Job Description
About Kennametal
With over 85 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace and defense, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Learn more at kennametal.com. Follow @Kennametal: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.
Carbide Pressing
Bedford, PA
Shift: 3rd, 11PM - 7AM, Sunday - Thursday
Purpose: Responsible for daily set-up, maintenance, operations, and running of an EP 30 Pressing Machine presses that are NC (numerical controlled) with robotics attached to them.
Key Job Responsibilities:
- Working in a team environment safely, operating complex production equipment and tools in the manufacture and packaging of various products.
- Following blueprints, guidelines, diagrams and schematics to ensure product and customer specifications and tolerance levels are met.
- Executing equipment calibration, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting and sustained production.
- Modify existing equipment and helping design new equipment for continual manufacturing process improvement, providing quality control and in-process production testing
Complexity:
- Works within standard operating procedures and/or scientific methods.
- Works with a moderate degree of supervision.
Education, Work Experience, Skills, Certificates:
- High school diploma or equivalency
- 1-3 years of relevant work experience
Quality Management
- Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support and environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail
Conflict Management
- Understanding how to anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts
- Effective Communication
- Flexibility and Adaptability
- Problem Solving
- Teamwork
Productivity Orientation
- Knowledge of the factors that influence productivity and ability to maintain focus on organizational factors that maximize operational performance.
Gemba Kaizen / Continuous Improvement
- Knowledge of the principles
Lean Manufacturing
- Knowledge of the philosophy, principles and implementation approaches to lean manufacturing
Manufacturing Equipment
- Knowledge of the electrical, mechanical, and logistics equipment used in manufacturing
Manufacturing Operations
- Knowledge of the day-to-day operations of a manufacturing plant or facility
Manufacturing Safety
- Knowledge of methods, accepted practices, considerations and regulatory requirements related to manufacturing safety.
Robotics/Computer Controlled Machinery
- Knowledge of robotics technologies and computer applications; ability to implement and operate them in an automated manufacturing environment.
SPC (Statistical Process Controls)
- Knowledge of the concepts, methods, tools, and objectives of statistical process controls
Kennametal Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.