Heat Treat LabTechnician
Komatsu
- Solon, OH
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Metallurgical sampling is performed according to specifications.
- Technical assistance is provided to manufacturing and support departments.
- Heat Treat inventory is organized and managed.
- Heat Treat preventive maintenance is scheduled and maintained.
- Report findings on testing & analysis according to established procedures.
- Cut and prepare samples; analyze and test sample for hardness/integrity which involves microstructure and microhardness traverses.
- Maintain instrument standards cross referenced to Joy Franklin and applicable national hardness and temperature references.
- Prepare and process all sample pins from carburize loads and complete in SAP
- Perform hardness checks on all quench and temper parts and complete in SAP.
- Maintain metallurgical records according to established procedures.
- Provide technical assistance for manufacturing operations and other departments.
- Order spare parts when necessary and maintain the inventory & organization of spare parts.
- Schedule, track and coordinate maintenance and repairs of the furnaces and related machines and maintain the metallurgy lab to maximize uptime and efficiency.
- Sprockets: run all required hardness analysis on the sprocket. Maintain hardness data base with all hardness results for each sprocket.
- Maintain all calibrations for the testing equipment in the met lab.
- Work closely with quality on any corrective actions that need to be done relating to heat treat issues.
- Serve as the backup to HT supervisor
- Complies with Komatsu safety policies and applicable government, customer or industry regulations or requirements.
- Responsibility to identify and report any unsafe work condition, workplace incident or near miss.
- Maintains orderly workshop and ensures housekeeping requirements are met.