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Metal Fabricator II
Burnley, Lancashire, GBPosted Yesterday
onsiteFull-time Regular
Job Description
Role Profile
This role will primarily be responsible for fabricating, fitting, maintaining, and repairing aircraft engine components. Sheet Metal workers need to be hands-on, efficient, and work to high quality standards, working alongside and supporting other key business areas across the Site.
Key Accountabilities and Responsibilities
- Participate in a positive and proactive EHS culture across the site.
- Carry out fabrication work to prescripted aircraft standards to fall in line with sheet metal processes.
- Ability to understand, interpret and work to Engineering drawings and to work to tight tolerances.
- Ability to use measuring equipment and inspection fixtures to ensure component conformity to drawing requirements.
- General maintenance of machinery, jigs and fixtures is required to ensure a clean, safe, and healthy working environment.
- Setting up and operating fabricating machines to cut, bend and straighten sheet metal.
- Check parts for accurate measurements and finish pieces where necessary.
- Sharing knowledge and experience and support coaching and mentoring to new employees and apprentices.
- Support and participate in Continuous Improvement initiatives across Shop Operations. (I.e. Lean Manufacturing, 6S initiatives, cost reductions, housekeeping)
- To carry out any other duties that may be necessary to meet departmental objectives.
Person Specification
- Time served with professional qualification
- Excellent communication skills
- Team Player with the ability to work alone and use own initiative with minimum supervision.
- Flexible approach to working various shift patterns
- Flexible approach to working across multiple departments
- Willingness to be trained across departments, supporting flexible working requirements
- Pro-active approach to the future success of the business
- Knowledge and experience on high temperature alloys is a distinct advantage
- TIG welding experience would be a distinct advantage