Production Technician - County Westmeath

Production Technician - County Westmeath.

This position will operate across a 4-cycle shift

Job Purpose:
The Technician plays a key role in production, starting up and shutting down moulding machines and processes, and assisting with validating new products in production.

Core Duties and Responsibilities
• Start-up moulding machines and programme robots
• Problem identification, analysis and resolution.
• Work on continuous process improvement
• Carry out validation for new projects using scientific injection moulding approach
• Write validation documentation against production processes and systems in compliance to internal and external requirements utilising well developed technical and regulatory skills
• Develop the most optimum moulding process and tooling and automation that meets or exceeds customer requirements on new tooling
• Ensure Quality System documentation is thorough, complete, and compliant.
• Participation in continuous improvement programs to implement improvements in the quality, safety, environmental and production systems at the site.

Interested applicants should have:

• Ideally level 6 qualification or higher in a Manufacturing/Engineering discipline, however extensive experience will count if this has not been attained

• Capable of troubleshooting validation issues associated with process development
• Experience in scientific injection moulding processing
• Strong analytical approach to problem solving and ability to bring innovative solutions to the process.
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills
• Ability to work in a team and communicate effectively with peers and managers
• Experience ideally with Fanuc and Demag machines, and Star robots.
• At least 1-2 years' injection moulding processing & troubleshooting experience
• Experience working in an ISO compliant environment