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This position is onsite at our Drive Systems Center in Grand Prairie, TX, and operates on third shift, Monday through Friday, from 11:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m.

Metallic Materials Lab Technician – Multiple levels considered

Bring your own mechanical or chemical experience to support the manufacture, design and research and development (R&D) of vertical lift drive systems for aircraft. You’ll work with other technicians and engineers at Bell to provide lab testing activities for transmission gear heat treat, chemical and other metallic processing methods.  These gears will be used on flight aircraft as well as testing environments. This role is an integral part of the Materials and Process Engineering team at Bell, working to provide safe, effective components across multiple aircraft platforms.

What you’ll be doing as a Metallic Materials Lab Technician (Third Shift):  

• Sectioning metallic components & preparing metallurgical mounts

• Operating laboratory equipment such as:  Analysis Equipment: hardness testers, spectrograph, x-ray fluorescence, gas analyzer, x-ray diffraction, tensile testing, digital & optical microscopes

• Operating preparation Equipment: electro-discharge machining (EDM), band saw, grinders, sanders, cut-off wheels, sand blaster, polisher, metallurgical mounting presses, Chemical analysis and titrations

• Performing thermal equipment temperature surveys and pyrometry tasks.

• Generating technical laboratory reports.

• Analyzing data using statistical analysis

What You Need to Be Successful:

• Associate's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and at least 1 year of laboratory experience

• Must be able to work 3rd shift hours of 11:00pm to 8:00am, Monday through Friday.

• Demonstrated technical writing, communication skills, and mechanical aptitude 

   

• Strong communication and organization skills to properly relay and document results and procedures & build/maintain effective relationships 

   

• Able to lift 25 pounds.

• Able to wear appropriate protective personal equipment (PPE)

• Additional knowledge and/or experience with chemical or materials testing, preferred

What we offer you in return

·            You’ll be off every other Friday with our 9/80 work schedule

·            80 hours of Personal Time Off (PTO)

·            120 hours Vacation time

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