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Jacket Operator - Day Shift
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An Extruder Machine Operator operates and maintains machines that extrude or draw out thermoplastic or metal materials into hoses, bars, tubes, rods, wires, or structures.
$41,292 / year median in Texas
+11% projected growth
Job Description
Mount Pleasant, TX Order:
34960Order Type :
Temp Now Hiring! Day Shift Jacket Operator in Mt. Pleasant, TX! We are seeking a reliable and detail-oriented Jacket Operator to join our manufacturing team. This role is responsible for Set up, operate, or tend machines to extrude or draw thermoplastic or metal materials into tubes, rods, hoses, wire, bars, or structural shapes.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
include the following. Other duties may be assigned.- Determine setup procedures and select machine dies and parts, according to specifications.
- Troubleshoot, maintain, and make minor repairs to equipment.
- Execute tear down, set-up, and start up procedures
- Change dies on extruding machines according to production line changes.
- Measure and examine extruded products to locate defects and to check for conformance to specifications, adjusting controls as necessary to alter products.
- Start machines and set controls to regulate vacuum, air pressure, sizing rings, and temperature, and to synchronize speed of extrusion.
- Reel extruded products into rolls of specified lengths and weights.
- Load machine hoppers with necessary materials
- Maintain an inventory of materials.
- Weigh and mix pelletized, granular, or powdered thermoplastic materials and coloring pigments.
- Replace worn dies when products vary from specifications.
- Maintain clean work area.