Machinist
About The Position
Under minimum supervision, set up, and operate all types of machinery, manual lathe, manual mill, drills, or plastic parts. Make adjustments to adhere to established specifications. Make decisions as to quality, tolerances and operation sequence. Tasks and assignments include the complex and non-routine. Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned. - Perform prototype work from detailed specifications. Exercise considerable care of equipment, tools, parts, machines, and materials to prevent damage. - Plan, layout, fabricate, and assemble the most complex production machined parts and highly complex prototype research and development machined parts. - Interpret drawings, route sheets and other specifications to ascertain nature of assigned work orders. Determine own work procedure of assigned number of pieces, types of metal, types of machines, tools and attachments, speeds and feeds, tolerances and sequences of operations. Exercises considerable judgment, ingenuity, initiative in the planning, layout and performance of all assignments. - Compute accurate mathematical dimensions needed to manufacture parts of a complex nature. Use precision measuring instruments. - Perform quality machining of various types of materials as needed.
Requirements
- High school diploma, general education degree (GED) or equivalent knowledge gained through formal education including vocational training.
- Typically requires a minimum of 8+ years’ of machine shop experience that include machine programming.
- Ability to use shop mathematics, drawings and measuring tools.
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
- Ability to speak effectively with other employees of organization.
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
- Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
- Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.
- Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Responsibilities
- Perform prototype work from detailed specifications.
- Exercise considerable care of equipment, tools, parts, machines, and materials to prevent damage.
- Plan, layout, fabricate, and assemble the most complex production machined parts and highly complex prototype research and development machined parts.
- Interpret drawings, route sheets and other specifications to ascertain nature of assigned work orders.
- Determine own work procedure of assigned number of pieces, types of metal, types of machines, tools and attachments, speeds and feeds, tolerances and sequences of operations.
- Exercises considerable judgment, ingenuity, initiative in the planning, layout and performance of all assignments.
- Compute accurate mathematical dimensions needed to manufacture parts of a complex nature.
- Use precision measuring instruments.
- Perform quality machining of various types of materials as needed.
- Enter time and data into a computer system as well as perform functions in the computer.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
High school or GED
