SUMMARY: Follow the manufacturing methods and processes determined by Process Engineering, perform start-ups and make necessary adjustments to ensure that the quality of the process and product are within the standards defined during production runs. You must also manage the resources necessary to achieve the objectives as part of a team.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Perform machine and automation equipment start-ups, ensuring that product and process quality are within established standards.
- Monitor and maintain the proper functioning of production equipment and tools.
- Identify and resolve process problems in conjunction with process engineering.
- Communicate and correct any situation that poses a safety or quality risk or malfunction that affects personnel and/or work teams.
- Maintain records of parameters, monitoring, purges, and process control.
- Coordinate start-up activities, model changes, and projects.
- Maintain processes within the ranges established in the parameter sheets.
- Ensure that product and process quality are within established standards.
- Start up and use automation or peripheral equipment for production.
- Maintain order and cleanliness (5S).
- Make decisions when problems arise.
MAIN OBJECTIVES:
- Control and improvement of production processes.




- Maintain cycle times and cavitation of molds in accordance with established standards.
- Achieve and improve production start-up time objectives (SMED).
- Coordinate and question scrap to reduce costs and promote continuous improvement.
REQUIREMENTS AND SKILLS:
- High school diploma or technical degree or equivalent experience.
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in the field of plastic injection molding.
- Organized, disciplined, respectful, self-directed, proactive.
- General knowledge of injection molding process techniques.
- General knowledge of automation equipment and peripherals commonly used in the injection molding process.
- Problem-solving methodology.
- Knowledge of injection molds (mold damage analysis).
- Knowledge of Lean tools (SMED, cycle time/cavities).
- Teamwork.
- Identify anomalies for safe work.
- Personnel management.
- Knowledge of MS Office tools.
About Regal Rexnord
- The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

📌 Molding Operator (Las Ánimas)
🏢 Regal Rexnord
📍 Las Ánimas