Bench Grinder/ Deburr Operator

Position Summary:

Blast/Steel castings to remove excess material. Following specific instructions, the Bench Grinder/Deburr operator works with minimal assistance to deburr manufacturing products, ensuring all productivity, safety and quality guidelines are achieved. 

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Works with little assistance to conduct bench grinding/deburring operations frequently to or on products containing critical features and close tolerances on aerospace parts.
• Removes excess metal from airfoil contour and polishes surface.
• Removes die lines and excess metal from root, shelves, tip and other areas of castings by using mounted abrasive wheels or steel burrs on high-speed grinders.
• Sand blast castings to specific procedures.
• Maintains responsibility for the quality of castings to ensure the operations meet specifications on gating.
• Uses various measuring instruments in order to accurately accomplish bench/deburring tasks.
• Performs work in a safe manner by following all safety rules and providing recommendations to help make PCC a safe work environment.
• Achieves team production and efficiency goals by working to meet all operational and quality standards to ensure a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Visually check casting surfaces for flaws and other defects.
• Detects faulty operations, defective material and report these and any unusual conditions to supervisor.
• Be willing to train on and operate Impact and/or Trim Saw equipment, in addition to bench grinding/deburring equipment.

Shift – Continuous Operations:   6pm to 6am – Wednesday/Thursday/Friday and every other Saturday

Experience and Education:

• A high school diploma or GED.
• Manufacturing experience preferred, previous experience in the casting industry in a plus.

Requirements:

• Ability to interpret instructions given and apply experience and training throughout the course of the day for each production job assigned.
• Ability to read and comprehend basic instructions and write simple correspondence.
• Willingness to learn and, as required, help and/or train others.
• Ability to use precision measuring instruments, test equipment or other devices where interpretation is required.
• Ability to lift up to 35 pounds with or without reasonable accommodations.

With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.