Sintering Technician

Job Summary:

Assist supervisors by facilitating communication throughout operations. Maintaining quality and safety standards on all sintering furnaces and equipment

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• Correctly perform the following activities
• Must be able to read and interpret a control plan
• Must be able to enter and print an NCMR
• Verification and use of micrometers
• Verification and use of indicators
• Verification and use of weight scales
• Setup and operate bench centers for Runout check and report
• Setup and operate indicator for perpendicularity check
• Setup and operate all density scales
• Setup and operate all hardness testers
• Setup and operate Comparator
• Setup and operate Mitutoyo height indicators/surface plate
• Visual inspection of compaction
• Visual inspection of sintered part (includes metallographic analysis)
• Set up and operate CMM, measure and report:
• Outside Diameter
  • Inside Diameter
  • Spherical Diameter
  • Roundness of above features
  • Perpendicularity
  • Flatness
  • Position
  • Concentricity
  • Width
• Change CMM probes and calibrate on manual and DCC machines as well as train others on equipment
• Setup and operate snap gauge

Specific Duties and Responsibilities:

• Follow all established safety regulations and procedures.
• Setup, monitor, and operate all Sintering equipment as needs require.
• Advise supervisor, or Operations Facilitator of any part, equipment, and process difficulties.
• Follow all instructions as provided on process control plans and any reference documents.
• Quality checks based on assigned level of capability.
• Gaging care and verification.
• Routine cleaning, care of machines, gages, and other equipment used.
• Perform inspections for In-Process of existing and new product as required (includes destructive tests, & nondestructive tests)
• Use all available gauging to decide fit of product – will include both setup and operation of gauging
• Inform supervision of out-of –tolerance conditions
• Audit product, process and documentation at furnace areas as required by existing control plans
• Verify setups as required
• Complete necessary records both written and electronic
• Participate in scheduling/prioritizing of work as required through working with master scheduler.
• Learn new gauging/techniques as acquired
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Inspect and/or sort parts as required.
• Record keeping (SPC charts, Production reports, Product Routers, etc.)
• Follow all standard work for autonomous maintenance.
• Participates in ongoing training and continuous improvement activities.

Skills Executed:
Communication, multi-tasking, efficient organization of multiple tasks

Education: High School Graduate / GED

Safety Requirements: When required in specific areas. This includes, but is not limited to safety glasses, with side shields, hearing protection, and gloves.

Physical Demands:

Key: Rarely: Less than 5 minutes

Occasionally: 5minutes – 2 hours

Frequently: 2 hours – 5 hours

Constantly: 5 hours - 8 hours