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Extrusion Technician I

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and your family, be your true self, and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

• Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of.
• Employees can qualify for free medical coverage in our Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO medical plan in the next calendar year.
• An excellent retirement savings plan with a high employer contribution
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program, and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries worldwide and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as the best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Plymouth, MN location in the Electrophysiology division. In Abbott’s Electrophysiology (EP) business, we’re advancing the treatment of heart disease through breakthrough medical technologies in atrial fibrillation, allowing people to restore their health and get on with their lives.

As the Extrusion Technician I, you will be responsible for providing manufacturing and engineering support to the extrusion operations.

This is a 2nd Shift position - working a 10-hour shift, Monday - Thursday, from 3pm - 1:30am.

What You’ll Work On

• Elevate productivity and quality concerns to appropriate resources
• Take initiative to be involved with leadership responsibility such as scrap reduction, cycle time reduction, setup reduction, and other continuous improvement as necessary
• Order production tooling and supply items
• Contact outside resources when necessary, such as manufacturing engineer, quality engineer or other equipment support services
• Establish an effective working relationship with operators, group lead, and department support
• Perform all tear down and set-ups for extruders and co-extruder
• Achieve and maintain extruders with established cycle time and process parameters
• Read and understand tooling prints, part prints, processes and documentation
• Fill out documentation correctly
• Perform accurate manufacturing parts inspection
• Effectively use quality equipment such as gauges, tooling scope, micrometer, ruler, etc.
• Diagnose and troubleshoot basic processing errors such as O.D, I.D., ovality, concentricity, FM, and etc.
• Understand material properties and effect it has on quality and the process
• Perform basic maintenance on extruders and auxiliary equipment such as driers, melt filter, blow off table, cutters, pullers, etc.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent required
• 1+ years extrusion experience with demonstrated experience in extrusion, tooling, troubleshooting equipment, and performing machine and process set-ups
• Experience in GMP
• Proficient computer experience

Preferred Qualifications

• 2-year technical degree preferred
• Medical Device industry experience preferred

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The base pay for this position is $19.15 – $38.35 per hour. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.