Plastic Former - Tulsa, OK, United States - Trinity Employment Specialists

Description

• Setup and operate thermoforming machines and troubleshooting problem areas
• Operating shear to cut plastic

• Must be able to read a tape, blueprints, micrometers and calipers
• Form and inspect parts per customer specifications
• Ability to move items weighing 50 lbs without assistance on a routine basis
• Ability to work in a non climate-controlled environment
• Assists other departments when necessary
• Maintain safe work environment
• Click in and out of work orders with accurate information

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• Set up, operate, or tend machines to extrude or draw thermoplastic or metal materials into tubes, rods, hoses, wire, bars, or structural shapes.
• Measure and examine extruded products to locate defects and to check for conformance to specifications, adjusting controls as necessary to alter products.
• Determine setup procedures and select machine dies and parts, according to specifications.
• Start machines and set controls to regulate vacuum, air pressure, sizing rings, and temperature, and to synchronize speed of extrusion.
• Reel extruded products into rolls of specified lengths and weights.
• Install dies, machine screws, and sizing rings on machines that extrude thermoplastic or metal materials.
• Change dies on extruding machines, according to production line changes.
• Clean work areas.
• Troubleshoot, maintain, and make minor repairs to equipment.
• Weigh and mix pelletized, granular, or powdered thermoplastic materials and coloring pigments.
• Test physical properties of products with testing devices such as acid-bath testers, burst testers, and impact testers.
• Load machine hoppers with mixed materials, using augers, or stuff rolls of plastic dough into machine cylinders.
• Maintain an inventory of materials.
• Adjust controls to draw or press metal into specified shapes and diameters.
• Replace worn dies when products vary from specifications.
• Select nozzles, spacers, and wire guides, according to diameters and lengths of rods.
• Operate shearing mechanisms to cut rods to specified lengths.