Precision Sheet Metal Assembler I

Solar Turbines Incorporated; Gardena (CA); On-site; USD 33,000 - 50,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

401(k) plans

Paid time off

HSA

FSAs

Career development

Bonus eligibility

Life Insurance

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Caterpillar Inc. in Gardena, California, is seeking a skilled assembler to lay out, join, form, and install prefabricated sheet, tubular, machined and formed parts, ensuring accuracy through brazing prep, deburr, and fit checks.

You will work from written and verbal instructions, build subassemblies, operate core fabricating equipment, finish parts to close tolerances, and contribute to a safety‑conscious, team‑oriented environment with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
• Willing to work any shift.
• Experience using hand tools and/or power tools.
• Balance experience.

Responsibilities

• Work from written and verbal instructions to lay out, assemble and install prefabricated sheet, tubular, machined, mechanical, and formed parts to build up subassemblies and assemblies
• Prepare mixtures of braze alloys and adhesives and apply to various assemblies prior to furnace brazing
• Prepare and apply proper stopoff
• Perform complete setup for any cell size and operate core fabricating machines to fabricate metal honeycomb cores per specifications
• Hand finish machined and other parts and assemblies to close tolerances, involving varied contours, holes, radii, angles and flanges
• Operate material pouring equipment and such processing equipment as degreasers, metal finishing machines and ovens
• Identify materials, parts and assemblies as required
• Prepare surfaces of parts and assemblies prior to painting
• Includes cleaning, sanding and masking
• Operate on-line, computer-aided x-ray equipment where film developing and certification are not required
• Loads, unloads and operates fuel control test fixtures
• Verifies and records data from testing process

Skills

Shift work

Hand tools

Power tools

Balance experience

Education

High school diploma, GED, or equivalent

Job description

Caterpillar Inc. in Gardena, California, is seeking a skilled assembler to lay out, join, form, and install prefabricated sheet, tubular, machined and formed parts, ensuring accuracy through brazing prep, deburr, and fit checks.

You will work from written and verbal instructions, build subassemblies, operate core fabricating equipment, finish parts to close tolerances, and contribute to a safety‑conscious, team‑oriented environment with comprehensive benefits.