Millwright - Off Shift

Howmet Aerospace Inc. (NYSE: HWM) is a leading global provider of advanced engineered solutions for the aerospace and transportation industries, specializing in jet engine components, aerospace fastening systems, titanium structural parts, and forged wheels.

About the role

Perform critical welding, troubleshooting, and maintenance on high-pressure hydraulic systems, industrial machinery, and facilities. Work involves design, fabrication, installation, modification, repair, and preventive maintenance of equipment, structures, and piping systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, fabricate, install, modify, repair, and maintain machines, equipment, structures, and facilities.
• Perform critical welding, including pressure piping, construction, equipment installation, and parts repair.
• Troubleshoot and repair high-pressure hydraulic systems and IOTOV zero-energy systems.
• Interpret mechanical, hydraulic, and civil drawings and schematics.
• Interface with design and engineering personnel to ensure efficient installations, repairs, and equipment documentation integrity.
• Interpret specification sheets and technical literature for mechanical and hydraulic components.
• Mark up prints to reflect current equipment condition.
• Cut, weld, braze, and fabricate tools, materials, and equipment.
• Perform and document preventive maintenance checks, inspections, and repairs.
• Revise and work from prints, piping diagrams, manuals, and specifications, including sanitary codes and ordinances.
• Determine and obtain required materials, tools, and equipment.
• Repair, layout, and install piping systems and associated fixtures; perform automotive and industrial mobile equipment repairs.
• Perform blacksmith work and operate cranes and other power-driven equipment.
• Erect and remove ladders and scaffolding as required.
• Organize and maintain work areas, tools, and equipment for clean, efficient, and orderly operations.
• Paint in conjunction with repair work.
• Operate transportation and material handling equipment as needed.
• Use computerized maintenance management systems to write work orders, log work hours, document equipment condition, and requisition parts.
• Develop, document, write, follow, and improve safe work instructions, procedures, and best practices.
• Use reliability tools and information systems to collect, document, and analyze data and equipment performance to resolve problems to the root cause.

Materials used, processed, and handled

• Machine parts, equipment, buildings, furnaces, structures, vehicles, packing, lubricants, fasteners, replacement parts, mechanical hardware.
• Piping systems: hydraulic, steam, air, water, gas, oil, chlorine, nitrogen, fuel, and sewer lines.
• Component parts: pipe, valves, traps, sumps, cutting and sealing compounds, lead, solder, welding rods, brazing rods, fluxes.

Tools and equipment used

• Machine tools: saws, drill presses, lathes, grinders, bending rolls, punches, shears, brakes.
• Powered hand tools: drills, hammers, wrenches, oil cans, grease guns, threading and tapping tools, heating equipment.
• Lifting and rigging equipment: cranes, industrial trucks, ladders, scaffolding, rigging equipment.
• Measuring devices: micrometers, calipers, gauges, surveyor’s level, tachometers, hand and powered pipe-cutting tools.
• Diagnostic and analytical tools: vibration analysis, balancing and alignment equipment, PLC terminals, computers, maintenance analytical devices.
• Welding and joining equipment: gas, electric, and inert atmosphere welding equipment; manual and automatic welding; brazing and soldering equipment.

Requirements

• Journeyman card (preferred).
• 5–7 years of maintenance or millwright experience.
• Experience with pumps, boilers, welding, bearings, and fabrication.
• Heavy industrial or heavy machinery background.
• Knowledge of lock out/tag out procedures.
• Experience with boom lifts, heavy fork trucks, and other large mobile equipment.
• Availability to work all shifts.