Lead Injection Moulding Technician: Process Leader

Technical Recruitment Solutions Ltd.; Waikato; On-site; NZD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Technical Recruitment Solutions Ltd. is partnering with an established NZ manufacturing business to appoint a Lead Technician for their Hamilton site.

You will provide day-to-day technical leadership across the moulding operation, supporting technicians and production teams to achieve safe, efficient and repeatable manufacturing performance. You’ll lead troubleshooting, quality investigations and continuous improvement activities, while developing the technical capability of the team and

Qualifications

• Experienced injection moulding technician with strong troubleshooting and process optimisation skills.
• Ability to lead and develop others.
• Strong understanding of process control and root-cause analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support and optimise moulding processes to improve quality, efficiency and repeatability.
• Ensure approved process standards and operating procedures are followed.
• Troubleshoot processing, quality and production issues to minimise downtime and scrap.
• Support production trials and implementation of process improvements.
• Review first-off and last-off samples and assist with quality investigations.
• Assess mould performance and recommend tooling maintenance or improvement opportunities.
• Monitor production performance and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Coach, mentor and develop technicians and die setters.
• Support high standards of safety, housekeeping, quality and process control.
• Work closely with Engineering, Maintenance and Production teams to deliver operational objectives.

Skills

Injection moulding

Troubleshooting

Process optimisation

Mentoring / coaching

Root-cause analysis

Mechanical aptitude

Job description

Technical Recruitment Solutions Ltd. is partnering with an established NZ manufacturing business to appoint a Lead Technician for their Hamilton site.

You will provide day-to-day technical leadership across the moulding operation, supporting technicians and production teams to achieve safe, efficient and repeatable manufacturing performance. You’ll lead troubleshooting, quality investigations and continuous improvement activities, while developing the technical capability of the team and