Production Associate

With over 90 years of customer-focused performance, Boyd Corporation has evolved as a market leader in engineered rubber, plastic, metal, flexible environmental sealing & energy management solutions. Boyd is a unique supplier, valuing our people as our most important resource. With our best-in-class technical sales associates, sales support service teams & field application, quality, & manufacturing engineers, Boyd offers total global solutions to enhance the performance & manufacturability of your products. Our cost-effective, tight-tolerance, global manufacturing capabilities ensure superior total landed cost as well as reliability throughout the product life cycle. SUMMARY Produces heat pipe assemblies for internal and external customers using semi-automated equipment following proper procedures and techniques administered from engineering department with work instructions. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: A fully qualified Production Assembler I will complete all 17 steps to engineering standards. A fully qualified Production Assembler II will complete all 17 steps of the Production Assembler I, and obtain three Production Assembler II skills. Other duties may be assigned. PRODUCTION ASSEMBLER I 1. Mandrel Pull/Preparation 10. Auto Processing 2. Manual Powder Fill 11. Furnace Operation 3. Heat Pipe Packaging 12. Pipe Bending 4. Swaging 13. Manual and Auto Assembly 5. Auto Evacuation 14. Manual Raw Comp Cleaning 6. Solder Dip 15. Auto Welding/Assembly (T-Base) 7. Deionized Fill 16. Operate Presses 8. Warm-Up Test 17. Mix and Apply Epoxies 9. Auto Powder Fill PRODUCTION ASSEMBLER II 1. Brazing 4. Operating CNC Milling Machines 2. Manual Heat Pipe Processing 5. Build Complete HXI Unit 3. Manual Welding 6. Attach Parts using Solder Sheet or Paste Performs repetitive motion activities on a daily basis. Reads, writes, and understands detailed work instructions and basic math skills. Completes shop floor traveler documents. Works at different workstations as production needs require. >