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