R&D Technician - Metals
- Contribute to the buildout of Vulcan's pilot and R&D line, including equipment installation, commissioning, and continuous equipment and facility improvements
- Operate vacuum furnaces, induction melting systems, and electrolysis cells to produce molten and solid metals.
- Prepare raw materials, charge systems, and consumables according to process instructions.
- Execute startup, steady-state operation, shutdown, and cleaning procedures.
- Monitor critical process parameters (temperature, voltage, current, pressure, time, chemistry) to ensure operation remains within specification.
- Respond to alarms, deviations, and abnormal operating conditions in accordance with procedures.
- Develop, build, and implement new prototype equipment, tooling, and processes alongside engineering, including electromechanical, chemical, and/or analytical/test equipment.
- Establish standard operating procedures alongside engineering.
- High School Diploma or GED at a minimum
- Strong communication and planning skills
- Able to lift and carry 50 lbs.
- Comfortable with hands on work requiring extended physical activity and standing
- Comfortable operating, troubleshooting, and maintaining sophisticated manufacturing equipment.
- Comfortable reading equipment schematics, both electrical and plumbing, to troubleshoot mechanical issues
- Experience running vacuum furnaces, casting machines, atomizers, or other related metal manufacturing equipment
- Experience with Welding, Plumbing, or CAD
- Experience with hot metal
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