Molding Machine Operator: Precision, Quality & Safety

KMC Controls; New Paris (IN); On-site; USD 36,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

KMC Controls seeks a Molding Machine Operator to tend injection molding equipment and ensure quality, quantity, and on-time delivery. You will verify job travelers, routings, and approved revisions before starting, and monitor cycles and safety conditions.

Responsibilities include removing molded parts, trimming, cleaning, simple assembly, labeling, and packing, plus inspecting parts with approved samples and measurement tools.

Responsibilities

• Review production schedules, job travelers, routings, work instructions, drawings, part aids, inspection requirements, and approved revisions before beginning work.
• Verify that the correct mold, inserts, raw material, color, packaging, machine, tooling, and approved setup are in place; report discrepancies before production continues.
• Start, stop, operate, and tend assigned injection and rubber molding machines, auxiliary equipment, fixtures, and controls within approved settings and training authorization.
• Monitor machine cycles, displays, alarms, gauges, material flow, part ejection, and equipment condition for jams, malfunctions, leaks, inconsistent cycles, or unsafe conditions.
• Stop production and report conditions that may affect safety, quality, tooling, equipment, or production continuity; protect and identify suspect product.
• Remove molded parts; perform trimming, sorting, cleaning, simple assembly, marking, counting, and packing; and inspect parts using approved samples and measurement equipment.
• Maintain identification, traceability, labels, counts, and material status, and accurately record labor, production, scrap, downtime, and inspection information in Epicor MES.
• Perform approved operator cleaning, inspection, lubrication, basic preventive maintenance, and 5S activities, and clearly communicate production and shift-transition information.

Job description

KMC Controls seeks a Molding Machine Operator to tend injection molding equipment and ensure quality, quantity, and on-time delivery. You will verify job travelers, routings, and approved revisions before starting, and monitor cycles and safety conditions.

Responsibilities include removing molded parts, trimming, cleaning, simple assembly, labeling, and packing, plus inspecting parts with approved samples and measurement tools.