Position: HEAD OF MECHANICAL ENGINEER - PLASTIC INJECTION MOLDING MACHINES.
Deadline: 22 Oct 2023.
Date posted: 07 Oct 2023.
Location:Dar es Salaam.
Description:
Responsibilities
- To plan for routine maintenance of company’s production machines
- Responsible for planning, scheduling, and coordination of all plannable maintenance work performed within the company.
- Planning work schedule for maintenance technicians and machine operators
- Troubleshoots mechanical issues.
- Responsible for production, installation, maintenance, and repair of mechanical equipment
- Conducts general mechanical maintenance.
- Develop and install all new injection molding equipment and document all implementation processes for all molded products.
- Prepare all specifications of all plastic processes and execute all gages to maintain optimal quality and assist to design all control plans.
- Read and interpret blueprints, technical diagrams and label system components.
- Manage plastic injection and blowing molding tool design, fabrication, process parameter development and validation during process development and qualification.
- Drive analytical modelling and analysis of plastic Injection and blowing molding tooling concepts and design. Identify potential new tooling concepts and processes.
- Apply knowledge of plastics and material science to support the development of critical components from resin to finished product.
- Hand on material analysis, prototype development and testing
- Develop and optimize secondary operations such as ultrasonic welding, laser welding, surface enhancements.
- Installation and startup of development or production equipment.
- Standard PPE will be provided.
- Engineering Designs and Analysis with an emphasis in structural foam plastic injection molded parts, processes, and tooling
- Calibrate instruments to adapt to the specific needs.
- Work standard computations relating to mechanical load requirements of wiring.
Requirements
- Degree or Diploma in Mechanical Engineering or any other related field.
- 5+ years’ relevant experience as a Mechanical Engineer/Maintenance Engineer/or a Production Engineer in a busy plastics manufacturing company
- Good knowledge of plastic Injection Molding Machine.
- Ability to troubleshoot, repair or replace all components of Injection Molding machines.
- Experience in the production process and supervising a team.
- MUST have experience from a plastics company.
- Technical knowledge and experience in machine maintenance
- Knowledge of quality systems and standards
- Knowledge of health and safety standards and compliance
- Experience managing a team.