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.

Additional Responsibilities:

General Plant 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 Band saw operator

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 Final Inspector 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

Peeler operator

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 Polisher operator

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 Shipping and Receiving 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…