Batch Operator

Operate batch equipment to process customer parts in accordance with shop order specifications and instructions from management, providing maximum production consistent with acceptable quality; set and monitor process parameters to ensure that cycles are loaded and unloaded in a timely manner to meet scheduling and productivity requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Transfer, check in, check out and weigh work moving in or out of the department.
• Prepare, wash, load, unload and inspect parts for heat-treating.
• Monitor and adjust controls on furnace equipment based on work order specifications.
• Set up new or special jobs.
• Unpack and re-pack finished parts in customer containers for shipment.
• Ensure necessary information on logs, shop orders, furnace charts, etc. is being completed correctly.
• Operate forklift and material handling equipment to transport material.
• Start up and shut down equipment and perform tests, minor repairs, routine maintenance, and adjustments to equipment as required.
• Report discrepancies to supervisors and/or maintenance department.
• Monitor batch helpers to ensure baskets are loaded and unloaded correctly and in a timely manner.
• Assist in making a schedule that accommodates customer needs.
• Assist others in resolving quantity, shop order and heat-treating discrepancies.
• Prepare samples and ensure that proper random in-process and final inspection samples are used for inspection.
• Run carbon shims to determine furnace accuracy.
• Set furnace times, temperatures and probe settings and regulate the addition of gas, ammonia, nitrogen and enriching gas, following schedules that are set by or provided to operators.
• Add soap and soluble oil to respective tanks to bring to proper concentration.
• Check wash tanks for proper skimmer operation.
• Ensure parts are checked by Inspector.
• Maintain traceability of all open shop orders.
• Change furnace charts daily.