Mold Maker Journeyman

  • Full-time
  • Department: Operations
  • Location: Lapel

Company Description

About O-I

Remember the last time you opened a bottle of champagne? A cold beer after a hard day’s work or a bottle of sparkling mineral water to quench your thirst? Well, it was probably made by us. We are O-I and we love that we make more glass containers than anyone in the world. 

O-I has more than a century of experience crafting pure, sustainable, brand-building glass packaging for many of the world’s best-known food and beverage brands. We are proud to provide high quality glass packaging for beer, wine, spirits, food, non-alcoholic beverages, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals. 

Job Description

The Journeyman Mold Maker will be responsible for performing new mold work, working on rough or semi-finished castings which are made into completed parts, and making corrections or changes on unused mold equipment.

Schedule: Monday - Friday day shift (with rotating weekend overtime)

Hourly Rate: $39.31

The Journeyman Mold Maker will:

  • Perform lathe work and make, without use of profile, the following equipment from semi-finished castings: molds (excluding cavity), mold holders, mold bushings (outside diameter), round bottom plates, blanks (excluding cavity), baffle holders, baffle inserts, guide rings, guide ring inserts, blow head inserts, blow head holders, and guide ring holders.
  • Perform bench work operations including blending, shaping, and matching cavities, making capacity corrections, and necessary cavity relief and pantograph work where standard numerals and monograms are used.
  • Perform mill work consisting of making molds, blanks, baffles, bottoms, funnels and odd-shaped cavities – or cavities involving flutes, rib decorations, or matches where cavity cast rack displacement must be held to close tolerances.  Responsible for grinding tapered, fly cutter arch, and other cutting tools, installing them, and making necessary mill adjustments.

The Journeyman Mold Maker should have:

  • Machine lathe and mill experience, automatic CNC mill and lathe knowledge is desirable.
  • Experience reading blueprints and drawings.
  • Experience with bench repair and welding.
  • Ability to use all precision measuring devices.

Qualifications

  • High School diploma or equivalent
  • Journeyman Mold Maker Card is required
  • Prior experience in an industrial manufacturing environment
  • CNC certification and/or CNC experience is desirable

Additional Information

What we offer at O-I:

O-I offers a very generous benefit package – some of the highlights are:

  • Vacation time and paid holidays
  • Health, dental, prescription and vision care coverage
  • Generous insurance discounts with participation in Company wellness program
  • Wellness incentive where you can earn money for your HSA or HRA
  • Group life insurance
  • Accidental death & dismemberment insurance
  • Voluntary employee and dependent life insurance
  • Weekly disability insurance
  • Paid sick time
  • Parental leave benefits
  • 401(k) retirement saving plans with defined contributions

 

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

O-I is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer committed to building a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or other protected category. 

Qualified individuals with disabilities or disabled veterans who are unable or limited in their ability to apply on this site may request reasonable accommodations by emailing [email protected].

 

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