Tool Maker

Job Highlights

Company Profile

L3Harris Technologies is an agile global aerospace and defense technology innovator, delivering end-to-end solutions. The company provides advanced defense and commercial technologies across space, air, land, sea, and cyber domains.

Job Profile

The company is hiring a Tool Maker who will be responsible for fabricating, assembling, and modifying a wide variety of tools, fixtures, molds, and components.

Required tasks will include additive and subtractive manufacturing of tight tolerance, mission-critical parts.

Required to be fully autonomous within the machine shop and will work closely with Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, and other Manufacturing Functional Areas to develop components and tooling using new designs or processes.

Education Level

• High School Diploma or equivalent and a minimum of 6 years of prior relevant experience
• 2 years post-Secondary/Associates Degree with a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience

Work Experience

• Minimum 6 years of experience with reading and interpreting blueprints, schematics, and drawings. Knowledge of GD&T.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in reading, editing, and modifying G-code for CNC programming.
• Minimum 6 years of experience with CAD/CAM software.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Ability to seize, grasp, turn, hold, and operate manufacturing tools and equipment.
• Develops machining processes by analyzing blueprints, sketches, models, and engineering specifications to fabricate and modify parts, tooling, fixtures, etc.
• Identifies and corrects conditions that affect employee safety; upholding corporate safety standards
• Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying 25-50 pounds regularly.
• Monitors and verifies the quality of the finished product. Measures parts with various inspection tooling such as micrometers, calipers, etc. to verify dimensions
• Operates various manual machining, sheet metal equipment, and welding equipment
• Programs, sets up, and operates Mazak 5-axis CNC Machines with tolerances of 0.0005”
• Programs, sets up and operates Stratasys 450 3D printer
• Provides rough estimate of hours for products based on engineering drawings or sketches
• Recommends updates for existing processes and reviews drawings in support of engineering
• Reviews machining tools for obvious signs of wear; performs maintenance, rework, or repair of equipment as required
• Selects machine control speeds, feeds, and paths of cut based on machine operation, selected cutting tool, and machining characteristics of material
• Walking, bending, sitting, standing, climbing, and reaching for prolonged periods regularly.
• Willingness and ability to comply with all applicable PPE requirements (respirators, safety glasses, gloves, etc.).
• Willingness and ability to work in a manufacturing environment with regular exposure to moving mechanical parts, dust, fumes, chemicals, and loud noises.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

Preferred Skills-

• Active Secret clearance is desired but not required
• Aerospace or Defense industry experience
• Experience in material selection
• Experience with MasterCam and MAZAK machining centers
• Experience working in an environment that implements ESD and FOD controls
• Experience working in an environment that implements lean practices
• MIG or TIG welding experience

Benefits/Perks

Health-

• Medical with High Deductible and traditional PPO plan options, as well as, vision and a full array of supplemental health benefits
• A doctor’s service to help with referrals and second opinions for you, your family, and your parents

Family-

• 4 weeks of paid parental leave for moms and dads
• Fertility treatment
• Subsidized backup childcare and eldercare
• Adoption assistance – $5,000 per adoption/$15,000 per employee
• Pet insurance

Well-Being-

• No cap to your PTO time (for exempt employees)
• Dress for your day – wear what works for you at work
• Legal plan for you, your family, and your parents
• Discount platform
• 9/80 work schedule available for most U.S. employees

Employer’s Statement

L3Harris Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or other related medical conditions), gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, characteristic or membership in any other group protected by federal, state or local laws.