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    "description": "<h2>Overview</h2>\n<p>Hayward Holdings Inc. (NYSE \"HAYW\") is the largest manufacturer of residential swimming pool equipment in the world, with a significant presence in the commercial pool market that is continuously growing. Hayward designs, manufactures, and markets a full line of residential and commercial pool and spa equipment including pumps, filters, heating, cleaners, salt chlorinators, automation, lighting, safety, flow control and energy solutions at our company owned facilities. Headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, Hayward also has facilities in Tennessee, Arizona, and Rhode Island as well as Canada, Spain, France, Australia, and China. <strong>This position is based in Clemmons, NC.</strong><strong>  This position is 2nd shift, 2:45pm - 11:00pm.</strong></p>\n<p> </p>\n<p><strong><u>Position Overview:</u></strong></p>\n<p>The essential responsibilities of this position include learning how to install molds into molding machines, set up automation, secondary, and auxiliary equipment in a safe, correct, and efficient manner. This candidate must always strive to improve the quality and stability of the manufacturing process. The majority of this position is gaining a basic knowledge of all in house machinery – knowledge of machine safety, machine functions and molding vocabulary. 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Continuously look for changeover process improvement.</li>\n <li>Mold changes and setups require the use of magnetic platens and traditional mold setting techniques.</li>\n <li>Develop and demonstrate a basic knowledge of all in house machinery – knowledge of machine safety, machine functions, and molding machine vocabulary.</li>\n <li>Robotics – Change End-of-Arm Tooling (EOAT), load programs, starts, stops, and step through programs on multiple machines.</li>\n <li>Processing – Load predefined part recipes, and verify to process sheet.</li>\n <li>Materials – Identify various material types and understand general resin drying parameters.</li>\n <li>Quality Systems – Demonstrate an understanding of molding defects, read blueprints, read and follow Quality Instructions (QI), demonstrated use of gauges, complete start-up check sheet.</li>\n <li>Maintain or improve the quality of the manufacturing process.</li>\n <li>Technical Communication – The ability to communicate on a technical level.</li>\n <li>Insure that all machines are operating at standard cycle times and operating efficiencies, as well as producing quality parts. 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