Industrial Maintenance Technician -- Injection Molding Systems

Job Description

Job Description

About the Role

Picture a typical day keeping a fast-moving plastics operation humming. You’ll start by checking the maintenance queue, coordinating with cell leads on upcoming installs, and reviewing any overnight alarms from injection molding machines. By mid-morning, you might be knee-deep in a Sumitomo IMM troubleshooting routine, tracing a 24 VDC sensor fault back through a schematic, then verifying a 480V 3‑phase feed with lockout/tagout in place. After lunch, you could be bending conduit for a new press drop, fitting copper for a chiller line, or dialing in a pneumatic valve that’s drifting. Before the shift wraps, you’ll document work, update PM logs, and lend a hand running production equipment if a line needs support.

What You’ll Own

• Machine installation: Interpret complex blueprints/diagrams, set equipment, run mechanical/electrical utilities to point-of-use, and commission assets to full operability.
• Preventive & routine care: Train and assist cells with scheduled PMs; perform routine upkeep to maximize uptime.
• Troubleshooting & repair: Diagnose electrical (24 VDC/24 VAC to 480V 3‑phase), hydraulic, pneumatic, and PLC faults; make precise adjustments; replace worn components; implement safety improvements.
• Operations support: Step in to operate manufacturing equipment as needed to stabilize throughput.

Technical Profile

• Read and interpret electrical prints/schematics; safely work across 24 VDC/24 VAC to 480V 3‑phase.
• Hydraulic systems expertise (valves, pumps, circuits) and pneumatic troubleshooting capability.
• Injection molding machine (IMM) diagnostics; Sumitomo experience preferred, other brands welcome.
• Owns a complete tool set and toolbox; experienced running and sizing conduit/circuits by ampacity.
• Pipefitting skills (galvanized, copper, PVC); familiar with air compressor systems, HVAC, and water tower systems.
• PLC exposure for basic fault tracing and I/O verification.
• Comfort engaging suppliers and ordering parts to drive timely repairs.
• Forklift and man lift operation experience.

Team & Culture

• Champion safety—report injuries/near misses immediately and surface unsafe conditions to leadership.
• Participate in your area’s High-Performance Team (HPT) to propose and implement improvements.
• Record accurate job data (completions, quantities, rejects, hours) daily; uphold 5S—clean, orderly work areas with tools returned to shadow boards.
• Reliability matters: regular attendance, on-time arrival, and overtime when customer demand requires.

Education & Core Competencies

• Associate’s degree (A.A.) or equivalent from a two‑year college/technical school; or 2–3 years related machining/maintenance experience; or a comparable mix of education and experience.
• Language: capable of reading technical/professional materials and regulations; writing reports and procedures; presenting to managers, clients, and customers.
• Math: fluent with whole numbers, fractions, decimals; compute rate/ratio/percent; interpret bar graphs.
• Reasoning: define problems, gather data, establish facts, draw conclusions; interpret varied technical instructions in math/diagram form with abstract/concrete variables.
• Supervision: this role does not include supervisory responsibilities.

Physical Demands

• Standing: constant; walking: frequent; sitting: occasional.
• Manual manipulation: frequent; reaching outward/above shoulder: frequent; climbing: frequent.
• Crawling, squatting/kneeling, and bending: occasional.
• Lift/carry: up to 10 lbs (frequent), 11–20 lbs (frequent), 21–50 lbs (frequent); 51–100 lbs (not required); over 100 lbs (not required).
• Push/pull: up to 12 lbs (frequent), 13–25 lbs (frequent), 26–40 lbs (frequent), 41–100 lbs (occasional).
• Other requirements: near/color vision, sense of touch, and consistent use of PPE (safety glasses, safety shoes, and other PPE as needed).

Work Environment

Exposure may include moving mechanical parts, fumes/airborne particles, chemicals, heat, and vibration; noise is typically loud.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Compliance & Accessibility

**QUALIFICATIONS **

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. Reasonable Accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Other duties may be assigned.