Onsite Machinist II
Summary: Under minimal supervision, set up, operate, and adjust various types of conventional and CNC equipment including mills, lathes, grinders, and other precision equipment. Works from drawings and written instructions to create new replacement parts, stock parts, and breakdown repairs. Work can be complex at times to support high-demand manufacturing applications and specific tolerances.
Job Duties:
- Machines parts to specifications, using machine tools such as lathes, milling machines, shapers, or grinders.
- Sets up, adjusts or operates basic or specialized machine tools used to perform precision machining operations.
- Measures, examines, and tests completed units to check for defects and ensure conformance to specifications, using precision measuring instruments.
- Monitors feeds and speeds of machine tools maintaining proper operational conditions.
- Studies blueprints, drawings, engineering information, or reverse engineer sample parts to determine methods or sequences of operations needed to fabricate part.
- Programs computers or electronic instruments, such as numerically controlled machine tools. Diagnoses machine tool malfunctions to determine need for adjustments or repairs.
- Sets up or operates metalworking, brazing, heat-treating, welding, or cutting equipment.
- Designs fixtures, tooling, or experimental parts to meet special engineering needs.
- Supports metalworking projects from planning and fabrication through assembly, inspection, and testing, using knowledge of machine functions, metal properties, and mathematics. Prepare working sketches for reverse engineering purposes.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Overtime sometimes required and on call 1 week per month.
Education & Experience:
The candidate shall verify successful training from Technical School and/or on-the-job training (OJT) +5 years.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Knowledge of various metals and precision measurement instruments.
- Read blueprints, sketches, or computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) files.
- Set up, operate, and disassemble manual, automatic, and computer numerically controlled (CNC) machine tools.
- Turn, mill, drill, shape, and grind machine parts to specifications - tolerances may be different for each work piece.
- Ability to safely use WinMax, MillPWR, Proto Track, or similar conversational systems.
- Capable to independently fabricate parts out of sheet metal and Lexan.
GPC conducts its business without regard to sex, race, creed, color, religion, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, age, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, disability, military status, status as a veteran, or any other protected characteristic. GPC's policy is to recruit, hire, train, promote, assign, transfer, and terminate employees based on their own ability, achievement, experience, and conduct and other legitimate business reasons.