Molding Operator

Syntec Optics

Posted 2 months ago

Full Time

Rochester, New York

In Person

Smart Summary

Responsibilities

The Molding Operator is responsible for operating injection molding machines and performing visual inspections of components to ensure quality. They must also maintain production records, manage packaging, and keep the work area clean and safe.

Qualifications

This role requires a high school diploma or GED and at least one year of factory-related experience. Key responsibilities include operating injection molding machines, performing visual inspections, and maintaining production records. Candidates must possess good hand-eye coordination, manual dexterity, and basic math skills.

Job Description

 

Job Summary:

Performs repetitive workstation or line assembly operations to mass-produce components or to assemble those components: Follow standard work methods and practice safe work habits to ensure production is as efficient and safe as possible.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Injection molding machine operation.
  • Visual inspection of molded components.
  • Completes required production reports that includes cycle times, number of scrap and down time.
  • Detects and reports defective materials or questionable conditions to the floor lead or department supervisor.
  • Follows written documentation/procedures for specific jobs.
  • Trims, de-gates and/or clips parts as needed.
  • Assists in reclaiming inserts.
  • Prepares packaging for following shift operator.
  • Complete tasks as directed by production schedules with minimum supervision. 
  • Maintains the work area and equipment in a clean orderly condition and follows prescribed safety regulations.
  • Must be familiar with the basic machine function to perform the tasks stated above.
  • Enters production data into IQMS. 

Additional Responsibilities:

  • When requested, may work on special projects and various related assignments.
  • May be required to work in various areas of production.
  • Performs other related duties and assignments as required.

Physical Demands and Work Environment: 

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.   Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  While performing the duties of this job, the employees is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.  The employee frequently is required to talk, hear, and use machinery.  The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.  The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to loud.

Must adhere to all safety precautions, including wearing appropriate safety equipment. 

Education, Skills and Experience:

  • High school diploma or GED required
  • Minimum 1 year factory related experience 
  • Hand/eye coordination and manual dexterity
  • Math skills

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee.  He/she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other responsible duties as requested by his/her supervisor.

Syntec Optics is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Applicants are free to apply without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, age, disability or veteran status or any other Federal or State legally protected classes. Read our EOE Policy Statement.

 

Syntec Optics

Syntec Optics (Nasdaq: OPTX) is an American optics and photonics manufacturing company located in Rochester, NY. The company develops, manufactures, and assembles custom optical solutions for defense & security, medical, and virtual reality applications. The company was originally started as Syntec in 1981. In 1997 Boston-based entrepreneur Al Kapoor started acquiring Syntec with its other affiliates and founded Syntec Optics. Its customers include leading multinationals, innovative defense contractors, and pioneering start-ups. Syntec Optics pioneered polymer optics that allowed plastics to replace glass as an effective, bio-compatible, and less expensive solution for optics. New nano-technology techniques like HRDT (High Refraction Diamond Turning) for newly invented highly engineered resins further enabled radical innovations that led to a dramatic reduction in product costs - as high as 50% in some cases. In 2016, the White House declared Optics and Photonics as America’s competitive advantage globally. Syntec Optics was a key partner of the team invited for the new Rochester, NY Photonics Institute announcement at the White House led by the Research Foundation of the State University of New York (RF SUNY). Syntec Optics has created hundreds of new jobs in Rochester, NY. Syntec Optics has become North America’s largest polymer optics assembly and opto-mechanical component provider. Renovation and development of a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility of more than 85,000 sq. ft. in size, built on over 7 acres of land, has allowed co-location of its polymer optics and optics assembly division with its optical mold, diamond turning optics, and optical coating division. Syntec’s affiliated opto-mechanicals division, called Wordingham Technologies, has also co-located. Offerings from all divisions are combined at the same location in the City of Rochester, NY, to make plastic optics assemblies for the full light spectrum.
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