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Material Handler & Blast Tech (Manufacturing) - 2nd Shift

27 days ago by Johnson Controls
  • $31.79 per hour
  • Pennsylvania, PA, US
  • Full-time
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Johnson Controls Federal Systems is hiring a 2nd shift Blast Technician/Material Handler at its York, PA (Grantly Plant) to support manufacturing for Navy and Coast Guard systems. You'll handle shot blasting, material staging, and operating powered equipment (forklifts and other handling gear), while keeping strict quality documentation and 6S standards. Standout perk: benefits start on day one plus a $2/hr shift differential.

Key skills
Shot blasting (blast centers)Forklift operation and certificationMaterial handling and WIP stagingReading complex mechanical drawings/printsQuality-controlled documentation/workmanshipShipping/ReceivingPPE compliance and safety proceduresOverhead crane/jib crane rigging (training/pendent control)Basic math with decimals and fractions
Pays $31.79 per hour including a $2.00/hour 2nd-shift differential, with bonus eligibility mentioned.
You'll thrive here if you have hands-on manufacturing blast and material-handling experience, follow PPE/6S and documentation requirements closely, and are comfortable moving product safely with powered equipment on 2nd shift.
Why apply
  • Benefits from day one
  • Bonus eligible role
  • Supports Navy and Coast Guard

Job Description

Blast Technician / Material Handler (Manufacturing) - 2nd Shift to join our federal team at our York, PA (Grantly Plant) location. Responsible for maintaining a safe clean, and organized 6S environment. Understanding the criticality of proper quality-controlled documentation. Responsible for operating various powered equipment. Responsible for maintaining forklift certification. Accountable for adhering to and promoting compliance with Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) protocols to ensure a safe and compliant work environment.

At Johnson Controls, we support our nation’s most critical facilities, the people who occupy them, and the missions they enable. Johnson Controls Federal Systems (JCFS) is a specialized team serving as a trusted partner to the federal government. We help modernize U.S. military installations, Department of Defense and other federal agency facilities to be smarter, more resilient, efficient, sustainable, and secure.

Pay: $31.79 /per hour (Includes at $2.00/hour shift differential)
Bonus Eligible: Yes
Shift (if applicable): 2nd Shift

Benefits

Eligible for benefits on first day of employment

Johnson Controls Navy Systems – Promotional Video

As a Material Stager, you will:

  • Working from complex mechanical drawings
    • Preparing parts and other products from prints, standard work, and routers
    • Working with cross-functional teams
  • Workmanship
    • Document quality-controlled tasks
    • Proper handling of finished product
    • Proper preparation of a machined surface finish and M number before blast
    • Maintaining shot blast centers
  • Blast
    • Proper PPE required to operate the blast centers
      • Maintaining PPE equipment, cleaning and sanitizing following use
    • Maintaining blast centers
    • Check levels of the blast filtration system
    • Protection of any openings, threaded holes, heat/slab numbers and machined surfaces
    • Proper placement of material in work centers
  • Material Handling
    • Making sure Work In Process (WIP) material is staged at the proper stations
    • Transporting inbound/outbound work center material
    • Operating forklifts
    • Transporting product on the Rico – Training required
    • Proper rigging of various products – Overhead crane/jib crane – Training required
    • Stage blasted parts on shadowed carts/skids
  • Other tasks
    • Dumping of metal hoppers
    • Weighing refrigerant tanks
    • Moving fixturing and other non-inventory items

Required Qualifications:


  • 1-5 years of related experience in manufacturing
    • Blast experience
    • Material handling
    • Shipping/Receiving
  • 1-5 years of experience in forklift driving
  • Technical knowledge
  • Communication skills
  • Time management skills

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Certified forklift, pendent control overhead crane operator.
  • Accuracy in identifying, counting, maintaining records.
  • Read, write, add, subtract decimals, fractions, simple use of prints, move tickets, bills of materials, requisitions, CRT transactions.

Who We Are

The primary mission of Johnson Controls Navy Systems is to supply Chilled Water Air Conditioning, Refrigeration Systems and associated equipment to the US Navy and US Coast Guard. Johnson Controls Navy Systems is a part of the Johnson Controls Federal Systems business. Our robust, high reliability products are designed, manufactured and tested in York, PA to military and other stringent customer specifications. Most of our designs are custom engineered for the specific application

If you’d like to learn more about who we are, what we do, and the systems and products we work with please check out our “Who we are” video on YouTube to learn more. (Around 2 minutes long)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD9TF3ANMxU

Recently, Johnson Controls has been recognized by several organizations for leadership in Environment, Sustainability and Governance, as well as innovations in smart building platforms:

Johnson Controls is an equal employment opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or any other characteristic protected by law. For more information, please view EEO is the Law. If you are an individual with a disability and you require an accommodation during the application process, please visit www.johnsoncontrols.com/careers

Division: JCFS (Johnson Controls Federal Systems)
Job Number: 1552

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Reference: 22413_1552·Original posting
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