What are the responsibilities and job description for the Pipefitter-Plumber position at Precision Castparts?
With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.
PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.
In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.
Job Description
PURPOSE:
Install, inspect, service and maintain all piping and domestic plumbing systems, facilities, and equipment in Grafton plant.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
KNOWLEDGE AND TRAINING:
Requires up to four years of on-the-job training or equivalent. Must be able to interpret schematic, hydraulic and other drawings in construction and repair work. Must be familiar with all piping systems, facilities, and equipment in plant. Must have Massachusetts’s journeyman or master plumber’s license.
SKILLS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
This position requires use of information or access to production processes subject to national security controls under U.S. export control laws and regulations (including, but not limited to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)). To be qualified to work in this facility, a successful applicant must be a U.S. Person, as defined in those regulations, and able to supply evidence of that qualification prior to starting work or be authorized to receive controlled information under a specific license or permission from the relevant government agency. The U.S. export control regulations define a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), and certain categories of Asylees and Refugees.
PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.
In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.
Job Description
PURPOSE:
Install, inspect, service and maintain all piping and domestic plumbing systems, facilities, and equipment in Grafton plant.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Obtain job assignment from foreman, oral or written, with drawings, parts list, and other needed data.
- Study the job and/or drawings, determine materials and tools required, and plan methods or procedures to do the work with the lease adverse effect on production.
- Notify department foreman of work being done that would affect department operations or create hazards while the work is being done.
- Inspect completed job for proper operation; notify foreman or others concerned that work is completed.
- Install new piping systems, facilities and equipment required in construction of new buildings, presses, furnaces, and any other installation.
- Inspect, maintain, and repair any piping system and equipment in the plant and grounds, including steam, hydraulic, pneumatic, domestic and process water, fire protections, acid, caustic soda, natural and propane gas, heating, ventilation, and sewage.
- Inspect and maintain equipment for forging presses such as die lubricating systems, relief valves, heat exchangers, smoke removal systems and quench dies.
- Check, clean, repair, rebuild and replace pilots, burners, tubes, and regulators on furnaces.
- Unload, store, transfer and dispose of fluids such as acid, caustic, and oil.
- Inspect, maintain, and operate variety of pumps used for heating, circulating fluids, process water, fire protection, etc.
- Inspect and maintain vapor and sandblasting equipment.
- Operate threading machines, hacksaws, band saws, drill presses, pipe benders and other machines required in pipefitting work.
- Use precision instruments and testing equipment.
- Serve as member of W-G Fire Department.
- Any additional duties assigned by Supervisor.
KNOWLEDGE AND TRAINING:
Requires up to four years of on-the-job training or equivalent. Must be able to interpret schematic, hydraulic and other drawings in construction and repair work. Must be familiar with all piping systems, facilities, and equipment in plant. Must have Massachusetts’s journeyman or master plumber’s license.
SKILLS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Requires considerable judgment in planning and performing work where only general methods have been established.
- Must be alert and able to react instantly in emergency situations such as power failure, fire, pump failures, etc.
- Often works with little supervision.
- Frequent use of many first-class maintenance skills in using hand tools and precision measuring equipment, often working in tight and awkward positions.
- Good physical coordination required.
- Some care required to avoid damage or loss of valves, pipe, and other piping materials where value of loss before detection would be small.
- Care required in operating pipe machines and equipment, and in driving Clarktor to avoid damage where replacement or repair costs would be significant.
- Must exercise considerable care in performing duties to avoid downtime or non-productive time for a number of employees and related equipment.
- Careless or improper actions could result in costly idleness.
- Must be attentive and careful in all construction and repair work, and transfers of acid and caustic to avoid causing injury, which could be temporarily disabling.
- Heavy work required when doing construction work.
- Close visual attention required when repairing valves and working on furnace controls.
- Uses large, heavy tools.
- Often works in tight and awkward positions.
- Constant exposure to unpleasant conditions of heat, dust, and dirt.
- May work inside and outside, in flooded areas, in caustic and acid pits, on furnaces, on unit heaters, in press pits and other unpleasant areas.
- Frequent exposure to temporarily disabling injuries and health hazards.
- Handles acids and caustic, works on piping and heating units in high, hard-to-reach and dangerous pieces.
- Works on pieces and in press pits, on and under furnaces.
- Works on high pressure lines and steam lines.
This position requires use of information or access to production processes subject to national security controls under U.S. export control laws and regulations (including, but not limited to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and the Export Administration Regulations (EAR)). To be qualified to work in this facility, a successful applicant must be a U.S. Person, as defined in those regulations, and able to supply evidence of that qualification prior to starting work or be authorized to receive controlled information under a specific license or permission from the relevant government agency. The U.S. export control regulations define a U.S. person as a U.S. Citizen, U.S. National, U.S. Permanent Resident (i.e. 'Green Card Holder'), and certain categories of Asylees and Refugees.
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