Job Description:

Fabrication Tech - 1

Overview

Primary Function:

Operates various equipment to fabricate metal parts used to manufacture end products.

Position Responsibilities (including but not limited to):

Studies sample parts, blueprints, drawings, and engineering information to determine methods and sequence of operations to fabricate product
• Assembles parts into completed units, using various machines, fixtures, hand tools, and power tools


• Fabricates, assembles, and modifies tooling, such as fixtures, templates, and molds or dies to produce parts and assemblies


• Lays out and verifies dimensions of parts, using precision measuring and marking instruments


• Calculates and sets controls to regulate machining or enters commands to retrieve, input, or edit computerized machine control media


• Selects, aligns, and secures holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, and materials onto machines


• Measures, examines, and tests completed units to detect defects and ensure conformance to specifications


• Dismantles machine or equipment, using hand tools and power tools, to examine parts for defect or to remove defective parts


• Cleans, lubricates, and maintains machines, tools, and equipment to remove grease, rust, stains, and foreign matter


• Cuts and shapes sheet metal and bends metal to specified shape


• Uses specified work procedures for fabricating new structural products using variety of metalworking machines


• Tests experimental models under simulated operating conditions for such purposes as development, standardization and feasibility of design


• All other duties assigned by management

Skills:

• Demonstrated ability in the comprehension of and practical application of workmanship standards


• Ability to read tape measure and display basic math skills


• Ability to operate hand tools and metalworking machine tools (Tubing Bender, Press Brake, Straightener, Iron Worker, Plate Plasma Cutter, Chop Saw/Cold Saw, Pipe Plasma Cutter, Punch Press, Amada Cutting Machine) for purposes of machining parts to specifications

Qualifications:

• Ability to use all applicable machinery and equipment


• High school diploma or the equivalent is recommended


• At least two (2) years of manufacturing experience preferred


• Ability to be trained on the job


• Ability to work together with a team

Physical Requirements:

• Extended periods of sitting and/or walking (33% - 75% of time)


• Stooping, bending, twisting, leaning (10% - 25% of time)


• Lifting up to 40 lbs. occasionally (0% - 33% of time)

Work Environment (This position requires that the employee be able to work in and around the following elements):

• Indoors and Outdoors


• Loud Environments


• Extreme heat or cold (weather-related)


• Wet or humid conditions (weather-related)


• Fumes from equipment or airborne particles

Pay Group : AAP/EEO Statement

LCI provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected category.