Heat Treater B - 3rd Shift

Textron • Wichita, KS

4d • Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for heat treating, age hardening, and performing conductivity testing on steel and aluminum aircraft parts. The role may involve assisting lower-grade operators. The job requires working from shop routers, specifications, and standard detailed instructions to plan and execute heat treating operations such as annealing, tempering, normalizing, and/or aging on a variety of aircraft parts. The operator will set up and operate heat treating equipment, select and position parts for treatment, maintain records, measure conductivity to ensure compliance with quality standards, and visually check gauges for temperature and atmospheric conditions. The role is responsible only for the individual's own work and may include other duties as required.

Requirements

• High school diploma, an equivalent certificate, or a bronze level WorkKeys certification.
• Minimum one year of heat treat experience.
• Successfully complete training and certification in conductivity measurement.

Responsibilities

• Works from shop routers, specifications, and standard detailed instructions to plan and perform heat treating operations, include annealing, tempering, normalizing and/or age on a wide variety of aircraft parts.
• Sets up and operates heat treating equipment such as generators, infraanalyzer, and atmospheric control tempering furnaces or vacuum furnaces. May input sequence of events in work center console.
• Selects and positions parts in racks according to size, shape, alloy and number to be heat treated.
• Maintains records on a variety of aircraft parts according to date, time, dew point reading, lot number and temperature.
• Measures conductivity of material following heat treat operations to determine compliance with quality standards.
• Uses a variety of simple hand tools and other hand and power equipment.
• Visually checks indicator gauges as to temperature and atmospheric conditions in furnaces.
• Responsible only for own work.
• Performs other duties as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED