Why Oatey?

Since 1916, Oatey has provided reliable, high-quality products for the residential and commercial plumbing industries, with a commitment to delivering quality, building trust and improving lives. Today, Oatey operates a comprehensive manufacturing and distribution network comprised of industry leading family of companies: Oatey, Cherne, Keeney, Quick Drain, Hercules, Dearborn, GF Thompson, William H. Harvey, Masters, Contact, Belanger, Lansas, and Durgo.

At Oatey, we're doing big things — and by joining us, you'll have the chance to do big things too. You can build a strong career in an innovative, inclusive, high-performance environment, with the confidence that your company cares — about you, our customers and our world. Ready to make an impact in a place where you matter?

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Position Summary
The person in this role is responsible for the safe, accurate, and timely set-up, processing improvements, and troubleshooting of plastic injection molds, tooling and equipment (including auxiliary equipment) operation while ensuring that safety, quality and productivity goals are achieved on a daily basis.

Position Responsibilities

• Set-up molds, related tooling and equipment according to daily production schedules; verify equipment is running at required cycle time within specs and quality level prior to releasing for production.
• Ensure tools and material are returned to proper locations before leaving workstation.
• Evaluate and advise Tool room or Maintenance of problems with tooling or equipment.
• Perform first piece inspection and provide QA Tech part for approval after mold changeover.
• Troubleshoot equipment processing problems related to product quality.
• Complete all required production and quality assurance documentation.
• Evaluate, recommend and execute continuous improvement suggestions to improve the operating efficiency as appropriate.
• Follow all safety procedures in completion of job duties.
• Verify all safety-related devices, machine guarding, signage, etc. are in place and functioning prior to releasing equipment for production.
• Wear required PPE.
• Participate in 6S events and sustain 6S standards through good housekeeping and execution of standard work including knowledge of lock out, tag out procedures.
• Maximize the flow of communication for effective performance within the department and between shifts.
• Utilize LEAN Thinking in formal and informal settings including participating in LEAN Events (Value Stream Mapping, Kaizen, Projects, Just-Do-It), submitting Suggestions, attending LEAN Training, and improving work cell/areas of responsibility daily.
• Use visual tools and display boards and update them as appropriate.
• Document all changes resulting from LEAN activities.
• Accept and embrace change necessary for continuous improvement.
• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with co-workers by willingness to take on additional responsibility and/or support.
• Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge and Experience

• Three (3) to five (5) years of prior related work experience with plastic injection molding processing and equipment knowledge, set-up and maintenance.
• Working knowledge/ability to setup injection molding equipment to achieve desired specification.
• Equipment and mechanical aptitude to perform processing, mold and equipment troubleshooting.
• Basic computer skills needed with solid understanding of equipment and mechanical aptitude.
• Good organizational skills with strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work in fast-paced environment and meet operational deadlines while training others.
• Flexibility/dependability to meet demands of 24-hour ops. Weekend and/or evenings probable.
• Knowledge of lockout/tagout, machine guarding and applicable OSHA/Oatey safety standards.
• Experience in tool and die shop preferred.
• Familiarity with operating tow motor, scissor lift or crane preferred.

Education and Certification

• High School Diploma or equivalent