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This is very much a hands-on role supporting production issues on the shop floor as part of the engineering team. Moulding experience is a must.
Benefits: Holiday 25 days (5 weeks) + bank holidays, Pension 4% Employer & 4% Employee, Life cover 2 x annual salary, free car-parking.
Responsibilities:
Develop and document processes for new production parts for the rubber moulding processes and related assembly equipment.
Injection, compression and transfer moulding.
Rubber testing/measuring supported by our in-house laboratory and fellow engineering team.
Rubber to metal or various substrate bonding.
Tooling and/or design with full support from our CAD team/in-house tooling engineering and suppliers.
Finishing and inspection
Works on rubber moulding process parameters to identify root cause of production issues, provides corrective actions.
Provides specific rubber moulding process training to machine operators as a hand over to production status.
Requirements:
Engineering discipline or equivalent experience in injection moulding, compression moulding, transfer moulding.
Hands on person with the ability to learn and understand rubber machinery.
Ability to judge key critical quality characteristics of rubber-based products.
Ability to manage projects and timescales to meet customer requirements.
Experience in a cross-functional-cultural work environment/team player.
Physical demands: standing, lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling, stooping, kneeling, crouching and fine-finger dexterity.
