What are the responsibilities and job description for the Injection Molding Equipment Maintenance Specialist position at Texas Injection Molding?
Your Mission
Safeguard production by preventing failures, resolving issues fast, and documenting everything that keeps our plastics molding operation reliable.
Outcomes You’ll Own
Safeguard production by preventing failures, resolving issues fast, and documenting everything that keeps our plastics molding operation reliable.
Outcomes You’ll Own
- Uptime & Utilization: Partner with the Maintenance Manager to keep equipment running at peak effectiveness.
- PM Systemization: Create, standardize, and record preventive maintenance for injection molding machines, granulators, dryers, water tower, and chiller.
- Smart Capital Decisions: Draft specifications and recommend auxiliary/other equipment purchases.
- Rapid Recovery: Diagnose and repair production and facility equipment across mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic domains.
- Field Mobility: Safely use skid loaders, scissor lifts, and forklifts to access and service equipment.
- Traceability: Maintain precise logs—PM schedules, installs, structural repairs, work orders, and operating reports.
- Budget Stewardship: Monitor parts inventory and expenses to meet budget targets.
- 24/7 Readiness: Be on call around the clock for issues that could jeopardize customer commitments.
- Process Capability: Calibrate molding machine controls; verify screws and barrels meet minimum requirements.
- Facilities Expertise: Provide technical assistance for electrical systems, building construction elements, and plumbing.
- Continuous Improvement: Lead upgrades and sustain a clean, orderly work environment and grounds with strong 5S.
- Other duties as assigned.
- Industrial mechanical systems: hydraulics, motors, pumps.
- Industrial electrical: reading schematics and troubleshooting complex control wiring.
- Controls familiarity: understanding of logic controls (preferred).
- Documentation: engineering drawings; electrical and hydraulic schematics.
- High School diploma or GED.
- Minimum 7 years of industrial maintenance experience that includes injection molding machinery; experience with blow molding or extrusion is an acceptable alternative.
- Proven track record troubleshooting and repairing mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical systems.
- Ability to find root causes and deliver on-time, on-budget fixes.
- Self-driven, positive, and collaborative communicator.
- Judicious, fact-based decision-maker.
- Independent finisher who can also lead improvement projects.
- Reduced machine downtime.
- PM program execution and documentation completeness.
- Maintenance and repair costs aligned to budget.
Salary : $26 - $30