Screw Machine Tech I

Integer Holdings; Quakertown (Bucks County); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Pulse Technologies in Quakertown, PA, seeks a CNC Machine Technician I to join our manufacturing team. You will operate screw machines, load bar stock, and adjust guides to meet process specs. You will read blueprints and routers, prepare tools, perform tool changes, and run production batches.

The role emphasizes precision, inspection, and documentation to ensure quality and efficiency. The ideal candidate has a high school diploma, hands-on machining experience, and the ability to work with

Qualifications

• High school diploma required.
• Ability to read BOMs, pre-set tools and material requirements.
• Competence in using a microscope for small-part inspection.

Responsibilities

• Load bar material into screw machines and adjust guide bushings as needed.
• Read blueprints for dimensions, tolerances and product specs for inspection and machining.
• Review job orders, routers and programs for part specs, tooling, and tool-change frequency.
• Position and secure tools in appropriate toolholders for all machines.
• Operate screw machines: run cycles, perform tool changes and production batches.
• Make required tool offsets per procedural guidelines for all machines.
• Replace worn tools including drills, spotters, end mills, electrodes and wires.
• Perform secondary deburring/finishing per router operations for all machines.
• Clean machines during metal-changeovers and maintain a clean workspace.
• Possess competency with small parts requiring a microscope to verify specifications and conformance.
• Develop competence in visual inspection and accurate production counts.
• Assist supervisors and lead technicians to set up fixtures and wire/milling operations.
• Read BOMs, preset tools, and verify materials and gauges as required.
• Support setups to enable Technicians II/III to perform higher-level tasks.

Skills

Blueprint reading

Microscope inspection

Attention to detail

Education

High School diploma

Tools

CNC machines

Wire EDM

RAM EDM

Milling machine

Job description

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• When operating Screw Machines ensure that there is adequate material and becomes competent in loading bar material into the feeding mechanism and adjusts the specified guide bushing as necessary.
• The employee is required to read and understand blueprints for dimensions, tolerances and other product specifications needed for inspection and machining operations on all machines.
• The employee is required to read and understand the job order, router and program for product specifications such as part number, dimensions, tolerances, number of parts to be machined and tooling instructions such as cutting tools to be used and the expected tool change frequency for all machines.
• Position and secure tools in the proper toolholders for all machines.
• For Screw Machines, perform the cut-off cycle and re-home the machine after tool changes, stock changes or other operations requiring manual movement of the turret. For other equipment, be able to start the machine cycle and run a production batch.
• Makes a required tool offset within established procedural guidelines for all machines.
• Replace worn tools such as drills, spotters, end mills, electrodes and broken wires.
• Performs secondary bench operations (deburring, finishing) as specified on the router operation for all machines.
• The employee will need to clean out the machine when a change over to another metal is required for all machines.
• The employee is expected to become competent in working with small parts that require the use of a microscope to detect specific items and conformance to specifications.
• The CNC Machine Technician I will become competent in visual inspection and provide accurate counts on production quantities.
• To perform other duties as assigned by the Supervisor or Group Leader.
• The CNC Machine Technician I will be expected to know how to load fixtures and change wire sizes for the Wire and RAM EDM's, and also have the knowledge to load fixtures for the Milling Machine.
• The Machine Technician I is required to read BOM's, pre-set tools, material and pin gauges as required.
• Support set-ups in a way that allows Technicians II and III to complete higher level tasks. Complete paperwork, Inspect collets, ensure material is ready, strip machine and clean workplace, line clear, load programs, etc. The intent is to focus appropriate skillsets to tasks.

REQUIREMENTS

• Requires a High School diploma.

EOE/AA Disability/Veteran

Pulse Technologies ("Pulse") is a progressive company that believes diversity is a critical component of long-term success. We are an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. It is the policy of Pulse to not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of his or her race, color, religion, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or national origin. Furthermore, we do not discriminate against any applicants or employees because they are a disabled veteran, armed forces service medal veteran, recently separated veteran, or active-duty wartime veteran, campaign badge veteran, referred to collectively as "Protected Veterans." It is our policy to employ and to advance in employment, all persons regardless of their status as individuals with disabilities or Protected Veterans, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. This policy shall apply to all employment actions, including but not limited to recruitment, hiring, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, recall, termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, and selection for training, including apprenticeship, at all levels of employment.

Additionally, Pulse Technologies provides reasonable accommodations to qualified job applicants and associates who need them for medical or religious reasons.

Job postings presume all work will be performed entirely outside of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, Rhode Island and the State of Washington, and outside of the municipalities of Jersey City, NJ, and Washington D.C. In addition, all work performed for remote eligible positions will be performed outside of New York State unless the supervisor of that position is also based in New York State.