Tool and Laser Maintenance Technician - Clearfield, UT

About the role

The Tool and Laser Maintenance Technician position is located at a customer facility. They are responsible for operating laser tracker equipment and completing day-to-day tool and equipment maintenance activity to meet quality standards and customer needs.

Responsibilities

• Performs recurring planned maintenance
• Performs emergent maintenance and repair activity as needed
• Inspects, tests, and verifies accuracy of assembled articles for conformity to standards, using measuring or testing equipment, or by visual examination
• Demonstrates a complete understanding of the principles and use of applicable optical equipment and computer-aided measuring equipment such as laser trackers
• Fabricate, and prove optical and mechanical accessories to adapt and modify optical instruments and similar equipment used in building and checking major tooling
• In-process inspection and final inspection of parts, sub-assemblies during manufacturing per customer requirements
• Measures and marks reference lines and points on parts according to specifications, using templates, rules, or marking devices
• Prepares, breakdown of jigs and fixtures, tool masters or master tooling gauges into components
• Performs assignments that range from the use of ordinary operations to performing work involving accurate relationships and extremely close tolerances
• Perform other duties as assigned

Education and Work Experience

• Associates degree or technical accreditation
• Must have prior tooling and equipment maintenance relatable experience
• Must have a minimum of one year of experience working with laser trackers, model-based metrology, analyzing data, and report generation

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Solid understanding of aerospace tooling and equipment (mechanical, electrical, hydraulic)
• Recent tooling and equipment maintenance experience
• Recent experience of operating Faro, API, Leica laser trackers using preferably Verisurf or Spatial Analyser software is required
• Use in-depth familiarity of GD&T; to interpret blueprints at all assembly levels
• Discern how best to establish a reference system for the current task then apply it and install it both on and off the part
• Collect geometric data via laser tracker through model-based software such as Verisurf
• Provide analysis of collected data and evaluate it to provide direction for remaining operations
• Integrate process monitoring with the assembly process in locating details
• Reads and understands blueprints, schematics, and/or measuring devices
• Behaves consistently and predictably; is reliable, responsible and dependable in fulfilling obligations and diligently follows through on commitments and consistently meets deadlines
• Achieves thoroughness and accuracy when accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved
• Clear and effective communication skills in both written and spoken forms
• Understands how to use the computers, including such tasks as turning the computer on and off, locating and opening files, navigating to websites, performing searches, and downloading files
• Knowledge of computer applications including email, databases, word-processing program and spreadsheets (such as Microsoft Office)
• Respond and follow up to a customer’s inquiry or problem in a timely and effective manner
• Identifies problems and reviews relevant information to develop options, then implements the solutions
• Comfortable communicating and working with different levels of management, team members and customers

Work Conditions

• Environment Type: Indoors. Production and office environment
• Temperature controlled, unless products and/or equipment is located outdoors
• Exposure Types: Cuts and/or burns, Dirt, dust, grease and/or oil, Noisy environment, Intense bright light, Metal shavings
• Work Hours: Standard work schedule, overtime may be necessary for meeting deadlines, required travel, and emergent conditions
• Travel Requirements: Remote - perform job responsibilities from customer work sites. Travel may be required to other customer locations
• Physical Demands: Medium work that includes moving objects up to 50 pounds. Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms. Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or moving from one work site to another

Security Clearance Statement

This position may require a government security clearance; you must be a US Citizen for consideration.

ITAR Requirements

To conform to U.S. Government commercial space technology export regulations, including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3), applicants for employment at AIT must be a U.S. citizen or national, lawfully admitted for permanent residence into the U.S. (i.e. current green card holder), or lawfully admitted as a refugee or granted asylum under 8 U.S.C.1157-1158.

EEO Statement

AIT is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to attracting, retaining, and developing a highly qualified, diverse, and dedicated work force. AIT hires and promotes people based on their qualifications, performance, and abilities. We support the establishment and maintenance of a workplace that nurtures trust, equality, and teamwork, in which all employees recognize and appreciate the diversity of individual team members. We provide all qualified applicants for employment and employees with equal opportunities for hire, promotion, and other terms and conditions of employment, regardless of their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law.