Job Title: Shipper/Painter
Location: Waukesha, WI
Type: 3rd Shift, Full Time, Direct Hire
Pay: $26.76 /hour Job Summary:
The shipper role serves as an assembly function, representing the final touchpoint for the product before leaving our facility. It encompasses dismantling each unit and preparing it for shipment.
Painter: Must acquire skills through training and demonstrate proficiency in the following areas: transformer disassembly, preparing units for painting, actual painting, preparing units for loading, loading units onto rail cars or trucks, and shipping parts. Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
- Receive assignments and instructions from supervisors, both verbal and written. Follow drawings, Bill of Materials, and other established manufacturing procedures. Coordinate and communicate with supervision and team leads.
- Dismantle transformers for shipment (arrestors, radiators, bushings, conservators, etc.).
- Drain oil, vacuum fill with dry air, nitrogen, or oil as required, and pressure test transformer tanks.
- Package components and transformer parts for shipment.
- Prepare railroad cars and/or trucks for loading transformer units and components.
- Clean tanks prior to final paint.
- Load transformer units onto railcars or trucks.
- Prepare shipping materials as required (blocking, tie rods, etc.).
- Move transformer units from the test floor to and within the shipping area.
- Move and switch rail cars.
- Load and unload units as required from railcars and trucks.
- Perform minor miscellaneous welding and burning functions as required (welder only).
- Apply paint primer and finish coats to transformers and parts per B.O.M. and instructions (painter only).
- Clean, operate, and maintain paint systems equipment (painter only).
- Maintain paint and solvent waste streams per procedures (painter only).
- Ensure proper marking, storage, and transport of hazardous wastes.
- Ability to look up non-conformances.
- Write work orders for the repair of tooling and equipment.
- Follow all safety procedures and policies of the company.
- Keep tools, equipment, and work area neat and orderly.
- Assist in training new operators.
- May work in Med Power, Large Power, or EHV product lines.
- Perform work in other departments as needed. Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Utilize portable scaffold and steps, ladders, radial and band saws, vacuum cleaners, hydraulic jacks, threading machines, hi-press crimpers, grinders, stud guns, hand drills, pneumatic wrenches, mallets, sledges, pry bars, blocks, wire strippers, hand crimpers, overhead jib cranes, chains, slings, vacuum pumps, forklift trucks, air bearings.
- Operate various machines including wire crimpers, heat guns, air pallets, punches, sanders, band saws, grinders, stud welders, pipe threaders, shears, drills, welders, plasma cutters, and other related equipment.
- Materials used in this position include tanks, covers, current transformers, tap changers, gear assemblies, oil gauges, pressure gauges, cabinets, housings, bushings, operating mechanisms, finished transformers, flanges, lightning arrestors, wood, steel rod, nitrogen, and others. Breaker stands, breaker poles, breaker C.T.'s, galvanized steel beams, & SF6 gas.
- Often work at heights up to 15' or more.
- Work varies from working at ground level to working in, on top of, and around the sides of the transformer tank.
- Operations require mental and visual concentration to ensure compliance with engineering and quality specifications.
- Position requires hand and eye coordination to make adequate welds meeting various welding specifications for in-plant certification, if welding.
- Ability to access and work in confined spaces, which includes 18-24" manhole access. Education and Experience:
Required Education / Experience: High School Diploma or equivalent. Pay Details: $26.76 per hour
Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled
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