Senior Machine Shop Technician & Lab Coordinator

University of Texas at Austin; United States; On-site; USD 47,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Tuition assistance

Paid vacation & holidays

Library access and discounts

Job summary

The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering seeks a Technical Staff Assistant IV in Mechanical Engineering on the UT Main Campus to support teaching labs and the student machine shop. The role involves coordinating lab activity, maintaining equipment inventories, and assisting instructors and students in hands-on fabrication.

Responsibilities include machine shop maintenance, setup, troubleshooting CNC equipment, purchasing lab materials, and potentially teaching ME 350.

Qualifications

• High school graduation or GED.
• Five years of experience as an instrument maker or machinist beyond the apprentice level.
• CNC machining experience using Haas machines and controls on at least a 4th axis Mill, and tool room lathe.
• Must understand G code programming at the Machine console, as well as Mastercam software.
• Equivalent combination of relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.
• Relevant education and experience may be substituted as appropriate.

Responsibilities

• Teaching/Student Machine Shop Coordination: maintaining flow of the curriculum supporting each teaching lab in the student machine shop every fall and spring semesters and summer sessions.
• Maintain an inventory of student machine shop lab equipment and consumables required for each teaching lab in the shop.
• Work with graduate teaching assistants, students, and professors on teaching lab needs, including preparing lab equipment set-up and specimens and hands on assisting in the student Machine Shop.
• Trouble-shoot, repair, and maintain machine shop equipment to ensure education mission is met.
• Coordinate the purchase of all materials necessary for each teaching lab in the student machine shop.
• Co-Responsible for teaching the Machine Shop certification classes.
• May be asked to teach the Department’s ME 350, Machine Tool Operations for Engineering, course for the ME undergraduate student.
• Professional Machine Shop Support:
• Support in filling Professional Machine Shop work orders.
• Independent set-up and operation of CNC mills, CNC lathes, drill press, shears, brakes, tool cutter grinders, vertical band saws, horizontal band saws, arbor presses, hardness testers, sanders, a variety of hand tools and power saws.
• Responsible for the use of initiative and independent judgment in constructing instruments to precise standards from start to finish, from rough sketches or general verbal instructions. Lays out and plans complicated fabrication processes and implements designs.
• Trouble-shoot, repair, and maintain machine shop equipment to ensure education mission is met.
• May be assigned additional duties in accordance with the needs of the Department.

Skills

G-code programming

Mastercam

CNC machining

Hands-on shop work

Tools

CNC Haas machines

Job description

The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering seeks a Technical Staff Assistant IV in Mechanical Engineering on the UT Main Campus to support teaching labs and the student machine shop. The role involves coordinating lab activity, maintaining equipment inventories, and assisting instructors and students in hands-on fabrication.

Responsibilities include machine shop maintenance, setup, troubleshooting CNC equipment, purchasing lab materials, and potentially teaching ME 350.