Metal Polishing Technician - Ottawa, Canada - Heritage Grade, a Division of Asbex Ltd.

Description

About Heritage Grade
Heritage Grade, a division of Asbex Ltd., is one of Canada's leading heritage restoration companies.

Since 1994, Heritage Grade has been a leader in the restoration and conservation of heritage buildings and monuments throughout Canada.

From Parliament Hill in Ottawa to Confederation Hall in PEI, Heritage Grade has restored many of the most iconic and historically significant buildings and monuments in North America.

Why Heritage Grade?
Heritage Grade values its employees as people and skilled technicians/artists.

You will have the opportunity to be part of a team working on some of the most challenging and high-profile restoration projects in Canada.

You will be in a highly collaborative work environment that will challenge you to come up with innovative solutions on projects that are important to all Canadians.

Your work will be important and memorable.

You will have the satisfaction of knowing that millions of people will see your work and be awed by its beauty.

Our Company and Projects:

• Are collegial and collaborative
• Are never boring: every project, every day is something different

In addition, we provide great learning and career advancement opportunities.


The Opportunity

The Metal Polishing Technician grinds, sands, and polishes metal heritage objects using hand tools or hand-held power tools on a variety of metal, wood, stone, clay, plastic, or glass objects.

KEY RESPONSIBLITIES & DUTIES

• Prepare parts to be cut by trimming, scraping, or deburring them using chisels, scrapers, and other hand tools and equipment, grind or chip excess of metal from metal products using hand tools, and measure and mark equipment, objects, or parts to ensure grinding and polishing standards are met.
• Prepare and maintain equipment, objects, parts and tools for polishing using hand tools, and set up and operate machine tools to perform repetitive machining operations, such as planning, buffing, filing, grinding or other machining operations.
• Select and prepare polish finish according to specifications and perform the final polishing.
• Read and understand drawings, sketches, and work specifications to determine how to lay out workpieces or saw out templates and study job orders/interpret blueprints to determine machining operations to be performed.
• Verify quality of workpieces before and after polishing by inspecting them, comparing them to templates, measuring their dimensions, or testing them in working machinery, and remove all defects using an electric or air buffer/grinder etc.
• Select files or other abrasives, according to materials, sizes and shapes of workpieces, amount of stock to be removed, finishes specified, and steps in finishing processes. File grooved, contoured, and irregular surfaces of metal objects, such as metalworking dies and machine parts, to conform to templates, other parts, layouts, or blueprint specifications.
• Clean brass particles from files by drawing file cards through file grooves.
• Record product and processing data on specified forms.
• Performs work and maintains a safe and clean working environment through daily cleaning by complying with procedures, rules, and regulations according to regulations and all health and safety company rules.
• Ensures tasks are completed to deadlines.
• Polish all necessary surfaces of materials.
• Perform heavy Grinding and polishing of metal to specific specifications of parts using a variety of methods and tools.
• Perform heavy grinding of welds to polish smooth and return weldment to specific dimensions and finishes.
• Communicate any problems to the supervisor in a timely manner.
• Support other activities as required by company requirements and management direction and perform other duties as may be assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education:

• There are no specific education requirements.

Other Experience or Training:

• Experience in polishing metal.
• Read and interpret construction drawings

Other Qualifications:

• Forklift experience an asset.
• Able to read blueprints, drawings and work orders.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Previous experience working with parts in an industrial setting is an asset.
• Able to work individually and as a part of a team.
• Must have hand and mounted polisher experience in a metal manufacturing shop, preferably working on custom projects in a production setting.
• Quality is of paramount importance to us You must have high standards of work and can keep up in a fastpaced environment.
• You inspect the work being produced, and despite the neverending pressure of tight deadlines, you know when something needs to be done better in order to delight our customers with quality workmanship.
• You work well independently and with others in a team setting.
• You understand the safety risks in a metal manufacturing operation and are focused on safety first.
• Ability to meet schedule deadlines, while maintaining highest standard of qualit