Tool Maker-C

Company: Veterans Prime, Inc.
Location: Baltimore
Posted on: January 27, 2023

Job Description:

Are you a repair person at heart who enjoys problem solving and working on equipment? This position performs machine shop work for the repair and maintenance of dies, molds, and related equipment. -This role involves performing machine shop work for the repair and maintenance of dies, molds, and related equipment. Our Mold & Metal Products group could be considered a 'job shop' (build to order), meaning only about 2% of our projects are affiliated with our company and many others involve tooling for outside customers in the plastic injection, automotive, gas turbine and medical industries. All work takes place in a climate-controlled environment, and this is new tool build projects, working with wax dies assembly.- Any combination of education and experience equivalent to a high school diploma or GED, and 5-8 years experience with molds / wax die assembly works. Two year technical or trade school degree preferred.- General knowledge of molds including: how to assemble and disassemble components of a molds, wiring of a hot runner system and polishing techniques.- Must be able to complete forms and checklists and read and understand work standards, blueprints, and technical drawings.- Knowledge of progressive tool & die making procedures and ability to work within close tolerances, desired.- Ability to fabricate tools and dies, desired.- Advanced mathematical skills (i.e., algebra, trigonometry).- May have to work overtime and may be assigned to other shifts based on company needs.-Disassembles, inspects cleans, repairs, and reassembles tools and dies according to established procedures and utilizing one or more of the following: hand tools, pneumatic tools, grinders, lathes, mills, EDM's, calipers, veneers, and metric rulers.- Diagnoses die problems by reading and inspecting blueprints and discussing the problems with Metal Stamping, Quality Assurance or Molding personnel.- Provides instruction and guidance to Tool & Die Maker A's and assists in their training (internal or state approved apprenticeship).- Operates and setups various types of machining equipment.- May program EDM machines using ladder logic/PLCs in order to fabricate tools and equipment.- May program CNC Milling machines using various software applications- Assembles, inspects cleans, repairs, and reassembles tools and dies according to established procedures and utilizing one or more of the following: hand tools, pneumatic tools, grinders, lathes, mills, EDM's, calipers, veneers, and metric rulers. Ensures that the tools and dies meet established written and verbal specifications.- Polishes steel mold blocks according to prints in order to establish dimensions.- Diagnoses die problems by reading and inspecting blueprints and discussing the problems with Supervisor, Manager or other Tool Makers.- Utilizes computer viewer to obtain mold dimensions and specifications.- Sets up and operates metal removing machines to fabricate components of tools and / or dies to specified tolerances.

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