Moulding Technical Specialist - West Drayton, United Kingdom - Willcox Matthews

Willcox Matthews

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West Drayton, United Kingdom

5 days ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job Title:
Moulding Technical Specialist

Salary:
£35,000

Benefits:
To be discussed at interview

Job Type:
Permanent

Location:
West Drayton

Job Start date:

ASAP

Shift Pattern:
Day Shifts (Monday to Friday 7am - 3:30pm)

We're supporting our client, a leading Injection moulding equipment manufacturer based in West Drayton, who are looking for a Moulding Technical Specialist to join their growing team.

The successful Moulding Technical Specialist will have experience of Injection Moulding processes, tooling and materials and quality standards.

Responsible for developing stable, repeatable, and optimized injection moulding processes for company tooling and materials, ensuring products run within quality standards.

Responsibilities for Moulding Technical Specialist:

Troubleshoot molding processes and material or equipment issues.
Create and maintain troubleshooting guide in moulding.
Define the optimized injection moulding process to ensure H&S, process capability, quality and efficiency targets are met.
Evaluate tooling for areas of concern, areas of improvement for quality and efficiency, and recommend improvements to optimize molding, setup, and overall manufacturing processes.
Document and maintain moulding process packs.
Provide training and guidance to colleagues to achieve business objectives.
Resolve process concerns, working with stakeholders (e.g. Continuous Improvement, Project Management, Tool Development, Manufacturing Engineering, Quality and Production) to ensure root causes are identified and permanent corrective actions are implemented to resolve issues.
Analyze manufacturing processes, identifying improvements and report recommendations to management including decisionmaking information such as product/process performance, cost/benefit analysis and future requirements.
Conduct trials for new materials ensuring suitability with existing tooling and equipment.
Promote factbased decisionmaking, ensuring root causes are identified and robust solutions implemented to resolve issues.
Initiate & manage process improvement teams to resolve issues using techniques such as 5 Whys, Ishikawa & 8D.
Keep uptodate with specifications, technology and manufacturing processes
Comply with all current work instructions within the organization.
Comply fully with all current HSE regulations in operation within the company whilst carrying out your duties.
Carry out any reasonable task which falls within your capabilities.

About You:

A proven track record of process development within the plastics industry.
A wide experience of engineering polymers across a range of industries.
Use of process optimization and Process Capability studies.
5+ years of relevant experience in injection molding in a highvolume manufacturing operation

NVQ Level 3