Machinist III

Job Highlights

Company Profile

Amentum is a premier global leader in designing, engineering, managing, and modernizing critical systems and programs of national significance across defense, security, intelligence, energy, and the environment.

Job Profile

The company is looking for a Machinist III who will manufacture mechanical prototypes and engineering models from sketches and conversations with Engineers and Technicians.

Work in various materials, including metal, wood, plastics, nylon, composites, etc.

Work with little or no direction from engineers. to develop and machine components.

Education Level

• High School Diploma or GED

Work Experience

• Possess work-related experience (a plus)

Duties/Responsibilities

• Works from prints, complex drawings, sketches, or samples to accomplish layout and plan for sequential machine operations.
• Works with a variety of metals and materials having difficult machining characteristics.
• Operates various hand and power tools to perform the fabrication process to include band saws, drill presses, mechanical sheers, and punches.
• Under minimum supervision, plans and performs difficult machine operations involving tooling and machining details using cylindrical and surface grinders, turrets, engine lathes, milling machines, and shapers.
• Directs and coordinates the work of lower-level machinists.
• Writes programs using Mastercam from blueprints and drawings to develop numerical code to operate CNC machinery assigning tool paths, feed rates, and other cutting parameters.
• Imports numerical code to machine and performs setup and operation function to the machine component.
• May work independently from drawings applying technical knowledge

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Must possess or be eligible to obtain a Secret clearance

Employer’s Statement

Amentum is an Equal Opportunity Employer. The company provides equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law.