Lab Tech I

Hourly Range: $24.75-$28.50

**All Applicants must comply with ITAR Requirements. US Citizens or Permanent Residents only**

Summary: Reporting to the Lab supervisor, the Lab Technician I must have demonstrated abilities and reliabilities to perform some relatively simple but importance tasks in the Lab on a daily basis. These Lab functions include fly-cutting, CNC tensile specimens, EC/Hardness inspection, as well as organizing test remnants. With additional training for other key Lab functions, the incumbent is expected to further expand his/her technical skills.

**Major Job Duties**:

- Organizing test remnants (operating a forklift to move test material/test remnants to designated areas, book-keeping test remnant locations/dates, etc.)
- Machining tensile blanks using a fly-cutter for EC and hardness testing.
- Machining grain flow sections using a fly-cutter.
- Operate CNC lathe to prepare non-threaded aluminum round bars for tensile testing.
- Performing hardness and conductivity test on test material/test blanks.
- Learning from Lab Technician III/Lead on how to lay out test specimens on the test material/prolongation/forging.
- Learning from Lab Technician III/Lead on how to excise test specimens from test material/prolongation/forging safely and correctly.
- Learning from Lab Technician II/Lead to pull test bars on tensile test machine, including data-entry to maintain job traceability and record test results.
- Learning to perform Fracture Toughness Testing including data-entry to maintain job traceability and record test results.

**Additional responsibilities include**:

- Learning to create shippers to send out test materials for outside testing.
- Learning to receive outside testing certifications, and transfer test data into Plex
- Learning to operate alloy check machine and helping receive forging stocks.
- Learning from Lab Technician II/Lead to prepare chemical etch solutions, to prepare micro and macro specimens, and to photograph micros/macros.
- Supporting special projects initiated by Lab supervisor/Metallurgists.
- Other duties as assigned.

**Additional responsibilities include**:

- Learning to create shippers to send out test materials for outside testing.
- Learning to receive outside testing certifications, and transfer test data into Plex
- Learning to operate alloy check machine and helping receive forging stocks.
- Learning from Lab Technician II/Lead to prepare chemical etch solutions, to prepare micro and macro specimens, and to photograph micros/macros.
- Supporting special projects initiated by Lab supervisor/Metallurgists.
- Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

- Must be able to comply with ITAR and EAR residency requirements
- Working experience in manufacturing/testing/machining/sawing is preferred

Education/Experience:

- HS/GED or equivalent
- One year of working experience in a destructive test lab environment as a minimum.

**Education**: Preferred
- High School or better
- GED or better

**Licenses & Certifications**: Required
- Driver's License
- ElectricConductivity Prof
- Forklift Operator
- Hardness Proficiency

**Skills**: Required
- X-ray Gun Usage
- Written Communication
- Verbal Communication
- Section Testing Blanks
- Blueprint Reading
- Understanding of alloy tempers & grain flow

Preferred
- Computer
- CNC Machine Operation

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)