Tool / Die Maker III

Mason Controls • Los Angeles, CA

1d • $30 - $45 • Onsite

About The Position

This is a highly skilled trade category in the Toolroom. Operates conventional lathes, mills, grinders, and electrical discharge machine (EDM), and complex CNC machines to achieve extremely close tolerances. Prepares work for, and is involved in programming EDM and CNC machines. Plans, develops and constructs highly intricate tools, dies, jigs, fixtures and gauges to required tolerances. Assist with the Mold Department supervisors on complicated setups and adjustments for production issues to optimize the process and help with F.A.I. Recommends materials and applications to Mfg. & Design Engineering including, but not limited to, D.F.M. and D.F.A., with the Value Stream Manufacturing Engineers. Can work from SolidWorks models, program in Mastercam, follow verbal instructions, and interpret sketches and drawings on engineering development and production programs. This position is primarily based inside the NPI – Toolroom but, will fully support production and any other assignments deemed necessary by management supervision. This position will work first shift from 7:00am - 3:30pm.

Requirements

• Ability to use all types of inspection instruments and precision measuring devices.
• Ability to make coordination checks to tolerance and make part layouts to establish inspection reference lines and points.
• Read and analyze complicated blueprints and drawings and have a basic knowledge of positional tolerance.
• Knowledge of 2D and 3D solid geometry, trigonometry and related mathematics required for making accurate measurements checks with standard and digital read-out, operation of microprocessors, profilometer, computers and printers.
• Possess knowledge of shop practices and have a broad knowledge of metals and their reaction to all types of processes normally used by the company.
• Knowledge of inspection requirements, company quality standards, and military specifications.
• Ability to keep accurate inspection records and communicate directly with engineering personnel.
• Operates various machines and performs other highly skilled work, such as laying out, fitting and assembling parts.
• May involve considerable development work, highly skilled fitting, timing and adjusting.
• Will analyze drawing and/or blueprints, determine tooling required and determine procedures to be follow for making parts needed.
• Must be able to fabricate specialized tools where no design is available.

Nice To Haves

• SolidWorks models
• Mastercam programming

Responsibilities

• Determines and executes methods and sequences necessary to fabricate and repair production tooling such as dies, fixtures and transfer and injection molds to ensure compliance with our customer and company specifications and quality requirements.
• Perform die work involves sharpening dies, dimensionally adjusting, making changeovers, and fabricating new punches or new die block sections either in-part or in their entirety.
• Establishes build and repair routine as required, recording produced values and variances for engineering requirements.
• Perform mold work involves changing over cores and cavities of family-type molds, fabricating new or repairing old cores and/or cavities, replacing ejector pins, replacing core pins, all in part or in their entirety.
• Fixture work involves constructing or repairing various fixtures, e.g. mill, drill, soldering, ultrasonic and assembly fixtures either in-part or in their entirety.
• Improvise or adapt all tooling as needed to provide engineering data gathering and exporting data to other formats.
• Manufacture first run and production run parts where manufacturing tools are not available and special inspection tools are required.
• Understands tool steel heat treating processes of various types.
• Understand and may be required to set-up and operate the wire and sinker EDM machines.
• Maintain the highest ethical standards, even when challenged from above.
• Understand and live by Mason’s ethics and business conduct policies.
• Perform related work requiring equal or lesser skill.
• Documents general data as related to daily work performed such as requesting perishable tooling, shop math, work assignment activity in our system.
• Understand and live by ethics and business conduct policies.
• Perform related work requiring equal or lesser skill.
• Documents general data as related to daily work performed such as requesting perishable tooling, shop math, work assignment activity in our system.

Benefits

• World-class control devices and subsystems — such as control grips, throttles, HaWC controllers, and communications interfaces — for today’s advanced cockpits, military vehicles, and other specialized applications.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed