Straight Shift Timing on Afternoon Shift (2:00PM-10:30PM) but may be required to change shifts in order to accommodate production requirements.

TG Minto Corporation is a proud division of Toyoda Gosei, a World-class automotive supplier with 67 group companies in 17 countries. With locations in Palmerston and Stratford Ontario, we are a Tier1 supplier of injection molded interior/exterior parts & assemblies to Toyota and Honda. Together we are committed to providing high quality products with a heavy focus on safety, respect and success for our Team Members.

Compensation and Benefits

• Starting wages of $24.96/hr
• Paid overtime after 40/hours per week
• Company Performance Bonuses
• Shift Premiums ranging from +$0.40 to +$0.65 (Afternoon Shift) & +$1.00 (Night Shift)

We offer a very extensive benefit program:

• Company Paid time off: Up to 10 Days + 5 Float Days to start, 15 Days + 5 Float Days (1****st full year)
• Benefits start from Day 1 – 90% Medical, 80% Dental, Variety of Paramedical Coverage ($500/service)
• Uniforms are Provided + Yearly Allowance + Yearly Safety Boot Allowance
• Employee Assistance Program provided through Manulife/Homewood
• Employee Appreciation Events and Celebrations throughout the year and $Cash Recognition Programs

General Job Description:

The successful candidate will be responsible for defect reductions, cycle time management, material usage, and process control in injection process. Flexible work hours will be necessary.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintaining all aspects of quality in the injection-molding department.
• Trials for new products, molds, and EOAT (End of Arm Tooling).
• Scrap reduction and overall productivity improvement.
• Assisting Quality Control, Tooling, Maintenance, and Paint Departments with any issues due to the molding process and working together to resolve them.
• Investigate “WHY?” in all aspects of the process and find a solution to ensure it does not happen again.
• Focus on mizen boushi activities – prevent problem from occurring before it happens.
• Trouble-shoot defects in the injection process and implement countermeasures by determining the cause of the trouble and taking steps to prevent re-occurrence.
• Scrap reduction by limiting defects to meet established targets.
• Cycle reduction on all machines by creating efficiencies for operators.
• Training set-up, leader tech and supervisors on set-up work instructions.
• Training set-up and supervisors with new products and procedures.
• Creation of work instructions for purging, mold change and before startup check.
• Documentation of all presses as well as training supervisors and set-up how to use them.
• Maintain consistent quality and production by stabilizing processes and machine functions.
• Reduce machine down time by implementing maintenance and preventative maintenance (delegate the actual repairs/maintenance to the maintenance dept.).
• Fill out MSCN’s for tool modifications, retrials, & follow-up to ensure the modifications were implemented and successful by retrial.
• Train set up techs to perform minor processing for defect trouble shooting
• Maintain charts, report daily/weekly defect activity and monthly scrap/defect ratio report.
• Support Set-up with mold changes and color changes when possible
• Work in a safe manner and maintain 5S.
• TG Minto may amend the reporting structure and/or duties and responsibilities as business needs require

Qualifications:

• 2-year college diploma; or three years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum three years in the automotive industry.
• Minimum two years of experience in a Set-Up Technician role.
• Reach truck license required.
• Lift truck license required.
• Vacuum form and injection manufacturing experience is considered an asset.

Closing Date: November 30, 2025