Manufacturing Associate

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We are currently looking for a Manufacturing Associate for the Conditioning department at our Bakers facility in Monroe, NC. As a manufacturing associate, you will play a valuable role within the Conditioning department helping ensure our materials and products meet customer specifications. The conditioning department is the starting stage that produces fresh-looking metal products and prepares them for smoother, more precise processing.

The Conditioning Associate will perform a variety of tasks in the conditioning department and acquire skills on the shop floor through cross training and job rotations. Associate will perform the summarized jobs listed below.

• Adhere to and participate in company safety programs to ensure a safe work environment
• Follow all quality standards and customer specifications, including proper documentation
• Routine maintenance of all equipment
• Use measuring devices like gauges, meters, calipers and measuring tapes
• Operate heavy machinery such as forklifts and cranes

• Operate band saw and grinder following established methods and procedures to meet requirements
• Work from mill orders and procedures to cut billets, ingots, bars, shapes and other material to specified lengths, weights, and/or cut material sample from products for metallurgical use
• Stamp or mark and identify all pieces of material following established procedures and practices

• Perform a variety of non-destructive testing and inspection duties on high-temperature alloys following established methods and procedures
• Prepare and maintain all required records and reports in prescribed form and detail.
• Identify alloy to insure ordered specifications
• Mark and identify defective items following accepted practices
• Check completed items for compliance with pertinent dimensional, hardness, material coding and identification, general hardness and other specifications
• Release accepted materials for packing

• Operate the peeler to peel billets and bars to the described dimensional tolerances for superalloy, steel and titanium products
• Control and adjust tools, through speeds, and other machine parameters to maintain specified precision tolerances and surface finish.
• Maintain continuous surveillance of material as it exits the peeler to detect defects, determine the cause, and correct by making machine adjustments
• Maintain various operating supplies such as: carbide inserts, bushings, etc. Necessary for the daily operations of the machine

• Operate polisher to polish a variety of high-temperature alloy billets and bars to obtain proper surface finish for ultrasonic inspection or for shipment to customers
• Work from mill orders instructions, schedules, verbal instructions, and other data to polish billets and bars per established methods
• Load and secure proper material on the polisher table
• Change polishing belts, remove swarf, perform, and assist in maintenance, and move material to designated locations upon completion of the polish operation
• Detect and report defective material and improper equipment operations to supervision
• Maintain work area in a clean and orderly condition

• Assist, direct, check, and instruct employees to ensure proper and timely shipment of production orders to customers and depots
• Work from mill orders, sales orders, purchase orders, and schedules to plan and execute packing and shipping of customer orders
• Work with quality, labs, sales, and production departments to ensure proper documentation and compliance to specifications prior to shipment
• Maintain daily productivity records, and reports. As well as issue management reports
• Procure transportation to the desired location in compliance with customer specifications and mill instructions and technical instructions
• Choose the highest quality and least cost transportation supplier
• Maintain approved levels of supplies and initiate requisitions as necessary
• Issue released to suppliers for blanket orders
• Maintain work area and equipment in a clean and orderly condition
• Separate and compare previous day bill of ladings to order entry data and determine if a shipment is partial or complete, mark the bill of lading accordingly and distribute the bill of lading copies to the appropriate departments
• Compile…