Junior Plater

**General Description**:
**ONLY APPLICANTS THAT ARE ALREADY RESIDING IN CANADA WILL BE CONSIDERED**

Reporting to the President and following the production schedule and shop orders, the Plater runs the plating line, managing placement of racks in tanks to optimize production, ensuring parts are loaded and unloaded to maximize production.

**Reports to**: President

**Responsibilities**:

- Read and understand various complex drawings, sketches, manufacturing processes, specifications and other written instructions
- Prepare the parts by cleaning and degreasing the designated surfaces using appropriate tools to eliminate all contaminants
- Analyze and improvise masking techniques such as wax, adhesive or lead tape, rubber or other fixtures as required
- Load and unload parts onto shelves, hooks or special fixing jigs
- Perform dimensional and visual inspections of parts during the process as specified or required, using various types of precision measuring gauges and jigs, and update the appropriate parameter logs in order to establish efficient operations using statistical process control
- Perform plating and maintenance. Use a small oven to heat parts in order to eliminate residual stress, remove surplus hydrogen or avoid weakening
- Prepare or help in preparing chemical solutions, the taking of samples and the draining of basins, as required
- Adjust and operate robotic equipment. Select the right programs to strip or clean the various coatings used on the parts. Potentially make changes to certain parameters such as pressure, distance and robot movements and/or positioning
- Potentially operate several pieces of equipment simultaneously and in close proximity
- Participate in continuous improvement activities
- Other duties as required.

**Minimum Educational Qualifications**:
High school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED), plus a minimum of three years related experience.

**Experience**:
Three to five years experience plating in a manufacturing environment.

**Special Training/Skills**:

- Previous on the job training consisting of cleaning, racking, etching and metal finishing process specifications.
- Knowledge of safety issues and environmental laws when handling chemicals.
- Ability to read and understand work orders, and sign off when process steps are completed.
- Previous experience in metal finishing is preferred.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Salary**: $18.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- On-site parking

Flexible Language Requirement:

- English not required
- French not required

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Work Location: One location