Overview

Tool / Die Maker III Tool / Die Maker III Mason welcomes people who share our determination and high standards to join us in doing work that moves the world forward. We design, manufacture, and market highly engineered products and systems principally for the aerospace and defense markets. Mason, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Transdigm, offers world-class control devices and subsystems - such as control grips, throttles, HaWC controllers, and communications interfaces - for today's advanced cockpits, military vehicles, and other specialized applications. Our solutions fall into two broad categories: control products and components. Title: Tool Maker Job Family: Production Reports to: Manufacturing Manager FLSA Status Non exempt EEOC Class: Craft Worker Summary This is a highly skilled trade category in the Toolroom. Operates conventional lathes, mills, grinders, and electrical discharge machine (EDM), and complex CNC machines to achieve extremely close tolerances. Prepares work for, and is involved in programming EDM and CNC machines. Plans, develops and constructs highly intricate tools, dies, jigs, fixtures and gauges to required tolerances. Assist with the Mold Department supervisors on complicated setups and adjustments for production issues to optimize the process and help with F.A.I. Recommends materials and applications to Mfg. & Design Engineering including, but not limited to, D.F.M. and D.F.A., with the Value Stream Manufacturing Engineers Can work from SolidWorks models, program in Mastercam, follow verbal instructions, and interpret sketches and drawings on engineering development and production programs. This position is primarily based inside the NPI - Toolroom but, will fully support production and any other assignments deemed necessary by management supervision. This position will work first shift from 7:00am - 3:30pm. Position Duties Essential functions of the position include, but are not limited to: Determines and executes methods and sequences necessary to fabricate and repair production tooling such as dies, fixtures and transfer and injection molds to ensure compliance with our customer and company specifications and quality requirements. Perform die work involves sharpening dies, dimensionally adjusting, making changeovers, and fabricating new punches or new die block sections either in-part or in their entirety. Establishes build and repair routine as required, recording produced values and variances for engineering requirements. Perform mold work involves changing over cores and cavities of family-type molds, fabricating new or repairing old cores and/or cavities, replacing ejector pins, replacing core pins, all in part or in their entirety. Fixture work involves constructing or repairing various fixtures, e.g. mill, drill, soldering, ultrasonic and assembly fixtures either in-part or in their entirety. Improvise or adapt all tooling as needed to provide engineering data gathering and exporting data to other formats. Manufacture first run and production run parts where manufacturing tools are not available and special inspection tools are required. Understands tool steel heat treating processes of various types. Understand and may be required to set-up and operate the wire and sinker EDM machines. Maintain the highest ethical standards, even when challenged from above Understand and live by Mason's ethics and business conduct policies Perform related work requiring equal or lesser skill. Documents general data as related to daily work performed such as requesting perishable tooling, shop math, work assignment activity in our system. Other duties: Understand and live by ethics and business conduct policies Perform related work requiring equal or lesser skill. Documents general data as related to daily work performed such as requesting perishable tooling, shop math, work assignment activity in our system. Required Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able