Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Other duties may be assigned as needed.

• Set up and operate equipment and fixtures to perform cutting, buffing, riveting, grinding, broaching, brazing, milling, and technical assembly.
• Assist other Brush Holders and CNC Operators as needed.
• Monitor various EDM machine and machining centers.
• Proper selection of tooling and materials to be machined.
• Arrange, mount and secure tooling. Mount/align/secure holding fixtures or locate/support/secure work piece in absence of fixture.
• Set stops and calibrate fixture to appropriate reference points.
• Manual cycle machine through operator sequence to check fixture/work positions, tooling, clearances, speeds and feeds.
• Manual programming of short runs and specialty jobs.
• Complete die and punch settings and/or adjustments.
• Make frequent adjustments, calibrations and recalibrations to various machines to ensure safe and quality operations.
• Work from detailed, involved part drawings and/or specifications and hold precise tolerances per specifications on drawings.
• Assemble parts to order and/or drawing requirements.
• Equipment care and basic maintenance.
• Record production deviations and other notations as necessary to produce and improve a quality product.
• Perform ongoing quality checks on parts produced to ensure compliance with established drawing and specifications.
• Work with production supervisor and other personnel in a cooperative, collaborative and cost-effective manner.
• Continually suggest and assist the production supervisor with implementing department and process improvements to increase overall quality and productivity.

Requirements

• Three plus years of machine shop experience as a machine operator completing setup or using programming skills.
• Good dexterity to complete technical assembly duties.
• Strong mechanical aptitude with experience reading shop orders and blueprints with the ability to understand and utilize this technical information.
• Ability to successfully read and utilize inspection and measuring instruments (caliper, micrometer, protractor and ruler) and hold tolerance per specification on drawing.
• Requires being able to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• High school diploma or equivalent preferred. Technical or apprenticeship education a plus.