Inspector - Tooling & Layout - Kansas City Assembly Plant (KCAP)

Ford MotorKansas City, KS
$45 - $46Onsite

About The Position

This job requisition provides candidates to the locations in the Louisville area. This job requisition is not location specific. Inspectors Tooling and Layout are paid a top hourly base rate of $45.645, plus applicable shift, overtime, and holiday premiums. The starting rate for this position is $45.445 with pay increases to the top rate upon completion of three consecutive months of employment.

Requirements

  • Candidates must have completed a bona fide Toolmaker apprenticeship or have 8 years of previous relevant work experience.
  • Troubleshoot & Repair: (23) Zeiss CMMs – electronic, mechanical, software, and programming
  • (40+) Klingelnberg gear checkers – electronic, mechanical, arbors, software, and programming
  • Marposs and Intra bench gauges – software and mechanical
  • Mahr and Mitutoyo perthometers - mechanical
  • Air and electronic bench gauges – software and mechanical
  • Newage hardness testers
  • Plant wide gauge bench computer issues before IT is called
  • ITW’s In-line gauges – such as hones and grinders
  • GD&T - Geometric dimensioning and tolerancing

Responsibilities

  • Willingness and ability to work on any assigned schedule, change shifts, work more than 8 hours per day and/or work overtime, all while maintaining good attendance.
  • Ability and willingness to learn and follow safety rules and procedures, to work in a team environment, treat co-workers with dignity and respect regardless of personal differences, and accept and follow instructions and requests from leadership.
  • Ability and willingness to understand and follow instructions, both oral or in writing.
  • Ability to perform tasks of the trade, stand for extended periods, walk unassisted, work at heights, work overhead including on ladders and platforms and manipulate tools typical of the trade.
  • Tasks will require a certain amount of reaching, lifting, twisting, bending, and use of a PMHV or hilo.
  • Ability to perceive differences in details and prints related to trade.
  • Must be able to effectively maneuver about vehicles, equipment, assembly lines or stations, and about facility.
  • Perform yearly surveillance (visual inspection) & calibration (measurement verification) on all gauges
  • Enter and retrieve gauge information into IQS gauge record database
  • Write programs for Zeiss & Klingelnberg equipment
  • Perform part measurements per blueprint and Engineering direction
  • Ability to work with Engineers to conduct part evaluations
  • Perform CPU and hard drive installations on computerized gauge benches
  • Perform backup images & restore hard drive images for computerized gauge benches
  • Modify software programs for DCP changes
  • Maintain measurement devices for Nagel hones, Reishauers, Klingelnbergs, Zeiss, Hommels, Intra and Marposs gauges
  • Build sort gauges from scratch using tools and parts in the lab
  • Rebuild any and all types of gauges in the production departments
  • Set up new gauges in the production departments
  • Understand the mechanics of all gauges and masters and be able to re-set and master any gauge in the plant
  • Operational knowledge of all measuring devices in the G&LO lab
  • Ability to access and read blueprints to determine measurement characteristics
  • Knowledge of Maximo & Drawing Management System
  • Enter gauge repair diagnosis & solutions into every GR Maximo ticket
  • Access and read blueprints to determine gauge replacement parts

Benefits

  • Immediate access to Best-in-Class Company provided healthcare!
  • Company provided premium coverage for Hospital-Surgical-Medical plus Drug, Hearing, Dental, and Vision.
  • Basic Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance.
  • Accident and Sickness and Extended Disability Benefits.
  • Automatic enrollment in TESPHE, the hourly employee 401(k) plan, at an initial pre-tax contribution rate of 3%.
  • Also eligible for Company TESPHE contributions of 10% of base pay and $1 per compensated hour.
  • Eligible for holiday pay, profit sharing and lump sum bonuses, paid time off, tuition assistance, and immediate vehicle discount purchase plans.
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