Manufacturing Technician (1st Shift)
Valley View, OH, USA
Posted on Aug 22, 2026
Manufacturing Technician (1st Shift)
Hourly
Full Time / Hourly
Valley View, OH
Job Number: 1000111
Films Business Unit
Description
Peak Nano is looking for a 1st Shift Manufacturing Technician for our team. These are the key responsibilities:
- Demonstrate strong discipline in established procedures and work instructions, ensuring safety, quality, and consistency
- Recognize and document defects or deviations from specifications, escalating issues to ensure product quality and process integrity
- Adaptable to evolving team structures, schedules, and responsibilities as operations scale
- Develop a mechanical understanding of the extrusion process to further career growth within the manufacturing team
- Establish and maintain organized workspaces that make cleaning, inspection, and daily operations easier and more efficient
- Support film extrusion operations from tooling or product changeovers to metrology testing and characterization
- Perform all material handling functions pertaining to raw materials, finished goods, and work-in-progress
Required Qualifications
- Education/Experience: High School diploma or General Education Degree (GED); or 4+ years’ experience in manufacturing
- Demonstrated eagerness to learn and apply new skills, concepts, and applications
- Flexible and capable of adapting to change
- Safely lift and carry up to 50 lbs when necessary; remain standing/walking for extended periods of time
- Experience with Microsoft Office applications: Excel and Word
- Ability to perform basic math, measurements, and metrology, if needed
- Experience with operating a tow motor and/or material handling equipment, such as a pallet jack
- US Citizenship
Preferred Qualifications
- Education: Associate’s, or other post-secondary education
- Plastics processing equipment experience, such as extrusion, cast or blown film, calendaring, injection molding, etc.
- Electrical and/or mechanical aptitude strongly preferred
To be considered for this opportunity, please submit the form below.