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.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Utilize lean manufacturing tools to streamline operations throughout plant via changes to workstation layout, material handling, or processing.
- Write area Standard Operating Procedures and Engineering Procedures as required and review operator training procedures.
- Develop protocol for qualifying new operators.
- Initiate process trials to determine most cost-effective way to deliver a quality part to our customers.
- Develop scorecard for quality metrics defined by Eastlake Handling scrap category.
- Develop additional daily metrics as needed to reduce scrap, rework and process variation
- Develop plans to improve operator related scrap and communicate improvement timeline to management.
- Maintain a positive work atmosphere by behaving and communicating in a manner that gets along with customers, clients, co-workers, and supervisors.
- Position supports all shifts and candidate must demonstrate a willingness to work any shift required when the need arises.
- Confer with engineering, quality, manufacturing, outside vendors and other representatives, including customers, in planning, scheduling, coordinating and implementing NPI’s (fixture requirements etc).
- Audit and continuously improve snag/CNC processes and product produced by those processes to reduce variation seen at finishing, visual and dimensional.
- Assure reliability of the process.
- Other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical, or other related Engineering discipline.
- Experience in using Lean Manufacturing tools like Kaizen, TPM, 6S, Standard Work, Kan-Ban, Poka-Yoke.
- Experience performing time studies a plus.
- Basic knowledge of production processes, machine tooling and operations, hand tools and automation concepts and practices required.
- Expertise in use of Microsoft Office Products (MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access) required.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.
Relocation is authorized for this position.
This position requires use of information or access to production processes subject to national security controls under U.S. export control laws and regulations (including, but not limited to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)). To be qualified to work in this facility, a successful applicant must be a U.S. Person, as defined in those regulations, and able to supply evidence of that qualification prior to starting work or be authorized to receive controlled information under a specific license or permission from the relevant government agency. The U.S. export control regulations define a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. &39;Green Card Holder&39;), and certain categories of Asylees and Refugees.
