Plastics Production Technician — Efficiency & Maintenance

silgancontainers; Seymour (IN); On-site; USD 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Silgan Plastics in Seymour, IN is seeking personnel to perform manufacturing duties ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency. The role involves operating and maintaining blow molding equipment, adhering to safety policies, and delivering finished goods that meet customer specifications.

This position may require collaboration with maintenance and shift teams, with responsibilities including process adjustments, reporting, and minor preventative maintenance as directed by supervision.

Responsibilities

• Promote a safe working environment
• Understands and adheres to all Silgan safety policies and procedures to prevent injury to self and co-workers
• Produce finished goods that meet or exceed our customers' requirements and specifications, and to produce these finished goods at optimum cycle times for efficient throughput
• Repair and / or provide information to the maintenance dept, to verify that production parameters are being met and the tabulation of variable parameters of gram weight, S-1 dimensions, wall distribution, leak detection, and drop testing
• Provide information for shift notes, problems encountered, corrective actions taken, machine setting readings all on provided forms
• Maintain best cycle, blow, exhaust and dry cycle times while maintaining effective throughput of regrind material
• Delegated duties for production change-overs related to labels, sleeves, weights, color, resin, and box on all blow molding equipment and all production support equipment, auxiliary equipment
• Acquire the skills and knowledge to efficiently operate, troubleshoot, repair and maintain the manufacturing equipment of Silgan Plastics
• Provide labor for mold clean up, set up and minor preventative maintenance as directed by the Supervisor
• Other duties as assigned

Job description

Silgan Plastics in Seymour, IN is seeking personnel to perform manufacturing duties ensuring safety, quality, and efficiency. The role involves operating and maintaining blow molding equipment, adhering to safety policies, and delivering finished goods that meet customer specifications.

This position may require collaboration with maintenance and shift teams, with responsibilities including process adjustments, reporting, and minor preventative maintenance as directed by supervision.