Solar Turbines

Gas Turbine Mechanic

Gas Turbine Mechanic
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LocationSan Diego, CA
Job Typefull time
Salary$49,920-$87,360
On-site
Oil and Gas

About This Job


Career Area:


Operations


Job Description:

Your Work Shapes the World at Caterpillar Inc.

When you join Caterpillar, you're joining a global team who cares not just about the work we do – but also about each other. We are the makers, problem solvers, and future world builders who are creating stronger, more sustainable communities. We don't just talk about progress and innovation here – we make it happen, with our customers, where we work and live. Together, we are building a better world, so we can all enjoy living in it.


About the Role:

To perform layout, fabrication, and assembly of diversified types of assigned parts, subassemblies, assemblies, engines and brazing fixtures.


What You Will Do:

- Perform layout, fabrication, assembly, and mock-up of diversified types of parts, subassemblies, assemblies, and engines of an assigned project, working from and interpreting emergency experimental work assignments, work orders, travelers, Solar and customer engineering prints, specifications, drawings, sketches, lofting information, and other oral and written instructions

- Recommend sequence of operations and methods necessary to complete fabrication or assembly assignments

- Work with or without the benefit of tooling, planning, and engineering information

- Collaborate in the solution of problems and provide information to benefit the assigned project

- Determine configuration, form, test, and assemble hydraulic and pneumatic lines and bracketry

- Perform any operation before or after machining and welding required to fabricate and assemble all types of parts and assemblies including those which involve difficult configurations and critical coordination of component parts and assemblies

- Make layout necessary to establish locations of parts, trim lines bosses, hole and flange patterns, where dimensions and fitting are exacting, requiring the use of such mathematics as plane geometry and shop trigonometry to calculate dimensions

- Make layouts on flat and formed sheet metal parts and trim, form, bend, and roll difficult shapes making allowances for material and welding distortion

- Develop brazing techniques to lay up and braze parts and assemblies

- Set up and operate brazing ovens

- Use torch for heating and hot forming

- Perform such operations as plating, processing, metal finishing, and heat treating as required

- Select materials, tooling and testing equipment and set up and utilize the type of hand, machine forming, and assembly tools and equipment required to accomplish the fabrication task

- Alter and adapt standard tooling to locate and assemble parts and materials or improvise temporary tooling and production aids

- Utilize a thorough knowledge of the principles of gas turbine engines to assemble and build up parts, assemblies, engines, and test equipment

- Exercise the utmost care while tearing down engines and accessory units in order not to disturb or destroy evidence developed during the engine run

- Lay out parts undergoing tests and examine for variations from conditions recorded prior to testing, observing, and recording the condition of parts and assemblies for evidence of such conditions as heating, rubbing, discolorations, wearing, leaking, etc.

- Set up and operate balancing machines and balance gas turbine engine parts , assemblies and other hardware to critical requirements

- Maintain log books for engines worked through test status and assure the accumulation and retention of historical data for each engine

- Determine sequence of operations and lay out, fabricate, assemble, repair, rework, and alter all types of brazing tooling fixtures and fixture subassemblies, including such complex developmental and first run fixtures as muffle boxes with or without adequate tooling and complete fabrication information, working from Company specifications, blueprints, sketches, and written or oral instructions and in accordance with shop practice

- Maintain proper brazing fixture configuration, where adherence to close tolerances is required

- Perform any operation before or after welding required to fabricate all types of developmental or production brazing fixtures including those involving complex contours

- Make functional check of the completed brazing fixture unit as required

- Install thermocouple, air and vacuum lines to brazing fixture at predetermined location points

- Join brazing fixture components together by clamping and/or bolting

- Trim, bend, form and roll sheet metal parts and bar stock

- Adapt standard tooling to locate and assemble parts and materials and may improvise production aids to assist in accomplishing the above operations

- May lay out and fabricate sheet metal products for maintenance, such as splash guards, coolant pans and tanks, catch tanks, etc.

- Lay out, fabricate and assemble. special field service tools as ordered by Solar and/or customers

- Perform the duties of engine mechanic classification as required

- Perform rework, repair, and overhaul wherein the operations are essentially the same level of difficulty as required for the operations described herein


What You Have:

- High School Diploma, GED or equivalent.

- 1 years of Mechanical Experience

Experience with Precision Measuring Devices (multi-meters, dial calipers, depth mics, etc)

- Blue Print Reading Experience

- Experience with Forklift, Overhead Crane


Preferred Qualifications:

- 3+ years of experience working with gas turbines or other turbomachinery.

- Proficiency in Geometric Dimensioning & Tolerancing

- Thermocouples wiring with termination experience

- Experience in the following: proximeter, bolt heater, hydraulic stretch tooling, pullers, torch, spot tacker, build stand elevator.

- SFIS Experience

This employer is not currently hiring foreign national applicants that require or will require sponsorship tied to a specific employer, such as H, L, TN, F, J, E, O.


Summary Pay Range:


$24.00 - $42.41

Compensation and benefits offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, job level, market location, job-related knowledge, skills, individual performance and experience. Please note that salary is only one component of total compensation at Caterpillar.


Benefits:

Subject to plan eligibility, terms, and guidelines. This is a summary list of benefits.

- Medical, dental, and vision benefits* - Paid time off plan (Vacation, Holidays, Volunteer, etc.)* - 401(k) savings plans* - Health Savings Account (HSA)* - Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)* - Health Lifestyle Programs* - Employee Assistance Program* - Voluntary Benefits and Employee Discounts* - Career Development* - Incentive bonus*

- Disability benefits

- Life Insurance

- Parental leave

- Adoption benefits

- Tuition Reimbursement

- These benefits also apply to part-time employees


Posting Dates:

Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a drug screen.

Caterpillar is an Equal Opportunity Employer, Including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities. Qualified applicants of any age are encouraged to apply.


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