Foundry Lab Technician

Summary: Under the supervision of the Staff Metallurgist/Quality Engineer, the Lab Technician is responsible for performing various metallurgical tests to ensure all iron produced meets internal and external requirements. The Lab Tech shall also perform various sand tests to ensure key properties are maintained.

Education/Equivalent:

• Education equivalent to a high school diploma or trade school is preferred.

Work Experience Needed:

• 1-2 years of previous experience working as a Lab Technician in a manufacturing setting preferred.

Knowledge/Special Skills/Abilities Needed:

• Must possess basic mathematic skills.
• Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• Must be able to communicate effectively in both verbal and in written form.
• Must be able to understand written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Must be able to conduct tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
• Must be able to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense

Nature & Scope-Principal Areas of Responsibilities:

**This list of duties and responsibilities is not all inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities as management deem necessary from time to time.

• Operate the Spectro machine to analyze samples
• Collect and perform sand test as required
• Calculate alloy additions for the melt department
• Retrieve, brinell, heat treated test bars (if needed)
• Create packing slip for test bars to go to outside lab (if needed)
• Run preliminary and final chemistry on spectrometer.
• Clean spectrometer/maintain spectrometer on a defined schedule.
• Calculate chemistry adjustments as indicated on preliminary analysis.
• Communicate alloy additions as needed to Melt department (written and verbal).
• Monitor metal temperature.
• Obtain final carbon pins and ductile iron micro lugs off of pouring deck and package pins and micro lugs for analysis at the Milwaukee plant.
• Back-up Spectro data daily on the computer
• Report any unsafe working conditions and/or accidents promptly to the Quality Control Supervisor.
• Maintain cleanliness of the lab

Essential Functions:

Physical Demands 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.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, and use hands to finger, handle, or touch. The employee is frequently required to talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit, reach above shoulders, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and use foot/feet to operate machine. The employee occasionally is required to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and color vision.