What you’ll do:
- Manual and Orbital TIG development and welding of rigid and flexible tube assemblies, brackets, and components predominately for the Aerospace industry and complying within an AS9100 and NADCAP approved manufacturing facility. This could also include fabrication or finishing operations associated with these jobs.
- Manual and Orbital TIG welding of mainly tube ranging from 1/4 inch to 2 inch diameter both thin wall and thick tubing. Materials include but are not limited to Stainless Steel, Inconel, Titanium, and Aluminium.
- Working in partnership with manufacturing support functions to develop and then follow Data Cards, process specifications, Engineering Drawings, Standard Work Instructions. This could including working on new projects and insourcing projects or working with the manufacturing support functions to develop robust welding processes that could be then trained into General Manual or Orbital welding.
- Daily adhearance to preventative maintenance, 5S standards and audits, and any other systems or procedures to maintain high Aerospace standards of product integrity and lean manufacturing execution.
- Ability to use, maintain, program orbital and manual TIG welding equipment and the use of measurement equipment such as shadowgraph, borescopes, Vernier, micrometre for inspection and fabrication purposes.
- Able to inspect own work including but not limited to fit to fixture after welding, damage, and finally inspection welds as a qualified visual weld inspector.
- Fabrication and finishing of welded assembles including but not limited to: Prepare components to weld ensuring they conform to a fixture or drawing, Sizing, Facing, Polishing, Linishing, cleaning, post weld polishing, cleaning, and packing.
- Active participation in Safety and Continuous Improvement actives including but not limited to: Guard Check sheets, Risk assessments, Problem solving to reduce scrap & rework, productivity and standard work events, improve workplace organisation and 5S, on the job training of team members.
Qualifications:
- Welding qualification or internal equivalent preffered
- Min 5 years welding - 10 years preffered
Skills:
- Manual Welding and fabrication
- General Computer Skills for access to drawings and proceedures and basic use of Microsoft Outlook
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