MANUFACTURING TECHNICIAN-HARTFORD

Signicast is the industry’s leading investment casting manufacturer. Through the hard work and dedication of our employees, we satisfy our customer's needs by safely delivering a quality product on-time, at a competitive price. Working at Signicast means becoming part of a world-class company. With industry-leading Total Rewards package and the potential to grow your career with us. Signicast doesn’t just invest in you— we help you invest in a future!

Signicast is seeking motivated and detail-oriented individuals to join our team as Manufacturing Technicians. In this role, you will be responsible for operating and maintaining production equipment, ensuring quality standards are met, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives within the manufacturing process.

Day shift- 6:00 am- 6:00 pm on a 12-hour 2-2-3 rotating schedule

Night shift- 6:00 pm- 6:00 am on a 12-hour 2-2-3 rotating schedule

The starting wage depends on experience + applicable shift premiums

Dependable and reliable attendance is required for all positions

Wax Technician: Responsible for assembling the wax molds to prepare them for the next step in the manufacturing process

Dip/Dewax Technician: Responsible for coordinating the dipping of wax patterns into the ceramic slurry to develop the shell coat and then evaluating the wax from the mold

Finishing Technician: Responsible for ensuring the parts are defect-free, meet customer specifications, and are shipped to the customer

Melt/Rough Clean Technician: Responsible for converting parts into metal by transferring liquid metals into molds and then removing the ceramic mold from the parts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded from time to time to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary. Full job descriptions are available upon request

Wax Technician

- Reading wax cell standard practices and procedures in the Signicast Access system

- Inserting dies and setting up presses

- Coordinating the injection of wax into dies and assembly of patterns to sprues at multiple presses

- Performing visual inspection of sprues, patterns, and molds against pictures in Access and 1st quality part

- Monitoring control panel settings and making adjustments to ensure quality patterns

- Storing and retrieving dies, sprues, and clusters in the Automated Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS)

- Performing preventative maintenance on the daily checklists, such as greasing presses, filling sprayers, checking lights, and taking presses apart and changing filters

- Hang clusters so they will not crash in the dip process, make sure no wax is stuck in the die which would cause defective parts

- Back up for other areas if the continuous flow manufacturing process is interrupted to remove any backlogs. This could include working in the Dip/De-Wax Cell, Melt Cell, or Finishing Cell.

Dip/Dewax Technician

- Conduct and continually improve on Signicast’s processes within the Dip/De-Wax cell

- Adding sand and cleaning sand beds

- Measurement of the slurry mixture to ensure the right consistency

- Unscrewing the mold from the mold hanger in order to put a cup on the mold for the next step

- Lift the mold from the cup machine and load it onto the mold cart to load into the autoclave

- Loading and unloading of the autoclave

- Loading all sprues from the de-waxing process (autoclave) and load into the sprue-cleaning machine

- Patch molds so there are no leaks

- Lift molds onto the conveyor system that enters into the burn-out furnace

- Back up for other areas if the continuous flow manufacturing process is interrupted to remove any backlogs. This could include working in the Wax Cell, Melt Cell, or Finishing Cell.

Finishing Technician

- Reading Finishing cell standard practices and procedures in the Signicast Switchboard system

- Visually checking the quality of parts and fixing/welding to customer specifications

- Tapping holes in parts to customer specifications

- Detecting cracks in parts (mag particles), if applicable

- Heat treating parts to customer specifications and measuring the hardness of parts

- Sending parts to outside subcontractors and receiving and inspecting parts upon return

- Preparing products for shipment based on customer specifications and performing random quality checks on outgoing parts

- Back up for other areas if the continuous flow manufacturing process is interrupted to remove any backlogs. This could include working in the Wax Cell, Dip/De-Wax Cell, or Melt Cell.

Melt/Rough Clean Technician

- Comply with all safety and health guidelines, quality standard practices/procedures, and housekeeping standards

- Respond to alarms on melt units, caustic units (where applicable), KOH units, furnaces, and revert dryer for safety and proper functioning

- Detect sounds from equipment for proper functioning (ex: listen for abnormal sounds of equipment such as blades on cutting saw, grinding sounds, whining sounds on melting pot)

- Melting alloys to form metal in pot

- Pouring metal into molds and setting down correctly according to standard practices

- Removing ceramic in rough clean with water blaster and/or caustic, cutting off from sprue with a cut-off saw or cold break unit, and desludging tanks to clean them

- Maintaining the quality of metal to specifications indicated on standard practices, checking components of metal pot by performing a slug test using the spectrometer, adding alloys to the pot to bring a sample to specifications, performing final burn, and saving into the computer

Qualification Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Education and or/Experience

High school diploma or HSED/GED equivalent preferred. Must possess good computer skills and be able to learn new skills as needed.

Communication Skills

Must be able to effectively communicate with other employees to share information, solve problems, and instruct or train lesser-skilled employees. Must have the ability to read and interpret English documents such as part drawings, shop orders, work plans, and short correspondence. Must be able to write standard reports and documentation.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, talk and/or hear, and/or use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects, tools, or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand, and/or walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. The mental and physical requirements described here are representative of those that must be met by an individual to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.

Work Environment

While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Protective Clothing/Equipment Required

Safety glasses and safety shoes must be worn in all manufacturing areas. Additional PPE may be required as needed.

Benefits: Our Total Rewards program offers world class benefits for this full-time position:

- Medical Insurance-PPO & HDHP HSA within 61 days of your start date

- Dental & Vision insurance

- Wellness Program

- Life Insurance

- Short-term & Long Term disability

- Paid vacations plus 10 paid Holidays

- Quarterly Performance Bonus

- 401k Matching up to 5.5%

- Tuition Reimbursement

- On-site Fitness center (Hartford & Brown Deer Only)

- On-site Chiropractor (Hartford Only)

Signicast offers a breadth of opportunities from career development planning to help our employees grow into their next position through individualized planning and training to in-depth leadership development for our next generation of leaders.

Signicast is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.