Tool Maintenance Technician

DEPARTMENT: Tool Room

REPORTS TO: Molding Department

POSITION DESCRIPTION:

The Tool Room Technician produces effective mold and die repairs through the following: fitting components into molds; finishing new products, components, or inserts; assembling pieces when complete; as well as documenting mold repair procedures in IQMS.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Support the Tool Room Supervisor in the process of setup, testing, procedures, training, and updating of IQMS relative to tooling and operations.
  1. Perform accurate, safe and correct setups prior to commencement of operation.
  2. At point of startup, assure no flash, water leaks and other potential issues. Address any known previous problems or issues. Properly test for water leaks and test electrical for any issues.
  3. Comply with the established standardization of mold setup and teardown procedures. Apply learned best practices.
  4. Select, align and secure fixtures, cutting tools, attachments accessories and materials on machines
  5. Starts and observes machine operation to detect malfunctions or out-of-tolerance machining and adjusts machine controls as required.
  6. Verifies conformance of finished work piece to specs.
  7. Fits and assembles parts into complete assembly.
  8. Verifies dimensions and alignment of assembly.
• Perform work within the Tooling Preventive Maintenance program including but not limited to in-mold closings, hoses and water fittings. Utilize IQMS/Kanban to maintain processing related to equipment.
  1. Change non-production molds in advance as needed.
• Follow proper procedures including lock-out / tag-out, mold maintenance sheets and others.
• Maintain consistent and effective component cleaning and storage.
• Maintain liner dies needed for production.
• Support OEE/SEE metrics and related goals of cycle attainment, zero-block cavitation, mold set-up compliance, and changeovers to maximize mold efficiency.
• Follow the escalation process for tool issues by consistently and openly sharing information with the Tool Room Manager.
• Document, standardize and create procedures for repeatability, predictability and improved efficiency specific to related activities.
  1. Perform data entry on shop floor as needed.
  2. Collaborate with Engineering to enable effective vendor sourcing.
  3. Participate in internal machining projects.
  4. Actively participate in tool teardown meetings.
  5. Participate in shift hand-off activity to ensure a smooth shift transition.
  6. Other duties as assigned.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Safety Responsibilities:
  1. Supports a culture where employees address unsafe conditions and behaviors, make suggestions for improvements, and actively participates in implementing solutions
  2. Identifies safety gaps and self-initiates corrective actions
  3. Strictly adheres to plant safety, housekeeping, and 5S efforts
  4. Understands, identifies, and corrects safety hazards
  5. Drives a culture which empowers employees to understand and embrace what they own
• Food Safety Responsibilities:
  1. Monitors and verifies activities to ensure that finished goods and raw materials are coming in and out of the facility meet consumer safety and quality standards.
  2. Complies with all company food safety and quality assurance procedures
  3. Reports any product or process failures that could impact food safety of manufactured products to the location's Food Safety Team Leader and submits an appropriate incident report

PHYSICAL REQUIRMENTS:

While performing the duties, the employee will be required to sit and/or stand, talk or hear, both in person and by telephone; use hands, fingers and arms to feel objects or controls, reach with hands and arms. Prolonged standing/walking periods of 12 hours. May be required to stoop, kneel, bend, crouch and lift to 50 pounds.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Safety Responsibilities:
  1. Supports a culture where employees address unsafe conditions and behaviors, make suggestions for improvements, and actively participates in implementing solutions
  2. Identifies safety gaps and self-initiates corrective actions
  3. Strictly adheres to plant safety, housekeeping, and 5S efforts
  4. Understands, identifies, and corrects safety hazards
  5. Drives a culture which empowers employees to understand and embrace what they own
• Food Safety Responsibilities:
  1. Monitors and verifies activities to ensure that finished goods and raw materials are coming in and out of the facility meet consumer safety and quality standards.
  2. Complies with all company food safety and quality assurance procedures
  3. Reports any product or process failures that could impact food safety of manufactured products to the location's Food Safety Team Leader and submits an appropriate incident report

About MRP:

MRP Solutions (MRP), a plastic cap manufacturer, is a leading provider of high-quality, injection molded plastic closures, jars and packaging components used every day by millions of consumers around the globe. But we offer more than just plastic caps and lids - we deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer's unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence.

MRP Solutions combines extensive packaging expertise with a consultative approach to reliably uncover customer needs. By understanding your business goals, we can tailor smarter, safer, and more flexible packaging solutions that reduce cost and increase speed to market, helping your businesses capitalize on opportunity. By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner.

We are passionate about partnering with distributors and manufacturers who understand that plastic caps and lids are a small but important part of how people experience their brands. Together, we deliver packaging with purpose.

Our Vision :

We deliver industry-leading packaging solutions tailored to each customer's unique requirements, providing best-in-class product protection while ensuring consumer confidence.

By constantly innovating, MRP enables our customers to grow, making us a preferred partner.

Our Values & Beliefs

• Integrity - We have the courage to act with the highest level of integrity, even when no one is watching. We do what is right 100% of the time.
• Value Creation - The sole reason a company exists is to create real long-term value for society. This starts with ensuring human safety, as value cannot be created without first protecting human life . We seek opportunities for mutual benefit with all of our stakeholders, including customers, employees, shareholders, suppliers, and the communities in which we operate. In everything we do, our overarching goal is to deliver superior results..
• Accountability - We are accountable to each other and to our stakeholders. We say what we do and do what we say. We embrace a culture of ownership, empowering and equipping employees with the ability to own their outcomes.
• Entrepreneurial - Everyone thinks and acts like owners, employing good economic and critical thinking skills while adopting the risk profile of our shareholders. We are inquisitive, constantly seeking out opportunities to improve, actively searching for and innovating across each and every aspect of our business. We relentlessly strive to understand and profitably anticipate what our customers need and value, because if our customers do not grow, we do not grow.
• Respectful and Friendly - Everyone deserves to be treated with respect and dignity. Because everyone's perspective has value, we embrace diversity of thought, background and experiences. We are friendly and lead with a smile. What we do is important, but how we do it is what makes it impactful.
• Change - We actively seek out and embrace change wherever profitable. Because society is constantly identifying and employing new and better ways of accomplishing tasks, we must constantly innovate, reinvent and, ultimately, destroy the old ways of doing business. We actively engage in rigorous debate and embrace challenge to ensure we stay relevant and deliver superior results.
• Fulfillment - Our employees are the foundation of our success. We foster an environment enabling our employees to learn, grow and accept more accountability as they demonstrate capability. We promote more than just individual connection as community at work brings people together through common interest, objectives or experiences.

MRP Solutions is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate in recruiting, hiring or promotion based on race, color, religion, sex (including sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status), national origin, age, disability, medical condition, marital or protected veteran status or any other basis or characteristic prohibited by applicable federal, state, or local law. Consistent with the obligations of state and federal law, MRP Solutions will make reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities. Any employee who needs reasonable accommodation should contact Human Resources.