Job Description

General Summary:

The Fabrication Technician plans, layouts, assembles installs, and repairs sheet metal and machined parts, equipment, and products. *This is a Contingent position with our company (1-year or longer)*

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Fabricates, assembles, installs, and repairs sheet metal products and equipment.
• Layouts and marks dimensions and reference lines on material using scribers, dividers, squares, and rulers.
• Sets up and operates fabrication machines, such as CNC press break, CNC router table, CNC tube bender, bladder press, shrinking and stretching machines and power roller.
• Shapes metal material over anvil, block, or other form using hand tools.
• Trims, files, grinds, deburr, buffs, and smooth's surfaces using hand tools and portable power tools.
• Welds, solders, bolts, rivets, screws, clips, caulks, or bonds component parts to assemble products, using hand tools, power tools, and equipment.
• Installs assemblies in supportive framework according to blueprints, using hand tools, power tools, and lifting and handling devises.
• Able to pull models up in CATIA to flatten them out and create DXF files for the press break and router table.
• Able to operate the heat-treating furnace and oven.
• Inspects assemblies and installation for conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments, such as calipers, scales, dial indicators, gauges, micrometers and Faro Arm.
• Flexibility to work various schedules and open to overtime.

Education, Experience, Certification and/or Licensure:

• High School degree or equivalent required.
• Associate or trade school degree in sheet metals or equivalent education strongly preferred.
• Aircraft experience preferred.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Ability to read and interpret blueprints, sketches, or production specifications.
• Strong oral and written communications.
• Strong knowledge of shop mathematics and layout techniques.
• Knowledge of design techniques, principles, tools and instruments involved in the production and use of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• Knowledge of machines and tools, including designs, uses, benefits, repair and maintenance.
• Strong sheet metal skills required.
• Strong welding skills preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Office Suites (Word, Excel, and Lotus Notes) preferably.
• Experience with Team Center and CATIA.
• Knowledge of heat-treating aluminum alloys.

Physical Requirements:

• Incumbents may be routinely exposed to equipment operational noise heat-cold-dust, and/or aircraft equipment, parts, or fuel odors.
• Incumbents may be required to stand, sit, squat, walk, bend, climb ladders, move, reach, or stretch for prolonged time periods with no restrictions, as required by job duties.

Job Tags

Similar Jobs