Senior Precision Grinder

Pinewood Tool•Menomonee Falls, WI

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Pinewood Tool is a family owned, high-precision job shop, and we're hiring a Precision Grinder to join our first shift. You'll handle surface and OD grinding on tooling and components for short-run, tight-tolerance work where flatness, parallelism, concentricity, and finish all need to be right the first time. This is a hands-on role for someone who takes pride in reading a print, picking the right wheel, dressing it well, and bringing parts in to spec.

Requirements

10+ years of precision grinding experience in a toolroom or short-run job shop
Hands-on experience with precision hand grinders, spin fixtures and wet grinders
Demonstrated ability to hold tight tolerances on flatness, parallelism, concentricity, and runout
Strong wheel selection and dressing skills across materials and finishes
Solid blueprint reading and applied GD&T knowledge
Comfortable with standard toolroom metrology — micrometers, indicators, height gauges, surface plates, surface-finish testers
High school diploma or equivalent
Detail-oriented, dependable, and team-minded — a fit for our culture of ownership, attention to detail, continuous improvement, and teamwork

Responsibilities

Surface (flat) grinding to hold flatness and parallelism
OD grinding to hold concentricity and runout
Fine surface-finish control to print specification
Work to Pinewood's capability of holding tolerances to .0001″
Set up your own jobs, select and dress wheels, and perform in-process inspection
Machine from blueprints, applying GD&T
Take ownership of your work and stand behind the result