoring setters.

Qualifications

• Experience gained within a plastic injection moulding environment in roles such as Process Technician, Moulding Technician, Injection Moulding Setter, Lead Setter or Process Engineer.
• Strong exposure to tooling, process development and production support.
• Background in moulding process – ideally injection; other moulding processes considered.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical support across the injection moulding facility.
• Troubleshoot process, tooling and production issues to minimise downtime.
• Support full process set-up, validation and optimisation activities.
• Drive cycle time improvements and process efficiency projects.
• Assist tooling trials, NPI activities and new product launches.
• Coach and develop Setters and Setter Operators to raise technical capability.
• Support robot programming, robot head changes and ancillary equipment optimisation.
• Ensure first-off and last-off procedures meet required standards.
• Lead and support TPM, 5S and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Tool Room, Quality and Maintenance to deliver sustainable improvements.
• Monitor process performance and identify opportunities to improve quality, output and waste reduction.

Skills

Reactive problem solving

Process improvement

Troubleshooting

Tooling knowledge

Team coaching

Communication

Moulding processes

Root cause analysis

Continuous improvement

Job description

Prince Personnel are recruiting a Senior Process Technician for a leading plastics injection moulding operation in the UK. You will act as the technical expert within the moulding department, supporting production, Engineering, Quality and Maintenance to optimise processes and drive continuous improvement across the shop floor.

The role focuses on providing technical support, setting up and validating processes, driving cycle time reductions and mentoring setters.