What are the responsibilities and job description for the Welding Engineering Tech - Jerome Ave position at Astec Industries?
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Astec is a global, environmentally focused infrastructure and manufacturing company of asphalt road building and aggregate processing. Our mission is to design and build the most innovative products for the industries we serve. Leveraging innovative solutions and technologies, we serve customers all over the world.
ABOUT THE POSITION
This position requires a general understanding of welding codes specifications and procedures. Including the ability to teach and train welders in a formal environment. Extensive understanding of GMAW, SMAW, FCAW, SAW, and GTAW is required.
Key Deliverables
- Serve as a program leader
- Execute improvements as outlined by manager
- Evaluate emerging technology in the industry
- Ability to teach welding school
- Respond to shop question and support manufacturing efforts for cost saving and improvements
Key Activities & Responsibilities
- Learn and stay current on welding codes (AWS)
- Participate in welder training
- Provide technical support if needed, for welder performance testing
- Acting as a technical resource to welders, including mentoring and direction
- Understand how to develop cost analysis for improvements
- Able to interpret data, create spreadsheets, and analyze data related to welding process efficiencies and labor improvements
- Work with production supervisors and personnel to assess current welding/manufacturing issues
- Evaluate current welder training program and recommend changes and improvement
To be successful in this role, your experience and competencies are:
- 10 years welding related work
- Experience with AWS codes and specifications
- The ability to work well with supervisors and shop floor personnel
- Provide some leadership to trainees and lab support personnel
- Microsoft Office Skills
- Organized and detail oriented
- Highly motivated and self-directed
- Analytical thinker and problem-solver
- Excellent communication, writing, and computer skills
- Ability to create, design, and analyze blueprints and drawings
- Project Management
Supervisor and Leadership Expectations
- There are no supervisory responsibilities at this time
- This role does not have budgetary responsibilities
- This roll does have program/project management responsibilities?
Our Culture and Values
Employees that become part of Astec embody the values below throughout their work.
- Continuous devotion to meeting the needs of our customers
- Honesty and integrity in all aspects of business
- Respect for all individuals
- Preserving entrepreneurial spirit and innovation
- Safety, quality, and productivity as means to ensure success
Travel Requirements: Up to 5% of travel, national
WORK ENVIRONMENT (Both)
Office
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to risk of injury in an office environment and occasionally a manufacturing shop plant environment. Duties include a typical office setting including extensive computer work, sitting or standing. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Manufacturing Environment
Shop manufacturing environment exposures include exposure to moving mechanical parts, machinery, tools and equipment, vibration, fumes or airborne particles, motorized vehicles, welding, and machining operations, outside weather conditions and exposure to the risk of electric shock. The employee may occasionally be exposed to varying levels of dirt, dust, toxic or caustic chemicals, very warm and/or very chilly temperatures. The noise level in the shop can be very loud at times consistent with an industrial assembly facility and may require hearing protection. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
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