Injection Molding Maintenance Technician

Buffalo Grove, IL 60089

Employment Type: Permanent Job Category: Technician Job Number: 43023420 Compensation: $30-38 / hour

Job Description

Job Description
To support our extraordinary teams who build great products and contribute to our growth, we’re looking to add Injection Molding Maintenance Technicians on 2nd and 3rd shift. Company is located in Buffalo Grove, IL.
Reporting to the Equipment Maintenance Manager, the Injection Molding Maintenance Technician role involves maintaining and repairing injection molding machines.

2nd Shift Hours:  2:00 pm - 10:30 pm | Tuesday-Saturday | +4 years of experience
3rd Shift Hours: 10pm - 6:30am | Monday-Friday | +7 years of experience
Pay range from $30-38/hr.

What a typical day looks like:
  • Through troubleshooting, identifies machine malfunctions and isolates the failure mechanism.
  • Repairs the failure mechanism in the most cost-effective manner.
  • Performs preventive maintenance at specified intervals and schedules.
  • Performs calibrations and re-qualifications on equipment at specified intervals and schedules.
  • Assists process technicians and engineers with the installation and removal of process equipment.
  • Records times and problems in equipment logs.
  • Provides daily equipment functioning activity information.
  • Disassembles instruments and equipment and inspects components for defects.
  • Aligns, repairs, replaces and balances component parts and circuitry.
  • Assists engineers in formulating test, calibration, repair and evaluation plans and procedures to maintain precision accuracy of measuring, recording and indicating instruments and equipment.
  • May require travel to other sites or equipment vendors’ locations.
  • Highest level may perform both software and hardware maintenance.

The experience we’re looking to add to our team:
  • Associate’s Degree in related field, military technical training or equivalent education and training.
  • 10 years of related experience.
  • Experience working with injection molding machines required.

Meet Your Recruiter

Max Francis
Technical Recruiter

Max Francis is a seasoned Engineering Recruiter specializing in the Automation Division at Sterling. With five years of invaluable experience in recruitment, Max is on a mission to help individuals find their perfect career move—one that aligns with their professional goals and supports their families.

As an Engineering Recruiter, Max excels in the Automation Division, leveraging his deep industry knowledge to connect candidates with opportunities tailor-made for their unique skill sets and aspirations. He understands that finding the right career move is a pivotal moment in people's lives, and he thrives on being a part of that journey.

What Max finds most exciting and rewarding about his work is the opportunity to guide individuals to their ideal career fit. He recognizes that this transition is an exhilarating time for most people, and he derives immense satisfaction from helping them navigate the path toward their next professional adventure.

Max's advice to job seekers is grounded in the value of connections. He believes that having a well-connected recruiter within the industry you aspire to be in can open doors to companies and positions that may not be readily available on job boards. In today's competitive job market, he encourages candidates to connect with a recruiter early in their job search journey. While he advocates for candidates to continue their independent job searches, he emphasizes the benefit of having an additional set of experienced eyes on the market.

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