What are the responsibilities and job description for the Mold Technician Lead position at Phillips Medisize?
Your Job
Phillips Medisize, a Molex Company, is seeking Mold Technicians to support manufacturing operations at our Hudson, WI location. In this role, you will be hands-on in producing high-quality parts in a regulated molding environment. You'll use established procedures and troubleshooting skills to keep processes within validated windows, drive continuous improvements in quality, safety, and efficiency, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to meet production targets. If you're technically curious and take pride in precision, this role offers the chance to develop advanced molding expertise and make a measurable impact on product performance and customer satisfaction.
Shift: 1st Shift, Mon - Fri, flexible start time between 5am - 8am. Hours will shift to 12 hour days, Mon - Wed every other Thursday in future.
Our Team
We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment where every team member is empowered to contribute their expertise and grow professionally. Our team is dedicated to continuous improvement, safety, and operational excellence, ensuring that our equipment, tools, and facilities meet the highest standards of quality and reliability. We embrace open communication, trust, and mutual respect, creating a supportive culture that values innovation and teamwork.
What You Will Do
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Molex company, Phillips-Medisize mobilizes and deploys specialized capabilities and services across highly regulated industries, including health care, regulated consumer, automotive and defense. We design, develop and create innovative and life-changing medical technologies for millions of people around the globe.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
Phillips Medisize, a Molex Company, is seeking Mold Technicians to support manufacturing operations at our Hudson, WI location. In this role, you will be hands-on in producing high-quality parts in a regulated molding environment. You'll use established procedures and troubleshooting skills to keep processes within validated windows, drive continuous improvements in quality, safety, and efficiency, and collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to meet production targets. If you're technically curious and take pride in precision, this role offers the chance to develop advanced molding expertise and make a measurable impact on product performance and customer satisfaction.
Shift: 1st Shift, Mon - Fri, flexible start time between 5am - 8am. Hours will shift to 12 hour days, Mon - Wed every other Thursday in future.
Our Team
We pride ourselves on fostering a collaborative and inclusive environment where every team member is empowered to contribute their expertise and grow professionally. Our team is dedicated to continuous improvement, safety, and operational excellence, ensuring that our equipment, tools, and facilities meet the highest standards of quality and reliability. We embrace open communication, trust, and mutual respect, creating a supportive culture that values innovation and teamwork.
What You Will Do
- Set up, start up, and change over production jobs consistent with process control capabilities and quoted standards. May include robotics, part pickers and vision systems.
- Answer alarms as they arise.
- Setup and operate job related equipment including molding machines, powered industrial trucks, overhead cranes, and power mold carts, power mold lifts.
- Use proper process procedure documentation and databases for performing routine set up functions and troubleshooting work, and record process parameters into plant ERP system in our ISO and FDA molding environment.
- Evaluate molding processes to update techniques and improve quality, safety and productivity efficiencies. Including troubleshooting to ensure the processes fall within validated windows or within the established guidelines while maintaining an acceptable part.
- Perform daily preventative maintenance on molds and equipment.
- Communicate important information to Mold Techs on next shift.
- Work with other production groups to meet production and quality requirements.
- Some programs may have vision requirements and/or may require working in a clean room environment.
- 5 years of technical environment experience OR 3 years of injection molding processing experience.
- Knowledge of hydraulics, pneumatics, electrical
- Molding experience within medical device manufacturing
- LSR experience
- Understanding of scientific molding and decoupled processes and process development.
- Ability to transfer molding process from one IMM to another Variety of IMM brands and functions, as well as multiple tooling functions including hot runners, valve gating, and externally driven cares.
- SAP experience
- Experience with advanced diagnostic interpretation and troubleshooting involving eDART/copilot.
- Experience with a variety of engineering grade resins
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.
Who We Are
As a Molex company, Phillips-Medisize mobilizes and deploys specialized capabilities and services across highly regulated industries, including health care, regulated consumer, automotive and defense. We design, develop and create innovative and life-changing medical technologies for millions of people around the globe.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).