Buffer Technician
Buffer Technician
Posted on :
10-04-2025
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10-04-2025
Job Description
Come join our collaborative and innovative team at DISTRAN Packaged Substations!
DISTRAN Packaged Substations has been an industry leader in the design and supply of highvoltage openair substations and switchyards since 1965. Over a halfcentury of building meaningful relationships with our customers and vendors boils down to one thing: people. We take pride in our collaborative approach where everything we do is designed to deliver the project the right way your way. Though we have grown over the years and now offer new innovations like our FactoryBuilt
Substations our ageold commitment will never change: to take care of you like family.
DISTRAN Packaged Substations is looking to hire a Buffer Technician to work from our Port of Alexandria at our Manufacturing Facility. The Buffer Technician assists the Buffer Lead and/or the team members with the QA QC and Kitting of materials between the Factory Built Substation (FBS) Assembly Teams and/or Welding Teams and Buffer region to ensure expedited production. The Buffer Technician works as part of a team to ensure that material flowing through the Buffer Area is organized and processed in a timely manner. The Buffer Technician performs skilled work such as checking critical dimensions on incoming steel conducting quality checks on other various vendor products reading blueprints/drawings as well as operating the Companys machinery.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
- Customer Focus
- Decision Quality
- Business Insight
- Drives Results
- Collaborates
- Communicates Effectively
- Courage
- Instills Trust
- Manages Ambiguity
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Attends safety meetings as requested / instructed follows all health and safety procedures.
- Positions and aligns material staging and kitting material using machinery per assembly bay ahead of need.
- Checks quality of incoming vendor products. Follows all established QA/QC processes and procedures.
- Maintains materials flowing through Buffer region.
- Supports requests from FBS Assembly Teams by coordinating with the Buffer Leadon production schedules to KIT and stage material per assembly ahead of need.
- Follows established SOPs and processes.
- Communicates to the Buffer Lead what can be improved and offer solutions.
- Collaborate with the Assembly Warehouse and Project Teams concerning material receiving and shipping issues.
- Communicate to the Buffer Lead what is not going right.
- Recognizes sets up and operates hand and common power tools.
- Moves parts safely into position manually or with hoists or cranes.
- Operates all machinery and equipment including the Companys forklift.
- Keeps the warehouse property in order including regular and preventative maintenance on Company equipment and machinery.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- High School diploma or equivalent required.
- Read and understand measuring devices such as tape measurer rules and combination squares required.
- Perform simple shop math (add/subtract fractions decimals and whole numbers) required.
- Experience applying simple hand tools such as wrenches hammer screwdriver etc. required.
- Knowledge of FBS Assembly and PFB fabrication processes and systems preferred.
- Ability to read and understand schematics and drawings preferred
Referral Level: Trades and Skilled
Not eligible for Enhanced Referral
Not eligible for External Referral
More information regarding The Crest Industries Family of Companies Internal and External Referral Programs can be found here: Packaged Substations is proud to be ISO9001:2015 and ISN Certified.
DISTRAN Packaged Substations is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex disability age sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran status or genetic information.
DISTRAN Packaged Substations is committed to providing access equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment its services programs and activities. To request information regarding reasonable accommodation contact your Human Resource Business Partner.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about discussed or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge (b) in furtherance of an investigation proceeding hearing or action including an investigation conducted by the employer or (c) consistent with the contractors legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 601.35(c)
Part of the CREST INDUSTRIES family of companies.
Required Experience:
IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
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