Manufacturing Plater - Kansas City, MO, United States - BuildSubmarines

Description

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail.

Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.

Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world.

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Do you want to go into uncharted things that haven't been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

If you are interested in joining our Talent Community, please share your resume with us.

The Welder is responsible for producing highly engineered, custom built mobile material handling machinery for rail related markets by using mechanical, hydraulic and pneumatic assembly techniques as well as welding, electrical wiring and hitching on overhead cranes and jibs.

Read and follow standard work, BOM's, blueprints, routings, specifications and other diagrams/instructions in order to build and assemble parts and equipment in an accurate and timely fashion
Obtain necessary tools and equipment
Handle material, tools and equipment manually or with jib crane, performing own hitching as required
Maintain high quality standards
Spray paint parts as required
Layout, cut and fit parts as required to weld in place
Prepare machinery for shipping
~ Follow wiring diagrams/schematics to connect electrical cabling accurately and timely
Create or re-wire harnesses and cables per documentation

Welding Principal Duties
Determine from drawings, information or standard practice, the welding sequence, type and size of electrode, machine settings and tools required
Perform fit up and related layout, and welding
Change gas cylinders, wire reels, cables, gas lines, wire holder and wire

Maintain departmental housekeeping standards.
~ Complete production and quality assurance forms
~ Adhere to Quality Management System Requirements
~Ability to read and comprehend procedures written in English

Ability to operate a computer to read and input data
Ability to read and interpret 3D prints/schematics to complete standard work

Mechanical aptitude
Employee is regularly required to stand, walk, stoop, crouch, bend, work underneath equipment, reach above shoulders, and climb
Employee will be working in the typical conditions of a manufacturing environment including seasonal variation in temperatures and occasional exposure to manufacturing fumes or by-products

In order to fulfill that commitment we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity and inclusiveness. We aim to employ the world's brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities.

Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status.

If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.