Skilled Technician

**DESCRIPTION**

Performs skilled activities which support manufacturing business needs. Selects and uses appropriate tools, machinery, and specialty equipment. Learns and understands the protocols of working safely with electricity and other energy sources with industrial equipment. May work independently and instruct or coach others.

**Key Responsibilities**:
**Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE)**:

- Stop work and immediately report any major injury hazards.
- Report any work-related injury, illness, incident, or hazard.
- Comply with HSE standards, policies, procedures, and regulations.
- Use appropriate personal protective equipment.
- Promote interdependence by looking out for one another.
- Correct hazards within your control and capabilities.
- Recognize how your work may impact the environment and work to minimize the negative impact.
- Engage in HSE Training.

**Quality**:

- Support equipment uptime and downtime failure analysis.
- Perform work in accordance with diagrams, sketches, operation manuals, and specifications using various tools, measuring, and testing instruments.
- Provide feedback into the Preventive Maintenance system.
- Follow all process documentation and quality procedures.
- Raise issues to minimize cost and quality exposures.
- Perform quality inspections.

**Delivery**:

- Fully proficient performing skilled activities expected by their roles in accordance with defined roles and responsibilities.
- Instruct and coach others and act as an informal resource for team members with less capability.
- Perform and document preventive, emergency, corrective, and predictive maintenance activities.
- Maintain clean and orderly work area, including routine housekeeping and machine cleaning tasks.
- Perform other miscellaneous duties as required to meet production goals.
- Work with peers and support staff to identify and reduce manufacturing constraints, solve problems, and improve processes.
- Participate in continuous improvement activities.

**Teamwork**:

- Communicate effectively with the assigned team and all support teams.
- Complete training and personal development in line with business requirements.
- Participate actively with local Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) teams to improve quality, safety, process, material flow, and employee development.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Qualifications**:
**Education, Licenses, Certifications**:

- High school diploma or certificate of completion of secondary education or equivalent experience to the extent such experience meets applicable regulations.
- This position may require licensing for compliance with export controls or sanctions regulations.

**Competencies**:

- **Collaborates**: Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- **Communicates effectively**: Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
- **Customer focus**: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions.
- **Decision quality**: Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
- **Demonstrates self-awareness**: Using a combination of feedback and reflection to gain productive insight into personal strengths and weaknesses.
- **Drives results**: Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
- **Ensures accountability**: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- **Manages complexity**: Making sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
- **Nimble learning**: Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
- **Health and Safety Fundamentals**: Champions and models proactive health and safety behaviors by identifying, reporting, and participating in actions to improve health and safety to build an interdependent culture and contribute to an injury-free workplace.
- **Controls Safety**: Recognizes controls-related hazards in a manufacturing environment (Electrical, Hydraulic, Pneumatic) to incorporate safe practices and procedures as part of the daily work plan to reduce injuries and create a safe machine environment.
- **Values differences**: Recognizing the value that different perspectives and cultures bring to an organization.

**QUALIFICATIONS**

**Experience**:

- Requires significant relevant work experience or specialized skills obtained through education, training, or on-the-job experience.

**Knowledge/Skills**:

- Good knowledge of Precision Grinding (OD and ID Grinding) and Machining processes.
- Awareness of CNC Programming (Fanuc and Siemens).
- Capability analysis, problem-solving approach, and continuous improvement methodology.
- Preferred experience in Unconventional Machining processes such as Electrical Discharge Machining and Abrasive Flow Machining.
- Knowledge of Tooling management (Procuremen