Mold Setup Technician - 2nd Shift

Lear Corporation•Traverse City, MI

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Lear Corporation is seeking a Mold Setup Technician for the 2nd Shift. This role is crucial for ensuring efficient production by managing mold and die changes. The company emphasizes a supportive work environment, fostering collaboration, inclusion, respect, and excellence, aiming to provide a path to a better career, future, and personal growth. Lear Corporation is recognized as one of the World's Most Admired Companies, with teams that have invented groundbreaking technologies and manufactured millions of products. The company values empowered, inventive, and inclusive teams who are passionate about their craft and driven to succeed through collaboration.

Requirements

Strong mechanical aptitude.
Ability to exert up to fifty-six (56) pounds of force frequently.
Operate a fork truck and overhead crane.
Support all Lear environmental, quality, health and safety procedures and rules.
Ensure that proper procedures are followed, and the working environment is healthy and safe.
Work as a team with fellow employees and train new employees in the classification.
Maintains the work area in accordance with 5S standards.
Complete additional tasks assigned by Shift Supervisor / Department Manager.
60-day qualification period.

Responsibilities

Ensure dies are changed efficiently per the production schedule and production material is filled for start-up.
Efficiently remove existing molds and dies from presses.
Install the next scheduled mold or die, ensuring minimal downtime.
Set up thermolators.
Make hoses as required for molds.
Ensure molds are set safely and correctly, utilizing the proper equipment setup per the process book (nozzle tip, knockouts, watered correctly, etc.).
Fill and maintain materials for both insert and injection presses as needed for mold change.
Maintain and clean hoppers and grinders as necessary for complete mold changes.
May be requested to function as a material handler per the request of the Supervisor.
May be requested to complete additional duties as assigned by the Supervisor.