To provide tooling support in fabrication, repair, inspection, and project leadership. To repair, fabricate, machine, fit, inspect, and assemble all types of high precision tools. Instruct and direct lower graded employees as necessary.
Ability to work to tool orders, tool process plans, tool designs, sketches, engineering drawings, mylars (non-dimensioned drawings).
Determine necessary operations, plan the operational sequence, instruct and direct lower classified employees as required, follow progress of job to assure Quality requirements are met, and status progress to the Team.
Ability to lay out, fit, machine, and assemble a variety of high precision tools used in the manufacturing of details, sub-assemblies, assemblies, and other tools.
Fabrication of tools may be but is not limited to the use of wood, composites, adhesives, purchased tooling components and a variety of metals.
Ability to inspect tools to plan, repair features to drawing requirements, and fabricate replacement details to rebuild existing tools.
Ability to use Basic Trigonometry to calculate angles and dimensions, lay out contours for data not shown on tool drawings.
Ability to use machining equipment such as band saw, sander, lathe, milling machine, grinder, drill press and hand power tools.
Ability to check your work and the work of others, using precision measuring instruments such as laser, optics, V-stars, scales, micrometers, height gauges and other similar tools.
Ability to complete fabrication of tools by laying out trim lines, reference lines, reference points, station lines and mold lines, indicating various points, stations, edges, etc., with appropriate markings to facilitate use of tools.
HS Diploma/ GED equivalent with a minimum of 5-years’ of Toolmaker experience and/or of the same general nature or successful completion of vocational/technical schooling curricula.
Requires a thorough knowledge of complex drawings as applied to tools and fixtures.
Requires a knowledge of the use of a variety of precision measuring instruments.
Requires a knowledge of mathematics up to and including trigonometry to calculate dimensions not shown on the drawing, and to properly lay out the material.
Requires a general knowledge of the capabilities and operation of a variety of machines and working characteristics of metals to perform machining operations as required.
Ability to stand and perform work duties for an extended period of time.
Ability to lift a minimum of 25 pounds.
Ability to work in warehouse conditions at various temperatures (e.g. warm, hot, cold, freezing).
Ability to work in an environment that includes dust and other debris.
Ability to work with changes in priorities and work assignments.
Ability to work independently, without close supervisions or detailed instructions.
Ability to complete tasks in a timely, detailed, and orderly manner.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others (e.g., peers, employees, vendors, truck drivers, and public) to create a productive environment.