Maintenance Technician

Zobility; Fountain Inn (SC); On-site; USD 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Zobility in Fountain Inn, South Carolina is looking for a skilled Process Technician. This role involves continuous monitoring and troubleshooting of production processes, maintaining quality standards, and documenting equipment operations. Ideal candidates should have experience with mold changes, plastic processes, and automotive industry practices. The position emphasizes collaboration with other technicians and engineers to ensure efficient production workflows.

Qualifications

• Experience in completing mold changes.
• Experience as plastic process technician.
• Experience in the automotive industry.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot issues related to vacuum forming, adhesive spraying, or injection molding processes.
• Document and communicate results of problem solving to team members.
• Maintain process equipment documentation and quality standards.
• Monitor Maintenance Technician mold change program loading and set-ups.
• Assist Production Supervisors in training associates for line operation.
• Check all variables for quality and quantity balance.
• Schedule routine and preventative maintenance of equipment.
• Analyze operations for possible improvements in methods or procedures.

Skills

Experience completing mold changes

Experience as plastic process technician

Experience within the automotive industry

Job description

• Continuously monitor process parameters required to produce the highest quality parts with the least amount of scrap.
• Maintain and interpret Statistical Process Control (SPC) charts, Dart Net process controls, robot programs, and other systems to manage the injection molding and vacuum forming processes.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for troubleshooting any issues related to the vacuum forming, adhesive spraying, or injection molding processes, or the associated equipment.
• Document and communicate with other Process Technicians, Manufacturing Engineers, and Shift Supervisor results of problem solving, and any deviations from established methods or procedures that may be necessary to resolve specific issues.
• Maintain documentation for process equipment such as reference sheets, monitoring sheets, waterline diagrams, gate seals, rhealogy graphs, robot programs, adhesive spray patterns.
• Maintain a thorough knowledge of acceptable quality standards established by the quality department to insure maximum production of saleable parts.
• Responsible for monitoring Maintenance Technician mold change program loading and set‑ups, as well as Operator inspecting and verifying the first shot checks to assure proper methods were followed to produce a quality part.
• Assist the Production Supervisors in training of the associates for line operation and monitoring what the associates will be required to complete as part of the process controls.
• Systematically check all variables to insure best possible balance of quality and quantity under specific prevailing conditions. Supervise the adhesive spray, vacuum forming, and injection molding process to ensure proper controls are being maintained.
• Schedule both routine and preventative maintenance of the equipment to have the least possible adverse effect on production schedules.
• Analyse operations for possible improvements in methods, procedures, or design. Recommend such improvements to the ME. Run all Design of Experiments (DOEs) and launch samples.

Requirements

• Experience completing mold changes.
• Experience as plastic process technician.
• Experience within the automotive industry.