A fantastic opportunity to work for a forward thinking company has arisen. This is a newly created department.
You must have experience working within an engineering environment / manufacturing environment and be able to read technical drawings
Hours 8am-16.30pm and early Friday finish 1pm
Working on the F1 contract
Salary: £25,000 per annum plus two bonuses a year
After a basic training period have the ability to work with limited supervision in producing parts in accordance with the Company's Health And Safety and Quality procedures
Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for dimensional and visual inspection (as applicable) of own output
- Multi skilled to cover the following production operations
- Blank preparation
- Milling of elastomer
- Cutting/stamping blanks to size & weight controls
- Setting & operation of Barwell preform cutter
- Metal & PTFE preparation
- Masking & shot blasting of metals
- Degreasing metals & PTFE's
- Mixing of bonding agents, handling of solvents
- Application of bonding agent to metal & PTFE's
- Metal component reclaim
Moulding:
- Set-up of mould & press
- Operating multiple moulding presses (compression & transfer)
- Application of mould release
- Initial trimming of excess flash
- RTV Silicone casting
- Mixing of two part silicone, including degassing
- Cleaning/preparation of moulds
- Pouring material & degasssing
- Demoulding
- Post cure
- Loading/unloading of oven
Trimming:
- Setting and operating kniffing machines, cutting sealing lips and polishing / flash removal
- Setting and operating on manual lathe for the cutting of large rim seals
- Setting and operating manual lathe for the trimming of CV boots
Finishing:
- Mixing hypalon sealant and spraying seal OD
- Hand assembly operations i.e. crimping PTFE, multiple seal components
- Grease application
- Fitting of garter springs which could involve modification of spring
- Correct manual handling of tools and moulds
- Carry out all operations as outlined in production paperwork & SOP's
- After basic training period have the ability to work with limited supervision
Education and Experience:
- Experience in a Rubber manufacturing environment is favourable
Competences:
- Good dexterity to handle small components whilst wearing gloves
- Quality conscious with strong attention to detail
- Understanding the need for quality and how it impacts on business
- Good understanding of foreign object defects, cause and rectification
- Ability to understand and complete paperwork
- Maintain standards as set by company
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