Manufacturing Technician

JWR Employment Specialists are working with a high volume manufacturing company located in Sligo to recruit a Manufacturing Technician.

Our Client has been operating in Sligo since 2000. The company provides expertise in high volume production of high precision technical molded products. The Manufacturing Technician is responsible for the installation, maintenance, troubleshooting, modification and continuous improvement of molding processes and equipment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Key role in assisting the complete validation of new and existing equipment - including acceptance trials, debugging and validation of new equipment and tools
• Maintenance of molding equipment at optimal performance levels in accordance with the highest engineering standards
• Specific fine tuning of molding equipment to improve and increase output
• Reducing downtime and waste
• Maintaining good housekeeping in the molding area
• Analysis of customer complaints and internal quality issues and development of improvement programs for equipment to eliminate these defects being produced
• Assistance in the training of technicians/apprentices as required

Requirements

Technical Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience working with Polymer,
• Minimum of 5 years' industrial experience preferably in manufacturing and experience of injection moulding,
• Ideally candidates should hold the National Craft Certificate and/or relevant 3rd level qualification preferably coupled with relevant further training courses and qualification
• Good problem solving skills with excellent attention to detail.