Job Description

About the job

Job Title: Foundry Operative
Salary : DOE
Monday to Thursday \xe2\x80\x93 7.30am-4.30pm and Friday 7.30am-12.30pm
Location: Burnley

The Company

We are recruiting for Foundry Operative to join our client a well-established manufacturing company who are based in the Burnley area.

The successful candidate

• Experience of working in a Foundry would be beneficial.
• It would be advantageous to have knowledge of Foundry processes e.g. casting shelling process, shell making parameters, and robotic shell manufacture.
• Worked with intricate injection mouldings
• A methodical approach to systems and understanding of the importance of standards and established/agreed systems of work.
• Able to make decisions based on experience, have confidence to act and make changes within given boundaries.
• Good personal organisation under pressure from time, internal and external customers.
• Computer literate.
• Time management skills.
• Good verbal communication and listening skills.
• Ability to promote Fort Vale in a positive manner.
• Observe and practice the 5S principles.
• Manually handle weights up to 25kg.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Role and Responsibilities

Wax Production

• Operation of wax injection moulding machines.
• Setting of wax injection moulding machines.
• Inspection of wax components.
• Use standard operating procedures to repair components.
• Assembly of wax components onto runner systems using hot knives and micro-welder equipment, following individual part guidelines.
• Inspection of completed work to ensure best quality is achieved.

Shelling and mould production

• Loading and unloading of moulding robots.
• Maintaining optimum slurry/sander parameters to ensure best mould build.
• Preparing slurry batches to specific tolerances.
• Monitoring and highlighting deviations from optimum environmental parameters within the shelling area.
• Ability to measure liquid viscosity and weights.

Casting operations

• Working in a hot metal environment, melting and pouring liquid metal.
• Shell and moulding de-waxing and preparation.
• Ensuring melt traceability to comply with casting certification.

Post casting operations

• Use belt linishing machines to grind various castings to specified tolerances.
• Operating air hand grinding tools.
• Operating abrasive wheel semi-auto cut off saws.
• Operate equipment in other areas of the Foundry as and when required: including knockout machine, hydraulic press and wheelbrators for metal cleaning.
• Use metal washing machines and guillotines to complete tasks.
• Contribute to a team working environment.
• Contribute to continuous improvement.
• To share knowledge and/or best practice with other team members.
• Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Inspection of completed work to ensure best quality is achieved using the \xe2\x80\x98right first time\xe2\x80\x99 approach.
• Use computers to extract data.

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