R&D Technician

Retech Systems LLCBuffalo, NY
1h

About The Position

POSITION SUMMARY / The R&D Technician works on research and development activities for organizational products and services.

Requirements

  • Knowledge of manufacturing software and Word Processing software.
  • Ability to read and comprehend standard operating procedures, short correspondence, and memos.
  • Ability to write simple correspondence.
  • Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.
  • Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
  • Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
  • Ability to work at heights while wearing a fall harness.
  • Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year College or technical school with 2-3 yrs. of alloy melting experience preferred. – Not required
  • Versatile and willing to help the manufacturing team while also putting safety as a top priority.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills for both internal and external customers.
  • Exceptional organization skills with attention to detail.
  • Ability to be proactive and manage time effectively to meet deadlines.
  • Detail-orientated with ability to respond quickly to a fast-moving and ever-changing environment.
  • Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
  • Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
  • The employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, bend, hear and talk.
  • The employee is frequently required to use hands.
  • The employee occasionally will be required to reach with hands or arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, and crawl.
  • The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
  • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, and depth perception.
  • The work environment is a manufacturing setting.
  • This position may be required to work long hours extending into the weekends on some occasions.
  • May need to travel for short or extended trips as needed.
  • Must be able and willing to travel internationally.
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Responsibilities

  • Assists and participates in the testing, start-up, and operation of specialty alloy melting, casting, and atomization equipment.
  • Experience in operating and maintaining pilot-scale / R&D metal melting or high-temperature equipment.
  • Assists R&D engineering in experimentation and toll melting and powder atomization trials.
  • Troubleshoots subsystem components associated with the melting equipment (e.g., closed water-cooling systems, high voltage, high current electric power systems and controls).
  • Establish and adhere to safe operating procedures; develops and documents best practices.
  • Monitors the melting process and adjusts the process conditions to maintain the process within its operating parameters.
  • Records and communicates data collected from experiments. The individual should have a deep understanding of working safely in an industrial environment.
  • The work requires use of machine tools (power and hand tools).
  • Uses material handling equipment (forklift, man-lift, overhead and bridge cranes). The work also requires welding structural components and assembly of mechanical and electrical components such as gauges, valves, circuit boards, etc.
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