This position is located at the US MINT, Manufacturing, Production Maintenance Division, Philadelphia location and is 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 construct metal blanking dies. You will 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). Diagnose, dismantle and correct problems with machinery by making necessary repairs to return equipment to proper working order.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. 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. To meet the screen-out element, applicants must have: Experience fabricating jigs and fixtures and overhauling and repairing die sets under normal direction of a supervisor.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 Materials.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address Manufacturing Directorate - Philadelphia - Production Maintenance Division Administrative Resource Center Parkersburg, WV 26101 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-7300
• Email: [email protected]