Met Lab Technician

Posted:
10/20/2024, 5:00:00 PM

Location(s):
Cedar Falls, Iowa, United States ⋅ Iowa, United States

Experience Level(s):
Junior ⋅ Mid Level ⋅ Senior

Field(s):
Mechanical Engineering

Workplace Type:
On-site

If you’re looking for a special place to build or grow your career, you’ve found it. Whether you’re an experienced professional, a recent college graduate or somewhere in between, IDEX is a place where you can apply your existing skills and learn new ones in an environment where you can make an impact.

With interesting opportunities in engineering, marketing, sales, supply chain, operations, HR, finance, and more across more than 40 diverse businesses around the globe, chances are, we have something special for you.

PRIMARY FUNCTION:

Support Viking through the use of metallurgical tests and evaluations in the lab and foundry.

PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Calibrate and operate carbon and sulfur combustion analysis equipment.
  • Standardize and operate the spectrometers, including sample preparation equipment.
  • General maintenance of lab equipment.
  • Calculate alloy additions to the furnaces.
  • Order lab supplies.
  • Record keeping, including the daily entry of material consumption into JDE.
  • Perform tensile tests and hardness tests – Brinell, Rockwell, and Micro-hardness.
  • Prepare microstructure samples and evaluate metal structures including case depth.
  • Prepare samples for failure analysis.
  • Incoming scrap inspection including chemistry verification and radiation checks.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:

  • Minimum of a high school diploma or equivalent.

OTHER SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:

  • Foundry and /or lab knowledge is a plus.
  • Must have basic math skills. Computer literacy is required. Must have good oral and written communication skills.

COMPUTER SKILLS:

  • Proficient with Microsoft Office products including, but not limited to, Word, Excel, and Outlook.

WORK ENVIRONMENT REQUIREMENTS:

  • Ability to move within office and manufacturing complex, write by hand and keyboard, and perform general office functions.
  • Ability to communicate by speech and hearing via phone and in person.
  • Visual acuity needed for close detail work and computer use.
  • General manufacturing, warehouse and office environment.

ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

  • Must have the ability to effectively communicate with customers, suppliers and all levels of corporate and company personnel.

  • All foundry departments, Viking engineering, manufacturing engineering, and quality assurance.

Are you ready to join a different kind of company where our people, our culture, and our commitments are centered around providing trusted solutions that improve lives around the world?

IDEX is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. IDEX gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, genetic information, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, age, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration or protected category made unlawful by federal, state or local laws (Minorities/Females/Protected Veterans/Disabled).

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