Fitter
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Job Summary:
The Fitter is responsible for assembling structural frameworks and housings from raw material. They prepare and fabricate metal components for the welding process.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Verify conformance of workpieces to specifications, using squares, rulers, and measuring tapes.
- Align and fit parts according to specifications, using jacks, turnbuckles, wedges, drift pins, pry bars, and hammers.
- Set up and operate fabricating machines, such as brakes, rolls, shears, flame cutters, grinders, and drill presses, to bend, cut, form, punch, drill, or otherwise form and assemble metal components.
- Position or tighten braces, jacks, clamps, ropes, or bolt straps, or bolt parts in position for welding or riveting.
- Chip or grind off excess weld, slag, or spatter using hand scrapers, portable grinders, or arc-cutting equipment.
- Review any parts received from kitting area and compare the parts to the print.
- Fabricating and revising fixtures, jigs, and gauges.
- Operate and/or use forklifts, cranes, hoists, slings, grinders, cutting torches, hand tools, drills, punches, and instruments of measurements.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Education Requirements:
- High School Diploma or GED required.
- Associates or Technical School preferred.
Work Experience Requirements:
- Minimum of one-year of related experience and/or training
Competencies- Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Reads and understands blueprints, schematics, and/or measuring devices.
- Follows processes and standard procedures.
- Hands on, get it done attitude.
- Uses hand tools and power tools.
- Work in a high energy, high volume, rapidly changing environment.
- Displays a high level of initiative, effort, and commitment towards completing assignments in a timely manner.
- Achieves thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved.
- Clear and effective communication skills in both written and spoken forms.
- Understands how to use the computers, including such tasks as turning the computer on and off, locating and opening files, navigate to websites, perform searches, and download files.
- Easy to approach and can build constructive and effective relationships.
- Performs consistently under stressful conditions.
- Cross-functionality in other areas of the aerospace industry.
- Can handle frequent interruptions and can multi-task.
- Analyzes and diagnoses problems and works independently to solve them.
- Inspects equipment, structures, or materials to identify the cause of errors or other problems or defects.
- Works collaboratively and build strategic relations with colleagues, coworkers, and contractors.
- Works effectively with different levels of management, team members and customers.
- Ability to earn trust, maintain positive and professional relationships, and contribute to a culture of inclusion.
Physical Demands:
- Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
- Medium work that includes moving objects up to 50 pounds.
- Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
- Creates a work environment that promotes and encourages team members' participation to attain common and individual objectives.
- Operate a motor vehicle, forklift, and/or other heavy equipment.
- Picking, pinching, typing or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with whole hand or arm as in handling.
- Prolonged periods working on feet, using tools, and performing repetitive actions that entail frequent bending and stooping.
- Read instructions, operate machines, and inspect parts produced.
- Repeating motions that may include the wrists, hands and/or fingers.
- Visual inspection involving small defects, small parts, and operation of machines.
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