Tooling Specialist (Conventional Machinist)

ELECTRI FLEX COMPANY•Roselle, IL

9d•$30 - $50•Onsite

About The Position

The Tooling Specialist is a hands-on role that supports production by ensuring machinery, equipment, and supporting accessories are operating properly. This person will work closely with engineering and maintenance to make sure that mechanical components are machined, using conventional machine tools, to the highest quality prior to installing it into our production equipment. This person will support any machining required during preventive maintenance, breakdowns, improvements, guarding, repairs, retrofits, upgrades, new designs, and new launches.

Requirements

Minimum 4+ years of experience as a toolmaker or machinist in a manual conventional toolroom, preferably within metal forming and extrusion industries.
Mastery of conventional lathes, manual mills, and high-precision surface grinders.
Ability to read, calculate shop math problems, use handheld measuring tools, and interpret mechanical 2D drawings and models.
Strong math skills for calculating angles, dimensions, tolerances, and machining speeds/feeds.
Strong familiarity with industrial machine safety standards and machine guarding.

Nice To Haves

Technical Certification in machine shop or machining technology.
Welding and custom fabricating like bending and forming skills.
Some knowledge of high production mechanical systems, machine repairs, and machine retrofits and troubleshooting production machines.
Ability to speak Spanish.
Ability to speak Burmese or other languages.

Responsibilities

Support production by ensuring machinery, equipment, and supporting accessories are operating properly.
Machine mechanical components using conventional machine tools to the highest quality for installation into production equipment.
Support machining required during preventive maintenance, breakdowns, improvements, guarding, repairs, retrofits, upgrades, new designs, and new launches.