Location
Sumter, SC | United States
Job description
Job Description: Industry: Medical Equipment / Devices Job Category: Manufacturing - Production As a Technical Associate, you will play a crucial role in setting up, operating, optimizing, trouble shooting, and maintaining our departmental production equipment. You will be responsible for meeting and exceeding our production standards, maintaining product quality, minimizing/preventing equipment downtime, and sustaining budgeted waste levels daily. Essential Functions
- Operate equipment within specified quality/quantity limits.
- Sets up and debugs equipment to the specifications
- Maintains equipment in working order to produce product within specified quality and quantity limits, adjusting, trouble shooting, cleaning, and repairing as necessary.
- Is responsible for maintaining equipment logs for each piece of equipment, recording pertinent information about downtime and maintenance problems.
- Repairs equipment within their capability and reports major problems to supervisor
- Assists the Maintenance Department, LTA/Production Mechanic or Manufacturing Technician in major repairs.
- Perform preventative maintenance on equipment.
- Requires mechanical ability and knowledge of proper use of tools, proper trouble shooting and set up procedures, and machine blueprint reading.
- Starts up equipment and ensures accurate functioning of machines and control panel.
- Monitors / replenishes component inventories and ensures all safety guards are in position and functional. Checks and cleans part tracks to ensure free travel of all component parts.
- Notifies material handler if part supplies run low.
- Shuts machine cycle off when a jam occurs and after clearing the jam, restarts the machine cycle.
- Maintains accurate production and downtime records (logbooks).
- Maintains a neat and orderly production environment.
- Continually supervises in-process quality, addressing issues as needed to prevent product holds.
- Performs and documents all required Q.C. checks.
- Runs all required process challenges.
- Observes all safety and environmental procedures and Quality System Requirements (QSR)
- Supports upstream and downstream operations.
- Performs rework as required.
- Able to function in a team environment.
Additional Responsibilities Performs other duties as assigned by Supervisor and required to support the needs of the business.
Qualifications: - H.S. Diploma/G.E.D preferred
- Maintenance Repair / Mechanical Experience or Proficiency required and 2 years mechanical experience preferred
- Must be proficient with basic hand tools.
- Should be familiar with the following mechanical components, bushings, chain drives, conveyors, gearboxes, and ball valves.
- Must have clear and legible handwriting
- 6- 12 months of manufacturing experience desired
- Mechanical background, knowledge of automated process desired
- Working with PLC's, Hydraulics and Pneumatics desired
- Able to work autonomously and be self-motivated.
- Able to work ANY shift including 12 hour night or 8 hour night shifts
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