Process Technician Details

Process Technician

Exotic Metals - Kent, WA

Employment Type : Full-Time

Are you ready to join an industry-leading global company that believes in empowering its employees? Are you prepared to use your inquisitive nature and strong work ethic to help our team solve the world’s greatest engineering challenges?

A career at Parker is rife with rewards and opportunities. But a career at Parker is not for everyone. Finding success at Parker requires dedication and an insatiable desire to win. We seek very smart people who also have the equally impressive characteristic of humility. We solve our customer’s challenges as teams, working together to ask the questions that have never been asked before.

Parker understands that solving the world’s greatest engineering challenges requires an inquisitive and intelligent workforce, and we invest in our employees to ensure they are the best in the industry. Our global success relies on empowered employees operating in an environment that breeds ideas and solutions, and we take every possible action to ensure this happens.

Process Technician

Works with periodic supervision under the direction of a Production Supervisor. Main activities include troubleshooting daily production issues, identifying and eliminating root causes of problems, creating standard work documentation, training operations personnel, and developing and testing new processes and equipment. Will work with production, design engineering, quality, purchasing, and various other groups to accomplish assigned tasks.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities

• Responsible for resolving manufacturing issues to root cause
• Participate in the development and implementation of reliable methods, working across functional groups
• Develop and implement new manufacturing processes and concepts
• Develop and maintain process documentation
• Conduct and refine reports for experiments to characterize and validate new or changed manufacturing processes
• Develop best practices and implement across all products
• Train production team in new manufacturing processes
• Justify, specify, order, and coordinate the installation and qualification of tooling and equipment
• Maintain production fixtures and equipment
• Reconfigure and optimize workstations
• Determine appropriate material presentation and packaging
• Improve ergonomics of manufacturing methods
• Proven ability to demonstrate good judgement and make effective decisions based on facts and information at hand.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Fully Proficient Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience working in a manufacturing setting.
• Education or experience in process design, development, test, and validation
• Mechanical aptitude – working knowledge of mechanical and electrical assemblies.
• Experience with computer applications
• Able to efficiently collect and analyze data
• Deep process orientation and strong problem solver
• Able to read engineering drawing and schematics
• Good analytical and organizational skills
• Demonstrated communication (written and oral) and teamwork skills
• Training or Experience in most of the following areas:

Lean manufacturing, Statistical methods, CAD, Ergonomics, Metal Fabrication

This position is subject to meeting export compliance eligibility requirements. Completion of a U.S. Export Compliance Notice is required. Prospective employees must identify their status as a U.S. or Foreign Person, as well as their country of citizenship and residence.

Exotic Metals Forming, Division of Parker Aerospace is committed to non-discrimination in employment and other opportunities. Exotic Metals Forming, Division of Parker Aerospace is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.