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Austinpowder

Blaster

Moreno Valley, CA · On-site

$18.75 - $24.75/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... Ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing. Ability to audibly hear and respond to ...

Austin Powder

Blaster

Suisun City, CA · On-site

$18.25 - $24.25/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... in writing. • Ability to audibly hear and respond to the work environment of an active mining ...

Austin Powder

Blaster

Hannibal, MO · On-site

$17 - $22.50/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... in writing. • Ability to audibly hear and respond to the work environment of an active mining ...

Austinpowder

Blaster

Fort Myers, FL · On-site

$16.75 - $22.25/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... Ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing. Ability to audibly hear and respond to ...

Austinpowder

Blaster

Pegram, TN · On-site

$16.50 - $22/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... Ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing. Ability to audibly hear and respond to ...

Austinpowder

Blaster

Hannibal, MO · On-site

$17 - $22.50/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... Ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing. Ability to audibly hear and respond to ...

Austin Powder

Blaster

Moreno Valley, CA · On-site

$18.75 - $24.75/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... in writing. • Ability to audibly hear and respond to the work environment of an active mining ...

Austinpowder

Blaster

$18.50 - $24.25/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... Ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing. Ability to audibly hear and respond to ...

Austin Powder

Blaster

Palmyra, MO · On-site

$15.50 - $20.50/hr

... the handling of client issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns. Safety is a number one ... writing. · Ability to audibly hear and respond to the work environment of an active mining site.

Austin Powder

Blaster

Norton, VA · On-site

$18 - $24/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... in writing. • Ability to audibly hear and respond to the work environment of an active mining ...

Austinpowder

Blaster

Blountsville, AL · On-site

$14.50 - $19/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... Ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing. Ability to audibly hear and respond to ...

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Austinpowder

Blaster

Norton, VA · On-site

$18 - $24/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... Ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing. Ability to audibly hear and respond to ...

Austin Powder

Blaster

Pegram, TN · On-site

$16.50 - $22/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... Ability to clearly communicate both verbally and in writing. * Ability to audibly hear and respond ...

Austin Powder

Blaster

Pegram, TN · On-site

$16.50 - $22/hr

Coordinates the handling of all customer issues, blast area incidents, and/or public concerns ... in writing. • Ability to audibly hear and respond to the work environment of an active mining ...

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Material Handler & Blast Tech (Manufacturing) - 2nd Shift (Job Number: 1673)

York, PA • On-site

Johnson Controls International plc
Machinery Manufacturing • 10K+ employees
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$31.79/hr

Full-time

Posted 17 days ago

Key responsibilities

  • Operate various powered equipment, including forklifts and overhead cranes, to handle and transport materials.

  • Prepare parts and products from mechanical drawings, work with cross-functional teams, and document quality-controlled tasks.

  • Maintain blast centers, handle finished products properly, and ensure PPE protocols are followed to promote a safe work environment.

Johnson Controls rating

8.0

Company rating: 8.0 out of 10

Based on 416 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

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 Blast Technician / Material Handler, 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:
  • Named to FORTUNE's "Most Admired Companies" List
  • Corporate Knights Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World
  • Named to Forbes Net Zero Leaderslist
  • CDP 2023 Climate Change 'A List'
  • Ranked 67 on the Drucker Institute's list of best-managed companies in America
  • Forbes Best Employers for Diversity
  • NewsweekAmerica's Greatest Workplaces for Diversity
  • Ethisphere 2024 World's Most Ethical Companieslist for the 17th time
  • Newsweek America's Greatest Workplaces for Women in 2024
  • Named to Newsweek America's Greatest Workplaces for Veterans 2024 / 2025listing
  • Named to Forbes America's Best Employers for Veterans 2024
  • Named one of the top military friendly employers by military.com.

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
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Johnson Controls is a world leader in smart buildings, creating safe, healthy and sustainable spaces. For nearly 140 years, we’ve made buildings better and now we’re transforming them again with our award-winning digital technologies and services. We’re using artificial intelligence and data driven solutions to give you deeper insight into your building’s health, sustainability and performance. It’s changing the way we design, operate and maintain indoor environments and driving to a new era of autonomous buildings. We deliver the blueprint of the future for industries such as healthcare, schools, data centers, airports, stadiums, hotels, manufacturing and beyond through OpenBlue, our comprehensive suite of connected solutions. Johnson Controls offers the world’s largest portfolio of building technology, software and services. Supported by a team of more than 100,000 dedicated employees working across 150 countries, we’re helping customers achieve their sustainability goals and power their mission.

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Machinery manufacturing, water transportation, public safety statistics centers and offices and manufacturing

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10,000+ Employees

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Milwaukee, WI, US

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