Foundry Operative
Simonstone
Mon - Thurs 10.00p.m to 7.30 a.m.
� 16.31 p/h
Foundry Operative
The role:
You will be expected to achieve high standards of quality, in line with targeted levels of output whilst working safely and maintaining full product traceability. You will be working as part of a team, and you are expected to contribute to improving any working processes.
Foundry Operative
Main Responsibilities:
Wax Production
- Operation of wax injection moulding machines.
- Setting of wax injection moulding machines.
- Inspection of wax components.
- Use standard operating procedures to repair components.
- Assembly of wax components onto runner systems using hot knives and micro-welder equipment,
following individual part guidelines.
- Inspection of completed work to ensure best quality is achieved.
Shelling and mould production
- Loading and unloading of moulding robots.
- Maintaining optimum slurry/sander parameters to ensure best mould build.
- Preparing slurry batches to specific tolerances.
- Monitoring and highlighting deviations from optimum environmental parameters within the shelling
area.
- Ability to measure liquid viscosity and weights.
Casting operations
- Working in a hot metal environment, melting and pouring liquid metal.
- Shell and moulding de-waxing and preparation.
- Ensuring melt traceability to comply with casting certification.
Post casting operations
- Use belt linishing machines to grind various castings to specified tolerances.
- Operating air hand grinding tools.
- Operating abrasive wheel semi-auto cut off saws.
- Operate equipment in other areas of the Foundry as and when required: including knockout
machine, hydraulic press and wheelbrators for metal cleaning.
- Use metal washing machines and guillotines to complete tasks.
- Contribute in a team working environment.
- Contribute to continuous improvement.
- To share knowledge and/or best practice with other team members.
- Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules and regulations.
- Inspection of completed work to ensure best quality is achieved using the 'right first time' approach.
- Use computers to extract data.
Foundry Operative
The Candidate:
- Strong work ethic, must want to do tasks and understand their value.
- Reliable, good timekeeping and honesty, able to work unsupervised.
- Adaptable over a broad range of work.
- Motivated to take on new areas of work and learn new skills.
- Able to make decisions based on experience, have confidence to act and make changes within given
boundaries.
- Attention to detail, data accuracy and good personal organisation under pressure from time and
internal customers.
- Demonstrate the ability to carry out repetitive tasks.
- Observe and practice the 5S principles.
- Manually handle weights up to 25kg.
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment.
Please contact Marie Brisson at Winsearch UK for further information - marie.brisson@winsearch.uk
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