Coater Specialist

Pittsburgh Glass Works•Carlisle, OH

About The Position

Vitro Architectural Glass is seeking a Coater Specialist to plan, organize, and oversee coater rebuild activities and support coater maintenance and repair. The role tracks materials and target usage, ensures procedures are followed, and makes sure appropriate tools and facilities are available. The specialist assembles, disassembles, and repairs coater equipment, serves as a key contact for problems during rebuilds, recommends and implements improvements, assists with training, orders repair materials, and coordinates external contractors and services. The position requires thorough knowledge of coater operations and rebuilds, normally gained through direct experience as a Coater Service person. The specialist must be available on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and able to work 12-hour shifts, overtime, weekends, and holidays as needed. Work may involve 8 to 16 hours per day and hot or cold environments, as well as repetitive lifting and varied physical positions.

Requirements

Thorough knowledge of coater operations, normally gained through direct experience working as a Coater Service person.
Thorough knowledge of coater operation and rebuild.
Excellent attendance record.
Willingness and ability to work overtime and irregular hours, including 12-hour shifts, weekends, and holidays as needed.
Availability on call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Flexibility, cooperation, and tact when dealing with people at all organizational levels, customers, and research personnel.
Ability to lift 25 pounds repetitively.
Ability to work in both cold and hot environments.
Ability to work 8 to 16 hours per day.
Ability to stand, sit, bend, stoop, twist, and kneel.
Successful completion of pre-employment background checks, drug screens, and Physical Abilities Testing.

Responsibilities

Plan, organize, and oversee activities during coater rebuilds, including tracking materials entering and leaving the plant to support maintenance.
Maintain logs of target usage to determine replacement schedules.
Ensure correct procedures are followed during rebuilds.
Ensure appropriate tools and facilities are available to support coater repair.
Assemble, disassemble, and repair coater equipment, including roll assemblies, tub shields, and planar and rotatable cathodes.
Serve as the go-to person for problems that arise during the rebuild process.
Recommend improvements and changes and oversee their successful implementation.
Assist with training other Coater personnel.
Order materials required to repair the coater.
Organize external contractors and services used to operate and maintain the coater, such as sandblasting, process gases, and target material.