CMM Programmer

Howmet Aerospace•Hampton, VA

About The Position

The Production Planner is responsible for providing an interface between customers and in-house personnel, this involves scheduling, coordinating, and monitoring the expedient flow of parts through the manufacturing processes to satisfy the customers’ delivery requirements and maintaining customer relationships with key accounts by communicating these schedules. The position is responsible for CMM programming, Structured Light (ATOS Blue Light) measurement programming, Best fit software programming, and NX cad modeling.

Requirements

Reads, analyzes, and interprets general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
Write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
Effectively presents information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers and the general public.
Works with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and solid geometry and trigonometry.
Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Defines problems, collects data, establishes facts, and draw valid conclusions.
Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Associate's Degree in a technical field -OR- High School diploma/equivalent with two (2) years comparable technical experience.
Five (5) years related experience and/or training.
Employees must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
Verification of employment eligibility will be required at the time of hire.
Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
This position entails access to export-controlled items and employment offers are conditioned upon an applicant's ability to lawfully obtain access to such items.

Responsibilities

Develop Dimensional inspection programs using various programming languages such as Visual Basic and Python based on requirement definitions, customer blueprints, CAD models, and specifications to be used for manufacturing data collection, analysis, and distribution.
Support existing programs by troubleshooting, implementing modifications, or adding new information as required.
Detailed understanding of co-ordinate metrology including the principles of CMMs, and CMM Manager software.
Work with end users to create requirement definitions and functional designs for enhancements to existing programs and for development of new applications.
Use NX cad software to extract geometric information from CAD models required to generate CMM and Structured light measurement part programs.
Electronic data management, manipulation of electronic data using NX to assist in tool builds, gating builds and production of gating schemes.
Supporting engineering in analyzing electronic models and working with casting houses and various tooling houses.
Perform all documentation necessary to satisfy customer and quality requirements.
Instruct end users in the use of applications.
Other responsibilities as assigned.