Senior Precision Grinding Specialist

Senior Precision Grinding Specialist (Manual & CNC) The Mission In our shop, the grinder is the "Final Arbitrator." You are the person who takes high-value steel components and brings them to their final, perfect state. We aren't looking for a production operator; we are looking for a specialist who has "the feel" for manual grinding but can also navigate automated systems when the job calls for it. If you understand that a mold lives or dies by the quality of its shut-offs and the squareness of its blocks, we want you in our grinding department. What You'll Be DoingThe Manual Standard: Perform high-precision manual surface grinding on cores, cavities, and inserts. You are the master of the "tenth" and the "half-tenth." Critical Fitting: Grind and fit complex shut-offs and parting lines where light-tight fits are the only acceptable outcome. Squaring & Pre-Work: Hold "dead-nuts" squareness and parallelism on blocks before they move to EDM or Hard Milling. Automated Precision: Set up and operate automated/CNC surface or profile grinders for larger runs or complex geometries without sacrificing an ounce of quality. Wheel Mastery: Select and dress the perfect wheel for the material-whether it's soft P20 or hardened 60+ HRC S7/H13. The Profile of a Specialist Manual "Touch": You have extensive experience with manual surface grinders. You know how to compensate for heat, wheel wear, and machine harmonics by feel and sound. Tolerance Obsession: You are bored by anything larger than +/- 0.0002''. You live comfortably in the +/- 0.0001'' range. Tooling Fluency: Expert use of sine plates, magnetic chucks, dressing tools, and precision inspection equipment (indicators, micrometers, etc.). Material IQ: You know how different tool steels react to the stone and how to prevent burning or stress-cracking in high-value inserts. The "Finisher" Mindset: You take pride in a surface finish that looks like a mirror and functions like a Swiss watch.