Job Description

Position Summary:

This role is responsible for assembling valve parts into a finished products while maintaining standards in safety and quality in order to meet the customer’s needs. 

Principle Responsibilities:

• Uses primarily hand and some pneumatic tools to assemble valve parts into a finished product.
• Examines valve bodies and parts to be assembled to assure they are correct, including size, material and machining and consults Supervisor or Leader on questionable issues.
• Assures that assembly parts are available.
• Assembles parts in established sequence through established procedures to assure quality of fit and operation.
• Operates pneumatic testing (air seat test) equipment to assure valve integrity.
• Trims parts, and valve linings to assure proper fit.
• Adjusts valve parts to assure proper fit.
• May assemble standard valves, specialty valves and actuation equipment.
• Sets up and performs special testing based on routing sheet specifications.
• Assures that all routing sheet specifications are accomplished.
• Exercises judgment on product quality regarding casting quality, machining and fit.
• Verifies and records heat numbers and material markings for various customers.
• Advises coworkers and Team Leader of special customer requirements -- eg., special  paint requirement.
• Proficiently uses hand tools to blend materials to assure proper fit.
• Participates actively in Operational Excellence and Quality processes including project team involvement, problem solving, and recommending solutions to enhance and improve the quality of departmental and/or company-wide business activities.
• Completes RTY data recordings for quality and process issues as required
• Completes daily, weekly, and monthly 5S requirements
• Performs QAD transactions as needed to transfer and back-flush material in proper sequence to maintain accurate inventory levels and status.
• Performs other work as assigned by Supervisor or Team Leader

Qualifications/Experience:

• Skill in the care and use of applicable hand & pneumatic tools and equipment.
• Ability to read and interpret blueprints.
• Ability to work from verbal and written instructions, drawings, diagrams and routing sheets.
• Ability to work independently, with minimal supervision, on conditions necessitating ingenuity, initiative and judgment.
• Product knowledge sufficient to perform “Principal Responsibilities” with little supervision needed.
• High degree of physical and mental dexterity and visual attention for sustained period required.
• Ability to detect defects in products and exercise independent judgment on repair capability.
• Working knowledge of shop mathematics.
• Ability to sustain moderate physical effort, working with light to medium weight material.
• Lifting, bending, twisting, carrying, pushing and pulling are common and repetitious.  Concentrated mental and visual attention in working to close tolerances is required.  High degree of physical and manual dexterity and visual attention for sustained period also required.
• High school education

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job:

• Required to stand for long periods of time
• Required to have good balance
• Required to use hands to handle or feel objects, tools or controls
• Required to reach with hands and arms, balance, stoop, kneel, or crouch
• Must be able to lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Ability to use various hand tools
• Must have good hand and eye coordination

EOE/Women/Minorities/Veterans/Disabled