Prototype Tool/Die Machinist

Job Highlights

Company Profile

Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and leading provider of commercial airplanes, defense, space, and security systems, and global services.

Job Profile

The company is looking for a Prototype Tool/Die Machinist who will manage the company’s major commercial and government satellite and ground programs for communications, national defense, and other missions.

Education Level

• High School Diploma (credible)

Work Experience

• Minimum 5 years of experience programming G and M codes
• Minimum 10 years of experience setting up and operating CNC Mills and Lathes
• EDM Wire experience (preferred)
• Conventional machining experience (preferred)

License/Certification

• Machinist Apprenticeship program graduate or completed a Machining Certificate

Duties/Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and fabricate holding fixtures and electrodes for Electrical Discharge Machines, and operate to produce components to precise tolerances.
• Develop a sequence of operations and methods, working with supervision and engineering personnel on design problems, heat treating, material used, and the development of methods or procedures.
• Layout complex parts for the project and make necessary complex calculations requiring extensive use of shop mathematics.
• Perform rework of the same nature of difficulty, along with incidental related duties as assigned. Check completed details for tolerance and quality requirements. Assist toolmakers in making electrodes and fixtures.
• Plan sequence of operations and methods to completely lay out and set up work for the entire project, including temporary tooling and production aids, where a thorough knowledge of finishes and machining characteristics of newer types of plastics, metals, and laboratory machine shop theory is utilized. Determine electrode material configuration and sizes; overcut and tool wear ratios.
• Prove out linear, radial, and chord dimensions through the use of geometry and trigonometry to solve interrelated dimensions in more than one plane on both the electrode and the part.
• Responsible for an assigned major experimental, developmental or other project which requires the planning, lay-out, set-up and operation of all types of machine tools to perform laboratory machining operations requiring the highest level of skill and job knowledge to precise tolerances Plan, construct, modify, repair and maintain complete high precision and costly tools, dies, jigs, and fixtures of extremely complicated and unusual design.
• Set up and operate all tool room machines, including grinding machines, mounting attachments, setting tools, and conventional machine shop equipment required to produce electrodes and components, or to establish operating procedures.
• Set up and operate the electrical discharge machine to produce delicate and intricate components made of special, non-machineable, or exotic materials. Determine machine settings, calculate, and adjust condenser values, flow, and suction requirements of dielectric oil.
• Work from verbal and written instructions, engineering drawings, part-prints, sketches, blueprints, and rough sketches, where a normal operating assignment involves a general outline of an experimental or developmental project in which the full complement of machine tools must be utilized to carry the assignment to completion.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Blueprint and CAD interpretation
• CNC and manual lathe/mill skills
• Precision machining expert
• Prototype part development
• Tool and die fabrication

Work Environment

• Exposure to noise and metals
• Precision, fast-paced work
• Shop floor environment
• Standing for long periods
• Use of safety gear is required

Benefits/Perks

• The company provides a variety of benefit programs, generally including health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

Employer’s Statement

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer.