Layout Inspector

About the Role

Howmet Aerospace is currently looking for a Layout Inspector to join our Industrial Gas Turbine (IGT) group in Hampton, Virginia. This position will inspect castings, wax patterns of castings, customer tooling, and precision measurement instruments for conformance to blueprints and customer specifications by utilizing coordinate measurement machines and other dimensional software for measuring and analyzing data.

Essential Functions

• Perform calibrations of all customers gauges (daily)
• Repair customer gauges to make them functional for production use (daily)
• Run CMM programs on production castings (daily)
• Correlated CMM programs to manual results (daily)
• Troubleshoot and repair problems associated with all CMM's in the plant (daily)
• Perform calibrations of all precision measurement equipment to ISO standards (weekly)
• Perform routine maintenance on CMM machines (monthly)
• Understand all customer specifications and ISO quality standards
• Operate coordinate measurement machines utilizing computer software packages such as FLB, OFI, Autoscan, Fanamation, AutoCAD and Valysis (daily)
• Apply all knowledge concerning blueprint interpretation and geometric tolerancing (daily)
• Apply math skills to projects requiring knowledge of trigonometry (daily)
• In all cases of inspection or correlation, report results on everything to within .0005 except on structural precision measurement equipment where the measurement tolerance is .0002

Skills & Abilities

• Reads, analyzes, and interprets general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Writes reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Effectively presents information and responds to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.
• Works with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry. Applies concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
• Defines problems, collects data, establishes facts, and draws valid conclusions. Interprets an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deals with several abstract and concrete variables.

Equipment Used

• Coordinate measurement machines
• Calipers, micrometers, Jo blocks, light table, Oditest gauges
• CAD equipment
• Hand tools
• Standard office equipment including personal computer and calculators

Qualifications

• Associate's degree from two-year college or technical school, or one-year related experience and/or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Must be available for all shifts, including overtime and weekends as schedule varies depending on site operational needs
• Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States; verification required at time of hire
• Visa sponsorship is not available for this position
• Position entails access to export-controlled items; employment offers conditioned upon ability to lawfully obtain access

Pay & Schedule

• Shift hours: 2nd shift, M-F 3pm-11pm; Training is 1st shift, M-F 7am-3pm
• New Hire Starting Rate: $25.31 p/hr.; After 6 months: $28.13 p/hr.
• Hourly "shift premium" of $1.00 p/hr. while assigned to an off shift