Plastic Fabricator
Terre Haute, IN, United States
summary We are looking for a Plastic Fabricator to join our team! Description: - Fabricates, assembles, reworks, and repairs plastic products, applyingknowledge of working characteristics of plastics and bonding techniques, using precisioninstruments, hand tools, power tools, machines, and equipment. - Reads and interpretsblueprints, work orders, and related documentation to determine methods and sequence ofoperations and dimensional and finish specifications. - Lays out cutting lines on plasticmaterials, such as sheet stock and fiberglass or graphite cloth, following template pattern,blueprints, sketches, or sample part, using measuring, and marking instruments. - Cuts materialto size, using shears, knives, cutters, scissors, router, or saw. Mixes ingredients, such asresins, catalysts, fillers, accelerators, and colors, according to formulas, manually or usingmixer. - Sets up and operates forming machines and presses, or laminates plastic cloth andresins or preimpregnated cloth onto lay-up mold or bonding fixture, to shape parts. - Wrapsbonding fixture or mold in vacuum bagging materials, attaches fittings to mold or fixture, suchas vacuum connections, thermocouples, and probes, and exhausts air from vacuum bag toprepare lamination for curing or bonding. - Operates oven to cure parts. Trims, drills, reams,countersinks, grinds, and finishes parts to specifications, using templates, hand tools, andpower tools. - Verifies dimensions of parts, using precision instruments, such as dial indicators,micrometers, and calipers. - Fits and assembles parts and attaches hardware and fittings, suchas brackets and hinges, using clamps, jigs, fixtures, power tools, and fasteners. - Applies tape,foam, or other type of adhesives to assembly for subsequent bonding in autoclave. - Repairsand reworks damaged or defective parts and assemblies by lay up, foaming, cementing,molding, potting, casting, or similar methods. - May heat parts or materials to facilitate shaping,using oven or heat gun. - May fabricate and assemble parts from fiber reinforced plastics(composites) and assorted materials, such as metal and honeycomb. - May press, smooth, trim,measure, and adjust composite tape during automatic application of tape onto mold or fixtureby numerical-control tape laying machine, using scale, knife, and scraper. - May wind fiberglass,graphite, nylon, or other natural or synthetic fiber or filament around parts, using filamentwinding machine, manually applying layers of resinous materials to part at specified intervalsduring winding process. required-skills: required-experience: 1-2 Years of Experience