Job opening: Toolmaker
Salary: $34 - 40 per hour
Published at: Jan 18 2024
Employment Type: Multiple Schedules
This position is located in the US Mint in the Production Maintenance Division - Manufacturing in Philadelphia, PA. As a Toolmaker, you will be responsible for the fabrication and repair of jigs, fixtures, special tooling, and blanking dies required in the machine shop and production operations.
Duties
As a Toolmaker, you will:
Fabricate jigs, fixtures, and special tooling, and constructs metal blanking dies.
Maintain carbide and tool steel dies for domestic and foreign coinage and medal dies-by repairing and regrinding
Set up and operate a variety of machine tools working to very close tolerances (i.e., turret and engine lathes, milling machines, surface grinders, external and internal cylindrical grinders, planners, shapers, drill presses, jig boring machines, horizontal boring machines, jig grinder,radial and bench drill presses and other related shop equipment)
Plan and lay out work according to blueprints, sketches, specifications, or samples to exact and very close tolerances (0.0001)
Heat treat tool steel items by hardening and tempering to specified hardness.
Use precision instruments such as optical comparator, vernier calipers, micrometers, Johannson blocks and dial bore gauges
Qualifications
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
You must meet the screen-out element Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision, normally addressed at the beginning of the online questions. In addition, you must also obtain an average score of two (2) for the following elements for this position as addressed through the online question in order to be considered minimally qualified. Your application will be evaluated in the following areas: Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision (screen-out), Operation of Machine Tools, Technical Practices (theoretical, precise, artistic),Ability To Use Shop Drawings, Measurement and Layout and Knowledge of Metals.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Contacts
- Address Philadelphia Mint-MANUFACTURING DEPT/Plant Mgr PA/OFFICE OF ADMIN/Production Maint Div
Administrative Resource Center
Parkersburg, WV 26101
US
- Name: Applicant Call Center
- Phone: 304-480-7300
- Email: [email protected]
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