Finishing Technician

Summary:

Under the supervision of the Team Leader/General Manager, a Finishing Technician requires manual dexterity and is responsible for grinding, honing, lapping manufactured parts to remove excess materials or burrs from internal or external surfaces. Work is subject to inspection and check.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ability to look through microscopes for long periods of time
• Select wheels, dressing and abrasives best suited for type of job.
• Apply and manipulate work to wheels exercising proper pressure and duration to maintain contours, relative shape, and close dimensions.
• Adjust and change machine tools to ensure deburring meets company/customer specifications.
• Grind, sand, or polish using hand tools or hand-held tools.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Attention to detail.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.
• Ability to read and understand a Process Control Document (PCD).
• Knowledge of deburring fundamentals and procedures to include grinding, sanding, or polishing using hand tools or hand-held tools.

Education and/or Experience:

• High School Diploma or GED.

Physical Demands:

• Ability to clearly see through a microscope 100% of workday.
• Ability to sit 100% of workday; may occasionally need to stand, bend or twist.
• Ability to lift and work with up to 25 pounds intermittently.
• Manual dexterity is required to handle small parts and tooling.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works off the shop floor where the noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.

The above statements reflect the general details necessary to describe the principal functions of the job and should not be construed as a detailed description of all the work that is involved in this position.