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Engineering Technician - Paint Booth

  • Palmerston, ON, Canada

Starting wages at $25.96 per hour · Full-time

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Pay
Starting wages at $25.96 per hour
Job type
Full-time
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Experience
2 year college diploma; or three years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Posting language
English
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Original job description

TG Minto Corporation is a proud division of Toyoda Gosei, a World-class automotive supplier with 67 group companies in 17 countries. With locations in Palmerston and Stratford Ontario, we are a Tier1 supplier of injection molded interior/exterior parts & assemblies to Toyota and Honda. Together we are committed to providing high-quality products with a heavy focus on safety, respect and success for our Team Members.

General Job Description

Responsible for all quality defect reductions, cycle time management, material usage, and process control in paint process.

  • Maintaining all aspects of quality in the paint department
  • Troubleshooting problems in the paint process.
  • Trials for new products, equipment, tools etc.
  • Scrap reduction and overall productivity improvement.
  • Assisting Quality Control, Tooling, Maintenance, and Injection Departments with any issues due to the paint process and working together to resolve them.
  • Investigate “WHY?” in all aspects of the process and find a solution to ensure it doesn’t happen again.

Focus on Kaizen activities – prevent problem from occurring before it happens

Compensation And Benefits

  • Starting wages at $25.96 per hour
  • Paid overtime after 40/hours per week

We Offer a Very Extensive Benefit Program

  • Company Paid time off: Up to 10 Days + 5 Float Days to start, 15 Days + 5 Float Days (1st full year)
  • Benefits start from Day 1 – 90% Medical, 80% Dental, Variety of Paramedical Coverage ($750/service)
  • Uniforms are Provided + Yearly Allowance + Yearly Safety Boot Allowance
  • Employee Assistance Program provided through Manulife/Homewood
  • Employee Appreciation Events and Celebrations throughout the year and $Cash Recognition Programs

Duties And Responsibilities

  • Trouble-shoot defects and implement countermeasures by determining the cause of the trouble and taking steps to prevent re-occurrence.
    • Scrap reduction – limit defects to meet established targets.
    • Cycle reduction – all machines, create efficiencies for operators.
    • Creation of work instructions – for all machines and some assembly.
    • Training set-up, leader tech and supervisors on set-up work instructions.
    • Training set-up and supervisors with new products and procedures.
    • Documentation of all presses and training supervisors and set-up how to use them.
    • On-call work/home as assigned.
    • Trials for new products, equipment, tools etc.
    • Maintain consistent quality and production by stabilizing processes and machine functions.
    • Reduce machine down time by implementing maintenance and preventative maintenance (delegate the actual repairs/maintenance to the maintenance dept.).
    • Fill out MSCN’s for tool modifications, retrials, & follow-up to ensure the modifications were implemented and successful by retrial.
    • Shipping trial parts.
    • Monthly scrap/defect ratio report.
    • Daily/weekly defect information – maintain charts and report activity weekly.
    • Support tool PM activities.
    • Work in a safe manner and maintain 5S.
    • TG Minto may amend the reporting structure and/or duties and responsibilities as business needs require.
Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education Or Experience

  • 2 year college diploma; or three years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Minimum three years in the automotive industry or equivalent internal experience.

Language Skills

  • Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, and technical drawings.
  • Ability to effectively present information to top management.

Mathematical Skills

  • Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference and volume.
  • Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Reasoning Ability

  • Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
  • Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Physical Demands

Duties

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 employee is:

  • Frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and talk or hear.
  • Occasionally required to reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell.
  • Occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, colour vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Straight Shift Timing on Day Shift (6:00 AM - 2:30 PM) but may be required to change shifts in order to accommodate production requirements.

Nature of vacancy: Replacement
More about this job

Responsibilities

Control and improve paint-process quality, cycle time, material usage, and productivity by troubleshooting defects, identifying root causes, and implementing countermeasures. Support product and equipment trials, develop work instructions, train team members, monitor production and defect data, and coordinate with other departments on process and tooling issues.

Requirements

Requires a two-year college diploma, three years of related experience or equivalent education and experience, and at least three years in the automotive industry or equivalent internal experience. Candidates must be able to interpret technical documents and drawings, communicate technical information, perform basic mathematical calculations, and analyze problems to determine solutions.

Skills

  • Paint Process Control
  • Troubleshooting
  • Quality Control
  • Defect Reduction
  • Scrap Reduction
  • Cycle Time Management
  • Process Stabilization
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Kaizen
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Work Instruction Development
  • Employee Training
  • Production Efficiency
  • Technical Drawing Interpretation
  • Data Analysis
  • 5S

Benefits

  • Paid Overtime
  • Paid Time Off
  • Float Days
  • Medical Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Paramedical Coverage
  • Uniforms
  • Uniform Allowance
  • Safety Boot Allowance
  • Employee Assistance Program
  • Employee Appreciation Events
  • Cash Recognition Programs

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Categories

  • Manufacturing
  • Engineering
  • Transportation
  • Security & Safety

Keywords

  • Automotive Manufacturing
  • Paint Process
  • Injection-Molded Parts
  • Quality Control
  • Process Control
  • Troubleshooting
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Countermeasures
  • Defect Reduction
  • Scrap Reduction
  • Cycle Time
  • Material Usage
  • Kaizen
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Tooling
  • Equipment Trials
  • Product Trials
  • Work Instructions
  • Employee Training
  • Production Efficiency
  • Process Stabilization
  • Machine Functions
  • Tool Modifications
  • Scrap Reporting
  • Technical Drawings
  • 5S
  • Safety
  • Automotive Tier 1 Supplier

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