Machinist III

About the role

Perform diversified general maintenance activities, at various levels of complexity, referring to blueprints and drawings for the machinery plan and perform the machining operations.

Responsibilities

• Set up and operate lathes, millers, shapers, grinders, planers and power drills
• Work from blueprints, sketches and verbal instructions
• Perform highly diversified machining operations, such as boring, turning, facing, reaming, grinding, milling and tapering
• Perform work on machined parts, forgings and castings, which are of varying degrees of complexity in mature and critically dimensioned
• Determine and maintain the proper operational sequences at all times, make all necessary mathematical calculations to complete the job
• Determine the appropriate feeds and speeds for all operations
• Check own work; Usually work to tolerance of +/- .00005
• Read and interpret complex blueprints and manufacture parts from a layout drawing without use of sketches or verbal instructions, making all necessary mathematical calculations to complete the job according to the drawing
• Bench work, including any necessary operations such as filing, de-burring, grinding, lapping, indexing, scraping and fitting, in order to complete mechanical assemblies from crude sketches, verbal instructions or work samples
• Check own work by making set-ups and interpret gauges, electro-limit gauges and size blocks
• Occasionally make decisions as to fits and tolerances
• Perform all the essential functions and competencies listed above
• Set-up, operate, alter, repair and plan own work
• Perform complex checking and interpret results of own work by setting up and operating instruments such as air gauges, electro-limit gauges and size blocks

Qualifications

• Usually work to tolerances of +/- .001 +/- .0005
• 6+ years of experience in complex machining operations; May include CNC programming
• 2 year technical degree (or apprenticeship certificate) preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience as approved by executive management
• High School Diploma or equivalent

Schedule

• Shift 3
• Friday - Sunday 5:00am-5:30pm
• Full Time

Location: Tempe, AZ - Southern Ave