Fabricator - 2nd Shift

Crane Company; Texas; On-site; USD 22,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Crane Company in Texas is seeking a skilled fabricator for 2nd shift, training on day shift. The role involves pre-fabrication tasks like cutting, drilling, coping, and rolling operations to assemble vacuum jacketed pipes and flex hoses into finished products.

Emphasis on safety and quality to meet customer needs. Responsibilities include cutting, kit preparation, handling material, and using hand tools and saws to prepare parts for welding, with attention to drawings and BOMs, while adhering to

Qualifications

• Must be able to read and interpret engineering drawings and BOMs.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Experience with hand tools, cutting equipment, and basic shop mathematics.
• Ability to work from verbal and written instructions and routing sheets.
• Ability to detect defects and exercise independent judgment on repair capability.

Responsibilities

• Use hand tools, table/band saws, and hydraulic press to prep pipe for welding.
• Cut pipes to various angles ensuring tight tolerance fits.
• Kit pre-fabricated material and inventory for welding.
• Read engineering drawings and BOMs to ensure correct materials and dimensions.
• Maintain safety and quality standards and document routing sheets.

Skills

Hand tools use

Read drawings

BOM interpretation

Quality awareness

Welding support

Education

High school education

Tools

Chop saws

Band saws

Calipers

Micrometers

Job description

Position Summary

This is a 2nd shift position Monday-Friday 4:30pm to 3:00am, this position will train on day shift.

This role is responsible for pre-fabrication tasks comprised of cutting, drilling, coping, and rolling operations of piping/tubing/flex/spiral wrap and material kitting to manufacture vacuum jacketed pipes and flex hoses into a finished products while maintaining standards in safety and quality in order to meet the customer’s needs.

Principle Responsibilities

• Uses primarily hand tools, table saws, band saws, and hydraulic press to prepare pipe for welding
• Cuts pipes to various angles (miter, cope, fish mouth, hole punches) ensuring tight tolerance fit
• Waterjet machining experience considered a plus
• Receives, issues, stores, and inspects material and parts as required to fulfill production order.
• Kits pre-fabricated material and inventory items in preparation for welding.
• Examines pipe and/or hoses and parts to be assembled to assure they are correct, including size, material and machining and consults Supervisor or Leader on questionable issues.
• Assures that assembly parts are available.
• Pick-up and delivers kitted parts to the designated work area(s).
• Pick-up and delivers the order card(s) to the appropriate planner as noted on the card.
• Uses computer system to make inquiries and track availability of inventory.
• Closes work orders.
• Assembles parts in established sequence through established procedures to assure quality of fit and operation.
• Coordinates associated paperwork to record test results for documentation accompanying shipments
• Read ands interprets engineering drawings and BOMS to ensure proper cuts are made dimensionally correct and proper material is used.
• Trims parts, and pipe and/or hoses linings to assure proper fit.
• Adjusts pipe and/or hoses parts to assure proper fit.
• May assemble standard pipe and/or hoses and specialty pipe and/or hoses
• Sets up and performs special testing based on routing sheet specifications.
• Assures that all routing sheet specifications are accomplished.
• Exercises judgment on product quality regarding casting quality, machining and fit.
• Assists in packaging of finished goods into the appropriate shipping container (box, crate, pallet, etc.)
• Verifies and records heat numbers and material markings for various customers.
• Advises coworkers and Team Leader of special customer requirements -- eg., special paint requirement.
• Proficiently uses hand tools to blend materials to assure proper fit.
• Participates actively in Operational Excellence and Quality processes including project team involvement, problem solving, and recommending solutions to enhance and improve the quality of departmental and/or company-wide business activities.
• Completes RTY data recordings for quality and process issues, as required
• Completes daily, weekly, and monthly 5S requirements
• Maintains safety as utmost priority and proactively reports safety issues or incidents
• Performs QAD transactions as needed to transfer and back-flush material in proper sequence to maintain accurate inventory levels and status.
• Performs other work as assigned by Supervisor or Team Leader

Qualifications/Experience

• Skill in the care and use of applicable hand and pneumatic tools and equipment.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and bills of material (BOM) .
• Ability to work from verbal and written instructions, drawings, diagrams and routing sheets.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, on conditions necessitating ingenuity, initiative and judgment.
• Product knowledge sufficient to perform “Principal Responsibilities” with little supervision needed.
• High degree of physical and mental dexterity and visual attention for sustained period required.
• Ability to detect defects in products and exercise independent judgment on repair capability.
• Experience with cutting equipment such as chop saws, circular saws, band saws, or cutting wheels.
• Working knowledge of shop mathematics.
• Previous welding experience or supporting welding functions considered a plus
• Ability to work with measurement devices (ex- rulers, measuring tapes, calipers, micrometers)
• Ability to sustain moderate physical effort, working with light to medium weight material.
• Lifting, bending, twisting, carrying, pushing and pulling are common and repetitious. Concentrated mental and visual attention in working to close tolerances is required. High degree of physical and manual dexterity and visual attention for sustained period also required.
• Ability to read and understand standard work instructions
• High school education

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop; kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell. The employee must be able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is not exposed to weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

It will be the responsibility of all employees to perform their work productively and within established production standards. All employees are required to work safely so as not to endanger themselves or others. Safety rules must be adhered to at all times.

Management reserves the right to reassign employees to other positions or duties either temporarily or permanently based on production levels or other manufacturing concerns.

This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by the employee(s) incumbent in this position. Employee(s) will be required to follow any other job-related instructions and to perform any other job-related duties requested by a person authorized to give instructions or assignments.

A review of this position has excluded the marginal functions of the position that are incidental to the performance of fundamental job duties. All duties and responsibilities are essential job functions and requirements and are subject to possible modification to reasonably accommodate individuals with disabilities. To perform this job successfully, the incumbent(s) will possess the skills, aptitudes, and abilities to perform each duty proficiently. Some requirements may exclude individuals who pose a direct threat or significant risk to the health or safety of themselves or others. The requirements listed in this document are the minimum levels of knowledge, skills, or abilities.

EOE/Women/Minorities/Veterans/Disabled

This description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work being performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.

Crane Company. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, general identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.