2nd shift Finishing Operator

Sets up and operates heat treat machine to prescribed methods. Operates coating equipment to clean and color parts such as barrels, receivers, frames, and other component parts by moving work from carrier to holders and positioning holders to tank racks and/or baskets. Set up and make necessary adjustment to equipment in order to perform a variety of tumbling operations such as burnishing, cleaning, brightening by utilizing a variety of vibratory equipment to remove scale, rust and burrs, also to round corners, brighten and finishing a variety of steel component parts to quality standards. Sets up and operates roll stamp machines to perform roll stamping on a variety of component parts.

Regulates temperature, controls atmosphere by regulating gas mixtures, monitors dew point and carbon level, and maintains quench media. Loads and unloads to prescribed cycle: loads into tempering ovens as required; washes parts. Uses Rockwell to test for prescribed hardness.

With hoist, immerse through a series of cleaning, coating, rinsing, and oil tanks at prescribed cycles to complete parts to prescribed quality standards.

Maintain tanks by checking meters, performing tank‑side tests of solution (titration) to ensure proper conditions and concentration of chemicals, checking temperatures using calibrated hand held thermometer to verify controller accuracy.

Regularly clean fixtures and tanks by draining, cleaning, rinsing, and refilling order to maintain safe working conditions and quality operations. Maintain written records to track cleaning of tanks, chemical usage, temperatures of solutions, etc.

Changes roll stamps and makes roll stamps adjustments as required.

Visually inspects and gauges at prescribed frequencies, using prescribed methods to maintain quality standards.

Performs any of several rough and finish hand polishing, buffing and brushing operations using various types of equipment, such as strappers, etc., on a wide variety of component parts, such as small parts, frames, receivers, barrels, ribs, etc.