Glass Forming Technician

Primary Functions

• Acquires relevant information upon turnover on the following: defects encountered, corrective and preventive actions taken, actual operations and performance of the GF machineries and equipment during the preceding shift.
• Reports promptly to his assigned shop to relieve the outgoing GF Technician.
• Gets sample bottles from all cavities and inspects for possible defects and discusses immediately with GF Engineer for action plans to correct defects.
• Weighs the sample bottles and adjusts appropriate feeder parameters to meet the desired weight and plots the weights on the MOR.
• Replaces defective mold, finish equipment and other machine variables.
• Assist GFS Technician in some major repairs and or removal of defective mechanisms.
• Assist GF engineer in determining/troubleshooting bottle defects.
• Swabs the cavity of the blank molds, bottom plate, neck rings, plunger and thimble in the...