Operates and adjust work cell to perform diversified operations on complicated short run and/or long run repetitive work having close and exacting tolerance and finish specifications involving multi-tooled set-ups.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Plans operational sequences; tooling, tools arrangement and clearances, and settings for standardized, for new or unusual work according to layouts & blueprints.
- Adapts and improvises standard tooling, attachments to perform specialized work or variations on parts and does tooling off-sets.
- Grinds or prescribes grinding for standard or special tooling to suit materials or unusual cutting conditions.
- Installs collets, sets tooling in holders, sets tooling stops, and indexing mechanisms operating travel and tool feed rates.
- Sets feed mechanisms and stops to perform operations such as face, form, drill, ream, bore, tap, up to the capacity of the machines.
- Uses drills, reamers, undercut tools, recessing tools, and calipers.
- Monitors steel degree of hardness.
- Monitors hydraulic and cooling fluid levels.
- Maintains machinery through periodic cleaning and oiling.
- Creates pre-set tooling.
- Diagnoses machine malfunctions and operating difficulties which cause deviations and then make corrective adjustments.
- Other duties may be assigned to meet the needs of the business.
