composite technician.

✓ Health Insurance
✓ Dental Insurance
✓ Vision Insurance
✓ Life Insurance

Job Description:

The Composites Technician understands the materials, equipment and processes involved in making raw materials into a molded composites part. He/she will be able to cut and layup fiber glass material, carbon fiber, Kevlar or other materials as well as prepare and assemble components for the lay-up of products to be molded. Failure to perform satisfactorily may result in scrap, rework, delay, dissatisfied customers and added cost to the organization. Understands and follows the traveler and engineering drawings plus any other instructions for process control and uses these resources to produce quality parts. Understanding of typical raw materials and processing materials being used. 

Responsibilities:

• Release air bubbles and smooth seams, using rollers.
• Spray chopped fiberglass, resins, and catalysts onto prepared molds or dies using pneumatic spray guns with chopper attachments.
• Select precut fiberglass mats, cloth, and wood-bracing materials as required by projects being assembled.
• Pat or press layers of saturated mat or cloth into place on molds, using brushes or hands, and smooth out wrinkles and air bubbles with hands or squeegees.
• Mix catalysts into resins, and saturate cloth and mats with mixtures, using brushes.
• Bond wood reinforcing strips to decks and cabin structures of watercraft, using resin-saturated fiberglass.
• Check completed products for conformance to specifications and for defects by measuring with rulers or micrometers, by checking them visually, or by tapping them to detect bubbles or dead spots.
• Trim excess materials from molds, using hand shears or trimming knives.

Education: High School

Experience: 6 months

Physical:

• Must be able to lift 50 lbs. (anything over requires 2 people or lift device)
• Must be able to stand for 8 hour shift
• Must be able to pass a Drug Test

Skills:

• Organized
• Detail Oriented Computer Literate (Clocking in/out, daily job tracking)
• Basic Math 

Related Experience: Composite Technician, Manufacturing