Essential Duties:

• Studies sample parts, blueprints, drawings, and engineering information to determine methods and sequence of operations to fabricate product.

• Operates metalworking machine tools to machine parts to specifications.

• Fabricates, assembles, and modifies tooling to produce parts and assemblies.

• Lays out and verifies dimensions of parts, using precision measuring and marking instruments and knowledge of trigonometry.

• Calculates and sets controls to regulate machining, or enters commands to retrieve, input, or edit computerized machine control media.

• Selects, aligns, and secures holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, and materials onto machines.

• Measures, examines, and tests completed units to detect defects and ensure conformance to specifications utilizing the latest measurement equipment and other inspection technologies.

• Observes and listens to operating machines or equipment to diagnose machine malfunction and determine need for adjustment or repair.

• Cuts and shapes metal to specified shape.

• Establishes work procedures for fabricating new structural products, using a variety of metalworking machines.

• Confers with engineering, supervisory, and manufacturing personnel to exchange technical information.

• Completes certified welding requirements as needed.