Tool and Die Maker - 1st Shift

G.A. Richards Group; Norton Shores, Northern (MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 32,000 - 43,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Paid time off (PTO)

401K after 90 days

Job summary

G.A. Richards Group in Norton Shores, MI, is seeking a skilled tool maker to design, construct, and repair tools, dies, gauges, and fixtures to tight tolerances. You will work from complex drawings and operate precision measuring instruments.

Requires 8+ years tool room experience or formal trade school certification, plus ability to read drawings, fit and time parts, and supervise die construction as needed. Mon-Fri shift, 6:00 AM - 2:30 PM, with competitive pay.

Qualifications

• One-year certification from trade school; or three to six months related experience and/or training.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience. 8+ years tool room experience.

Responsibilities

• Construct tools where a design is or isn't available.
• Select allowances and devise mechanism detail.
• Highly skilled fitting, adjusting, and timing.
• Performs any tool room machine operation.
• Works from complicated drawing and sketches.
• Uses advanced shop mathematics and all types of precision measuring instruments.
• Do skilled fitting, timing, and adjusting.
• Supervises die construction and/or completes tool making operations, together with related maintenance.

Skills

Die construction

Fitting and timing

Precision measurement

Reading drawings

Machine operation

Education

Trade school certification

Tools

Calipers

Micrometers

Dial indicators

Job description

Pay Range:

$23 - $31/hr

Benefits:

Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, PTO, and 401K after 90 days!

Shift:

Monday - Friday, 6:00 AM - 2:30 PM

Summary:

Plans, designs, and constructs, or repairs a wide variety of highly intricate and complicated tools, dies, gauges, fixtures, to extremely close tolerances.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following.

• Constructs tools where a design is or isn't available
• Select allowances and devises mechanism detail
• Highly skilled fitting, adjusting, and timing
• Performs any tool room machine operation
• Works from complicated drawing and sketches
• Uses advanced shop mathematics and all types of precision measuring instruments
• Do skilled fitting, timing, and adjusting
• Supervises die construction and/or completes tool making operations, together with related maintenance

Education and/or Experience:

One-year certification from trade school; or three to six months related experience and/or training; or

equivalent combination of education and experience. 8+ years tool room experience.

Requirements

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee tosuccessfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.