Extrusion Technician

Job Title: Technician II
Location: Temecula, CA (onsite)
Contract Duration: Contract until 03/29/2027
Work Hours: 130pm - 10pm (2nd shift)

Description:

This position is NonExempt. Hours over 40 will be paid at Time and a Half. High School Diploma and some trade experience required.

Responsibilities :

• Elevate productivity and quality concerns to appropriate resources
• Take initiative to be involved with leadership responsibility such as scrap reduction, cycle time reduction, setup reduction, and other continuous improvement as necessary
• Order production tooling and supply items
• Contact outside resources when necessary, such as manufacturing engineer, quality engineer or other equipment support services
• Establish an effective working relationship with operators, group lead, and department support
• Perform all tear down and set-ups for extruders and co-extruder
• Achieve and maintain extruders with established cycle time and process parameters
• Read and understand tooling prints, part prints, processes and documentation
• Fill out documentation correctly
• Perform accurate manufacturing parts inspection
• Effectively use quality equipment such as gauges, tooling scope, micrometer, ruler, etc.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot basic processing errors such as O.D, I.D., ovality, concentricity, FM, and etc.
• Understand material properties and effect it has on quality and the process
• Perform basic maintenance on extruders and auxiliary equipment such as driers, melt filter, blow off table, cutters, pullers, etc.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent required
• 2+ years extrusion experience with demonstrated experience in extrusion, tooling, troubleshooting equipment, and performing machine and process set-ups
• Experience in GMP
• Proficient computer experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 2-year technical degree preferred
• Medical Device industry experience preferred

• Set up injection molding machines
• Operate injection molding machines/li
• Operate an injection molding machine
• Assist with mold changes of injection mold machines
• Utilize expertise on injection molding machines
• Maintain production process for injection molding machines
• Operate the injection molding machines for production
• Purging out the injection molding machine
• Assist injection molding department by troubleshooting mold operations
• Train new operators on injection molding machines
• Starting and stopping the injection molding machines
• Set up a variety of injection molds in various injection molding presses
• Perform mold changes and maintenance of molding machines
• Set up and clean injection molding machines and grinders throughout the production run
• Set up injection molding machines
• Processing and troubleshooting all plastic injection molding machines
• Ensure manufacturability of injection molds
• Shut down (injection molding machines and conveyors)
• Worked on or released to the floor
• Prepare injection molding machine and operator workstation for operation