Manufacturing Associate
Allegheny Technologies Incorporated
- Monroe, NC
- Permanent
- Full-time
From the edges of space to the bottoms of ocean, our materials are proven to perform -- and so is our team. We're hiring high performers as proven as our products. Join us..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
- 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 all documents from mill order traveler jackets for previous day shipments and distribute them to appropriate personnel
- Separate the previous days shipping weight tickets and distribute them to the appropriate personnel
- Material handling
- Perform any other duties as required or directed by management
- Operate band saw to cut variety of materials following established methods and procedures
- Operate hand grinder to grind a variety of material to meet requirements of procedures
- 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.
- Maintain all required records and reports.
- Prepare inspection reports and documents 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 form 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
- Follow all safety regulations
- Assist, direct, check, and instruct employees to ensure proper and timely shipment of production orders to Allvac 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 in order to ensure proper documentation and compliance to specifications prior to shipment.
- Maintain daily productivity records and reports.
- Issue weekly and monthly 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 previous day bill of ladings into individual copies.
- 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 all documents from mill order traveler jackets for previous day shipments and distribute them to appropriate personnel.