A professional who sets up and repairs variety of plastic fabricating machines that weld and assemble components into plastic products and print decorative logos onto products. Responsibilities include:

• Mounts, aligns, and bolts fixtures, dies, and welding heads onto plastic fabricating machines, such as hot-stamping, silk screening, ultrasonic welding, and automatic assembling and stamping machines, following verbal instructions and using variety of wrenches.
• Turns knobs or dials to set controls, such as pneumatic stamping pressure, dwell time, conveyor speed, and ram and horizontal stroke of machines.
• Positions rolls of foil onto feed reels and threads foil around guides onto takeup reels to secure foil on machines.
• Starts machines to obtain sample products, and examines samples for production defects.
• Readjusts machine controls or realigns dies or fixtures as necessary to correct detected defects in products, utilizing knowledge and experience of machine operations.
• Examines moving machine parts during production operations and removes and replaces worn and frayed machine parts as needed to ensure that machines function smoothly.
• May fabricate replacement dies, using bandsaw, knife, hand file, and drill press.