Precision Jig & Fixture Builder

bellflight.com; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 30,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Bell Textron Inc. in Fort Worth, TX, is seeking a skilled machinist to design, lay out, manufacture, assemble, rework and repair jigs, fixtures, gauges, and tools used for assemblies in our manufacturing facility.

You will mount and align hydraulic, electrical/electronic, pneumatic and optical components, work to tight tolerances, and use precision measuring instruments to verify work, reading drawings without designer support.

Qualifications

• Five (5) years’ experience in jig and fixture building and/or tool and die making.

Responsibilities

• Devises, lays out, manufactures, assembles, reworks, and repairs a wide variety of jigs, fixtures, gauges, special equipment, and necessary tools used for assemblies.
• Mounts and aligns hydraulic, electrical/electronic, pneumatic and optical components as required in the tools manufactured.
• Works to precision tolerances as required.
• Uses a variety of precision measuring equipment in accomplishing and checking the work.
• Must be able to work from drawing of part without benefit of tool design.
• Devises methods of obtaining alignment, compound angles, locations and coordination of related tools.
• May be required to set up and use a variety of tool room equipment and machines.

Tools

Machinists’ hand tools

Tool room machines

Precision measuring instruments

Job description

Bell Textron Inc. in Fort Worth, TX, is seeking a skilled machinist to design, lay out, manufacture, assemble, rework and repair jigs, fixtures, gauges, and tools used for assemblies in our manufacturing facility.

You will mount and align hydraulic, electrical/electronic, pneumatic and optical components, work to tight tolerances, and use precision measuring instruments to verify work, reading drawings without designer support.