Tool Room Helper
Hours: 3:30pm-2:00am Monday-Friday. 11:00am-5:00pm if there's Saturday work.
Position Summary:
The Tool Room Helper assists in lifting, moving, maintaining, and assembling tooling components. This role requires hands-on mechanical work, including cleaning, sharpening, and inspecting tooling to ensure it meets specifications. Must be interested in training to become a Machinist.
Key Responsibilities:- Lift, move, clamp, and bolt dies and fixtures on machines using hand tools.
- Lubricate, clean, and maintain tool room equipment.
- Assist in lifting and positioning workpieces.
- Clean machines and work areas.
- Inspect tools for wear and broken or non-functioning components.
- Compare workpieces with prints and measuring instruments to verify conformance to specifications.
- Place workpieces into heating furnaces or preheat workpieces using a hand torch.
- Disassemble and clean dies using cleaning solutions, brushes, and rags.
- Sharpen dies and punches.
- Reassemble tooling to proper functional status.
- Make shims to maintain existing or newly re-engineered timing of assembled tooling.
- Perform other customer-driven or product-driven duties as assigned by the Supervisor.
- In Training:
- Maintain a work log for tooling to develop maintenance and problem history.
- Diagnose problems concerning piece part or manufacturing capability of dies.
- Repair detail components (without replacement details available) for lathe, mill, grinder, drill press, and heat treat.
- Learn proper maintenance practices for tooling, including polishing, stoning, and redressing forms and contours.
- Operate specialized tool room equipment, including OD-ID grinder, CNC lathe, mills, jig grinder, and EDM as needed.
Education: High School Diploma or GED required.
Experience:
Minimum of 2 years of experience in a similar role.
Essential Skills:
Blueprint reading.
Knowledge of tool room equipment.
Strong mathematical skills.
Use of precision measuring instruments.
Preferred Skills:
Knowledge of metal properties and abrasives. Understanding of mechanical processes.
