Plastics Specialist I - 1st shift - Onsite, Loveland

Hach; Loveland (CO); On-site; USD 28,000 - 29,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Onboarding training

Strong team

Career development

Health benefits

401(k)

Job summary

Hach, a Veralto company, is seeking a Plastics Specialist I for the Loveland, Colorado facility. The role involves operating plastic injection molding equipment, ensuring quality products per schedule, and maintaining equipment and cell boards on-site.

The position requires following SOPs, performing basic manual tasks, and contributing to team-based problem solving in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

Qualifications

• Follows standard operating procedures with close supervision.
• Develops skills to perform basic, repetitive, and manual activities.
• Uses existing procedures to perform straightforward tasks; limited problem-solving.

Responsibilities

• Produce quality products per the build schedule.
• Operate injection molding machines to meet quality specs.
• Perform secondary processing operations as instructed.
• Check output against specifications and discard defects.
• Meet productivity standards.
• Record and maintain quality or traceability information.
• Maintain Cell Boards and visual management tools.
• Keep equipment in good condition per maintenance tasks.
• Report complex equipment malfunctions to mechanics.
• Participate in team planning daily work and resources.
• Maintain organized work area and storage of parts and materials.
• Assist in problem solving for new equipment and products.

Job description

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impacton the world around you.
• Growing your expertiseand expanding your skillset with every project.
• Owning your ambitionand fueling your career growth.

Imagine yourself…

• Doing meaningful work that makes an everyday impacton the world around you.
• Growing your expertiseand expanding your skillset with every project.
• Owning your ambitionand fueling your career growth.

At Hach (www.hach.com), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better-faster, simpler, greener and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions. As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth. Motivated by the highest possible stakes of climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us

We offer:

• Professional onboarding and training options
• Powerful team looking forward to working with you
• Career coaching and development opportunities
• Health benefits
• 401(k)

Reporting to the area manager, the R10268488 Plastics Specialist I - 1st shift - is responsible for Responsible for manufacturing quality product according to the work order or other build signal while adhering to defined work instructions. General duties include setup, operation, and adjustment of plastic injection molding machines and related equipment.

This position is part of the Hach - Operations/Plant Management - Fab/Plastics/ChemKey Mfg Support located in Loveland Colorado and will be onsite.

In this role, a typical day will look like:

• Responsible for producing quality products per the build schedule
• Operate injection molding machines to produce parts meeting quality specifications.
• Perform secondary processing operations according to work instructions.
• Check output to ensure consistency with specifications and discard defects.
• Meet productivity standards.
• Record and maintain quality or traceability information.
• Record and maintain Cell Boards and other visual management tools
• Maintain equipment according to work instructions or preventive maintenance tasks.
• Report complicated equipment malfunctions to mechanics.
• Participate in team meetings, which include planning daily work and resource utilization, problem solving, project work, etc.
• Maintain visual management of part and raw material storage; clean and organized work area.
• Assist in problem solving of new equipment and products.

The essential requirements of the job include:

• Ability to follow standard operating procedures with close supervision
• Develops skills to perform basic, repetitive, and manual activities on the job
• Uses existing procedures to perform straightforward tasks; has limited opportunity to solve problems

Hach is proud to part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a $5B global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods. When you join Veralto's vibrant global network of 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have valuable opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career. Together, we’re Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources-and building rewarding careers along the way.

We anticipate this requisition will be open for a minimum of five days, though it may be open for a longer period of time.

US ONLY:

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An associate’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors, including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs.

The compensation range for this role is $20.00 - $21.00 USD per hour. This job is also eligible for Bonus Pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

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