Injection Molding Equipment Maintenance Technician - Night Shift

Job Posting Start Date 12-18-2024 Job Posting End Date 01-31-2025

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Job Summary

To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we're looking to add an Injection Molding Equipment Maintenance Technician - Night Shift located in Buffalo Grove, IL.

Reporting to the Equipment Maintenance Manager, the Injection Molding Equipment Maintenance Technician - Night Shiftrole involves maintaining and repairing injection molding machines.

What a typical day looks like:

• Through troubleshooting, identifies machine malfunctions and isolates the failure mechanism.
• Repairs the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner.
• Performs preventive maintenance at specified intervals and schedules.
• Performs calibrations and re-qualifications on equipment at specified intervals and schedules.
• Assists process technicians and engineers with the installation and removal of process equipment.
• Records times and problems in equipment logs.
• Provides daily equipment functioning activity information.
• Disassembles instruments and equipment and inspects components for defects.
• Aligns, repairs, replaces and balances component parts and circuitry.
• Assists engineers in formulating test, calibration, repair and evaluation plans and procedures to maintain precision accuracy of measuring, recording and indicating instruments and equipment.
• May require travel to other Flex sites or equipment vendors' locations.
• Highest level may perform both software and hardware maintenance.

The experience we're looking to add to our team:

• Associate's Degree in related field, military technical training or equivalent education and training.
• 5 years of related experience.
• Experience working with injection molding machines required.

What you'll receive for the great work you provide:

• Full range of medical benefits, dental, vision
• Life Insurance
• Matching 401K
• PTO
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Employee discounts at local retailers

Job Category
Operations

Relocation: Not eligible

Is Sponsorship Available?
No

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