Assembler I

Wabtec•Buffalo Grove, IL

14d•Onsite

About The Position

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 30K employees in facilities throughout the world. This role completes the final assembly of bus door panels or kits for direct shipment to customers. Follows blueprints, routers, process standard sheets (PSS), bills of material (BOM’s), Team Leader and supervisor instructions to assemble a wide variety of door panels with many and varied options or add-ons.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED.
Uses prints, BOM’s and PSS’s to assembly product.
Job requires up to 1 year for acceptable proficiency on all job-related tasks.

Responsibilities

Attaches roller brackets to door panel using hand tools, light pneumatic, and electric power tools.
Installs extruded rubber seals into door channels by physically pulling or using a special automatic puller.
Attaches hinges to the door using a nut driver.
Measures and cuts rubber for sensitive edge and installs into door channel.
Routes and runs wire into sensitive edge.
Installs glass window(s) into door panel.
Attaches CLASS sensors to door if called for in print.
Attaches brush seals to panel base.
Mounts cover plate over brush mount.
Assembles shaft and are to the door panel.
Performs spray paint touch up of panel where necessary.
Applies caulk and adhesives when appropriate to door panel.
Installs handles onto panel if specified in print.