Toolmaker Lead for Aerospace

Regal Rexnord; Simi Valley (CA); On-site; USD 48,000 - 72,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

401k with employer matching

Paid Time Off

Tuition Assistance

HSA / FSA

AD&D Insurance

Job summary

Regal Rexnord is seeking a lead CNC machinist to oversee the tool-room manufacturing area, coordinating a team to produce aerospace components from raw materials. You will perform setup, operation, and adjustments on CNC Proto-Trak Mills, as well as manual toolroom equipment, reading blueprints with GD&T, and ensuring quality through first article inspections.

Ideal candidates bring extensive fixture-building experience, strong math skills, and the ability to optimize processes while mentoring

Qualifications

• Ten+ years experience with CNC Proto-Trak CNC Mill, conventional mill and lathe.
• Fixture making experience preferred.
• Strong math aptitude and precision measurement skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead fabrication and operation of fixtures by studying blueprints and specs.
• Schedule and balance workload in the cell and ensure on-time delivery.
• Perform set-ups and machine operations with minimal supervision.
• Identify process improvements to reduce variation and waste.
• Mentor team members and ensure quality first article acceptance.

Skills

CNC Proto-Trak CNC Mill

GD&T

Blueprint reading

First article inspection

Aerospace manufacturing

Lean/Six Sigma

Mathematics aptitude

Team leadership

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Proto-Trak Mill

Mills

Lathes

Grinders

Presses

Saws

Job description

Work Model: This is a fully onsite role, with work performed at your designated Regal Rexnord office.

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Brief Description

Pay Range $35 to $52/Hr. DOE

Several factors are considered when extending an offer, including but not limited to, the role responsibilities, candidate's work experience, skills and education

This individual will perform Lead duties in the Tool-Room manufacturing machining area and coordinate the day-to-day operations of a group of employees. Leading and directing the team, assigning jobs, monitoring, reviewing progress, accuracy of work, directing efforts, and providing technical guidance on more complex issues. This individual will also be responsible for producing/machining work through the area. Candidate must be capable of sets-ups, operating, and adjustments of CNC Proto-Trak Mill machines as well as other manual toolroom equipment (mills, lathes, presses, saws..) Candidate must be capable of working from drawings, sketches, concepts with written and/or verbal instructions to support machining and fabrication of tools, dies, fixtures, and production parts. Able to read and interpret blueprints with a strong knowledge of GD&T to produce aerospace components from raw bars, castings, and forgings machined throughout the manufacturing process; utilizing CNC milling, turning, grinding, and assembly equipment. In addition, extensive materials knowledge of metals and measurement techniques used in aerospace manufacturing. Capable of making changes to established tooling to facilitate manufacturing improvements and/or changes to product. Lead currently reports to the Production Manufacturing Manager.

Key Accountabilities

• Fabrication of various types of fixtures. Study blueprints, sketches, models, or specifications to plan sequences of operations.
• Interact with management, manufacturing engineering, customer service and others as needed to satisfy customer demand and increase department efficiency.
• Maintains a culture of accountability.
• Ensure jobs are running as scheduled in work cell.
• Responsible for scheduling sequence of orders and the cell's work load.
• Completes set-ups and operates without assistance.
• Responsible for all phases of part operation set-up to achieve process first article acceptance.
• Conduct test runs with completed tools or dies to ensure parts meet specifications; make adjustments as necessary.
• Identify and recommend process improvements that reduce part quality variation.
• Continuously improve processes, procedures, and eliminate waste.
• Relies on experience and judgement to plan and accomplish goals.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Desirable Experience, Capabilities and Success Factors

• At least ten (10+) years experience with all phases CNC Proto-Trak CNC Mill, Conventional Mill and Lathe. CNC Lathe, Mill, and grinding experience is a plus.
• Prior fixture making experience.
• Firm Conventional manual support equipment experience (saws, presses, surface grinders).
• High School Diploma or equivalent.
• Strong aptitude in mathematics.
• Skilled in the use of indicator, gage, and plate inspection methods for fixture pick-up, first article and in-process inspection of precision machined parts.
• Ability to maintain close tolerances (within .0005") of ID's and OD's, roundness, concentricity, squareness.
• Understanding of machine tool accuracies, fixture offsets, and tool offsets.
• Knowledge of cutting tool feeds, speeds, and tool life for aerospace hard turning or milling.
• Ability to follow verbal instructions and interpret blue print and quality requirements.
• Ability to communicate with employees and levels of management in a positive manner.
• Ability to lift a maximum of 50 lbs (over 25 lbs with assistance).
• Ideal candidate will have experience with AS9100, 5S, Lean, and Six Sigma.

"Restrictions imposed by federal export control laws may limit this job opportunity to candidates who are a 'U.S. Person', which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. nationals, U.S. permanent residents, individuals granted asylum in the United States, and refugees in the United States.', or who otherwise can qualify for a license that permits them to hold the position.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Paid Leaves
• Tuition Assistance

About Regal Rexnord

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company's electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company's automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company's end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

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