Sunstar Americas, Inc.Position Description

At Sunstar Americas, Inc., we firmly believe that our people are the foundation of our success. We foster a collaborative, innovative, and agile culture that ensures we deliver high-quality, innovative products to consumers and oral care professionals. Our team-oriented approach encourages creative thinking and nurtures a positive work environment and productive relationships. With dedication, hard work, and a shared vision, we can continue to make SAI a leader in our industry.

Join us and become part of our global team, where together, we can achieve success and contribute to a better future.

Why Work at Sunstar? Sunstar’s mission is to enhance the health and well-being of people everywhere via its four business areas: mouth and body, health and beauty, healthy home, safety and technology.

Position Summary:

Support Injection Molding Manager and Manufacturing floor to perform duties which include set up, changeover and maintaining molds.

Essential Job Functions:

Work from work orders, standard operating procedures and instructions:

• Review production run with all shifts to determine unusual conditions, equipment functioning and production levels.
• Monitor molding equipment and robotics to ensure quality standards met and production cycle time maintained.
• Troubleshoot production or quality problems such as excess flash, discoloration or short fills, make necessary adjustments to materials or equipment settings and notify Team Leader of situation.
• Perform changeovers and support setups: Insert changes, set programming to control robotics and set speeds.
• Clean molds as needed.
• Communicate with machine and mold maintenance departments daily to keep repairs and preventive maintenance up-to-date.
• Fill out maintenance work orders to initiate necessary repairs.

• Complete required production and inspection reports.
• Follow safety rules and keep work area in a clean and orderly condition.
• Ability to gather data, analyze and communicate with Management.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Proven experience as an Injection Molding Process Technician or in a similar role within the injection molding industry.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to apply injection molding principles to identify and resolve process-related issues.
• Detail-oriented mindset with a focus on precision, accuracy, and quality.
• Make improvements to molding process to reduce cycle times to the lowest time possible without sacrificing part quality.
• Work with Production to improve mold change over times eliminating all waste during the internal and external change over elements.
• Prepare and maintain molding process workbooks.

Education

• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• RJG or Equivalent training.

Knowledge/Experience

• Use mathematics together with the analytical use of computerized programming. Equivalent to 1 to 2 years applied trades training on a particular or specialized occupation, requiring knowledge of injection molding.
• Experience with hand tools is required.

Skills

• Proper set up of automated equipment programming.
• Self-starter with strong interpersonal skills

• Communication skills: Written and Oral

Abilities

• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Ability to communicate, interact and work effectively and cooperatively with people from diverse ethnic and educational backgrounds.

• Attention to Detail
• Listening
• Ability to make sound judgment decisions

• Diversified work. Perform duties to set up, changeover and maintain the injection molding operations. Exercise judgment to troubleshoot production and quality problems, within the limitations of standard methods and procedures.
• Ability to stand for long periods of time.

Injection Molding Process Technician

(Job Code: TEC21023)