Set-Up Technician

Job Summary:

• Set up of CNC benders, end forming machines, welding and brazing equipment, and other metalworking machines and fixtures to fabricate metal tubing components and assemblies.

Required Minimum Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent. Job-related technical training or equivalent.
• Minimum of 1 year experience or training related to defined job responsibilities
• A tooling or maintenance background is preferred

Critical Success Factors:

• Excellent attendance

• Work with management to report and monitor process compliance

• Collaborate and communicate effectively across different organizational levels, functions, and businesses.

• Requires a basic knowledge of manufacturing procedures and techniques, and familiarity with quality and safety concepts and procedures and engineering documentation

• Requires the ability to operate production and testing equipment and hand tools according to instructions

• Requires the ability to communicate verbally to receive and acknowledge basic job instructions in English
• The ability to calculate simple sums using basic arithmetic
• Requires the ability to understand and carry out simple instructions, and the ability to participate in and contribute to a team effort or project on an occasional basis

Responsibilities:

• Reviews sketches, drawings, manuals, specifications, or sample part to recommend to engineering changes to setup sheets for dimensions and tolerances of finished workpiece, sequence of operations and setup requirements

• Completes change overs and line setups per the Changeover schedule

• Picks up tool cart from the designated area in the tool room for the corresponding change over and completes the changeover per the setup sheet/instructions

• Validates the setup per the setup sheet/instructions 

• Ensure the equipment is capable of producing parts in amounts needed to meet production requirements

• Escalates accordingly for any issue that prevents line stoppage from being resolved

• Maintains 5s of tool carts, tool storage, installation tools, &assembly lines at completion of each set up or line call event
• Records the time the setup took to complete on the tracking log
• Takes line calls and records the issue and time spent resolving on the tracking log

Working Conditions

• Predominantly in a factory setting
• Involves handling or working near industrial chemicals or vapors such as solvents, cleaning agents and flammable liquids
• Involves operating or working near moving mechanical equipment
• May encounter moderate to loud noise levels created by power tools, production machinery and heavy traffic

Effort/Physical Demands

• Adequate vision acuity
• Frequent long hours/weekends possible
• May be required to stand for up to 10 hours during a work shift
• Stoop or crouch to adjust equipment or retrieve parts; reach overhead or forward to retrieve parts or hand tools
• Lift materials or objects of up 25 pounds frequently and 40 pounds occasionally
• Manipulate small parts, operate machine controls with hands or fingers
• Perform repetitive operations with hands and fingers
• Maintain concentration and attention to detail.

Health and Safety Responsibilities

• Must work in accordance with Health and Safety regulations, Company Rules, Plant Rules, policies and procedures
• Must use or wear equipment, protective devices or certain clothing as required by the company
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Other Duties:

This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive list of duties and responsibilities required for this job. Duties and responsibilities may change at any time with or without

Background check and pre-employment drug screen required for employment opportunity.