Machinist

Machinist

The Machinist is responsible for operating machine tools to produce precision metal parts. This position is part of the Kollmorgen team in Radford, VA and is a designated Weekend Shift role, working Friday, Saturday, and Sunday on 12-hour shifts. Kollmorgen is part of Regal Rexnord.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Program CNC lathe and CNC milling machine to perform turning, boring, facing, counterboring, grooving, drilling, tapping, and milling.
• Chasing threads to different class fits, inside or outside diameters, turn tapers to the degrees, minutes and seconds.
• Perform all setups on machines, some require the use of special fixtures and other improvised methods for holding and aligning work to avoid distortion of parts.
• Study sample parts, blueprints, drawings, and engineering information to determine methods and sequences of operations needed to fabricate products and determine product dimensions and tolerances.
• Select, recommend, and advise type of tooling needed to perform machining operations.
• Check feeds and speeds necessary to machine parts, maintain constant check to ensure adherence to close tolerance and co-related dimensions on shoulders, diameters, bore faces, slot grooves and high degree of squareness, concentricity and parallelism. Perform first-piece inspection.
• Sharpen and replace ordinary tooling and replace tooling that has become dull.
• Detect and report to coordinator any defective material or other unusual conditions.
• Coordinate with other machinists and supervisors.
• Work with QE and ME for product quality.
• Communicate with buyer/planner for material needed.
• Lubricate and clean equipment used.
• Keep work area orderly and observe prescribed safety rules at all times.
• Design fixtures, tooling, or experimental parts to meet special engineering needs.
• Dispose of scrap or waste material in accordance with company policies and environmental regulations.
• Evaluate experimental procedures and recommend changes or modifications for improved efficiency and adaptability to setup and production.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Associates degree in Machine Technology or equivalent certification or experience.
• Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, statistics, and their applications.
• Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principals involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Requires the use of judgment to plan, perform, and make decisions as to the sequence of setups, operations, and processes within the limitations of recognized or standard methods.
• Critical thinking and complex problem-solving skills to identify alternative and correct solutions.
• Self-motivated and capable of completing tasks without supervision and within time limits.
• Must be able to maintain very close tolerances (.0003 or better). Requires a very high degree of accuracy and attention to detail

Preferred Qualifications

• Minimum of three years of progressively difficult machinist experience.
• Experience operating and setting up CNC multi-axis lathe/mill machines.
• Experience operating CNC lathes.
• Experience operating CNC milling machines.

Physical Demand and Work Environment:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee, with or without reasonable accommodation, to successfully perform the essential functions of this job:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

*Restrictions imposed by federal export control laws may limit this job opportunity to candidates who are a 'U.S. Person', which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted asylum in the United States, and refugees in the United States, or who otherwise can qualify for a license that permits them to hold the position.

Per the Internal Career Movement Guidelines, you must be in your current position for a minimum of 12 months.