Steel Heat Treater - 2nd Shift

Job Description - Steel Heat Treater A - 2nd Shift (335095)

335095

Textron Aviation has been inspiring the journey of flight for nine decades through the iconic and beloved Cessna and Beechcraft brands. We are passionate advocates of aviation, empowering people with the freedom of flight. As you join our legacy as a global leader in private aviation, you’ll have opportunities to try new fields, expand your skills and knowledge, stretch your abilities, and build your career.

We provide a competitive and extensive total rewards package that includes pay and innovative benefits to support you and your family members – now and in the future, beginning day one. Your success is our success.

To plan and perform heat treat, age harden, conductivity and hardness testing on steel and aluminum aircraft parts. Responsible for the safe operation of all equipment in the work area. May be required to assist lower grade operators.

• Work from shop routers, specifications, and standard detailed instructions to plan and perform heat treating operations, including annealing, tempering, normalizing and/or age on a wide variety of aircraft parts.
• Determine the proper operation sequence and control settings (temperature, soak time, type of atmosphere, and vacuum); based on cross referencing the shop routers/specifications/part geometry and engineering drawings. Heat treat parts to these required specifications utilizing established operating procedures.
• Set up and operate heat treating equipment such as generators, infra-analyzer, and atmospheric control tempering furnaces or vacuum furnaces. May input sequence of events in work center console.
• Select and position parts in racks according to size, shape, alloy and number to be heat treated and visually inspect to ensure warpage is kept to a minimum. Ensure holding fixtures are of noncontaminative materials.
• Determine how parts should be loaded to ensure proper alignment of brazed parts and keep warpage to a minimum. Select proper filler alloy, prepare joints, and apply braze to joint per engineering drawing and specification requirements.
• Maintain records on a variety of aircraft parts according to date, time, dew point reading, lot number and temperature.
• Measure conductivity and/or hardness of material following heat treat operations to determine compliance with quality standards
• Use a variety of equipment, hand tools and precision measuring instruments to complete the work.
• Visually checks indicator gauges as to temperature and atmospheric conditions in furnaces and ensures that they stay within specification limits during heat treat process.
• Responsible for quality of own work.
• Performs other duties as required.

Must have a high school diploma, an equivalent certificate, or a bronze level Work Keys certification.

Requires a minimum three years of heat treat experience. Required to successfully complete and maintain required certifications and training.

Disagreeable working conditions due to heat, fumes and exposure to hot oils and open flames.

Textron Aviation Inc. must comply with U.S export control laws and regulations. If a position requires access to sensitive information controlled under these laws and regulations, a successful applicant must be eligible to meet any requirements to access controlled information.

Join Textron Aviation’s Kansas team and you may be eligible for a $5,000 state of Kansas Aviation tax credit for up to five years. Visit the provided information for more details.

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