At Apex International, we pride ourselves on being a high-quality manufacturer of over the counter personal care, and household products. We create collaborative partnerships with customers ranging from global Fortune 100 companies to entrepreneurial start-ups.
We are currently seeking a Set Up Technician at our Chaska location. This non-exempt, Sunday-Thursday nighttime role will report to the Maintenance-Set Up Manager and establish and maintain a world-class stability program that generates optimum product stability data that exceeds customer needs.
Job Responsibilities
- Effectively disassemble, re-assemble, adjust, program, and set up equipment as needed to produce the customers' products within the desired specifications as called out on the Apex Product Specifications.
- Effectively coordinate and perform tasks as they relate to productions needs for change parts.
- Coordinate clean parts room and help maintain the tank farm and sanitation room in a clean and organized manner.
- Ensure communication, training, and process improvements are taking place.
- Understand and maintain a culture of "lean action" within the department so that we live lean better than any organization.
- Perform other work as assigned.
Job Requirements
- 1 - 2 year of prior relevant experience in in a manufacturing environment required
- High school diploma (or equivalent) is preferred
- Prefer 1-3 years of experience in a maintenance/repair/set up position, ideally with high speed mechanical or electromechanical equipment and systems.
- Prefer 1-2 years Vo-tech or equivalent in an associated field (mechanics, auto repair, machine repair, etc.)
- Demonstrated mechanical and electromechanical skills.
- Has demonstrated working knowledge of how to recall, run, and store existing PLC programs (e.g. REB machine and Shorewood) or possesses the skills to learn this task.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of all hand tools in both metric and English.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of all fasteners, metric and English or possesses the skills to learn this task.
- Must possess solid communication skills and read and write at the 6th grade level, 12th grade level preferred.
- To be effective, this position requires an ability to follow directions and written processes and procedures.
- Basic math skills including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and able to work with fractions and decimals is a plus.