Foundry Technician II – Castings & Maintenance

KSB Company; Grovetown (GA); On-site; USD 24,796 - 34,440; Full time

Job summary

GIW Industries, Inc. (A KSB Company) seeks a Foundry Employee Level 2 to support the pouring floor operations. You will read work instructions, rig and operate cranes, test coatings, and inspect molds to ensure high-quality castings.

The role requires operating heavy equipment such as overhead cranes and mold handlers, maintaining safety, and ensuring accurate paperwork and housekeeping on a daily basis.

Qualifications

• Reading and understanding work instructions.
• Completing appropriate paperwork to ensure accuracy and accountability.
• Promoting good housekeeping and safety.
• Inspecting daily to proactively prevent downtime of tools and equipment.
• Operating the mold handler/manipulator and crane to handle molds.

Responsibilities

• Adhering to environmental health and safety regulations.
• Reading and understanding work instructions.
• Completing appropriate paperwork to ensure accuracy and accountability.
• Rigging and operating up to 40,000 pounds with an overhead crane.
• Testing mil thickness of paints to ensure a quality casting.
• Analyzing molding and casting defects to suggest corrective action.
• Removing pouring boxes, rails, and weights from poured molds.
• Stacking poured molds.
• Inspecting daily to proactively prevent downtime of tools and equipment.
• Stopping off molds and cores.
• Inspecting molds with a snake eye or mirror to ensure mold is ready to receive molten metal.
• Operating the mold handler/manipulator to close up dirt molds.
• Assembling flasks for close up.
• Setting finalized molds and flasks on the pouring floor.

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Overhead Cranes

Rigging Hardware

Forklifts

Blender

Bobcat Loader

Mold Handler/Manipulator

Job description

GIW Industries, Inc. (A KSB Company) seeks a Foundry Employee Level 2 to support the pouring floor operations. You will read work instructions, rig and operate cranes, test coatings, and inspect molds to ensure high-quality castings.

The role requires operating heavy equipment such as overhead cranes and mold handlers, maintaining safety, and ensuring accurate paperwork and housekeeping on a daily basis.