Heat Treater - 1st Shift

Precision Castparts; Groton (CT); On-site; USD 25,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Overtime Opportunities

Quarterly Incentive Bonus

Job summary

Precision Castparts in Groton, CT is seeking a heat treat operator to work under limited supervision, performing heat treating, annealing, hardening, tempering, solutionizing and aging of a wide variety of castings, following established methods and recording all required data.

You will train heat treat trainees, guide helpers, monitor furnace temperatures, adjust cycles, and ensure quality by hardness and other control checks; safety and neatness are essential in daily duties, with overtime

Qualifications

• 2 years or more of experience.
• Requires interpretation skills for tests, use and checking of reports, forms and data.
• Ability to plan work and load furnaces to avoid distortion of parts; train trainees.

Responsibilities

• Heat treat, anneal, harden, temper, or solutionize and age castings per procedures; adjust variables and maintain records.
• Perform furnace temperature checks and prepare related reports; validate thermocouples and calibration documents.
• Detect improper operation, maintain a clean work area, follow safety regulations, and assist with other tasks as required.

Skills

Heat treating

Record keeping

Training others

Education

2 years or more of experience

Job description

Compensation:

$18.75 - $28.00 (dependent on experience)

Schedule:

Monday - Friday 7:00am to 3:30pm

Incentives

Overtime Opportunities + Quarterly Incentive Bonus

Purpose

Under limited supervision, perform all required operations to heat treat a wide variety of company product castings following established methods and procedures; maintain required records. Train heat treat trainees and guide heat treat helpers and trainees as required.

Essential Job Functions

• Work from route cards, heat treat procedures and any special instruction supplied to heat treat, anneal, harden and temper, or solutionize and age a wide variety of castings of various materials and alloys. Temperatures, time cycles, quench atmosphere and other variables are specified. The heat treater must set and adjust variables, load furnace following established practice, and operate as necessary to comply with established procedures. Withdraw and quench or cool parts as directed. Maintain all required operation records; change recording instruments charts and perform other related duties as required. Submit parts and/or test bars for hardness, tensile strength, elongation and other control checks following established practice.
• Perform periodic furnace temperature checks using test thermocouples and potentiometers to obtain temperature readings in various specified interior areas. Maintain all required records, and prepare related reports. Perform acceptance checks on incoming thermocouples and calibration documentation.
• Detect and report improper operation and unusual conditions to proper supervisor. Maintain work area and equipment in a clean and orderly condition. Follow prescribed safety regulations. Perform a variety of other tasks of equal or lesser complexity as assigned by supervisor.

Special Skills And Physical Requirements

• Perform heat treating and related operation; maintain required records. Requires the use of judgment to plan work, load furnaces and trays properly to avoid distortion of parts, train the heat treat trainees, maintain records and perform other job duties.
• Continuous mental or visual attention in loading, operating, running tests and checks, maintaining records and other duties involving constant alertness.

Reporting Relationships

• Reports to the Finishing lead person and Finishing supervisor.

Education And Experience

• Use ordinary arithmetic, charts, and tables.
• Make simple use of charts, tables and specifications.
• Requires interpretation skills for various tests, use and checking or reports, forms records and comparable data.
• 2 years or more of experience