Manufacturing Technician (1st Shift)

Peak Nano Optics
Peak Nano Optics

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.