Scraping, Painting & Assembly Technician

Scope and Responsibilities:

Essential duties include, but are not limited to the following:

Responsibilities Include:

• Proactively maintains a safe and healthy work environment for all employees.
• Movement of parts to necessary locations using overhead cranes and/or forklift.
• Safe handling and protection of parts to ensure no damage.
• Maintain clean and orderly work area.
• Ability to represent the business in a positive manner with suppliers and customers.
• Utilize marking compound and rubbing plates or mating parts to determine bearing. 
• Make crane hookups and operate floor operated cranes as required to move or roll workpieces.
• Operate hydraulic rams to slide rubbing plates on work.
• Maintain equipment as required.
• Detect unusual conditions, defective material or machine malfunctions and report to proper supervision. 
• Correct alignments of both new and used finished machines.
• Level machine unit assemblies to required tolerances.
• Follows written assembly procedures.
• Tests and ensures quality standards are met such as flatness, straightness and squareness of components.
• Unit assembly work as required.
• Interprets guidance, area priorities & communicates with other departments in absence of supervisor.
• Recommends design improvements, seeks to increase efficiencies in different work areas.
• Occasional travel to customers’ sites in support of machine builds or service.
• Serves as the subject-matter expert for cleaning and paint requirements.
• Mixes different types, brands & colors of paint to proper viscosity and apply to parts.
• Steam cleans parts of varying sizes and shapes.
• Creates, updates and maintains internal procedures and documentation for the clean, pain &assembly areas.
• Updates paint and filter logs to ensure accurate record-keeping.
• Monitors inventory levels of consumable products in the paint/clean area on a weekly basis
• Grinding, Bondo application, and sanding of large components as required
• Paint and Bondo work similar to auto body craftsmanship.
• ISO 9001 &14001 awareness and compliance
• Performs other related duties as assigned

Education/Certification:

• Associate's Degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or 4 - 6 years related experience and/or training.

Skills Required:

• Forklift certification
• Overhead crane certification
• Maintain administrative records.
• Familiar with electronic business systems (SAP, HK, etc.)
• Basic Microsoft Word skills required. Microsoft Excel a plus.
• Work with English and Metric measurements
• Operate gages such as OD & ID micrometers, verniers, gage blocks, etc.
• Basic blueprint reading skills.
• Use micrometers, surface and feeler gages, surface -plates, straight edges and precision and electronic levels.
• Continual use of hand tools for various operations – drill, tap, reem, file, chip, fit, straighten, etc.
• Operate small machines – lathe, grinder, drill press, belt sander, etc.
• Experience in Bondo application
• Operate grinding and sanding equipment.
• Operate paint gun, use paint brush and rollers.
• Operate power tools on a continual basis for entire days at a time.
• Ability to interpret supervisor’s priorities to get jobs done on time and make recommended changes to schedule if required.
• Ability to interface with multiple areas on the shop floor without supervisor assistance.