About this role

About Kennametal

With over 85 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace and defense, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Learn more at kennametal.com . Follow @Kennametal: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Carbide Pressing

Bedford, PA

Shift: 1st, Mon-Fri - 7:00am - 3:00pm

Purpose: Responsible for daily set-up, maintenance, operations, and running of an EP 30 Pressing Machine presses that are NC (numerical controlled) with robotics attached to them.

Key Job Responsibilities:

- Working in a team environment safely, operating complex production equipment and tools in the manufacture and packaging of various products.

- Following blueprints, guidelines, diagrams and schematics to ensure product and customer specifications and tolerance levels are met.

- Executing equipment calibration, preventive maintenance, troubleshooting and sustained production.

- Modify existing equipment and helping design new equipment for continual manufacturing process improvement, providing quality control and in-process production testing

Complexity:

- Works within standard operating procedures and/or scientific methods.

- Works with a moderate degree of supervision.

Education, Work Experience, Skills, Certificates:

- High school diploma or equivalency

- 1-3 years of relevant work experience

Quality Management

- Knowledge of quality management methods, tools, and techniques and ability to create and support and environment that meets the quality goals of the organization.

- Accuracy and Attention to Detail

Conflict Management

- Understanding how to anticipate, recognize, and deal effectively with existing or potential conflicts

- Effective Communication

- Flexibility and Adaptability

- Problem Solving

- Teamwork

Productivity Orientation

- Knowledge of the factors that influence productivity and ability to maintain focus on organizational factors that maximize operational performance.

Gemba Kaizen / Continuous Improvement

- Knowledge of the principles

Lean Manufacturing

- Knowledge of the philosophy, principles and implementation approaches to lean manufacturing

Manufacturing Equipment

- Knowledge of the electrical, mechanical, and logistics equipment used in manufacturing

Manufacturing Operations

- Knowledge of the day-to-day operations of a manufacturing plant or facility

Manufacturing Safety

- Knowledge of methods, accepted practices, considerations and regulatory requirements related to manufacturing safety.

Robotics/Computer Controlled Machinery

- Knowledge of robotics technologies and computer applications; ability to implement and operate them in an automated manufacturing environment.

SPC (Statistical Process Controls)

- Knowledge of the concepts, methods, tools, and objectives of statistical process controls

Kennametal Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.