Manual Machinist

JOB SUMMARY

Sets up and operates conventional, special purpose, manual lathes and mills machine, metallic and nonmetallic parts by performing the following duties.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Identify and understand blueprints, sketches, drawings, manuals, specifications, or sample part to determine dimensions and tolerances of finished workpiece, sequence of operations, and setup requirements.
• Uses gages and measuring instruments to meet tolerance requirement.
• Machine parts to specifications using machine tools such as lathes, milling machines, shapers, or grinders.
• Set up, adjust and operate of the machine tools and many specialized or advanced variation tools in order to perform precision machining operations.
• Measures, marks, and scribes’ dimensions and reference points on material or workpiece as guides for subsequent machining as necessary.
• Selects, aligns, and secures holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, and materials on machines such as mills, lathes, jig borers, grinders, shapers, etc.
• Calculates and sets controls to regulate machining factors such as speed, feed, coolant flow, and depth and angle of cut.
• Starts and observes machine operation to detect malfunctions or out-of-tolerance machining, and adjusts machine controls or control media as required.
• Verifies conformance of finished workpiece to specifications.
• Sets up and operates machine on trial run to verify accuracy of machine settings.
• Verifies dimensions and alignment of materials.
• Develops specifications from general description and draws sketch of part or product to be manufactured.
• Confers with engineers, production personnel, or others to resolve machining or assembly problems.
• Clean and lubricate machines, tools, and equipment in order to remove grease, rust, stains, and foreign matter.
• Employee will be required to follow any job-related instructions and perform any other jobs duties requested by any authorized supervisor and/or the Branch manager.

Minimum Qualifications (Education, Training, Experience, Skills)

• This position requires the individual to read, write and comprehend the English language.
• Read blueprints/shop drawings.
• At minimum, properly operate the following equipment: Manual Engine Lathe, Manual Milling machine, Manual drill press, arbor press, bearing press, overhead Jib Crane and in time, pass and maintain OSHA Forklift certification, continue self-improvement, and must handle self as an NPC employee in a professional manner.
• It is critical that the employee display the following attributes; dependability, orderliness, attendance, quality of work, productivity, initiative, cooperation, and overall knowledge development are all keys to performing this job successfully.