Blow Moulding Technician

Company Description

Alto is one of New Zealand’s leading rigid plastic packaging companies with plenty of prospects for future career development
- Work for a multinational company
- Afternoon shift
- Industry based training, plenty of scope for skills enhancement

**About the Company**:
Alto is a subsidiary of the multinational PACT Group and one of New Zealand’s leading rigid plastic packaging companies. We deliver high quality plastic household products through sophisticated technologies, with a depth of innovative design and advanced manufacturing competencies. We have been operating for over 62 years and today have eight plants in New Zealand (NZ) and four sites in Australia.

**Job Description**:
We’re looking for a mechanically minded person to work as part of the operational team, providing Extrusion Blow Moulding specific technical services. The role is about ensuring the efficient running of the production machinery and ensuring the process has the capability to meet all facets of the customer’s requirements in a manner that does not compromise the safety of the team members.

This role is day shift, 3.00pm - 11.00pm Monday to Friday.

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Performing die changes on all Extrusion Blow Moulding equipment, including setup of ancillary equipment
- Ensuring that the product is up to quality specifications at start up
- Assisting with the efficient operation of the production area
- Carry out routine maintenance on work centres
- Trouble shooting problems with machines, tools, and ancillaries

**We’re looking for**:

- Plastics Trade qualification Level 4 or similar
- Extrusion Blow Mould processing experience
- Flexibility and the ability to work day shift primarily
- Experience working in a plastics manufacturing environment across multiple production processes
- A well-organised and disciplined approach to work
- A great attitude - have this and we are willing to train and develop you
- Knowledge of and experience working in a Continuous Improvement environment

This is an opportunity to join a leader in the manufacturing industry. Our Pact Packaging division is pioneering a whole of product life cycle approach to sustainable packaging. Partnering with global brands to local dairy producers, we integrate supply chain efficiencies and sustainable practices into everything we design and manufacture.

**About this opportunity**

Reporting to Team leader/Shift supervisor.

**Your key responsibilities will be to**:
**OH&S Responsibilities**:

- Participate in any risk management process as outlined by the company.
- Responsible for completing a “Hazard Identification report” for occupational health & safety issues that may cause an accident/incident and reporting to Team leader or Safety Committee Member.
- Responsible for reporting any injuries that may be sustained.
- Responsible for taking reasonable care to avoid injuries.

**General Responsibilities**:

- Assist the Team leader in maintaining production quality and output to specified standards.
- Assist the Team leader in ensuring that products are manufactured and packed in accordance with specifications.
- Conducts machine setting changes to ensure quality and efficiency meet specifications and efficiency targets.
- Address processing concerns identified by QC checks
- Ensure all machines are in a well-maintained condition and routine machine checks are carried out
- Clean up any spillage around machine.
- Ensure bags of regrind and any material left over from jobs are closed, clearly identified and labelled.
- Troubleshoot machine when a problem needs rectifying.
- Cleaning extrusion heads when instructed.
- Follow policies and procedures implemented by the company and as per Induction Handbook
- Other duties as instructed by the Team leader, which are deemed to be an appropriate part of the daily responsibilities, etc.

**Qualifications**:
**Your skills and experience**

To be successful in this role, you’ll have:

- 5 Years minimum experience as a Blow moulding Operator/Technician.
- Metal or Electrical trade qualification would be an advantage.
- Forklift license would be an advantage

Additional Information
**About us**

Our vision is to lead the circular economy through packaging, reuse and recycling solutions. It’s a future-driven group commitment, designed to create lasting value.

We’re the largest plastics recycler in Australia and New Zealand and one of the region’s biggest user of recycled materials. We have 6,000+ team members, operate 110 manufacturing facilities across 15 countries, and our customers include some of the world’s largest brands that consumers know and trust.

As a global leader in circular and sustainable packaging solutions, we’ve committed to lead the circular economy through a $500 million investment plan.

For us, it’s about finding new and better ways of doing things. Ways to grow business, to give back to the environment and to enrich people’s lives