Utility Aide - Deer Creek

Precision Castparts Corp. (PCC) is a leading worldwide, diversified manufacturer of complex metal components and products. It serves the aerospace, power, and general industrial markets. PCC is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, and forged components used in jet aircraft engines and industrial gas turbines. The Company is also a leading producer of highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace and other general industrial markets, manufactures extruded seamless pipe, fittings, forgings, and clad products for power generation and oil & gas applications, and supplies metal alloys and other materials to the casting and forging industries. PCC is a high quality business with dominant positions in most segments of the markets in which it serves.

Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, this over 10 billion dollar company employs more than 29,500 people worldwide.  PCC has over 160 plants and has a presence in twenty-six states in the US and in over a dozen countries. PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers and shareholders while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

Effective early February 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffet, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.

PCC Airfoils LLC has achieved its preeminent position in the manufacture of aircraft engine blades and vanes and is rapidly gaining market share in the Industrial Gas Turbines industry through pushing the boundaries of Advanced Technology. PCC Airfoils LLC is one of only a few companies in the world that possesses the technology and capability to cast blades and vanes with complex, internal cooling passages out of sophisticated superalloys for aerospace and Industrial Gas Turbine customers. PCC Airfoils LLC has the advantage of being the leader in the production of airfoils for aircraft engines and of capturing a growing share of the market for Industrial Gas Turbine castings. Several new state-of-the-art casting furnaces were recently installed in PCC Airfoils’ facilities along with new ceramic dip lines to handle the increased volume. The dip lines feature the most advanced technology available to ensure process repeatability, improving yields and facilitating on-time product delivery.

Based in Milwaukie, Oregon, Deer Creek facility principally manufactures Equiax Vane and Nozzle segments for the Industrial Gas Turbine (IGT) industry used in land-based turbine applications for power generation operations. Deer Creek has a wide range of manufacturing capabilities producing products ranging from 16 lbs to 250 lbs.

Fosters, directly and indirectly, by action, example and training, a comprehensive safety program throughout the Structurals Division, at all locations. Monitors potential health and safety conditions of the workplace; identifies problems, recommends solutions, and ensures that the on-going safety system is corrected to incorporate the changes.

To provide assistance to operators and other more skilled personnel as assigned to PCC departments, including delivery, staging, moving and storing materials, operating and cleaning equipment; learns the basic operations of the department; job postings identify the essential job functions for the department requiring the position.

Utility Aide is distinguished from Helper by the following:

Assists with complex operations, stages materials and parts, completes duties of multiple steps, may work from technique cards and works without close supervision once duties are learned; work environment may also be more complex and/or hazardous than that of helper.

Typical Job Functions:

1. Delivers, stages, moves and stores materials, equipment and parts.
2. Fills, loads and unloads materials and equipment.
3. Gathers materials and equipment for use by other personnel at specified times or as needed.
4. Learns and performs basic department operations, including equipment and process operations; may work from technique cards.
5. Cleans work areas, machines and equipment.
6. Assists schedulers and expediters.
7. May wear protective gear and be required to work with hazardous materials.
8. Works with more skilled personnel as assigned.

       Objective: to take responsibility for and demonstrate safe work practices.

 

Typical Job Functions:

1. Adheres to plant and department safety rules.
2. Safely operates all equipment and tools.
3. Identifies and reports safety problems.

**Completes logs and records

**Performs other tasks as directed.

1. Training is provided on the job.
2. PCC’s Forklift Driving Safety Certification Training must be completed as assigned.
3. May be required to complete Hazardous Materials handling training.

1. Ability to follow instructions, read, writes and performs mathematical calculations.
2. Ability to read, interpret and follow specifications on technique cards.
3. Physical ability to perform the essential job functions.