Manufacturing-Retread Technician

Boulevard Tire Center; Jacksonville (FL); On-site; USD 32,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid vacation

401(k)

Advancement opportunities

Job summary

Boulevard Tire Center is seeking a Manufacturing Retread Technician for our Jacksonville, FL location. This role involves inspecting, buffing, rebuilding, and curing retread tires, with emphasis on quality and safety.

We prefer 1 year of manufacturing experience and forklift familiarity; training is available for motivated candidates. Excellent earning potential, paid vacation, 401(k), and opportunities for advancement are offered.

Qualifications

• 1 year manufacturing/production experience preferred.
• Forklift experience is a plus and helpful.

Responsibilities

• Inspect worn tires for faults and determine retread suitability.
• Buff and repair tires, build semi-raw treads onto casings.
• Program curing temperature and monitor vulcanization process.
• Perform final inspection and finishing touches on retreaded tires.
• Maintain stock of repair materials and assist with shop duties.

Skills

Attention to detail

Flexible

Attendance

Safety-conscious

Job description

BOULEVARD TIRE CENTER

Boulevard Tire Center is growing! We are looking for Manufacturing Retread Technician for our Jacksonville, FL location. Forklift experience a plus. We prefer 1 year manufacturing and production experience and must have excellent attention to detail, be flexible, have a good attendance and safety record,

but if you a willingness to learn and interested in advancement we are willing to train!

BOULEVARD TIRE CENTER

Boulevard Tire Center is growing! We are looking for Manufacturing Retread Technician for our Jacksonville, FL location. Forklift experience a plus. We prefer 1 year manufacturing and production experience and must have excellent attention to detail, be flexible, have a good attendance and safety record, but if you a willingness to learn and interested in advancement we are willing to train!

JOB SUMMARY

Perform repetitive work to inspect, buff, repair, build, heat, seal tires through operating machines to re-build tires from rubber components.

Essential Functions

• Inspect worn tires for faults, cracks, cuts and nail holes, and to determine if tires are suitable for retreading.
• Operates a buffing machine to remove treads from tires to be retreaded, following specifications for depth and width removal.
• Measures diameter and cross section to determine correct tread width.
• Build semi-raw rubber treads onto buffed tire casings in order to prepare tires for vulcanization in recapping and retreading processes.
• Places tire in chamber and programs correct curing temperature according to specification.
• Inspects tires to determine defects in curing, (soft cures, ply separation, repairs missed, etc.).
• Trims and paints finished retread.
• Repairs tires found defective during the process.
• Makes final inspection of repair, cuts tread design with re-grooving iron, paints tire and places in finished stock.

Other Duties

• Maintains a stock of tread rubber and repair materials, advising manager when replenishment is necessary.
• Ability and flexibility to perform other duties as assigned by Manager

• excellent earning potential
• paid vacation
• 401 k
• advancement in position level and pay

"We love homegrown talent!"

EOE/DFC