Mold Maintenance Technicians

Nolato is a global leader in precision injection molding and contract manufacturing for the world's most successful healthcare, automotive, and industrial OEMs.

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The Mold Maintenance Technician maintains all Royalton tooling by personally doing the work, using Nolato's tool division, or by outsourcing to qualified vendors. This position must coordinate pricing and delivery and ensure that all quality requirements and specifications are maintained, and all repairs are documented and tooling history is maintained. This position is directly responsible to ensure that all production tooling including molds and their components are maintained and available for production use prior to the scheduling of production runs

Must have the ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, written instructions, and operating procedures. Written communications skills are a must, as this position requires that detailed documentation of all repairs and related work be properly recorded. Effective verbal communication skills are necessary in order to communicate and resolve problems and issues.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES:

• Works from detailed design drawings, engineering drawings, sketches and verbal instructions.
• Tracks maintenance history of molds and scheduled preventive maintenance cleanings.
• Disassembles, cleans, and reassembles molds as needed.
• Requires the ability to plan and lay out own work.
• Determines accurate and efficient methods to construct and repair molds.
• Select proper materials and suppliers to ensure timely repairs.
• Set up and operates all types of tool room equipment to include: lathes, millers, grinders, heat treating, drill presses, etc.
• Uses various measuring instruments such as calipers, dial indicators, micrometers, etc. to verify mold/part compliance.
• Checks own workusually works to close tolerances.
• Must be able to give realistic quotes and meet delivery dates. • Maintains a clean work environment.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Apprentice Graduate or 5 years mold experience required.
• Frequent lifting of material 5-25 pounds. Occasional lifting 50 - 60 pounds.
• Must be able to stand the majority of shift.

Ability to contribute to an environment characterized by teamwork, participation, safety awareness, growth and change.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills are necessary to maintain relationships with customers and co-workers.
• Ability to work under little supervision.
• Overtime as required, which may include weekends.
• Must become certified in electric pallet jack and crane and rigging.
• This position requires a high school diploma, equivalent GED, or prior injection molding experience.