Machinist

Job Title 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