Fabrication & Finishing Technician

Globe Composite Solutions; Stoughton (MA); On-site; USD 32,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

Globe Composite Solutions in Stoughton, MA is seeking a versatile shop floor technician to drive lamination, painting and macrosphere processing tasks. You will follow process sheets, inspect parts, prepare materials, operate weighing and bagging equipment, and help maintain a safe, productive manufacturing area.

You will perform lamination, bonding, fiberglassing, painting and macrosphere steps, ensure quality, and support preventive maintenance and inventory processes on the shop floor.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Manufacturing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lamination and bonding of parts per process sheets and drawings.
• Inspect parts for dimensional qualities and readiness for each step.
• Prepare materials and schedule daily lamination tasks to meet customer demand.
• Read process sheets, trim and dry-fit blocks, and record lot information.
• Bond blocks or finished parts to drawings or process sheets and prepare for shipment.
• Participate in fiberglassing activities, including glass layout and resin preparation.
• Maintain safety and housekeeping standards in the lamination, painting, and macrosphere areas.

Skills

Lamination

Bonding

Fiberglassing

Painting

Macrosphere processing

Education

High school diploma or equivalent

Tools

Weighing equipment

Measuring scales

Vacuum bagging

Job description

Hourly Rate: $23.00- $25.00 Plus Annual Bonus

Shifts: M-F 7:00 am 3:30 pm, M- TH 6:30 am- 5:00 pm, Tu- F 6:30 am- 5:00 pm

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

Lamination and Bonding

• Understands safety and procedural issues for the process
• Reads and understands the production process instruction sheet, including identification of all relevant materials and equipment
• Reads and understands part drawings and identifies important details and dimensions
• Inspects parts for dimensional qualities
• Inspects parts for lamination or secondary process readiness
• Ensures material and supplies availability for upcoming production
• Schedules daily lamination tasks to ensure optimum throughput to meet customer demand
• Cleans and maintains mix and weighing equipment
• Performs secondary operations (i.e. insert installation) when necessary
• Bonding

• Reads and understands process sheet and/or packing slip
• Trims and dry fits blocks prior to bond process
• Records all lot information onto process sheets
• Weighs out adhesives and prepares bagging/bonding materials
• Bonds and vacuum bags blocks or finished parts to meet drawing or process sheet specifications
• Trim/package or crate items for shipment
• Fiberglassing
  • Reads and understands part drawings for glass layout and thickness details
  • Prepares work area for glassing process
  • Cuts/prepares fiberglass for lay-up process
  • Properly weighs and mixes resins for lay-up
  • Performs layout process including vacuum bagging when required
  • Trims and finishes parts, including sanding and readies part for final coatings
  • Inspects and prepares final parts for shipment
• Prepares equipment preventive maintenance schedule
• Participates in inventory assessment of raw materials and data collection
• Evaluates supplies status and notifies or orders supplies

Painting

• Understands safety and procedural issues for the process
• Reads and understands production process instruction sheet and identifies all relevant materials and equipment
• Prepares coatings and processing equipment per manufacturer specifications
• Prepares syntactic/composite part surfaces for coatings to ensure final product meets customer requirements, including but not limited to:
  • Surface repair (patching and/or glassing)
  • Sanding and gloss coat
  • Priming
• Coats parts per customer requirements
• Cures and finishes parts per customer requirements
• Maintains paint booth and finishing area to ensure safety and production standards are met
• Inspects and prepares final parts for shipments
• Prepares equipment preventive maintenance schedule
• Participates in inventory assessment of raw materials and data collection
• Evaluates supplies status and notifies or orders supplies
• Participates in evaluation and development of new coatings and/or coating techniques

Macrosphere processing

• Understands safety and procedural issues for macrosphere process
• Maintains a clean work area and general housekeeping of all equipment and scales
• Identifies all relevant equipment
• Reads and understands batch cards and identifies materials used in the process
• Inspects/evaluates incoming starting beads for processing
• Accurately loads tumbler(s) with starting materials and initiates process (heating/tumbling)
• Properly applies coats by accurately weighing and transferring material
• Accurately fills out batch cards with required information
• Performs water displacement or pycnometer density checks during process?? This was an error. It is corrected below.
• Performs water displacement or pycnometer density checks during process
• Unloads and screens finished product, attains batch weights and prepares QC samples
• Replenishes raw materials and supplies
• Prepares equipment preventive maintenance schedule
• Cleans and maintains tumbler
• Processes experimental batches with new materials or possible process improvements

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Manufacturing experience preferred

Physical Demands

• Must be able to lift, push and pull greater than 50 pounds. With the occasional need to lift up to 100 pounds
• Must be able to stand for long periods of time.
• Must be able to walk through a large manufacturing environment.
• Must be able to use hand tools
• Constant use of hands to handle, control or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Repetitive hand and arm movements.
• Occasional bending and twisting.
• Frequently moving about to accomplish tasks.
• Constantly communicating with others to exchange information.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to wear PPE as necessary (safety glasses, hearing protection, steel toe shoes, etc.).

About Globe

Globe Composite Solutions designs, engineers and manufactures high performance composites for Defense, Marine, and Industrial applications.
Originally founded in 1890 as a rubber company in downtown Boston, Globe has evolved into a full-service, design-to-manufacturing company with a passion to meet demanding performance requirements for a wide variety of applications. The company possesses a broad set of design, prototyping, and manufacturing capabilities to address just about any product challenge. As a result, the company has built a solid reputation among its Fortune 1000 customer base as an innovative and reliable provider of cost-effective composite-based solutions.
Globe Composite Solutions is truly an "American-made" company, with virtually all design, tooling, prototyping, and production services supported in-house at our state-of-the art Design & Technology Center located in Stoughton, MA. Globe Composite is part of the Aerospace & Defense Group of ESCO Technologies Inc. (NYSE: E