NY Tool and Die Maker

The Tool and Die Maker has a Journeymen license or has completed a formal apprenticeship program. The Tool and Die Maker builds, repairs, and maintains: dies, fixtures, and all other tooling in conformance to customer and/or company specifications per control plans.

Requirements

• Conducts test runs with completed tools or dies to ensure that parts meet specifications; makes adjustments as necessary.
• Cuts, shapes, and trims blanks or blocks to specified lengths or shapes, using power saws, power shears, rules and hand tools.
• Files, grinds, shims, and adjusts different parts to properly fit them together.
• Fits and assembles parts to make, repair, or modify dies, jigs, gauges, and tools, using machine tools and hand tools.
• Inspects finished dies for smoothness, contour conformity, and defects.
• Lifts, positions, and secures machined parts on surface plates or worktables, using hoists, vises, v-blocks, or angle plates.
• Measures, marks, and scribes’ metal or plastic stock to lay out machining, using instruments such as protractors, micrometers, scribes, and rulers.
• Selects metals to be used from a range of metals and alloys, based on properties such as hardness and heat tolerance.
• Sets up and operates conventional or computer numerically controlled machine tools such as lathes, milling machines, and grinders to cut, bore, grind, or otherwise shape parts to prescribed dimensions and finishes.
• Sets up and operate drill presses to drill and tap holes in parts for assembly.
• Smooths and polishes flat and contoured surfaces of parts or tools, using scrapers, abrasive stones, files, emery cloths, or power grinders.
• Studies blueprints, sketches, models, or specifications to plan sequences of operations for fabricating tools, dies, or assemblies.
• Verifies dimensions, alignments, and clearances of finished parts for conformance to specifications, using measuring instruments such as calipers, gauge blocks, micrometers, and dial indicators.
• Visualizes and computes dimensions, sizes, shapes, and tolerances of assemblies, based on specifications.
• Casts plastic tools or parts, or tungsten-carbide cutting tips, using pre-made molds.
• Designs jigs, fixtures, and templates for use as work aids in the fabrication of parts or products.
• Develops and designs new tools and dies, using computer-aided design software.
• Sets pyrometer controls of heat-treating furnaces, and feed or place parts, tools, or assemblies into furnaces to harden.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Visa Sponsorship
• Four Day Work Week
• Generous Parental Leave
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Relocation Assistance