Job Description

Description

Plascon Inc. offers a great benefit package, including paid time off, a 401(k)-retirement plan with immediate vesting with a 100% employer match for your first 3% of deferrals and 50% match for next 2%! That means if you put in 5% we put in 4%.

Blue Cross medical plans, Blue Cross dental, and EyeMed vision, employer paid life insurance, employer paid short- and long-term disability insurance, and tuition reimbursement. Medical, dental and vision benefits are effective the 1st of the month after you start!

The work schedule can be flexible, supporting the below shifts:

2nd Shift: 2:00pm-10:00pm

3rd Shift: 10:00pm-6:00am

The hourly range is $22.75/hour-$29.58/hour depending on qualifications (plus shift premium pay).

Summary:

Installs, maintains, and repairs machinery (mono and multi-layer blown film lines, various conversion machines to create bags and box liners, clean room equipment), physical structures, and pipe and electrical systems.

Requirements

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

•Visually inspects and tests machinery and equipment

•Become familiar with plant machinery, detect malfunction diagnose and repair

•Dismantles defective machines and equipment and installs new or repaired parts.

•Cleans and lubricates shafts, bearings, gears, and other parts of machinery; cleans and changes filters

•Installs and repairs electrical apparatus, such as transformers and wiring, and electrical and electronic components of machinery and equipment.

•Lays out, assembles, installs, and maintains pipe systems and related hydraulic and pneumatic equipment, and repairs and replaces gauges, valves, pressure regulators, and related equipment

•Repairs and maintains physical structure of establishment

•Performs preventative maintenance on building and equipment

•Orders maintenance/repair parts and supplies. Maintain stockroom inventory using maintenance software.

•Occasionally will need to respond to emergency calls after hours.

Competencies

•Design - demonstrates attention to detail

•Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; develops alternative solutions

•Customer Service - Responds to requests for service and assistance

•Cost Consciousness - Develops and implements cost saving measures, conserves organizational resources

•Ethics - Treats people with respect

•Organizational Support - Follows policies and procedures; completes administrative tasks correctly and on time; supports organization’s goals and values

•Time management - uses time efficiently

•Safety and Security - Observes safety and security procedures; Determines appropriate action beyond guidelines; Reports potentially unsafe conditions; Uses equipment and materials properly.

•Attendance/Punctuality - Is consistently at work and on time.

•Dependability - Follows instructions, responds to management direction

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Qualifications 

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience

•General knowledge of electrical circuits, motor circuits and 480 VAC power circuits.

•Minimum 2 years of hands-on maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment; plastics manufacturing experience strongly preferred

•Proven ability to diagnose and repair hydraulic, pneumatic, and mechanical systems common in injection molding or extrusion operations

•Familiarity with plastic equipment such as extruders, chillers, blown film, and Material delivery systems

•Skilled in fabrication and repair work using mills, lathes, welders, gas torches, and other machine shop tools

•Experience performing preventive and predictive maintenance on high-volume production machinery

•Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, schematics, and equipment manuals specific to plastic processing equipment

•Demonstrated success working alongside production and engineering teams to minimize downtime in a plastics facility

Language Skills

•Ability to read and comprehend instructions, correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers or other employees of the organization. Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.

Mathematical Skills

•Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

Reasoning Ability

•Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills Basic keyboard skills required which includes email, the input of work orders using Microsoft Excel and maintenance software. Certificates, Licenses, Registrations Preferred candidates will have a maintenance certificate that would typically include coursework in electrical wiring and schematics, HVAC/R, plumbing, reading blueprints, general carpentry, and tools of the trade.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

•Regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to handle or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; talk or hear and smell.

•Frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

•Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

•Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

•Work is performed in a production and manufacturing facility.

•Regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles and extreme heat.

•Frequently exposed to high, precarious places and vibration.

•Occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock.

•The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

•Employees are required to wear safety footwear, safety glasses, hair restraints, and comply with protective clothing guidelines.

•Must possess your own tools. Machines are both metric and standard. Company has specialty tools for situation that are not common.