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Globe Composite Solutions, LLC ยท 2 weeks ago

Fabrication & Finishing Technician

Globe Composite Solutions, LLC is a company focused on composite manufacturing solutions. They are seeking a Fabrication & Finishing Technician to assist in various processes including lamination, bonding, painting, and inspection, ensuring quality and efficiency in production.

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Responsibilities

Understands safety and procedural issues for the process
Reads and understands the production process instruction sheet, including identification of all relevant materials and equipment
Reads and understands part drawings and identifies important details and dimensions
Inspects parts for dimensional qualities
Inspects parts for lamination or secondary process readiness
Ensures material and supplies availability for upcoming production
Schedules daily lamination tasks to ensure optimum throughput to meet customer demand
Cleans and maintains mix and weighing equipment
Performs secondary operations (i.e. insert installation) when necessary
Reads and understands process sheet and/or packing slip
Trims and dry fits blocks prior to bond process
Records all lot information onto process sheets
Weighs out adhesives and prepares bagging/bonding materials
Bonds and vacuum bags blocks or finished parts to meet drawing or process sheet specifications
Trim/package or crate items for shipment
Reads and understands part drawings for glass layout and thickness details
Prepares work area for glassing process
Cuts/prepares fiberglass for lay-up process
Properly weighs and mixes resins for lay-up
Performs layout process including vacuum bagging when required
Trims and finishes parts, including sanding and readies part for final coatings
Inspects and prepares final parts for shipment
Prepares equipment preventive maintenance schedule
Participates in inventory assessment of raw materials and data collection
Evaluates supplies status and notifies or orders supplies
Understands safety and procedural issues for the process
Reads and understands production process instruction sheet and identifies all relevant materials and equipment
Prepares coatings and processing equipment per manufacturer specifications
Prepares syntactic/composite part surfaces for coatings to ensure final product meets customer requirements, including but not limited to:
Surface repair (patching and/or glassing)
Sanding and gloss coat
Priming
Coats parts per customer requirements
Cures and finishes parts per customer requirements
Maintains paint booth and finishing area to ensure safety and production standards are met
Inspects and prepares final parts for shipments
Prepares equipment preventive maintenance schedule
Participates in inventory assessment of raw materials and data collection
Evaluates supplies status and notifies or orders supplies
Participates in evaluation and development of new coatings and/or coating techniques
Understands safety and procedural issues for macrosphere process
Maintains a clean work area and general housekeeping of all equipment and scales
Identifies all relevant equipment
Reads and understands batch cards and identifies materials used in the process
Inspects/evaluates incoming starting beads for processing
Accurately loads tumbler(s) with starting materials and initiates process (heating/tumbling)
Properly applies coats by accurately weighing and transferring material
Accurately fills out batch cards with required information
Performs water displacement or pycnometer density checks during process
Unloads and screens finished product, attains batch weights and prepares QC samples
Replenishes raw materials and supplies
Prepares equipment preventive maintenance schedule
Cleans and maintains tumbler
Processes experimental batches with new materials or possible process improvements

Qualification

LaminationBondingPaintingFiberglassingMacrosphere processingManufacturing experienceSafety proceduresInventory assessmentPreventive maintenanceHand tools

Required

High school diploma or equivalent required
Must be able to lift, push, and pull greater than 50 pounds. With the occasional need to lift up to 100 pounds
Must be able to stand for long periods of time
Must be able to walk through a large manufacturing environment
Must be able to use hand tools
Constant use of hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools, or controls
Repetitive hand and arm movements
Occasional bending and twisting
Frequently moving about to accomplish tasks
Constantly communicating with others to exchange information
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
Must be able to wear PPE as necessary (respirator, safety glasses, hearing protection, steel-toe shoes, etc.)
To conform to U.S. Government export control regulations and the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information restrictions, applicant must be a U.S citizen, lawful permanent resident of the U.S., protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), or eligible to obtain the required authorization from the U.S. Department of State or Department of Commerce

Preferred

Manufacturing experience preferred

Company

Globe Composite Solutions, LLC

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Globe Composite Solutions is a well-established, fast growing technology company South of Boston serving Fortune 1000 customers by designing, engineering and manufacturing high performance composites for Defense, Submersible, Material Handling, and Industrial applications.

Funding

Current Stage
Growth Stage
Total Funding
unknown
2019-07-09Acquired

Leadership Team

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Michael Archibald
Chief Financial Officer
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