Summary:
Sets up, operates and programs CNC machines and machining centers to fabricate metal parts by performing the following duties.
Essential Functions:
- Minimum of 8 years journeyman level experience programming, operating and setting up CNC and manual lathes or mills
- Studies blueprints, sketches, drawings, manuals, specifications, or sample part to determine dimensions and tolerances of finished work-piece, sequence of operations, and setup requirements.
- Intimate understanding of programming languages. Able to proficiently read, edit and write code in many different controllers.
- Measures, marks, and scribes dimensions and reference points on material or work-piece as guides for subsequent machining.
- Selects, aligns, and secures holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, and materials on machines such as mills, lathes, jig borers, grinders, and shapers.
- Calculates and sets controls to regulate machining factors such as speed, feed, coolant flow, and depth and angle of cut, or enters commands to retrieve, input, or edit computerized machine control media.
- Starts and observes machine operation to detect malfunctions or out-of-tolerance machining, and adjusts machine controls or control media as required.
- Verifies conformance of finished work piece to specifications and able to decipher specification relative to function and make quality determinations as a result
- Sets up and operates machines on trial run to verify accuracy of machine settings or programmed control data.
- Programs custom parts, fixtures, or tolls for job specific applications
- Confers with engineers, production personnel, programmers, or others to resolve machining problems.
Qualifications and Job Requirements:
- Job Knowledge: High School Diploma and 8 years journeyman level experience running CNC and manual machines
- Interpersonal Skills/Interactions: Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations. Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence.
Physical Requirements and Work Environment:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand.
- The employee frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms.
- The employee is occasionally required to walk, sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, talk, and hear.
- The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
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Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $33.00 - $39.00 per hour
