Clean Technician - Processor/Plater - 2nd Shift
About The Position
L3Harris is hiring a union Processor/Plater for its Canoga Park, California facility. The technician cleans, fine-cleans, and processes external and internal surfaces of rocket engine parts and assemblies to meet drawing requirements and ensure hardware is free of foreign object debris (FOD). Processing methods include chemical conversion, sand blasting, anodizing, acid etching, passivating, degreasing, and stripping. The work supports the facility’s rocket engine and power-system programs for space exploration and national defense. This is a second-shift role on a 9/80 schedule: employees work 9 out of every 14 days, totaling 80 hours, and have every other Friday off. The technician uses planning documents, drawings, specifications, work instructions, and related materials to process hardware. Work includes tank cleaning, high-pressure steam cleaning, hand wiping, parts washing, fine-clean wet-cell processing, and precision clean-room work, as well as use of ovens and borescopes. The technician also cleans and packages hardware to fine-clean requirements, safely handles heavy hardware, uses tooling and fixtures for processing and drying, and monitors tank chemistry and chemical solutions for specification compliance.
Requirements
- High school diploma or equivalent preferred.
- Experience with hazardous chemicals, including acids, preferred.
- Proven safety record and experience using personal protective equipment (PPE) with hazardous chemicals preferred.
- Experience handling large, complex hardware weighing 500 pounds or more with tooling and handling devices preferred.
- Experience reading, comprehending, and using planning documents and drawings to meet specification requirements preferred.
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with and around hazardous chemicals, including acids.
- Proven safety record and experience with PPE used with hazardous chemicals.
- Experience handling large (500+ lbs) 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, borescopes, and other aids to process hardware according to specifications.
- Clean and package hardware in accordance with fine-clean specifications and requirements.
- Safely lift and process rocket engine hardware weighing up to 5,000 pounds, planning grouping and positioning to ensure cleaning meets engineering specifications.
- Attach, flush, and purge tooling and fixtures to parts and assemblies for processing and drying operations.
- Understand tank chemistry and verify that tank solutions and chemicals are within specification.
- Operate processing controls and equipment to acid-etch weld joints, electro-chemically etch hardware, passivate, degrease, or strip parts and assemblies according to requirements.
- Ensure processed hardware is free of foreign object debris (FOD).
Benefits
- Health and disability insurance
- 401(k) match
- Flexible spending accounts
- Employee assistance program (EAP)
- Education assistance
- Parental leave
- Paid time off
- Company-paid holidays
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Education Level
High school or GED
