Maintenance Technician - Injection Mold, 2nd Shift

MAHLE Filter Systems North America, Inc. is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender, identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristics protected by law.

The Injection Molding Maintenance Technician position is responsible for performing highly diversified duties to install, troubleshoot, repair, and maintain injection molding equipment according to safety, predictive and productive maintenance systems, and processes to support the achievement of the site’s business goals and objectives.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following:

• Monitor, repair, and maintain production equipment to ensure continuous production (mechanical or electrical repair). Performs advanced troubleshooting, problem solving, and general repairs. Provides standard solutions focusing on complex, often ambiguous, maintenance issues.
• Identify and diagnose technical and operating problems associated with machinery and equipment, also, determine and initiate appropriate corrective action.
• Work in a team atmosphere to improve repair and maintenance methods.
• Participate in developing action plans to resolve problems with safety, quality, production, delivery and 5S.
• Prepare maintenance work orders and ensure compliance with Preventive Maintenance programs.
• Document improvements and problems with robots, presses, secondary equipment, etc., and recommend and participate in the implementation, modification, or enhancement of machinery and equipment to improve safety operations or ensure that operations are in line with the new/improved specifications and requirements.
• Ability to disassemble, clean, lubricate, fit, and reassemble necessary injection equipment, injection screws, barrels, feed hoppers, cylinders and more.
• Ability to fill out the required documentation for required parts or actions taken for equipment and other necessary auxiliary equipment.
• Ability to perform hydraulic, servo and heater calibration on Injection Molding Machines.
• Work with production producers to stop/start, monitor and respond to machines, automation equipment and material loading system alarms to sustain machine service running time. Take or initiate corrective action to bring machines, auxiliary equipment and processing issues to resolution.
• Develop and use skills to use control panel data to help troubleshoot machine alarms, product defects and equipment malfunctions.
• Help to coordinate with line leads, set-up technicians or supervisors the status of machines, equipment and part defect reduction efforts for daily production and special instructions to maintain productivity.
• Participate in continuous process improvement efforts to reduce scrap, cycle times, improve efficiency and eliminate waste within the production environment.
• Perform special projects as assigned.
• Maintain clean, organized, safe working environment with equipment and materials located in proper locations in accordance with 5S standards inside and outside of facility.
• Ability to work all designated shifts.
• Excellent attendance record.
• Ability to work in a team environment.
• Other duties as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

This position 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

• High School Diploma or General Education Degree (GED) is required.
• Industrial Maintenance training at a technology center or trade school.
• 3 to 5 years of experience in an industrial or manufacturing environment with machine repair, maintenance, troubleshooting and documentation.
• Working knowledge of basic electrical and motor controls circuits.
• 3 to 5 years of experience working on Injection Molding Machines.
• 3 to 5 years of experience working on Injection Molding Machines peripheral equipment; robots, chillers, thermolators, vacuum and material systems.

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Must be fluent in English. Able to read/write routine reports and correspondence. Able to communicate effectively with peers, managers, and directors, and to present to groups of customers or employees of the organization. Values and considers the perspectives and backgrounds of all parties.

MATHEMATICAL SKILLS

Ability to do mechanical math functions, including using decimals and fractions, an understanding of weights, temperatures, pressures and measurement conversion.

• Ability to convert Imperial and Metric temperatures, volumes and pressures as used in molding operations.
• Knowledge of ladder logic and schematic prints.
• Knowledge of Hydraulic & Pneumatic systems.
• Knowledge of volumes.
• Knowledge of pressures.

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.

OTHER SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Strong analysis, problem solving, process and troubleshooting skills.
• Knowledge of Lean manufacturing principles.

• Dynamic communication / inter-personal skills.
• Ability to read and understand complex machine and component drawings.
• Ability to troubleshoot failures on heater bands and thermocouples.
• Highly organized and possess good decision-making skills.

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.

While performing the duties of this job, regularly required to stoop, kneel, sit, stand, bend, reach, climb, and move about the facility. Required to frequently lift up to 50 lbs.

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

WORK ENVIRONMENT

While performing the duties of the job, may work prolonged periods under high heat and humid conditions inside the facility; and occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes or airborne particles, and vibration.

The environment in manufacturing plants and testing labs are often loud, hot, and with particulates in the air. Working environment may contain potentially hazardous materials such as acids, solvents, oils, and common etchants. In such environments, adherence to PPE regulations is required.

OVERTIME

Employees must be able to work additional hours at the end of each shift, additional days during the payroll week, which can and will be in excess of forty (40) hours per payroll week. Overtime is a requirement for the position.

Together, we move the world—we’ve been doing it for over 100 years. At MAHLE, as a leading international development partner and systems supplier to the automotive industry, we pursue the objective of making mobility more efficient, more environmentally friendly, more convenient, and more economical. As part of our dual strategy, we are working both on the intelligent combustion engine for the use of hydrogen and other nonfossil fuels and on technologies for fuel cells and e-mobility.

MAHLE generated sales of €11.7 billion in 2024. Employing just under 68,000 people at 135 production locations and 11 technology centers, the company is represented in 28 countries. (as at: 12/31/2024). Join our MAHLE team! #StrongerTogether