Heat Treat Operator

EMC Precision Machining II LLC • IN

75d

About The Position

Are you ready to start the best job you have ever had at the best place you have ever worked? Our number one goal at EMC Precision is to have “The Best Employees in the Best Job They’ve Ever Had at the Best Place They’ve Ever Worked!” EMC Precision has provided complex parts in low- to mid-volume quantities expertly machined since 1925. The position will be responsible for loading untreated products into a furnace or tank setting the temperature for particular treatments. Monitoring the treatment cycle, cooling products by air-drying using oil baths (known as quenching), cleaning oxides and scale from products by using blasting equipment. Testing samples for hardness and other properties to make sure they meet the manufacturer's specifications and recording test results on a computer system.

Requirements

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Minimum of 3 (three) years factory related experience.
• Ability to apply principles of rational systems to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, and diagrammatic or schedule form.
• Mathematical skills including algebra, geometry, and shop math.
• Ability to read safety rules, instructions and methods and procedures in mechanical drawing and layout work.
• Technical report writing skills.
• Ability to locate information in technical manuals.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and operate heat treat equipment, such as batch and continuous furnaces, endothermic generators, draw furnaces, induction machines, straightening presses, shot-blast, rockwell hardness testers.
• Perform metrology testing as needed and other related duties to ensure that customer requirements and print specifications are met.
• Read and interpret blueprints, sketches, customer specifications and heat treat process sheets.
• Load and unload furnaces.
• Upload heat treat programs to the proper instrument and or furnace.
• Monitor furnace operation, instruments and recipe settings to detect malfunctions.
• Check dewpoints periodically for proper carbon control.
• Conduct metallograph inspection and microstructure evaluation.
• Understand the proper method of rockwell hardness and microhardness checks, hardness scales and interpret conversion factors.
• Check case depth using the micro-hardness tester, visual method and 15n superficial rockwell machine.
• Set-up and operate induction scanners.
• Understand and interpret magnetic particle inspection.
• Make good decisions in the event of power loss or mechanical failure.
• Train new operators in the areas of induction machines, mag particle equipment, lab equipment and other lab duties.
• Maintain a level II magnetic particle inspection certification.
• Start-up generators from room temperature or below 1250 deg. f.
• Start all equipment for production when necessary.
• Shut down all equipment for idle when necessary.
• Maintain cleanliness of work area utilizing 5S techniques and methods.
• Perform other related duties and assignments as required.

What This Job Offers

• Education Level: High school or GED
• Number of Employees: 51-100 employees