Education requirements are:
- High School Diploma or Equivalent and credentialed Machinist journeyman's card or six (6) years' documented experience in industrial/manufacturing machining.
Skills requirements are:
- Mathematics - add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure using whole numbers and common fractions.
- Language - read and interpret the following documents: safety policies, follow all operating and maintenance procedures, follow all emergency procedures and various manuals, write routine reports and correspondence, and use communication skills with coworkers.
- Reasoning ability - ability to apply common sense and understanding; ability to carry out detailed but uninvolved written and oral instructions; and the ability to interact with coworkers through communications and acceptance of expectations and accountability.
- Communication skills.
- Experience working within an industrial maintenance, specifically manufacturing, environment.
Essential experience required:
- High standard of integrity and professionalism;
- Strong working knowledge of job site safety as well as ability to complete a company specific safety orientation
- Solid knowledge and understanding of system operation, building plans and working drawings
- Hold a Machinist Journeyman's card or 6 years of experience as a Machinist
- Experience working with equipment such as: boom lifts, scissor lifts, and forklifts
- Knowledge of the use and care of tools, safety practices, blueprint reading as well as mathematics, mechanical drawings, etc.
- Knowledge of installation, maintenance and repair of industrial machinery
- A comprehensive understanding of lathes, shapers, drill presses, planers, broaching, grinders, milling machines, and other tools.
- Knowledge of cutting coolants, lubricants and their uses.
- Ability to stand and walk for up to seventy-five percent of work time.
- Must have a complete knowledge of piping systems, air, medical gas, water, fire protection, steam and all other utilities and their bypass systems
Essential job functions:
- While working from within work orders, verbal instructions, complex blueprints, schematics and plans and sketches, the Machinist will lay out, plan work, setup and operate a wide variety of machine tools commonly used in a maintenance and manufacturing environment.
- Designs, and/or works from complex designs to lay out, field test and fit, inspect, fabricate and/or repair a wide variety of complicated parts.
- Operates various material handling equipment such as floor controlled or overhead cranes, prime movers or work savers to perform work pertaining to the craft; may occasionally operate a fork truck or man lift in performing work related to the craft.
- Assists, directs and trains apprentices in the industrial maintenance and Machinist craft.
- Maintains records and follows recordkeeping processes.