Production Generalist

Production Generalist Job Highlights

Company Profile

Howmet Aerospace provides advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries. The Company’s primary businesses focus on jet engine components, aerospace fastening systems, titanium structural parts necessary for mission-critical performance and efficiency in aerospace and defense applications, and forged wheels for commercial transportation.

Job Profile

The company is looking for a Production Generalist who will support various manufacturing operations.

Educational Qualification

• High School Diploma or GED

Work Experience

• Minimum of 2 years of continuous work experience post-high school

Duties/Responsibilities

• Ability to work in team environments, solo work, and working with all level’s management, Engineering, and other departments.
• Blend welds or prepare castings for welding by means of grinding and blending. Operate and maintain blast cabinets, Burr guns, belt sanders, visual tools, and dimensional gauges.
• Build ceramic molds around completed wax assemblies and remove wax once complete.
• Cut and weigh alloy ingots for casting.
• Follow safety requirements.
• Inspect wax patterns or metal castings for dimensional conformance to specifications which may require the use of Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM), Ultrasonic gauges (UT), 3D inspection using white or blue light scanning technology, and hand-held measuring devices including feeler gauges or pincher gauges in accordance with blueprint specifications.
• Inspect, disposition, clean, repair, plug and wrap molds in preparation for Casting.
• Interact with a variety of team members to ensure product specifications and defect removal.
• Lift with a mechanical lifting device.
• Move parts, equipment, and materials throughout the shop.
• Perform shop floor cleaning activities up to and including but not limited to sweeping, mopping, painting, waxing, etc.
• Read and follow printed and computer-based work instructions.
• Record data either manually or by the computer as required.
• Remove excess metal or other material per customer specifications.
• Remove scale and core material per customer specifications.
• Transport and set up molds for preheating and casting furnaces.
• Visually inspect castings.
• Willing to participate in continuous improvement initiatives within our process to enhance the work task.
• This description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as required.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Burr guns, belt sanders, visual tools, dimensional gauges, Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM), Ultrasonic gauges (UT), 3D inspection using white or blue light scanning technology, and hand-held measuring devices including feeler gauges or pincher gauges.
• Experience working in a manufacturing environment

Employer’s Statement

Howmet Aerospace is an Equal Opportunity Employer.