Mold Maintenance Lead

Job Description

Job Description

Now offering a $5,000 sign on bonus!

MGS has an exciting opportunity for a Mold Maintenance Lead to join our MGS Richfield Manufacturing  team. 

The Mold Maintenance Lead  is responsible for coordinating mold maintenance activities and setting the mold maintenance standards for the MGS Richfield Manufacturing Facility. Ensures that communication and coordination of all mold repair and preventative maintenance is scheduled to coincide with customer expectations. 

Below are additional duties and responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting, preventative maintenance, and repair of plastic molds and hot systems.
• Responsible for maintaining the schedule and coordinating the activities of mold maintenance technicians and toolroom utility support technicians to meet the demands of the production environment.
• Daily use of toolroom equipment such as mills, surface grinders, and lathes to facilitate mold repair or improvement.
• Repair or request replacement parts, tooling, or hardware as needed to maintain replacement inventory.
• Set-up and operate all hand-tool equipment along with manual toolroom machines.
• Troubleshoot tooling, related process issues, and defective parts.
• Evaluate repair requirements and maintain preventative maintenance interval schedules.
• Maintain tool history, tracking, storage, and associated systems.
• Maintain toolroom machinery, inventory, and miscellaneous supplies and equipment as needed.
• Instruct, train, and advise employees as needed.
• Maintain toolroom quality standards and efficiencies.
• Investigate potential areas for continuous improvement and implement plan of action.
• Any other duties as assigned.

ABOUT MGS:

As a global provider of healthcare manufacturing solutions, MGS provides the right balance to drive vital innovations: robust end-to-end solutions combined with the strong customer focus and seamless collaboration of an agile partner. That's why we're the engineering and manufacturing partner of choice for today's leading Pharma, Diagnostic and MedTech innovators. Serving customers from 12 strategically located facilities around the world, we transform our customers' most pressing challenges into innovations that improve lives.   To learn more about MGS, please visit 

A qualified Mold Maintenance Lead candidate would fulfill these requirements:

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) is required.  Completion or enrollment of an accredited two-year technical college program in a related field of study or a state indentured tool and die apprenticeship with journeymen card or equivalent is preferred.
• Five to seven years of applicable plastics experience, or accrued on-the-job training, education, and experience is preferred. 
• General machining and mold building/maintaining experience; with additional classroom training preferred. 
• Experience with repairing and preventative maintenance of molds is preferred.
• Experience with toolroom equipment such as mills, surface grinders, and lathes is preferred.
• Experience working with hot systems preferred.
• Understanding of mold building and injection molding process is preferred.
• Lock out/Tag out and Forklift experience.

Succeed with MGS! MGS is an Equal Opportunity Employer.