Heat Treat Operator

Job Title : Heat Treat Operator

Furnaces : 4

Location : Warren MI

Shift : 1st

Pay : 23.31 to start. Pay raises coming soon due to union negotiations

Summary

Will perform operations in the Heat Treat area as assigned.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Conduct light duty maintenance, to have furnaces available for processing work orders (confined space work will be subcontracted to vendor base).  Maintenance includes maintaining flow scopes in good order and minor electrical trouble shooting and repairs – i.e replacing heating elements.
• Read work tickets generated in the lab
• Group parts to be processed together as permissible
• Make up loads to process in the furnaces, either manually or using a hoist
• Using a roller cart, transfer a tray with a basket of parts on it, to the furnaces and push the load into the furnaces.
• Set the furnace cycle, times, atmospheres and monitor the progress of each cycle in each furnace.
• When the cycle is completed, reverse the motions to unload parts back into the original containers.
• Copper plate small parts (i.e. retainers), through progressive tank dipping on the plating line and dip strip the copper when the cycle is completed.
• Charge and discharge the chromizing furnace once per day in the moor – this requires loosening and then retightening 8 bolts on each of the two chromizing furnaces.
• Maintaining appropriate documentation with each work order, such as signing off furnace processing charts.
• Occasionally putting parts into the -100 degree F. freezer.
• Shot peening of retainers

Requirements

ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL CONTACTS :

In the Heat Treat Department, employees come in short duration contacts with the following chemicals :

Furnace elevated temperatures, up to 1750 degree F.

Critical Competencies

Education and Experience Requirements

Physical Demand and Work Environment :

Benefits

Benefits : start after 90 days