Plastic Technician

Greif•Winnipeg, MB

19d•Onsite

About The Position

Greif is a global leader in performance packaging located in 40 countries, delivering trusted, innovative, and tailored solutions to some of the world's most in-demand and fastest-growing industries. With a commitment to legendary customer service, operational excellence, and global sustainability, Greif packages life's essentials and creates lasting value for its colleagues, customers, and other stakeholders. The Plastic Technician role is for an experienced colleague who assists in setting up, monitoring, and troubleshooting blow molding, injection molding, or extrusion molding machinery. This position involves performing routine machine setup and changeovers, operating and monitoring equipment for optimal performance, and ensuring product consistency. The technician is also responsible for routine maintenance, troubleshooting issues related to plastic molding and finishing processes, performing quality control checks, and maintaining accurate production data. The role requires working closely with senior technicians, operators, and supervisors to ensure daily production operations and may involve assisting in training junior technicians.

Requirements

Typically possesses a High School diploma (or equivalent)
2-4 years of experience
Strong mechanical aptitude with working knowledge of electrical systems, pneumatics, hydraulics, air compressors, chillers, and PLCs.
Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve machine and process issues independently.
In-depth understanding of plastic materials, molding processes, and manufacturing equipment.
Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality assurance.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Effective communication and leadership skills; ability to work collaboratively in a team environment.
Strong adherence to safety protocols and regulatory compliance.
Ability to make process changes to ensure production of high-quality product.

Responsibilities

Assists to set up, monitor and troubleshoot blow molding, injection molding, or extrusion molding machinery.
Performs routine machine set up and changeovers between production runs, ensuring smooth transitions and minimal downtime.
Communicates machinery issues to maintenance.
Operates and monitors basic plastic molding and extrusion equipment, ensuring optimal performance during production.
Follows standard operating procedures with minimal customization.
Monitors the production process using established checklists and inspection tools.
Adjusts machines within preset limits to maintain product consistency, ensuring that machines are running efficiently and producing high-quality products.
Performs routine maintenance duties on cleaning and basic adjustments to machinery.
Troubleshoots and resolves issues related to plastic molding, extrusion, and finishing processes.
Follows and monitors process parameters, standard operating procedures (SOPs) and safety guidelines while performing tasks.
Maintains accurate records of production data, maintenance logs, and any issues encountered during production.
Performs quality control checks, ensuring products meet required specifications and industry standards.
Works closely with senior technicians, operators, and supervisors to ensure daily production operation.
May help to assist and train junior technicians.
As appropriate, incorporates and maintains safety observances, including, but not limited to, use of all PPE by employees, ensure guards and safety features are in place and working daily; maintains and displays good safety practices and habits daily.
Makes process adjustments to plastics equipment to ensure steady production for all machines while minimizing interruptions.
Makes suggestions to improve OEE of the plastics equipment such as cycle time improvement.
Completes color changes.
Performs other duties as assigned.