Position Overview
We are seeking a hands-on Millwright / Industrial Maintenance Technician to support a busy plastic injection molding manufacturing facility. This person will be responsible for keeping injection molding machines, auxiliary equipment, shop equipment, and related production systems running safely and efficiently.
The ideal candidate has direct experience maintaining and troubleshooting injection molding machinery in a manufacturing environment. This is not a facilities-only role. The right person should be comfortable diagnosing production equipment issues, completing preventive maintenance, responding to machine downtime, and supporting machine uptime on the plant floor.
Schedule And Location
- Location: Toronto / North York, ON
- Schedule: Day shift, with overtime as required
- Work environment: Plastic injection molding manufacturing facility with heat, noise, moving equipment, and PPE requirements
Key Responsibilities
- Perform preventive and predictive maintenance on plastic injection molding machines, auxiliary equipment, machine shop equipment, and production support systems.
- Troubleshoot and repair mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, pneumatic, and control-related faults on production machinery.
- Maintain, repair, test, and install motors, sensors, variable frequency drives, pneumatic/hydraulic components, and simple control systems.
- Support maintenance of injection molding machines such as Nissei, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Engel, and similar press brands, including both older and newer models.
- Respond to emergency breakdowns during production and complete scheduled repairs during planned maintenance windows.
- Read and interpret equipment manuals, mechanical drawings, electrical schematics, work orders, and maintenance instructions.
- Maintain machine safety systems, guarding, lockout procedures, and safe operating conditions.
- Work with OEMs, service providers, and production teams when additional technical support is required.
- Identify required replacement parts, critical spares, repair materials, tools, and equipment needed to keep production running.
- Record maintenance activity accurately using CMMS, logbooks, work orders, and other maintenance documentation.
- Support uptime, reliability, safety, housekeeping, and continuous improvement efforts.
Required Qualifications
- Ontario trade certification, technical diploma, apprenticeship training, or equivalent hands-on experience in industrial maintenance.
- 433A Industrial Mechanic Millwright and/or 442A Industrial Electrician certification is strongly preferred; requirements may vary depending on plant needs.
- Minimum 3 years of maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment, ideally with direct injection molding experience.
- Strong mechanical troubleshooting ability, including hydraulics, pneumatics, drives, motors, bearings, valves, pumps, sensors, and related systems.
- Electrical and controls troubleshooting experience, including motors, VFDs, sensors, basic PLC/control networks, and machine safety circuits.
- Ability to work independently in a hands-on maintenance role while communicating clearly with production, quality, supervision, and vendors.
- Comfortable using computers, CMMS systems, digital work orders, and maintenance records.
- Able to speak, read, and write in English and work overtime as required.
Preferred Experience
- Direct maintenance experience on injection molding presses and related auxiliaries.
- Experience with Nissei, Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Engel, or similar injection molding machines.
- Familiarity with hot runners, mold temperature controllers, thermolators, conveyors, dryers, granulators, robots, and other injection molding support equipment.
- Experience in plastics, automotive plastics, consumer goods, furniture components, or other high-volume molded product manufacturing.
- Forklift, scissor lift, overhead crane, WHMIS, lockout/tagout, 5S, or reliability improvement experience.
Key Attributes
- Strong diagnostic mindset and ability to find root cause rather than only resetting alarms.
- Calm under production pressure and able to prioritize urgent downtime issues.
- Hands-on, practical, and comfortable working around large production machinery.
- Strong safety mindset and good communication with operators, supervisors, maintenance, quality, and outside service providers.
- Organized approach to parts, documentation, repairs, and follow-up work.
Pay: $36.00-$40.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental care
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
Work Location: In person
