This is a job for a Molding Specialist position with a company located in the Cleveland, MS area.

Your Role at Baxter: This is where we make life-saving products. This position provides technical support of equipment to maintenance and process personnel, through training and driving continuous improvement in the injection molding, perform molding, blow molding and LSR molding production areas. This support includes providing direction to maintenance and process personnel in steps for validation of new machines and molds. Develop strategies and support initial setup and startup of equipment, processing, changeover activities, troubleshooting equipment and processes, and equipment care activities. Working with various cross-functional teams to maximize equipment efficiencies and provide ideas for continuous improvement opportunities. Must fully support operations on the production floor and communicate effectively with production team members.

Your Team: Baxter is focused on saving and sustaining lives by finding solutions to complex problems. Each day, the manufacturing team strives to create quality products for our customers-and are sometimes met with unforeseen issues to solve. The high-caliber talent at Baxter meets these challenges head-on, as a team, to create products with the customer's needs top-of-mind. We build relationships with each other to get work done. As a multidisciplinary environment, we are always learning from others and exchanging ideas. This means we are open to new opinions and encourage Baxter employees always to be their authentic selves and celebrate our various backgrounds. A manufacturing facility is a high-energy environment with little downtime. We have robust processes that ensure our employees are safe and healthy-both mentally and physically. We pride ourselves on being top of the line regarding cleanliness and safety.

What you'll be doing: Equipment and Process Performance. Evaluate and lead molding equipment and process improvements to ensure Safety of personnel and equipment, Quality of products and workmanship, and reaching efficiency goals while reducing waste. Use all available performance data and statistical analysis of OEE, Cavitation, Cycle Time, and Downtime reports to drive improvements in the molding departments. Equipment Care: Support maintenance and service techs to initiate/complete work orders for equipment related problems. Utilize all available information and support groups to resolve problems in a timely manner. Ensure all required documentation / communication is complete to address issues and drive appropriate resolution and capture history of issues. Support maintenance and process personnel on complex troubleshooting events of equipment and processes. Training and Continuous Improvement. Create training matrices for Production Technician and mechanic development. Train Production Technicians and Maintenance personnel in changeovers to include that setup and startup activities are accurate for molds, machines, robots, mold protection, part handling and all other steps are correct. Develop maintenance and process personnel skills to include lean maintenance practices. Work with Supervisors, Production Technicians, etc. to ensure SOPs and JIBs are accurate.

Equipment qualification: Provide support to equipment qualification/validation. Develop and approve JIBs for equipment and process work steps. Lead communication and actions with Quality, Engineering, Maintenance and Production to ensure smooth transition from validation to production use.

What you'll bring: High school diploma or GED required. Minimum 10 years related experience required. Computer proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook. RJG - Master molder certification and/or ability to achieve certification is a plus. Technologists' understanding of the machines, robots and automation is a plus. Deep understanding of Arburg, Sumitomo, Engel, Krauss-Maffei, Husky and Sidel machines and au iliary equipment Wittmann, Strelco, Motan, Staubli robots and more is a plus. Attend daily tier three meetings to support production and report on molding activities and improvements.

Equal Employment Opportunity: Baxter is an equal opportunity employer. Baxter evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.