Clean Technician - Processor/Plater - 2nd Shift

L3Harris•Canoga Park, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

L3Harris is seeking a Processor/Plater for its Canoga Park, California facility. This union position cleans, fine-cleans, chemically converts, sandblasts, anodizes, and acid-etches external and internal surfaces of rocket-engine parts and assemblies to meet drawing requirements and ensure hardware is free of foreign object debris (FOD). The facility designs and manufactures rocket engines and power systems supporting space exploration and national defense. The role uses tanks, high-pressure steam, hand-wiping, parts washers, fine-clean wet cells, precision clean rooms, ovens, and inspection aids such as borescopes. The technician cleans and packages hardware to fine-clean specifications; safely handles and positions heavy hardware; attaches, flushes, and purges tooling and fixtures; monitors tank chemistry; and operates processing controls and equipment for etching, passivating, degreasing, and stripping operations. Work is performed on a second-shift 9/80 schedule: nine workdays in each 14-day period, totaling 80 hours, with every other Friday off.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
Ability to read and interpret planning documents, drawings, blueprints, sketches, engineering orders, work instructions, tool orders, specifications, and EPI’s.
Knowledge of tank chemistry and the effects of caustic and acidic solutions on personnel and hardware.
Ability to handle and clean complex hardware, including internal passages, to meet specifications.

Nice To Haves

Experience working with and around hazardous chemicals, including acids.
Proven safety record and experience using PPE with hazardous chemicals.
Experience handling large (500+ lb) complex hardware with tooling and handling devices such as pallet jacks, cranes, and lifting straps.
Experience reading, comprehending, and using planning documents and drawings to meet specification requirements.

Responsibilities

Read and interpret planning documents, drawings, blueprints, sketches, engineering orders, work instructions, tool orders, specifications, and EPI’s to clean hardware to drawing specifications.
Clean hardware using tanks, high-pressure steam, hand-wiping, parts washers, fine-clean wet cells, and precision clean rooms.
Use ovens and aids such as borescopes to process hardware according to specifications.
Clean and package hardware to meet fine-clean specifications and requirements.
Safely lift, process, group, and position rocket-engine hardware weighing up to 5,000 pounds to ensure cleaning meets engineering specifications.
Attach, flush, and purge tooling and fixtures connected to parts and assemblies for processing and drying operations.
Understand tank chemistry and verify that tank solutions and chemicals are within specification.
Work safely with caustic and acidic solutions, accounting for their interactions with personnel and hardware.
Clean complex geometries and remove FOD from internal passages.
Operate processing controls and equipment to acid-etch weld joints, electro-chemically etch hardware, passivate, degrease, and strip parts and assemblies to specified requirements.