Job opening: Toolmaker
Salary: $35 - 41 per hour
Published at: Nov 06 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
Please limit your resume to 5 pages. If more than 5 pages are submitted, only the first 5 pages will be reviewed to determine your eligibility/qualifications.
About the Position: This recruitment is for a permanent Toolmaker located at the Tooele Army Depot, Ammunition Equipment Directorate.
This is a Public Notice for positions being filled under the Direct Hiring Authority (DHA) for Domestic Defense Industrial Base Facilities and Major Range and Test Facilities Base, NDAA 1125 (a) and (c).
Duties
Construct, repair, maintain, and calibrate tools, jigs, fixtures, dies, punches, and gauges.
Design, experiment, develop, manufacture modify, and/or shop test prototype and pilot models of ammunition tools, machines, and gages used for renovation, demilitarization, demolition etc.
Operate all types of machine tools involving close tolerances, such as bench work to .0001 inch.
Perform design and experimentation work in the development of new or modification of existing ammunition machines.
Interpret work orders, drawings, and blueprints; and recommends correction of drawings when necessary.
Determine machines to be used, establishes machine feeds and speeds, sets up and operates all types of machine tools.
Perform cutting, turning, drilling, boring, reaming, tapping, shaping, grinding, lapping, and finishing operations, involving tolerances from .005 to .0001 inch.
Perform related bench work or fitting and assembling parts to produce end items or close tolerances with fine, smooth finishes.
Requirements
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: US Citizens
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
There is no specific length of training or experience required. However, you must be able to demonstrate, through experience shown in your written application materials that you possess the sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision.
Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of an Toolmaker without more than normal supervision. Theses duties or tasks include: Programming, setting up and operating machines of the machinist trade, i.e., internal and external grinders, tool and cutter grinders, milling machines, lathes, shapers, and profile grinders; to include material selection and machining to very close tolerances.
- Failure to meet this Screen Out Element will result in an ineligible rating.
Ability To Do The Work Of The Position Without More Than Normal Supervision Screen OutAbility To Use Hand Tools for Machine ShopAbility To Use Shop DrawingsKnowledge of MetalsMeasurement and LayoutOperation of Machine ToolsTechnical Practices (theoretical, precise, artistic)
PHYSICAL EFFORT: Work requires continuous standing on concrete floors, moderate physical effort in setting up machines, and considerable stooping, reaching, lifting and handling of tools and instruments.
WORKING CONDITIONS: Works indoors in a well lighted and heated shop, subject to dust, dirt and fumes, and possible danger to eyes and skin from flying hot metal chips, to lungs from grinding dust, and to fingers and hands from moving and positioning machine attachments, stock metal, part, etc.
Education
This job does not have an education qualification requirement.
Contacts
- Address GL-W0MMAA TOOELE ARMY DEPOT
DO NOT MAIL
Tooele, UT 84074
US
- Name: Army Applicant Help Desk
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