HOURLY PRODUCTION - Metal Cell Operator - Howmet Aerospace

About Howmet Aerospace

Howmet Aerospace Inc. (NYSE: HWM), headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a leading global provider of advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries. Our primary businesses focus on jet engine components, aerospace fastening systems, titanium structural parts and forged wheels. With $6.6 billion in revenue in 2023, our products play a crucial role in enabling fuel efficiency and lightweighting, contributing to our customers' success and making a positive impact on the world. To learn more about the way Howmet Aerospace Inc. is advancing the sustainability of our customers, markets, and communities where we operate, review the 2023 Environmental Social and Governance report at www.howmet.com/esg-report .

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Howmet is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

If you need assistance to complete your application due to a disability, please email TalentAcquisitionCoE_Howmet@howmet.comBasic Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED equivalency is required.
• Must be able to demonstrate 2 years of full-time continuous work experience with the same employer OR 6 months of manufacturing experience.
• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Skills and Abilities:

• Read parts to the .0001.
• Understand gaging and templates.
• Have finishing skills, (stones, burrs, belts, etc.).
• Work independent as well as with a team.
• Able to read and follow written and verbal instruction.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with the GE210 and PW451 is preferred.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Employee is required to execute the following:

• Occasional bending, reaching, pushing and pulling when retrieving and moving various items.
• Lifting approximately 30% of the time. Typically, assistance would be provided for weights exceeding 35 pounds.
• Good manual dexterity Position may require more than eight hours daily and more than five days weekly to complete work assignments.
• Sitting in chairs (swivel, padded, and adjustable) for 70% of the workday.
• Squatting / crouching when retrieving stored items from lower shelves and file cabinets, making equipment / product inspections, etc.
• Standing intermittently.
• Visual requirements for this position are close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Clean work areas and maintain a clean work environment; perform 5S cleaning activities as required.

Equipment Used:

• Hand grinding tools.
• Auto gages.
• Metal cleaning equipment.
• Sonic Equipment.
• Template Haze blast.
• Computers.
• Glass bead.
• Boroscope.
• Belt gun.
• Comco.
• Hoists.

Basic Qualifications:

• High School diploma or GED equivalency is required.
• Must be able to demonstrate 2 years of full-time continuous work experience with the same employer OR 6 months of manufacturing experience.
• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire. Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

Skills and Abilities:

• Read parts to the .0001.
• Understand gaging and templates.
• Have finishing skills, (stones, burrs, belts, etc.).
• Work independent as well as with a team.
• Able to read and follow written and verbal instruction.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with the GE210 and PW451 is preferred.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Employee is required to execute the following:

• Occasional bending, reaching, pushing and pulling when retrieving and moving various items.
• Lifting approximately 30% of the time. Typically, assistance would be provided for weights exceeding 35 pounds.
• Good manual dexterity Position may require more than eight hours daily and more than five days weekly to complete work assignments.
• Sitting in chairs (swivel, padded, and adjustable) for 70% of the workday.
• Squatting / crouching when retrieving stored items from lower shelves and file cabinets, making equipment / product inspections, etc.
• Standing intermittently.
• Visual requirements for this position are close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Clean work areas and maintain a clean work environment; perform 5S cleaning activities as required.

Equipment Used:

• Hand grinding tools.
• Auto gages.
• Metal cleaning equipment.
• Sonic Equipment.
• Template Haze blast.
• Computers.
• Glass bead.
• Boroscope.
• Belt gun.
• Comco.
• Hoists.

We're a company of innovators and makers. Howmet Aerospace is transforming the aerospace and transportation industries. Join our team and help us engineer the next generation of sustainable travel.

Howmet Aerospace, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a leading global provider of advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries. The Company's primary businesses focus on jet engine components, aerospace fastening systems and titanium structural parts necessary for mission-critical performance and efficiency in aerospace and defense applications, as well as forged wheels for commercial transportation. Howmet Aerospace is transforming the next phase of more fuel-efficient, quieter aerospace engines and sustainable ground transportation. For more information, visit www.howmet.com . Follow @howmet: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , LinkedIn, and YouTube .

Our state-of-the-art investment casting facility in La Porte, Indiana is seeking Metal Cell Operators to join our team. Nestled halfway between South Bend and Chicago, along the shores of Lake Michigan - our facility in La Porte, Indiana supplies jet engine components to some of the most trusted names in the Aerospace industry.

Job Summary:

Work as a team member to take a rough casting and condition it to the specifications that meet the customer's requirements by performing metal cleaning, finishing, and dimensional inspection and FPI inspection.

Essential Functions:

• Must be able to read and interpret Product Criteria (PC) and Activity Instructions (AI).
• Set up of initial booths(s) for standardization and set up remaining booths to the model booth.
• Write/edit A.I.'s as required/needed for the department.
• Perform 5S for the department and own the auditing of 5S.
• Operate hand grinding tools (both belt and stone).
• Operate metal cleaning equipment, water flow and sonic equipment.
• Adjust parts by use of presses, heat or other dimensional tooling.
• Operate hand sandblast and auto blast units.
• Prolonged gripping standing or sitting and pushing, pulling and lifting.
• Moderate length of concentration.
• Must be able to function as a member of a team and be able to work under general supervision.
• Must be able to work and function in a fast-paced environment.
• Basic knowledge of computers.
• Must be able to maintain expected quality levels.

Job Responsibilities:

Job responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

To become cross trained in order to perform ALL or MOST OF the duties listed below. When necessary, individual may be required to move castings to designated area or perform other work-related duties as assigned:

Metal Cleaner:

• Sandblast part by the A.I./P.C.
• Fill and clean the blasting unit.
• Inspect castings for possible scrap.
• Maintain the correct pressure and speed of the blast cabinets by the AI's and PC's.
• Operate glass bead/table clean unit.

Metal Finisher:

• Finish castings to PC using stones, burrs, belts, templates, and gauges.
• Sandblast to surface finish.
• Conduct visual operation and primary inspection of casting.
• Input data in computer for collection.
• Use boroscope for inspection and fiber light.
• Perform decap/deburr operation.
• Perform sonic operation.
• Map weld areas.
• Operate Comco machine.
• Operate water flow.

Dimensional

• Use of calipers, micrometer, height gauges, shim stock, scissors, pin, go no/go, step gages, sonic equipment.
• Input data for record keeping.
• Adjusting castings for PC compliance.
• Working with engineering on deviant castings and reworking to engineers' instructions.
• Datum "C" drilling-Stators Cell Only.
• Fixture Gauging /Adjusting.
• Reroute nonconforming castings.

*Employees are expected to work overtime as needed.We're a company of innovators and makers. Howmet Aerospace is transforming the aerospace and transportation industries. Join our team and help us engineer the next generation of sustainable travel.

Howmet Aerospace, headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is a leading global provider of advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries. The Company's primary businesses focus on jet engine components, aerospace fastening systems and titanium structural parts necessary for mission-critical performance and efficiency in aerospace and defense applications, as well as forged wheels for commercial transportation. Howmet Aerospace is transforming the next phase of more fuel-efficient, quieter aerospace engines and sustainable ground transportation. For more information, visit www.howmet.com . Follow @howmet: Twitter , Instagram , Facebook , LinkedIn, and YouTube .

Our state-of-the-art investment casting facility in La Porte, Indiana is seeking Metal Cell Operators to join our team. Nestled halfway between South Bend and Chicago, along the shores of Lake Michigan - our facility in La Porte, Indiana supplies jet engine components to some of the most trusted names in the Aerospace industry.

Job Summary:

Work as a team member to take a rough casting and condition it to the specifications that meet the customer's requirements by performing metal cleaning, finishing, and dimensional inspection and FPI inspection.

Essential Functions:

• Must be able to read and interpret Product Criteria (PC) and Activity Instructions (AI).
• Set up of initial booths(s) for standardization and set up remaining booths to the model booth.
• Write/edit A.I.'s as required/needed for the department.
• Perform 5S for the department and own the auditing of 5S.
• Operate hand grinding tools (both belt and stone).
• Operate metal cleaning equipment, water flow and sonic equipment.
• Adjust parts by use of presses, heat or other dimensional tooling.
• Operate hand sandblast and auto blast units.
• Prolonged gripping standing or sitting and pushing, pulling and lifting.
• Moderate length of concentration.
• Must be able to function as a member of a team and be able to work under general supervision.
• Must be able to work and function in a fast-paced environment.
• Basic knowledge of computers.
• Must be able to maintain expected quality levels.

Job Responsibilities:

Job responsibilities and duties may include, but are not limited to, the following:

To become cross trained in order to perform ALL or MOST OF the duties listed below. When necessary, individual may be required to move castings to designated area or perform other work-related duties as assigned:

Metal Cleaner:

• Sandblast part by the A.I./P.C.
• Fill and clean the blasting unit.
• Inspect castings for possible scrap.
• Maintain the correct pressure and speed of the blast cabinets by the AI's and PC's.
• Operate glass bead/table clean unit.

Metal Finisher:

• Finish castings to PC using stones, burrs, belts, templates, and gauges.
• Sandblast to surface finish.
• Conduct visual operation and primary inspection of casting.
• Input data in computer for collection.
• Use boroscope for inspection and fiber light.
• Perform decap/deburr operation.
• Perform sonic operation.
• Map weld areas.
• Operate Comco machine.
• Operate water flow.

Dimensional

• Use of calipers, micrometer, height gauges, shim stock, scissors, pin, go no/go, step gages, sonic equipment.
• Input data for record keeping.
• Adjusting castings for PC compliance.
• Working with engineering on deviant castings and reworking to engineers' instructions.
• Datum "C" drilling-Stators Cell Only.
• Fixture Gauging /Adjusting.
• Reroute nonconforming castings.

*Employees are expected to work overtime as needed.