Tool/ Die Maker

Masoncontrols; California (MO); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Mason welcomes people who share our determination and high standards to join us in doing work that moves the world forward. We design, manufacture, and market highly engineered products and systems principally for the aerospace and defense markets. Mason, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Transdigm, offers world-class control devices and subsystems — such as control grips, throttles, HaWC controllers, and communications interfaces — for today’s advanced cockpits, military vehicles, and other specialized applications. Our solutions fall into two broad categories: control products and components.

Title: Tool Maker

Job Family: Production

Reports to: Manufacturing Manager

FLSA Status:

EEOC Class: Craft Worker

Summary: This is a highly skilled trade category in the Toolroom. Operates conventional lathes, mills, grinders, and electrical discharge machine (EDM), and complex CNC machines to achieve extremely close tolerances. Prepares work for, and is involved in programming EDM and CNC machines. Plans, develops and constructs highly intricate tools, dies, jigs, fixtures and gauges to required tolerances. Assists with the Mold Department supervisors on complicated setups and adjustments for production issues to optimize the process and help with F.A.I. Recommends materials and applications to Mfg. & Design Engineering including, but not limited to, D.F.M. and D.F.A., with the Value Stream Manufacturing Engineers.

This position will work first shift from 7:00am - 3:30pm.

Position Duties:

• Determines and executes methods and sequences necessary to fabricate and repair production tooling such as dies, fixtures and transfer and injection molds to ensure compliance with our customer and company specifications and quality requirements.
• Perform die work involves sharpening dies, dimensionally adjusting, making changeovers, and fabricating new punches or new die block sections either in-part or in their entirety.
• Establishes build and repair routine as required, recording produced values and variances for engineering requirements.
• Perform mold work involves changing over cores and cavities of family-type molds, fabricating new or repairing old cores and/or cavities, replacing ejector pins, replacing core pins, all in part or in their entirety.
• Fixture work involves constructing or repairing various fixtures, e.g. mill, drill, soldering, ultrasonic and assembly fixtures either in-part or in their entirety.
• Improvise or adapt all tooling as needed to provide engineering data gathering and exporting data to other formats.
• Manufacture first run and production run parts where manufacturing tools are not available and special inspection tools are required.
• Understands tool steel heat treating processes of various types.
• Understand and may be required to set-up and operate the wire and sinker EDM machines.
• Maintain the highest ethical standards, even when challenged from above.
• Understand and live by Mason’s ethics and business conduct policies.
• Perform related work requiring equal or lesser skill.
• Documents general data as related to daily work performed such as requesting perishable tooling, shop math, work assignment activity in our system.

Other duties:

• Understand and live by ethics and business conduct policies.
• Perform related work requiring equal or lesser skill.
• Documents general data as related to daily work performed such as requesting perishable tooling, shop math, work assignment activity in our system.

Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, qualifications, competencies, abilities and any physical demands if required.

• Ability to use all types of inspection instruments and precision measuring devices.
• Ability to make coordination checks to tolerance and make part layouts to establish inspection reference lines and points.
• Read and analyze complicated blueprints and drawings and have a basic knowledge of positional tolerance.
• Knowledge of 2D and 3D solid geometry, trigonometry and related mathematics required for making accurate measurements checks with standard and digital read-out, operation of microprocessors, profilometer, computers and printers.
• Possess knowledge of shop practices and have a broad knowledge of metals and their reaction to all types of processes normally used by the company.
• Knowledge of inspection requirements, company quality standards, and military specifications.
• Ability to keep accurate inspection records and communicate directly with engineering personnel.
• Operates various machines and performs other highly skilled work, such as laying out, fitting and assembling parts.
• May involve considerable development work, highly skilled fitting, timing and adjusting.
• Will analyze drawing and/or blueprints, determine tooling required and determine procedures to be follow for making parts needed. Must be able to fabricate specialized tools where no design is available.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit for long periods and stand to perform work. The employee is required to reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee must be able to lift, push, pull or move up to fifty (50) pounds or more with assistance. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision and ability to adjust focus.

• Occasionally required to lift up to 30 lbs.
• Regularly required to sit, stand, bend, reach and move about the facility.
• Safety glasses, shop coat/apron, proper shoes.
• Occasional exposure to shop element such as noise, dust, odors and fumes.

Pay Range Compensation: $30.00-$35.00

Others:

This position requires use of information which is subject to the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). This position requires either U.S persons (as defined in applicable export regulations) or a non U.S person who is eligible to obtain required export authorization(s).