Day -Thermoforming Machine Operator

Job Description

Job Description

Description : Focus / Objective

The Thermoforming Operator supports daily plant operations by safely and efficiently operating thermoforming equipment, mentoring fellow operators, and ensuring production, quality, and safety standards are consistently met.

Job Duties and Responsibilities :

• Operate one or two thermoforming machines under minimal supervision.
• Adjust machine components to regulate speeds, pressures, and temperatures, dimensions, and material flow.
• Monitors machine performance responds to alarms and malfunctions and perform advance troubleshooting.
• Conduct machine adjustments (air pressure, vacuum, coolant flow, synchronization, etc.) to ensure proper operation.
• Load raw materials, remove finished products, and deliver pallets to designated areas.
• Achieve daily production output goals within established deadlines.
• Enter daily utilization data into plant PCM and complete required paperwork (logs, condition sheets, checklists, locator cards).
• Perform and / or assist with preventive maintenance, cleaning, and machine adjustments.
• Mentor and support new operators during onboarding; provide direction to inspector-packers as needed.
• Notify supervisor immediately of any processing or maintenance issues.
• Support continuous improvement efforts and assist with special projects as assigned.

Minimum Position Qualifications / Requirements :

Preferred Skills / Qualifications & Education :

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Environmental, Health & Safety Responsibilities :

Quality Responsibilities :

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 :

Work Environment :

Talking is important for those activities in which workers must impart oral information to clients or to the public, and in those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Using primarily just the fingers to make small movements such as typing, picking up small objects, or pinching fingers together. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk and stoop; kneel, crouch or crawl.