Production Line Technician

Production Line Technician

To contribute to the success of our customers (Production Lines) by ensuring that our production line Change Overs (CO) are done in an expedient manner and when completed, they produce product that meets or exceeds the product specifications.

Job Responsibilities and Duties

1. Effectively helps in production areas so that production output meets the production schedule
   • Effectively communicate with teammates as it is related to the optimal running of our production lines
   • Utilize "line stop" mentality when it comes to equipment, quality or safety issues.
   • Ensures that all procedures are followed 100% of the time.
   • Demonstrate competency in change over activities to make sure they occur in the minimum time with 100% readiness
   • Communicate with team leads, line leads, and maintenance to coordinate transition to another product on the line
2. Effectively disassemble, re-assemble, adjust, program, and set up equipment as needed to produce the customers' products within the desired specification as called out on the Apex Product Specifications.
   • Equipment such as: cappers, fillers, torquers, sleevers, unscramblers, conveyors, labelers, tapers, sorters. sensors, coders, HMIs, pumps, rails, transfer systems, and other associated equipment.
   • Hook up totes and tanks to ensure fill gets to the production line.
3. Effectively coordinate and perform tasks as they relate to productions needs for change parts.
   • Clean, sanitize, kit, and stage parts of equipment (overhead lines, pumps, etc.) as production needs to perform product change over and set up in a timely manner.
   • Organize and stage non-sanitized parts for production changeover in a timely manner.
   • Follow all established cGMP and safety standards, as taught and measured by Apex International
   • Efficiently and safely follow and adhere to sanitation procedures as defined by Apex International.
   • Perform light maintenance duties as needed to perform the sanitation job.
   • Reports repetitious or major problems to maintenance and immediately.
4. Understand and maintain a culture of "lead action" within the departments so that we live leave better than any organization.
   • Implement and maintain standards and processes that eliminate waste throughout the department.
   • Apply and utilize "lean tools" to permanently implement improvements.
   • Institutionalize 5-S in all aspects of the department. (Sort, Straighten, Shine, Standardize, and Sustain)
5. Perform other work as assigned.

Prior Experience & Technical Skills/Competencies

• Requires a minimum of 3-5 years prior manufacturing experience, preferably on high speed packaging lines that use conveyors.
• Prefer 1-3 years experience in a maintenance/repair/set up position, ideally with high speed mechanical or electromechanical equipment and systems.
• Demonstrated mechanical skills.
• Has demonstrated working knowledge of how to recall, run, and store existing machine programs (e.g. REB machine and Shorewood) using an HMI or possesses the skills to learn this task.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of hand tools in both Standard and metric.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of fasteners, standard and metric or possesses the skills to learn this task.
• Must possess solid communication skills and read and write at the 6th grade level; 12th grade level preferred.

Knowledge Requirements

• To be effective, this position requires an ability to follow directions as well as written processes and procedures. Basic math skills including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and able to work with fractions and decimals is a plus.

Licenses and Certifications:

Prefer 1-2 years Vo-tech or equivalent in an associated field (mechanics, auto repair, machine repair, etc.).

Technical Competencies:

• Preferable that incumbent can read and write at a 6th grade level
• Can follow procedures, processes and specifications written in English.
• Demonstrates good documentation
• Can demonstrate attention to detail.
• Can follow directions accurately and safely.
• Understands and can do basic math and measurements.