Composite Tool Maker NO RECRUITERS

Composite Tool Maker

• LOCAL APPLICANTS TO THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA ONLY

20-$28 / HR

Responsibilities

1) Plans, lays out, and constructs master full-scale models, forms, mockups, check jigs, and plaster patterns for casting master tooling used in manufacturing aeronautical and aerospace products, utilizing knowledge of plaster patternmaking, metal forming, and foundry practices procedures, using precision instruments, tools, and equipment.

2) Studies engineering tool design data, loft information and blueprints to define sequence of operations to develop layout for constructing master model.

3) Lays out, locates and aligns steel skeletons & master contour templates on surface table or other base structure to form model frame, using precision measuring instruments devices, like micrometers, calipers and transit.

4) Forms plaster over template frame hand finishes plaster to peripheral dimensions of contour templates, using scrapers, fairing tools, and other hand tools.

5) Verifies finished dimensions of master model, using precision instruments.

6) Scribes butt, water, and station lines on master model to establish location points, reference lines, and contours for subsequent pattern casting.

7) Casts plaster pattern splash from sections of master model, and recasts pattern to produce working patterns of contour templates, check templates, and related tooling.

8) May fabricate master patterns, jigs, templates, or mockups from materials other than plaster, like Composite material, wax, plastic, and fiberglass.

9) May cut out fabricate flat contour templates from engineering or loft information..

Salary : $20 - $28