Associate Engineering Lab Technician

Victaulic Company of America

Engineering Lab Technician

2nd shift (2:30PM-12:30AM) 4 day work week

Victaulic- Global HQ- Easton, PA

About Victaulic

Since 1919, Victaulic has been the world's leading producer of grooved mechanical couplings and pipe-joining systems. Used in the most demanding markets, Victaulic's innovative piping technologies and services put people to work faster and maximize efficiency while increasing safety and ensuring reliability. The company has 13 major manufacturing facilities, 29 branches, and over 4,000 employees speaking 43 languages across the globe. With more than 1800 active global patents, Victaulic solutions operate in 125 countries across diverse business lines, including oil and gas, chemical, mining, power generation, water and wastewater treatment, military and marine, as well as commercial building and fire protection.

About the Team

The Engineering Lab is a community of 50 plus individuals that dedicate and pride themselves to the excellence of new product development testing. Our lab uses the latest and state of the art technology such as 3D printing, 3D scanning. We test products from ¼" to over 100" in diameter. We work with fire suppression systems that save people's lives, we develop products that provide clean drinking water, and products that bring natural resources out of the ground to help improve every single human's life every day.

About the Job

The Engineering Lab Technician will work in an Engineering Research and Development Laboratory with the responsibility of testing and evaluating components and prototypes to maintain initiative and project timelines for new product or process introductions. This includes ensuring that all standards and requirements are met during the prototype development stage. Creative input is required frequently, as prototype specifications are often incomplete during early project development.

Essential Functions:

• Assemble and test products to comply with engineering specifications, such as hydrostatic, flex, bending moment, air, cycle, low temperature, heat aging, fire suppression, flow loop and any additional required tests

• Inspect and/or test any products or components from Victaulic producing facilities and vendors both foreign & domestic for defects and compliance with engineering specification and drawings for the following: mold & tooling approvals, and sample product approvals during the product development cycle

• Install & setup necessary supporting equipment, components and data loggers for testing; Operate the test assembly and instrumentation, measuring performance of products and record data as directed

• Accurately report and record test data as outlined by department processes and engineering requirements

• Inspect and recalibrate pressure, vacuum gage, precision measuring instruments, as necessary, to standards which are traceable to NIST; Maintain calibration records and logs per department process and ISO standards

• Operate lab fabrication equipment (i.e. cut-off saw, drill press, belt sander, grinder, and other machine shop equipment) as necessary, to prepare product and materials for product testing; clean and maintain, as needed

• Prepare, assemble and test Victaulic products for agency testing per respective specifications

• Prepare product assemblies and perform demonstrations for customers touring the Victaulic facilities

• Follow all company safety requirements and participate in testing safety reviews

• Maintain an organized clean work area and lab environment

• Specific policies and procedures have been established by the Engineering Department to provide for the security and accessibility of electronic data and confidential information. It is the responsibility of the employee, in the daily course of doing business, to follow said policies as they relate to document management (see EOG-26). The extent to which departmental research and development information is stored electronically has vastly increased and will continue to do so. The new Federal rules pertaining to electronic discovery stipulate that substantive email communications constituted "records" under the Federal Records Act. It is therefore the responsibility of each departmental employee to understand their role in communicating via e-mails and that all e-mails must be written/responded to in a professional manner.

Abilities:

• Follow oral and written instructions

• Maintaining accurate records and logs

• Perform all required laboratory functions

Education:

• Associates or technical degree

Experience:

• 2 years of industrial or lab

• Microsoft Word and Excel

• Hydraulics, pneumatics, and electrical basics

• Blueprint reading, shop math, and use of precision instruments

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