Apprentice Toolmaker Jobs in Jackson, WI (NOW HIRING)

KMC Stampings is a premier metal fabricator offering engineering and tooling expertise driven by continuous improvement. With over 115 years in southeastern WI, we still offer a family feel with a safe environment focused on providing hands on training opportunities to all employees through a progressive training program. Employees can expand their knowledge of machinery, setups, tool and dies and even engineering. Come grow with KMC Stampings!

SUMMARY OF POSITION:

Plans, lays out, and performs all machine operations to sharpen, alter, and repair intricately designed and constructed tools, dies, fixtures, gauges, machine attachments, and mechanisms, requiring a high degree of skill and knowledge of tooling practice and application.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

This list of duties and responsibilities is not all-inclusive and may be expanded to include other duties and responsibilities, as management may deem necessary from time to time.

• Works from blueprints, sketches, models, specifications or other drawings to plan sequences for operations and machining, compute dimensions, etc.
• Verifies dimensions, alignments, and clearances of tools, dies, fixtures, and gauges using measuring instruments.
• Visualize and compute dimensions, sizes, shapes, and tolerances of assemblies, based on specifications.
• Set up and operate equipment such as lathes, milling machines, grinders, drill presses, and saws to cut, bore, grind, or otherwise shape parts to prescribed dimensions and finishes.
• Fit and assemble parts to make, repair, or modify dies, jigs, gauges, and tools, using machine tools and hand tools.
• Ability to effectively troubleshoot on deep draw tooling and progressive punch press dies on presses up to 600 tons.
• Inspect finished dies for smoothness, contour conformity, and defects.
• Design jigs, fixtures, and templates for use as work aids in the fabrication of parts or products.
• Smooth and polish flat and contoured surfaces of parts or tools, using files, power grinders, or scrapers.
• Perform test runs with completed tools or dies to ensure that parts meet specifications, when necessary.
• May assist in the development and designing of new tools and dies, using computer-aided design (CAD) software.
• Other duties as assigned or required.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or abilities required.

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) and Journeyman Tool & Die Status, as well 8-10 years of previous related experience (including apprenticeship hours); or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Previous experience in bench repair, including assembly, machinery, up-keep, layout, die repair, inspection, press troubleshooting design, quality control, die and/or fixture building, welding, and heat treating.
• Ability to read and understand blueprints, sketches, or computer-aided design (CAD) files.
• Possess good verbal and written communication skills as they pertain to dealing with and understanding tools, dies, and equipment malfunctions.

• Ability to perform basic shop mathematics; add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle or feel; frequently required to sit and talk or hear; occasionally required to stand, walk, reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this position include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an all-encompassing list of responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees so classified. Reasonable accommodations to essential functions of the job will be made if necessary.