Inspector - Tooling & Layout - Kansas City Assembly Plant (KCAP)

This job requisition provides candidates to the Louisville area.

Pay

Inspectors Tooling and Layout are paid a top hourly base rate of $45.645, plus applicable shift, overtime, and holiday premiums. The starting rate for this position is $45.445 with pay increases to the top rate upon completion of three consecutive months of employment.

Benefits

• Immediate access to best-in-class company-provided healthcare, including premium coverage for hospital, surgical, medical, drug, hearing, dental, and vision.
• Basic life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment insurance.
• Accident and sickness and extended disability benefits.
• Automatic enrollment in TESPHE, the hourly employee 401(k) plan, at an initial pre-tax contribution rate of 3%. Eligible for company TESPHE contributions of 10% of base pay and $1 per compensated hour.
• Eligible for holiday pay, profit sharing and lump sum bonuses, paid time off, tuition assistance, and immediate vehicle discount purchase plans.

Schedule

Willingness and ability to work any assigned schedule, change shifts, work more than 8 hours per day and/or work overtime, all while maintaining good attendance.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and repair gauges and measuring equipment, including but not limited to:
  • Zeiss CMMs – electronic, mechanical, software, and programming
  • Klingelnberg gear checkers – electronic, mechanical, arbors, software, and programming
  • Marposs and Intra bench gauges – software and mechanical
  • Mahr and Mitutoyo perthometers - mechanical
  • Air and electronic bench gauges – software and mechanical
  • Newage hardness testers
  • ITW’s in-line gauges – such as hones and grinders
• Build sort gauges from scratch using tools and parts in the lab.
• Rebuild any and all types of gauges in the production departments.
• Set up new gauges in the production departments.
• Understand the mechanics of all gauges and masters and be able to re-set and master any gauge in the plant.
• Operational knowledge of all measuring devices in the G&LO lab.
• Access and read blueprints to determine measurement characteristics.
• Perform yearly surveillance (visual inspection) and calibration (measurement verification) on all gauges.
• Enter and retrieve gauge information into IQS gauge record database.
• Write programs for Zeiss and Klingelnberg equipment.
• Perform part measurements per blueprint and engineering direction.
• Work with engineers to conduct part evaluations.
• Perform CPU and hard drive installations on computerized gauge benches.
• Perform backup images and restore hard drive images for computerized gauge benches.
• Modify software programs for DCP changes.
• Maintain measurement devices for Nagel hones, Reishauers, Klingelnbergs, Zeiss, Hommels, Intra, and Marposs gauges.
• Enter gauge repair diagnosis and solutions into every GR Maximo ticket.
• Access and read blueprints to determine gauge replacement parts.

Requirements

• Completed a bona fide Toolmaker apprenticeship or have 8 years of previous relevant work experience.
• Ability and willingness to:
  • Learn and follow safety rules and procedures.
  • Work in a team environment, treating co-workers with dignity and respect regardless of personal differences.
  • Accept and follow instructions and requests from leadership.
  • Understand and follow instructions, both oral and written.
  • Perform tasks of the trade, stand for extended periods, walk unassisted, work at heights, work overhead (including on ladders and platforms), and manipulate tools typical of the trade.
  • Perform reaching, lifting, twisting, bending, and use of a PMHV or hilo.
• Ability to perceive differences in details and prints related to the trade.
• Must be able to effectively maneuver about vehicles, equipment, assembly lines or stations, and about the facility.
• Knowledge of GD&T (Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing).
• Knowledge of Maximo and Drawing Management System.