Youth Apprentice - CNC Programming

Oshkosh Corporation • Appleton, WI

19h • $16 - $17 • Onsite

About The Position

At Pierce Manufacturing, we build trucks that protect people and communities around the world. To our team, there is no room for anything less than providing the absolute best. Since 1913, building truck bodies on Model T Ford chassis in an old converted church has evolved to creating highly customized, carefully designed and engineering pumpers, aerials, tankers and rescue units that have no equal. Today, you'll find more than 30,000 Pierce apparatuses on the road that are making a difference in people's lives, every day. To us, every step in the process of building our trucks is personal. From innovation and expertise, to the customization and service. Our trucks are designed to perform under the toughest conditions. YOUTH APPRENTICESHIP APPLICATIONS WILL CLOSE ON MARCH 3RD SUMMARY The CNC Programming Youth Apprentice will assist in creating CNC programs for cutting and punching materials in the fabrication department. The main objective of this role is to create CNC programs in a timely manner to keep the fabrication department on schedule and keep CNC machines operating to cut and punch parts for various facilities. The CNC Programming Youth Apprentice will work closely with the production supervisors, team leaders, design engineers, quality control, and materials management to ensure that product, process, and procedural changes are implemented smoothly. YOUR IMPACT These duties are not meant to be all-inclusive and other duties may be assigned:

Requirements

• High School/GED enrolled student.
• Junior or Senior standing
• Must have reliable transportation.

Nice To Haves

• Interest in engineering or production industry.
• Ability to use and understand linear measurements, Imperial and Metric Systems, and proficient in reading a tape measure and other measuring devices
• High level of attention to detail
• Strong verbal and written skills

Responsibilities

• Clean up extraneous data from CAD drawings and save in format for input to nesting software to maintain a more efficient part library function.
• Apply correct tooling for punched parts, placing tabs to hold part in sheet.
• Apply correct cutting paths to laser and waterjet parts placing tabs to hold part in sheet.
• Perform nesting of parts, ensuring efficiency of part placement in material sheets; create CNC programs for parts too large for nesting or requiring special tooling such as louvers.
• Compare order revision to part library revision and update as needed to match manufacturing order; verify part is correctly routed to fabrication machines.
• Ensure that CNC programs are delivered to fabrication department before scheduled start date to ensure fabrication stays on schedule and deliver parts in time for next operation.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: High school or GED