Process & Finishing Personnel

Responsibilities

• Verify work required to the process router.
• Perform necessary end-finishing to all products.
• Remove thread protectors at beginning of process.
• Operate pipe handling systems to navigate products through zinc phosphate process.
• Ensure the zinc phosphate process is completed successfully before sending product to the next process.
• Stamp, paint, and stencil product as required by the process router.
• Bead blast product as needed.
• Apply lubricant and replace thread protectors.
• Verify product dimension and heat information with the process router provided.
• Use a swage machine to reshape the end of pipe using high pressure to prepare for threading.
• Reduce the end of pipe to prepare for pin connection or expand it to prepare for a box connection.
• Use stress relieving equipment to reduce residual stress remaining in pipe as a result of swaging.
• Document information related to joint number, size stressed to, and heated temperature for stress relieving.
• Operate the forklift as needed to assist the production process.
• Maintain process and finish area in a neat and clean condition.