Machinist

Schedule: Monday - Friday: 10:30 PM 7:00 AM

Incentives: 10% Shift Differential Quarterly Incentive Bonus Overtime Opportunities

PURPOSE:

Under limited supervision perform a wide range of machining operations using lathes drills saws and grinders to complete casting parts following standards methods and procedures.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Work from route cards blueprints and/or supplied instructions to setup and operate machinery to perform a wide range of generally repetitive machining operations on product castings. Speeds feeds tooling and operation sequence generally specified but vary within limits as necessary to obtain required finish and tolerances. Exercise care in clamping and operating to avoid distortion springing or breakage. Align and level machine tools and equipment to required accuracy and check to ensure effective operation. Replace defective or damaged tooling as necessary.
• Check completed parts to ensure compliance with specifications. Perform various other similar or associated duties as required.
• Detect and report defective materials improper operations and unusual conditions to proper supervision. Maintain work area and equipment in a clean and orderly condition. Follow prescribed safety regulations.
• Perform a variety of other duties and tasks of equal or lesser complexity as assigned by supervisor.

SPECIAL SKILLS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Perform progressive machining operation on parts and items following standard or accepted methods and procedures. Requires the use of judgment to setup and operate various machine tools perform hand and bench operations maintain tolerance work from samples complex drawings sketches.
• Light physical effort handling parts and materials setting up machines. Time spent in observation checking. Equivalent to frequently exerting light effort some average or heavy effort involved
• Continuous mental or visual attention while performing carrying machine and hand operations some close attention to maintain critical tolerances make close setups

REPORTING RELATIONSHIPS:

• Reports to the Machine Shop lead person and the Finishing supervisor.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Over 3 experience.
• Use shop mathematics charts tables formulae. Work from complex drawings sketches samples. Knowledge of machine tool setup and operation material characteristics. Equivalent to 1 to 3 years of applied trades training.