Machinist

Army National Guard Units • Yakima, WA

9d • Onsite

About The Position

This is a Washington Army National Guard Title 32 Excepted Service Unit Technician position for a Machinist located at the Washington Maneuver Area Training Equipment Site in Yakima, Washington. This is a permanent, excepted service position advertised for Enlisted and Warrant Officer applicants. The Machinist (WG-3414-11) fabricates complex and non-routine items requiring intricate steps, precise measurements, unusual angles, or nonstandard applications of standard equipment. The role involves performing machining work to manufacture castings, forgings, weldments, and other fabrications. The position may require developing and manufacturing specialized tools, working with rare metals or special alloys, or achieving special finishes. The Machinist will interpret and potentially correct incomplete or incorrect dimensions, tolerances, or specifications, which may involve redesigning items. The role requires the use of various measuring and marking tools, advanced shop mathematics, and geometric and trigonometric formulas for setups and computations. The Machinist will determine procedures, tools, machines, and attachments, and may perform machine work requiring new or untried procedures, including special setups and improvising conventional machines. The position involves operating a variety of conventional and/or CNC machine tools such as lathes, boring mills, milling machines, shapers, grinders, and drills. Tool grinding, sharpening, and selection are key responsibilities, as is setting up work using various attachments and fixtures. The Machinist will adjust speeds and feeds, determine appropriate coolants, lubricants, and abrasives, and maintain dimensional accuracy to difficult tolerances. Precision handwork, heat-treating, welding, and soldering may also be required. Other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Military Grades: E1 - E7, WO1
• Applicants need not be assigned to the position or possess the MOS to apply or be considered for selection.
• Selected applicant must be assigned to a compatible Military position and attain MOS within 1 year of appointment action.
• Must have a valid Washington state and military driver's license.
• Must be able to obtain a Government Travel Card (GTC).
• Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Must maintain membership in the WA Army National Guard for continued employment.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain the appropriate security clearance of the position.
• An individual convicted of a qualifying crime of domestic violence may not perform the duties of this position.
• Position requires ability to establish effective professional working relationships with coworkers and customers, contributing to a cooperative working environment and successful accomplishment of the mission.
• Experience or training that has provided the candidate with a basic knowledge of machining processes.
• Must have the ability to use drill presses, shapers, planers, and other types of associated machine tools.
• Must have at least 18 months Experience or training performing the full range of machining operations on most types of conventional or CNC machine tools and their various attachments.
• Experience or training in planning and lay out work from blueprints, worksheets and other drawings that may have missing or incorrect information.
• Skill in applying shop mathematics in establishing needed dimensions, such as those required for chasing threads or machining angular surfaces; locating and marking surfaces and angles to be machined.
• Skill in programming machining operations, setting up and operating CNC machine tools.
• Knowledge of and ability to apply advanced shop mathematics such as geometric and trigonometric formulas to make computation for laying out work, machining pieces at unusual or compound angles, determining gear ratios pitch, angles and other similar exact or precision dimension.
• Must be a member in good standing, of the Army National Guard
• Must have current Washington Driver's License.
• Must have or be able to attain a Government Travel Card.
• Must have and be able to retain Secret Security Clearance.

Nice To Haves

• May be required to successfully complete a trial period.
• Participation in direct deposit is mandatory.
• All soldiers, civilian employees, and contractor employees who drive Army-owned or leased vehicles must complete the Army Avoidance Course (AAC) training when they start working for the Army.
• Must be able to attend all schools deemed necessary by the supervisor.
• May occasionally be required to work other than normal duty hours; overtime may be required.
• Must attend and successfully complete, all schools/training deemed necessary for the position.
• Certain incentive(s) may be available pending funding and approval but are not guaranteed.
• If you are a male applicant who was born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.
• Military Technicians are ineligible for enlistment, retention, and student loan repayment bonuses. Acceptance of a Technician position will terminate these incentives.
• Military Technicians in the excepted service will wear the appropriate uniform while performing as a Technician.
• Veteran's preference does not apply to National Guard Technician positions in accordance with Title 32 USC 709 (f).
• May be required to successfully complete a trial period.

Responsibilities

• Fabricates complex and non-routine items that require numerous intricate steps, precise measurements, unusual and compound angles, or nonstandard applications of standard equipment.
• Performs machining work to manufacture castings, forgings, weldments, and other fabrications.
• Develops and manufactures specialized tools to manufacture new parts, work rare metals or special alloys, or achieve special finishes.
• Plans and lays out work from blueprints, sketches, drawings, or specifications.
• Lays out work by measuring and marking straight lines, arcs, circles, angles, and location points for setting up work pieces for drilling, tapping, turning, milling, boring, reaming, shaping, grinding, honing, and lapping.
• Interprets or completes dimensions, tolerances, or specifications that are incomplete or incorrect, potentially involving partial changes or complete redesign of items.
• Performs machine setups using advanced shop mathematics, and geometric and trigonometric formulas, to compute compound angles, angular indexing, hole patterns, pitch lead, and pitch diameters for various standard and non-standard threads.
• Determines procedures, tools, machines, equipment, and attachments to use.
• Performs special setups and improvises conventional machines to perform special machining operations.
• Sets up and operates most types of conventional and/or Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machine tools such as lathes; vertical and horizontal boring mills; bench, plane, or universal milling machines; shapers and planers; internal and external grinders, thread grinders; and radial drills.
• Grinds and sharpens tools, selects tools, jigs, and fixtures required to achieve specific dimensions, tolerances, and surface finishes.
• Sets up work in vises and between centers, uses chucks, standard faceplates, angle plate mountings, and collets.
• Uses mandrel and various other machine tool attachments such as rotary vises, dividing heads, taper attachments, magnetic checks, vertical milling heads, tapping attachments, and rotary tables.
• Adjusts and sets speeds and feeds of machinery and determines coolants, lubricants, and abrasives to be used.
• Operates machine tools to cut, drill, bore, tap, ream, shape, turn, mill, grind, hone, and lap items.
• Maintains dimensional accuracy during machining processes frequently, machining to tolerances that are difficult to attain or hold.
• Performs precision handwork to finish, fit, and assemble machined parts.
• Performs heat-treating, welding, and soldering.
• Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED