Machinist III
Job Description
Job Duties
· Set-up and operate a full range of bench and machine tool equipment such as a knee mill and engine lathe
· Perform general milling operations, turning, facing, drilling, boring, threading, tapping and grinding, etc. To fabricate metal parts
· Design and build tools and jigs
· Perform preventive maintenance on all machines
· Perform tramming
· Perform work involving unusual set-ups, close tolerances and critical interrelated dimensions
· Work from sketches, preliminary drawings, blueprints, or from verbal direction from engineers
· Plan, layout, and performs work on assignments including all types of machine and hand operations, fitting, adjusting and checking dimensions to very close tolerances
· Provides feedback on engineering drawings to design and quality engineering
· Ensure that quality requirements are met
· Perform peer inspections
· May provide training to other employees
· Meet delivery schedules
· May be required to improvise, use shop tools to make special and unusual adaptations of common machine tools
Educational and Experience Requirements:
· High School Diploma, preferably from a technical HS
· 4-6 years of related experience
· Knowledge of ISO process controls
· Experience with Prototrak mills and lathes made by Trak Machines
· The mills are manual 2 and 3 axis machines
· Machinists must be able to program with “conversational software”