Job Description
Job Description
Extruder Machine Operator
- Hiring for all shifts!
- Pay ranges from $22-$30/hr depending on experience!
Job Description:
Machine Operators are critical members of our team. They set up, operate, and tend machines that extrude and coat flat films from synthetic materials.
In this position you will set up and operate production equipment including blown film extruders, silicone coaters, and slitter/rewinders. You will work both independently and with a team to meet and exceed customers’ specifications and timeframes.
Responsibilities:
• Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, and temperatures, and amounts, dimensions, and flow of materials or ingredients.
• Examine, measure, and weigh materials or products to verify conformance to standards, using measuring devices such as templates, micrometers, or scales.
• Monitor machine operations and observe lights and gauges to detect malfunctions.
• Clear jams and remove defective or substandard materials or products.
• Notify supervisors when extruded filaments fail to meet standards.
• Record and maintain production data, such as meter readings, and quantities, types, and dimensions of materials produced.
• Review work orders, specifications, or instructions to determine materials, ingredients, procedures, components, settings, and adjustments for extruding, forming, pressing, or compacting machines.
• Turn controls to adjust machine functions, such as regulating air pressure, creating vacuums, and adjusting coolant flow.
• Clean dies, arbors, compression chambers, and molds, using swabs, sponges, or air hoses.
• Synchronize speeds of sections of machines when producing products involving several steps or processes.
• Move materials, supplies, components, and finished products between storage and work areas, using work aids such as racks, hoists, and hand trucks.
• Activate machines to shape or form products, such as candy bars, light bulbs, balloons, or insulation panels.
• Select and install machine components, such as dies, molds, and cutters, according to specifications, using hand tools and measuring devices.
• Send product samples to lab for analysis.
• Couple air and gas lines to machines to maintain plasticity of material and to regulate solidification of final products.
• Pour, scoop, or dump specified ingredients, metal assemblies, or mixtures into sections of machine prior to starting machines.
• Measure, mix, cut, shape, soften, and join materials and ingredients, such as powder, cornmeal, or rubber to prepare them for machine processing.
• Remove materials or products from molds or from extruding, forming, pressing, or compacting machines, and stack or store them for additional processing.
• Feed products into machines by hand or conveyor.
• Measure arbors and dies to verify sizes specified on work tickets.
• Thread extruded strips through water tanks and hold-down bars, or attach strands to wires and draw them through tubes.
• Complete work tickets, and place them with products.
• Disassemble equipment to repair it or to replace parts, such as nozzles, punches, and filters.
• Remove molds, mold components, and feeder tubes from machinery after production is complete.
• Swab molds with solutions to prevent products from sticking.
• Ignite burners to preheat products, or use torches to apply heat.
• Install, align, and adjust neck rings, press plungers, and feeder tubes.
Skills/Requirements:
• Operation Monitoring — Watching gauges, dials, or other indicators to make sure a machine is working properly.
• Operations — Controlling operations of equipment or systems.
• Controls — The ability to adjust the controls of a machine or a vehicle to precise positions.
• Ability to Detect Problem — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
• Problem Solving — Identifying problems and reviewing related information to troubleshoot or to alert supervisor.
• Coordination — The ability of fingers of one or both hands to grasp, manipulate, or assemble very small objects.
Other Requirements:
• Be familiar with rulers, scales, gauges, and other measurement tools.
• Able to stand, bend, squat, lift 30 pounds.
• Pass a background check and drug screen.
• Dependable attendance, able to work holidays.
Company DescriptionCEO Inc. is an award-winning, full-service search firm that centers on people and is committed to finding the right fit for our candidates and clients alike. For over 25 years CEO Inc. has successfully placed top professionals in Engineering, and Production roles within the manufacturing industry at both top-tier and growing companies.
Company Description
CEO Inc. is an award-winning, full-service search firm that centers on people and is committed to finding the right fit for our candidates and clients alike. For over 25 years CEO Inc. has successfully placed top professionals in Engineering, and Production roles within the manufacturing industry at both top-tier and growing companies.