2nd Shift Tool and Die Journeyman

Vollrath Careers•Kiel, WI

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The 2nd Shift Tool and Die Journeyman will utilize their skills and knowledge to build, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve tooling and procedures. This role involves operating all equipment, tools, and gauges in the tool room safely and efficiently, planning machining and bench procedures, and performing difficult machining operations. The position also requires understanding metal properties, programming CNC equipment, welding, and heat treating. Documentation of findings, corrections, and improvements, along with providing detailed drawings, is essential. The ability to read and understand blueprints to build tooling with proper dimensions, clearances, and tolerances is also a key responsibility. This role may involve operating forklifts and computers, and editing CNC programs.

Requirements

Completed a state journeyman tool & die apprenticeship or equivalent.

Responsibilities

Build, maintain, troubleshoot, and improve tooling and procedures.
Operate all equipment, tools, and gauges in the tool room safely and efficiently.
Layout work and plan machining and bench procedures.
Perform difficult machining operations requiring complicated setups, improvising tooling and machines for adaptation beyond normal ranges and capacities.
Clean and perform daily and periodic maintenance on equipment.
Understand the properties and uses of different metals and materials, and know the appropriate feeds, speeds, coolant/lubricant, and cutting tool material.
Prioritize jobs and work independently and expeditiously.
Assume a leadership role in an orderly investigation team.
Properly document all findings and record all corrections or improvements.
Provide detailed drawings and sketches of alterations or modifications for engineering documentation.
Read and understand customer part prints/blueprints and build tooling with proper dimensions, clearances & tolerances, fasteners, strippers, fool proofing, etc.
Program CNC equipment.
Weld different types of metals.
Heat treat (harden, anneal, and normalize) different types of metals.
Operate forklifts, computers, and edit CNC programs.