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Electroplate/anodise operator

Based at South West Metal Finishing, Exeter although may have to travel to other SWMF sites and supplier sites on occasion

Reporting to the process team leader

Responsibilities:

• Hard chrome/Silver/copper/ENP/cadmium/Zinc Nickel/Passivation/Chromic/Sulphuric/hard anodising, this list is not exhaustive.
• Loading components onto jig fixtures
• Loading and unloading loaded jigs into acid, alkaline and plating chemical solutions.
• Setting temperature, voltage, and current controls
• Masking off areas that don’t require plating, using masking agents, bungs, and tapes
• Dipping or brushing products with chemical solutions
• Monitoring of the electroplating process
• Carry out basic quality checks
• De-jigging components from jigging assemblies
• Removing of masking agents using mechanical and chemical methods
• Transferring newly coated items to finishing or storage area
• Ensuring that work is undertaken in compliance with regulations, manuals, and company policy
• Ensuring compliance to Health, Safety, and Environmental policies and report any concern to supervision
• Liaise with the customer Liaison and planning Supervisor and Key Customer contacts to agree delivery plans
• Report any maintenance issues to maintenance and production supervision.
• Attend daily team brief at production planning board, talk through the day’s plan and any issues that could jeopardise the plan with your team leader
• Liaise with the laboratory and quality on issues that could affect the running of the process.
• Ensure area is kept clean and any 5S actions and Audit are actioned
• Support any actions necessary to improve quality or process improvement