Plastic Fabricator

COHO Consulting Group is seeking a Plastic Fabricator to support a contract at Robins AFB in Warner Robins, GA. Plastic Fabricators plan, lay out, modify, and fabricate unconventional, one‑of‑a‑kind items for one‑time projects, supporting experimental, developmental, or testing activities. They work closely with scientists and engineers to determine feasible materials and manufacturing methods for items with numerous compound curves and intersecting compound angles.

• Receive specifications of the desired final product from the supervisor. Fabricators apply originality and ingenuity in devising changes to methods, materials and processes to solve fabrication, assembly, design, and related problems.
• May involve manufacturing prototype models of missiles, wings, ship hulls or full body casts.
• Apply mathematics to calculate loads, fits, sizes and weights not provided in instructions and blueprints to overcome design flaws and lay out more complex items.
• Fabricate items to extreme close tolerances.
• Create special jigs and fixtures for holding, machining and curing irregularly shaped parts; set up and operate trade tools, equipment and measuring instruments to fabricate complex components.
• Adapt shop practices, methods and procedures for use in unorthodox processes to fit new projects.
• Establish manufacturing procedures for newly developed compound materials by experimenting with various manufacturing techniques, curing times, temperatures and pressures.
• Recommend changes to established methods to simplify the manufacturing process, improve functional characteristics of the item and establish realistic fabrication requirements.
• Plan and lay out items with hard‑to‑define reference points.
• Manufacture master patterns and molds with numerous compound curves and intersecting compound angles.

• Must have the ability to pass a government background check that includes fingerprints.

• 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Extensive knowledge of the properties and machining characteristics of a variety of composite or plastic materials.

• Workers frequently stand, stoop, bend, kneel, reach and work in uncomfortable positions.
• They frequently lift and carry materials and equipment weighing less than 50 pounds.

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