Hourly Production - Wax Cell Operator

Basic Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED equivalency is required.

• Must be able to demonstrate 2 years of full-time continuous work experience with the same employer OR 6 months of manufacturing experience.

• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Skills and Abilities:

• Individual must have the ability to read and interpret written instructions.

• Must be able to follow verbal directions and instructions.

• Must be able to work with your hands on delicate materials.

• Occasional bending, reaching, pushing and pulling when retrieving and moving various items.

• Lifting intermittently of various items. Typically, assistance would be provided for weights exceeding 35 pounds.

• Good manual dexterity to operate computer equipment and precision measuring instruments.

• Position may require more than eight hours daily and more than five days weekly to complete work assignments.

• Sitting in chairs (swivel, padded, and adjustable).

• Squatting / crouching when retrieving stored items from lower shelves and file cabinets, making equipment / product inspections, etc.

• Standing intermittently.

• Clean work areas and maintain a clean work environment; perform 5S cleaning activities as required.

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.

We're a company of innovators and makers. Howmet Aerospace is transforming the aerospace and transportation industries. Join our team and help us engineer the next generation of sustainable travel.

Howmet Aerospace, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a leading global provider of advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries. The Company's primary businesses focus on jet engine components, aerospace fastening systems and titanium structural parts necessary for mission-critical performance and efficiency in aerospace and defense applications, as well as forged wheels for commercial transportation. Howmet Aerospace is transforming the next phase of more fuel-efficient, quieter aerospace engines, and sustainable ground transportation. For more information, visit www.howmet.com. Follow @howmet: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

Nestled halfway between South Bend and Chicago, along the shores of Lake Michigan - our facility in La Porte, Indiana supplies jet engine components to some of the most trusted names in the Aerospace industry.

Job Summary

Work as a multi-functional team member to build wax patterns using work instructions. Will be required to clean work area including sweeping and mopping the floor, dusting the workstation and surrounding areas.

Essential Functions

• Must be able to read and interpret Product Criteria (PC) and Activity Instructions (AI).

• Must be able to function as a member of a team and be able to work under general supervision.

• Must be able to work and function in a fast-paced environment.

• Basic knowledge of computers.

• Must be able to maintain expected quality levels.

• Assemble a wax pattern using various skills outlined below.

• Have adequate computer skills to enter the data into the data collection system, and also retrieve it.

Job responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Refer to work instructions, identification, and machine stock areas to prevent under or over working patterns.

• Ability to hand stock patterns to engineering instructions and to effectively communicate information to team and engineering.

• Performs other work-related duties as assigned.

• Employees are expected to work overtime as needed.

Fixtures and Dimensional

• Determine Airfoil.

• Interpret gauge reading to the Product Criteria and load the computer.

• Assemble airfoils and shroud assembly using a hot iron. (60-80 watts).

• Communicate scrap to injection.

• Apply cast raised numbers.

• Maintain assembly fixture.

• Hot stamping.

• Verify revision dates of Product Criteria and process routers.

• DIM patterns using dimensional gauges, calipers, etc.

Apply, Rub Down, Final Assembly

• Apply wax to acceptable Product Criteria limits.

• Maintain proper radius on all wax joints.

• Interpret Acceptance Criteria from Product Criteria.