Precision Surface Grinder

Pinewood Tool; Menomonee Falls (WI); On-site; USD 44,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Signing bonus

Flexible hours

Health insurance

Dental insurance

HSA

401(k) with profit sharing

Paid time off

Job summary

Pinewood Tool Corp. is seeking a precision surface grinder to advance our high-precision shop in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. You’ll master demanding grinding work, set up your jobs, hold tight tolerances, and contribute to quality from first pass to final part.

With 5+ years of experience in toolroom grinding, you’ll read blueprints with GD&T, select wheels, and improve processes. Flexible hours, signing bonus, and comprehensive benefits are offered to help you grow.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of precision surface grinding in a toolroom or short-run job shop.
• Track record of holding tight flatness, parallelism and surface finish.
• Strong wheel selection and dressing skills across materials and finishes.
• Expert precision measurement with micrometers, indicators, height gauges and surface plates.
• Solid blueprint reading and GD&T understanding.

Responsibilities

• Precision surface grind tooling and components to tight flatness, parallelism and surface finish.
• Plan and set up your own jobs: workholding, wheel selection and dressing.
• Hold tolerances to .0001″ on hardened tool steel and specialty alloys.
• Own quality from first pass to finished part.
• Take on the toughest jobs and share your know‑how with our toolmakers and apprentices.
• Bring ideas that make us better: new methods, new tooling, new technology.

Skills

5+ years grinding

hold tight tolerances

GD&T reading

wheel selection

measurement tools

Job description

PINEWOOD TOOL · PRECISION SURFACE GRINDER

Help build the toolroom of the future.

Pinewood Tool is a precision toolroom on a mission: to advance manufacturing by making precision components that others simply cannot. Under young, driven new ownership, we’re growing fast and reinvesting every dollar into new machines, AI tools and, above all, our team. We’re looking for a precision grinding specialist to master our most demanding work.

$32–45/hr · Signing bonus · Flexible hours · Menomonee Falls, WI

Why Pinewood

• Be the specialist. Own the toughest grinding in the shop: the flatness, parallelism and finish others can’t hold. The team counts on you to get it right.
• Master the craft. Already a master, or ready to become one within 1–2 years, in a toolroom where precision grinding is a core craft.
• Every part a new challenge. One-offs, prototypes and short runs for automotive, medical device, aerospace, industrial automation and engineered products. Tolerances to .0001″.
• Shape the journey. Your ideas turn into action in days. Help decide where Pinewood goes next, and where your career goes with it.
• Flexible hours built around you. Do your best work and live your best life.

What you’ll do

• Precision surface grind tooling and components to tight flatness, parallelism and surface finish
• Plan and set up your own jobs: workholding, wheel selection and dressing
• Hold tolerances to .0001″ on hardened tool steel and specialty alloys
• Own quality from first pass to finished part
• Take on the toughest jobs and share your know-how with our toolmakers and apprentices
• Bring ideas that make us better: new methods, new tooling, new technology

What you bring

• 5+ years of precision surface grinding in a toolroom or short-run job shop
• A track record of holding tight flatness, parallelism and surface finish
• Strong wheel selection and dressing skills across materials and finishes
• Expert precision measurement: micrometers, indicators, height gauges and surface plates, checking every part to the tenth
• Solid blueprint reading and GD&T
• Pride in your craft and the drive to keep raising the bar

Our shop

Precision CNC milling, turning, grinding, and EDM, programmed in Mastercam and at the control. Since 1974, we’ve made everything from mold inserts and die components to fixtures and precision assemblies. We run on a modern ERP and put AI to work across the business.

Pay & benefits

• $32–45/hr based on experience
• Signing bonus
• Flexible hours
• Health and dental insurance, HSA
• 401(k) with profit sharing
• Performance-based bonus
• Paid time off and holidays
• Training and development
• Food, snacks and team events

Pinewood Tool is an equal opportunity employer.