Job description

Job Summary:
Prepares various broadgoods, tape, cordage, rubber and yarns to customer specifications.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include but not limited to:

• Reads, interprets and works to written instructions such as standard task procedures, work orders, work order instructions, supplementary instructions, manufacturer's and customer's specifications, Material Safety Data Sheets, safety rules. Must be able to understand and follow verbal instructions.
• Processes glass yarns involving operations such as skeining, pump leaching, washing, draining, coating and drying of yarns, and leaching various weights and weaves of cloths.
• Processes glass fiber cloth and fibers, involving such processing as caramelizing, continuous leaching, re-rolling, lift and drain leaching, washing and drying and firing.
• Operates and controls support equipment associated with the leach lines such as the tank farms, acid recovery and neutralization, and filter press (waste) management.
• Processes rayon fabric involving skeining, pre-carbonization, continuous firing, acid dipping, washing, and grading.
• High temperature oven treating of yarns, fibers and cloths.
• Processes carbonaceous materials involving low temperature tank carbonizing, re-rolling for graphite firing, and batch oven final firing of carbon and graphite cloths, yarns, webs, and chopped fibers.
• Starts-up and closes-down all equipment, threads-up and monitors equipment feeding and take-off operations.
• Moves material between warehouse and factory and between operations.
• Prepares various production and quality reports, and maintains logs.
• Prepares samples for quality and performs other quality inspections such as measuring for thickness, length and weight. Visually inspects material for defects and non-conformities.
• Performs minor maintenance and reports malfunctioning of equipment.
• Operates single and battery textile skeining and spooling machines. Selecting and mounting rewind skein stand or cores, bobbin, or spool, mounts winding stack, thread machine, adjusts tension, and winds to proper size and weight. Splices, cuts off and ties as required.
• Visually inspects, grades, packs, weighs, labels and stores finished products.
• Actively and effectively participates in work and problem solving teams. Identifying goals and process improvement opportunities.

Skills:

• Ability to read and interpret written documents such as standard task procedures, work orders, work order instructions, supplementary instructions, manufacturer's and customer's specifications, Material Safety Data Sheets, safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Must be able to understand and follow verbal instructions. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers, vendors, and/ or employees of organization.
• Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume. Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
• Understanding and use of group decision-making techniques, and problem solving meeting techniques. Ability to function in a team environment.

Education and/or Experience:

• High school graduate or GED plus one year related experience and/or training or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Materials, Tools, and Equipment

• Materials: Glass fiber, rayon, silica, sleevings, cordages, tapes, rovings, splicing cements, cardboard boxes, spools, cores, packaging tapes, bags, carbon and graphite, cloths, yarns, and chopped fiber. Process chemicals including hydrochloric acids, lime slurry, neutralizing agents, steam, water, coating materials, waxes, oxalic acid, ammonium dichromate, and Teflon.
• Tools: Mechanics hand tools, measuring equipment, light hand tools such as hammers, pipe wrenches, hacksaw, wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers, snips, scissors, needles, knives, yardage meters, tachometer and graduated flasks, rules, marking pens.
• Equipment: Leaching, scouring, drying and heat treat process equipment, control and recording instruments, furnaces, tanks, and continuous process leacher. Pumps including water, lime, vacuum and acid pumps. Extractors, steam exchanges and cans, scrubbers, winding and skeining machines, nitrogen cooling valves, flow meters, temperature and processing gages and meters, weighting scales, overhead crane, hoists and swings, lift trucks, tow motors, handling stands, rolls, take-ups. Textile skeining, winding, and spooling machines. Acid tank farm equipment, acid recovery and neutralization equipment, and filter press (waste management) equipment.

Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Frequently is required to stand and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
• Occasionally required to walk, sit, and climb or balance.
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.
• The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock; and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
• While on duty, Protective Equipment provided for this position must be used.

Our Promise:
Convince us with your skills and strengths – in an experienced team, working on challenging tasks. With our leading-edge technologies and materials, you will have freedom to act and a wide range of development opportunities. Attractive remuneration as well as smart fringe benefits are part of our offer.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We provide equal employment opportunities for all employees and applicants for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other classification protected under applicable federal, state or local law.
SGL Carbon is a leader in the development and manufacture of products based on specialty graphite and composites materials. Using our comprehensive technology know-how and in close partnership with our customers, we develop intelligent and leading-edge solutions for the big issues of mobility, energy and digitization.

SGL Carbon has more than 4,700 employees worldwide and 31 sites in Europe, North America and Asia, and a service network in over 100 countries.

Publication Date:
Dec 16, 2022

Location:
Gardena, CA, US, 90249-2406

Business Unit:
Composite Solutions

Legal Unit:
SGL Composites, Inc

Functional Area:
Production/Operations/Maintenance

Employment Type:
Full time

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