Description
We are hiring an **Extrusion Machine Operator** to join our company in the **plastic profiles** sector.
**Job Objective:**
Ensure rapid, safe, and efficient preparation of extrusion lines, reducing setup times, increasing equipment availability, and guaranteeing product quality from the start of production.
**Key Responsibilities:**
· Perform setup and changeovers of machines / calibrators / dies on extrusion lines.
· Execute machine adjustments (temperature, pressure, speed, calibration) prior to part launch.
· Act directly to reduce setup time (SMED), identifying and implementing improvements together with the process engineer.
· Prepare materials, consumables, and fixtures before changeovers to avoid unnecessary downtime.
· Support operators during machine startups.
· Identify and eliminate process waste (time, motion, rework).
· Collaborate with maintenance, quality, and production teams to optimize the process.
· Follow operational standards and propose continuous improvements.
· Maintain area organization (5S).
· Specific Setup Reduction Activities
· Categorize activities as: Internal (with machine stopped) and External (with machine running).
· Convert internal activities into external ones whenever possible.
· Standardize tools and changeover processes.
· Use quick-setup checklists.
· Prepare setup kits in advance.
· Reduce fine-tuning through standards and parameterization.
**Requirements:**
· Completed high school education
· Experience in extrusion (plastics, films, tubes, profiles, etc.)
· Hands-on experience with industrial machine setup
· Extrusion processes
· Reading machine parameters
· SMED (Single-Minute Exchange of Die) concepts
· Basic knowledge of continuous improvement (Lean Manufacturing)
· Fundamental metrology
· Technical course preferred (plastics, mechanics, production, or related fields)
**Advantages:**
Experience with Lean projects
Participation in Kaizen events
Knowledge of process standardization
Working hours: 6:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Join our team!
Compensation: R$1\.518,00 \- R$3\.680,29 per month
Benefits:
* Medical assistance
* Profit sharing
* Life insurance
* Meal allowance
* Food voucher
Work location: On-site