Copper (Bus) Bar Fabrication Process Expert

Independence, Ohio, USAthyssenkrupp Materials NA, Inc.


Vertragsart:Teilzeit, Unbefristet
Einstiegslevel:Berufserfahrene
Home Office:Vor Ort
Einsatzbereich:Produktion und Fertigung
Status:Laufende Rekrutierung, Eintrittsdatum flexibel
Veröffentlichung:27.03.2026
Stellen-ID:JR104780
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Job Summary

Copper (Bus) Bar Fabrication Process Expert leverages deep, hands-on experience to share knowledge, improve fabrication processes, and proactively identify operational risks and potential solutions in copper bus bar and related fabrication activities. This role focuses on strengthening internal capabilities by transferring expertise, improving consistency, and helping teams avoid common and costly fabrication pitfalls, while also providing advisory expertise and support for implementing new or updated processes (including epoxy coating, powder coating, and plating). Engagement is advisory in nature; the expert provides recommendations and guidance while execution and decision-making remain with site leadership and functional owners.

Job Description

Process Improvement & Best Practices

  • Evaluate existing copper bus bar fabrication and finishing processes and recommend practical improvements
  • Share proven fabrication methodologies that improve repeatability, quality, safety, and efficiency
  • Identify process variation, inefficiencies, and unnecessary complexity before they become production issues
  • Support the development of standardized work, process flows, and best-practice guidelines
  • Provide advisory consulting on the implementation of new or revised finishing processes (e.g., epoxy coating, powder coating, and plating), including process definition input, vendor alignment guidance, and shop-floor rollout recommendations (execution owned by site teams)

Identifying Pitfalls & Risk Mitigation

  • Proactively identify common fabrication, finishing, and subcontracting pitfalls based on prior experience
  • Educate teams on high-risk features such as tolerance stack-ups, forming limitations, sequencing errors, and handling damage
  • Help teams recognize early warning signs of quality or throughput issues
  • Provide insight into “lessons learned” from past successes and failures to prevent repeat issues
  • Training & Knowledge Transfer
  • Advise leadership and key personnel (e.g., supervisors, value-stream leads, lead operators, and quality leads) to help develop copper bus bar fabrication understanding, shop-floor awareness, and key process constraints so they can effectively lead, troubleshoot, and reinforce standards
  • Translate complex fabrication concepts into practical, easy-to-understand guidance
  • Support leadership and key personnel by providing input to onboarding and upskilling plans for employees involved in copper fabrication or subcontracted operations, ensuring training is consistent and aligned to standardized work (with ownership remaining with functional leaders)
  • Drawing & Manufacturability Education
  • Review drawings and specifications with teams to explain manufacturability concerns and risk areas
  • Guide teams in recognizing ambiguous callouts or design choices that can create downstream issues
  • Promote clear communication between internal teams and external fabrication partners

Cross-Functional Advisory Support

Act as a subject-matter expert for copper bus bar fabrication across the organization

· Provide advisory support to operations, quality, and leadership when evaluating process changes or new opportunities

· Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives by grounding decisions in real-world fabrication experience

Qualifications & Experience

Required

  • Extensive hands-on experience in copper bus bar fabrication, including cutting, punching, forming, machining, and finishing
  • Excellent communication and teaching skills

Preferred

  • Experience developing or supporting training programs or standardized work
  • Familiarity with Copper Buss fabrication and finishing environments
  • Comfortable operating as a trusted advisor rather than a direct decision-maker

Work Structure

  • Part-time, flexible schedule
  • Advisory-focused role
  • No direct production or people management responsibilities

Ideal Candidate Profile

This role is ideal for a seasoned fabrication professional who:

  • Has accumulated a deep “toolbox” of real-world lessons learned
  • Enjoys working with others to develop capability and help teams avoid hard-won mistakes
  • Thinks in terms of systems, flow, and long-term process health

Job Compensation

$85.00 per hour

Benefits Overview

We offer competitive company benefits to eligible positions, such as:

  • Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
  • Life Insurance and Disability
  • Voluntary Wellness Programs
  • 401(k) or RRSP programs with Company Match 
  • Paid Vacation and Holidays
  • Tuition Reimbursement
  • And more!

Benefits may vary based on job, country, union role, and/or company segment. Please work with your recruiter or tk representative for applicable benefits information.

Disclaimer

This is to notify the general public that some individuals/entities are using the thyssenkrupp (“TK”) name, trademark, domain name, and logo without authorization. They are posing as employees, representatives, or agents of TK and its associated/group companies. These individuals/entities are fraudulently offering jobs online through texts, websites, telephone calls, emails, or by issuing fake offer letters. They are also soliciting jobseekers to deposit money in certain bank accounts or providing jobseekers with fraudulent checks to obtain banking information.  


TK does not ask, solicit, or accept any monies in any form from candidates, job applicants, or potential jobseekers, who have applied to or wish to apply to TK, whether online or otherwise as a pre-employment requirement. TK bears no responsibility for money being deposited/withdrawn therefrom in response to such fake offers.

Equal opportunity employer, including people with disabilities and veterans.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act and certain state or local laws. For those requiring assistance completing the application or the application process and request information relating to the need for accommodation, please contact reasonableaccommodation@thyssenkrupp.com.


TK does not:


1.    Send job offers from free email services like Gmail, Rediffmail, Yahoo mail, etc.;
2.    Request payment of any kind from prospective jobseekers or candidates for employment;
3.    Authorize anyone to collect money or agree to any monetary arrangement in return for a job at TK;
4.    Send checks to job seekers; or
5.    Make job offers through third parties. In the event TK uses professional recruitment services through a third party, offers are always made directly by TK and not by any third parties.

PLEASE NOTE: 


1.    TK strongly recommends that potential jobseekers do not respond to such fake solicitations, in any manner;
2.    TK will not be responsible to anyone acting on an employment offer that is not directly made by TK;
3.    Anyone making an employment offer in return for money is not authorized by TK; and
4.    TK reserves the right to take legal action, including criminal action, against such individuals/entities.


TK follows a formal recruitment process through its own HR department and applications are evaluated by its HR department through pre-defined processes. Please visit our official careers website at https://jobs.thyssenkrupp.com/en to view authentic job openings at TK. 


If you receive any unauthorized, suspicious, or fraudulent offers or interview calls, please email us at tkmna.employee.care@thyssenkrupp-materials.com.
 

Das ist uns wichtig

Health and Wellness

Sicherheit & Gesundheit

Höchste Standards für Arbeitssicherheit sowie vielseitige Gesundheitsförderung und -vorsorge.

Höchste Standards für Arbeitssicherheit sowie vielseitige Gesundheitsförderung und -vorsorge.

Pension and Retirement

Altersvorsorge

Wir unterstützen Dich individuell mit verschiedenen Modellen.

Wir unterstützen Dich individuell mit verschiedenen Modellen.

Collaboration and Teamwork

Zusammenhalt

Kollegialität ist uns enorm wichtig – wir begegnen einander mit Respekt, Anerkennung und Wertschätzung.

Kollegialität ist uns enorm wichtig – wir begegnen einander mit Respekt, Anerkennung und Wertschätzung.

Professional Development

Weiterbildung

Du entwickelst dich durch Schulungs- und Fortbildungsangebote fachlich wie persönlich.

Du entwickelst dich durch Schulungs- und Fortbildungsangebote fachlich wie persönlich.

Compensation and Salary

Vergütung

Faire Arbeitsbedingungen und eine wettbewerbsfähige Vergütung als wichtige Basis.

Faire Arbeitsbedingungen und eine wettbewerbsfähige Vergütung als wichtige Basis.

Diversity and Inclusion

Vielfalt

Wir fördern eine offene und tolerante Arbeitskultur.

Wir fördern eine offene und tolerante Arbeitskultur.

Work-Life Balance

Familie & Beruf

Familie & Beruf: Mit der Work-Life-Balance im Blick garantieren wir geregelte Arbeitzeiten.

Familie & Beruf: Mit der Work-Life-Balance im Blick garantieren wir geregelte Arbeitzeiten.

Creative and Innovation

Gestaltungsfreiheit

Ein freies Arbeitsumfeld mit einer gesunden Fehlerkultur, in dem Du neue Lösungen ausprobieren kannst

Ein freies Arbeitsumfeld mit einer gesunden Fehlerkultur, in dem Du neue Lösungen ausprobieren kannst

Vacation and Time Off

Flexibilität

Flexibilität: Wir unterstützen bspw. durch flexible Arbeitszeiten, Homeoffice-Angebote und Optionen unterschiedlicher Auszeiten.

Flexibilität: Wir unterstützen bspw. durch flexible Arbeitszeiten, Homeoffice-Angebote und Optionen unterschiedlicher Auszeiten.

Sustainability and Environment

Nachhaltigkeit

Wir handeln verantwortungsvoll und umweltbewusst.

Wir handeln verantwortungsvoll und umweltbewusst.

Onboarding and Training

Onboarding

Onboarding: Individuelle und persönliche Angebote zum Start in den Job.

Onboarding: Individuelle und persönliche Angebote zum Start in den Job.

Wir wertschätzen Vielfalt

Diversity promotes appreciation of all the individual strengths and differences in the workforce; it is a driver and an expression of our corporate culture.

We feel companies that give equal support to all employees regardless age, disability, ethnicity, gender/gender identity or sexual orientation enjoy important competitive advantages and are more efficient. So we can harness diversity to the benefit of employees and the company. What's more, greater diversity leads to greater innovation in the company.

thyssenkrupp Materials NA Inc. and the affiliated group companies and business units including Copper and Brass Sales, Engineered Plastics, Ken-Mac Metals, OnlineMetals, thyssenkrupp Steel Services, thyssenkrupp Supply Chain Services, and thyssenkrupp Materials de Mexico. Also including thyssenkrupp Materials Trading NA, LLC and thyssenkrupp Materials, LLC (Aerospace) are equal opportunity employers.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, genetics, disability, gender identity, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status or any other protected characteristic required by applicable law.

Applicants with disabilities who require reasonable accommodation in connection with the application process are encouraged to contact us directly.

Unternehmen

With around 480 locations in over 40 countries, thyssenkrupp Materials Services is the biggest materials distributor and service provider in the western world. The broad service spectrum offered by the materials experts enables customers to focus on their individual core business. The area of Materials Services spans two strategic areas: global materials distribution as one-stop-shop – from steel and stainless steel, tubes and pipes, nonferrous metals and specialty materials to plastics and raw materials – and tailored services in the areas of materials management and supply chain management. An extensive omnichannel architecture offers 250,000 customers worldwide cross-channel, round-the-clock access to more than 150,000 products and services. A highly efficient logistics system ensures that all requested services are smoothly integrated into customer production processes “just-in-time” or “just-in-sequence. Copper and Brass Divison Sales is a distributor and processor of aluminum, stainless steel, copper, brass, bronze and more quality materials serving markets across North America, including Canada and Mexico. By providing customers with what they want, when they need it, Copper and Brass Sales is able to help them succeed in today’s challenging global business environment. The company’s focus on the Aerospace, Automotive, Electrical, Medical and Oil & Gas Industries allows them to offer these market segments expertise specific to their needs. The daily commitment of its employees to provide premium service focused on the customer first has earned Copper and Brass Sales the position of a respected leader in the nonferrous metals industry for over 80 years.

Vom Eingang deiner Unterlagen bis zur Zusage: der Bewerbungsprozess

1. Schritt

Online-Bewerbung

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Mehr als 10 Minuten benötigst Du nicht. Der gesamte Bewerbungsprozess – vom ersten Kontakt bis zur Antwort – dauert übrigens in der Regel zwischen vier und sechs Wochen.

2. Schritt

Unsere Recruiter:innen prüfen Deine Bewerbung

Du erhältst von uns eine Eingangsbestätigung – bei der Online-Bewerbung innerhalb weniger Minuten, per Email kann es ein paar Tage dauern. Unsere Recruiter prüfen Deine Bewerbungsunterlagen und nehmen Kontakt zu Dir auf. 
Für einige Positionen führen wir vorab ein Telefoninterview mit Dir.

3. Schritt

Prüfung durch den Fachbereich

Unser Recruiter legt dem Fachbereich eine Vorauswahl an Kandidaten zur Begutachtung vor. Nun wird intensiv geprüft, ob Deine fachlichen Qualifikationen zu den Anforderungen der Stelle passen.

4. Schritt

Bewerbungsgespräch

Bist Du ein passender Kandidat für die Stelle, möchten wir Dich gerne in einem persönlichen Gespräch mit dem Fachbereich und der Personalabteilung kennenlernen! Wenn Du oder wir weiteren Gesprächsbedarf haben, laden wir Dich zu einem zweiten Gespräch ein.

5. Schritt

Die Zusage

Sobald wir uns zu den vertraglichen Details einig sind und der Betriebsrat zugesagt hat, senden wir Dir den Arbeitsvertrag zu. Selbstverständlich informieren wir Dich auch im Falle einer Absage.

6. Schritt

Dein Start bei uns

Endlich ist es soweit. Jetzt heißt es: Herzlich willkommen bei thyssenkrupp!

7. Schritt

Onboarding

Mit der Vertragsunterzeichnung beginnt Dein Weg in einem der weltweit größten Unternehmen. Wir begleiten Dich dabei – ab dem ersten Schritt.

Hinweise zur Bewerbung

In kürzester Zeit hast Du Deine Online Bewerbung bei thyssenkrupp eingereicht! Und so lange die Stellenanzeige auf unserer Karriereseite ausgeschrieben ist, besteht die Möglichkeit, sich zu bewerben.

Wir führen unsere Vorstellungsgespräche per Video, Telefon und auch persönlich durch. Detaillierte Informationen dazu erhältst Du von uns im Laufe des Bewerberprozesses während Du hingegen allgemeine Informationen sowie Bewerbungstipps hier findest.

Weitere Informationen über thyssenkrupp, unsere Produkte und Standorte findest Du direkt auf der Unternehmenswebseite.

Wir wünschen Dir viel Erfolg bei Deiner Bewerbung!

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