Tool Maker C

Tool Maker C 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 seeking a Tool Maker C who will construct, repair, and maintain tooling fabricated from all types of material including jigs, fixtures, templates, plastic tools, and others that are used in the manufacture, assembly, and handling of airplane parts and components. It is a large, diverse job with many different skill requirements.

Education Level

• High School Graduate or GED (preferred)

Work Experience

• Experience in any of the following hand-operated and floor-mounted power tools: Grinders, Cut Off Tools, Disc Sanders, Drill motors, Band Saw, Drill Press, and Punching Machines.
• Experience reading and interpreting assembly instructions or drawings.
• Experience using hand-operated power tools.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Climbing stairs and working from ladders/lifts as required.
• Coordinate, communicate, and work with customers, suppliers, and associates regarding job tasks including shift-to-shift written/verbal tie-ins, documenting, and maintaining adequate records.
• Ensure tools and parts meet engineering requirements, specifications, and tolerances for dimension, shape, contour, location, and coordination.
• Exposure to aluminum, titanium, magnesium, steel, exotic alloys, plastics, tungsten carbide, cobalt, sawdust, composites, milled fiber, fiberglass, and other airborne contaminants.
• Exposure to noise and moving parts.
• Exposure to solvents, resins, lubricants, cutting coolants, and fluids.
• Frequent walking, reaching, handling, grasping, and turning/twisting.
• Identify and select appropriate equipment, tools, and materials used in the fabrication, maintenance, and rework of tools.
• Occasional use of low-impact tools, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and squatting.
• Plan, sequence, and layout own work operations in the fabrication, assembly, repair, rework, routine, and maintenance of all tool types and materials, including prototype or automated tool control systems.
• Processes include: cutting, grinding, spotting, hand finish, shaping, bending, deburring, drilling, model layout, reaming, tapping, wiring, lay-up, plumbing, pneumatics, and weld preparation using documented processes and procedures.
• Provide Tooling support to manufacturing as required, including Production Assist, Tooling Assist, and Ship Side support.
• Report discrepancies in design or fabrication and initiate corrections as required.
• Requires lifting, pushing, and pulling up to 35 lbs.
• Use all types of power and non-power equipment, both hand-held and floor-mounted to accomplish work assignments or operations.
• Use and interpret tool and engineering drawings, blueprints, sketches, production parts, computing systems, and verbal or written instructions to accomplish assignments.
• Use any and all required precision measuring instruments and methods necessary to complete and check your own work assignment.
• Use eye, hearing, foot, hand, respirator, and other personal protective equipment as required.
• Utilize or interpret 3D measurement and analysis systems and software; such as Laser Trackers, Photogrammetry, Laser Radar, etc., and conventional optics.

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Must be capable of working any shift.
• Experience working with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

Union

• Current Boeing employees working in Puget Sound and Portland must submit an Employee Request Transfer (ERT) to be considered in the eligible candidate pool. Resumes of current Puget Sound Boeing employees submitted via Careers at Boeing will not be considered.
• This hourly position is governed by the International Association of Machinists (IAM-751) Collective Bargaining agreement.

Benefits/Perks

• The benefit programs include health insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance programs, and several programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

Employer’s Statement

Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All the decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status, or other characteristics protected by law.