Machine operator - plastics processing

• Work Term: Permanent


• Work Language: French


• Hours: 40 hours per week


• Education: Secondary (high) school graduation certificate


• Experience: 1 year to less than 2 years

Work setting

• Plastic parts divisions of companies
• Plastic products manufacturers
• Plastics manufacturing
• Plastics processing industry
• Aluminum rolling, casting and extruding plant

Tasks

• Troubleshoot and make minor adjustments to equipment
• Weigh resins, colorants and other chemicals according to formulae
• Monitor and inspect quality of material produced
• Place weighed materials in mixing machines
• Set up and operate calender machines to transform plastic bales or slabs into continuous sheets or films of specified thickness
• Adjust calender rollers for production line change
• Set up and operate extruding machines to extrude plastic compound...