Job Description

Overview

Oerlikon is seeking a Process Operator for the 2nd shift at their Westbury NY facility. The role involves setting up and operating production equipment, ensuring product quality, and maintaining a safe work environment.

Responsibilities

  • Reports to shift supervisor on production status, problems, and deviations.
  • Reads and applies information contained in specifications to determine equipment settings that impact product outputs.
  • Examines material to ensure conformance to established standards.
  • Maintains processing reports to record and enter into batch records and databases.
  • Ensures that correct materials are being utilized according to production records and planner schedule.
  • Identifies and labels all production materials in process at all times.
  • Follows and complies with all safety and work rules and regulations and takes action to correct unsafe conditions where identified.
  • Maintains department housekeeping standards.
  • Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

  • Technical Trades School or associates degree preferred.
  • Ability to service and assemble manufacturing equipment such as industrial vibratory screening units.
  • Must be able to read/comprehend written and verbal instruction in English.
  • Must be able to communicate 1 on 1 and in small groups.
  • Must have basic math skills to add, subtract, multiply and divide using weight and volume units.
  • Must have a minimum of 2 years of manufacturing experience or similar.
  • Must be able to recommend improvements to the process with regard to safety, quality, and productivity.
  • Must be able to operate forklifts and experience working with electric hoists/cranes is preferred.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • Dental
  • Vision
  • 401k
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • Work schedule is 2pm-10:30pm, Monday to Friday.
  • Location: Westbury, NY.

Benefits

Health Insurance
Dental
Vision
401k
PTO

How this job compares in Westbury, NY

Pay in context

At roughly $25/hr, this posting comes in about 22% below the $32/hr median for welding jobs across New York, where the middle half runs $27–$40/hr across 139 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 16% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. That gap is worth raising directly — in a market this size there is normally room to negotiate toward the median, particularly if you already hold the certifications the posting asks for.

The local market in Westbury, NY

Westbury, NY is a small market in our index: 1 other active welding opening alongside this one, from 1 employer. Across New York as a whole we're tracking 219 other active welding openings from 145 employers. With this few local postings, most welders here end up either commuting or looking at travel work. Browse welding jobs across New York.

The most active employers in New York at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Welding Shop in New York, NY (17), Randstad USA (6), and Philips (6). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within New York, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are New York at $45/hr, Staten Island at $31/hr, and Brooklyn at $30/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

Similar openings near Westbury, NY

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