Job Description
Job Description
Tool Grinder B
Location: Franklin Park, IL 60131, United States
Available Shift: 1st Shift - 5 AM - 1 PM CST
Must Haves:
- 3+ years of Tool Grinding experience
- 3+ years manual machining experience
- Experience with manual milling, including facing, boring, drilling, and tapping
- Experience with manual lathes, including turning, boring, and single-point threading
- Candidates must have reliable transportation
- Candidates must be open to overtime and working Saturdays
Pay: $24.74
Benefits: (For regular employees) Basic Accident Insurance, Basic Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance, Short-term Disability Insurance, Employee Assistance Program, and Health Advocate Services. (Waiting time for benefits: 60 days)
Job Type: Full-time
Expected Hours: No less than 40 per week
Schedule:
- 8-hr shift
- 6-hr Saturday Shift (Voluntary, not mandatory)
- Overtime
Career Level: Union
Eligibility: US Citizens, Permanent Residents ONLY
Relocation: Yes
Relocation Assistance: Not available
Client Details:
The company is a world-leading manufacturer of commercial plumbing systems and has been in operation since 1906.
Guide Questions for the Tool Grinder B role (pre-screening):
- Can you describe your experience working from blueprints, specifications, and piece parts? How do you ensure accuracy in your work?
- What types of grinding operations have you performed (e.g., surface grinding, circular grinding, ID grinding, CNC grinding)? Can you provide specific examples?
- How do you set up equipment for these operations, and what steps do you take to ensure precision?
- Can you explain your process for brazing materials and tools in preparation for grinding operations?
- What experience do you have with brazing and using an acetylene torch?
- What measurement tools do you use to determine the amount of material to be removed (e.g., micrometer, caliper, comparator, height gauge)?
- How do you check your work for conformance to specifications and maintain high finish requirements?
- Do you have experience with maintaining equipment, including cleaning, oiling, and changing worn wheels?
- What experience do you have with OD grinding, step drills, porting tools, shafts, and spindles?
- What specific grinding machines do you have experience with?
JOB PURPOSE:
The Tool Grinder B performs the duties of setting up and operating one or more grinders to perform a normal range of tool grinding operations.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work from blueprints, specifications, piece parts, and instructions. Braze materials and tools in preparation for grinding operations.
- Set up equipment to perform surface, drill pointing, broach, hob, and other similar grinding operations on steel and carbide cutters, reamers, dies, gauges, form tools, or special items.
- Plan sequence of operations, select the method of holding a workpiece and verify dimensions, tolerance, tooling, and grinding requirements.
- Select and dress wheels. Mount grinding wheels, set grind, rotation, and spindle speeds, feed rates, angle of the wheel, length of cycle or stroke, and depth of cut.
- Position blades, cams, diamonds, and stops. Measure the workpiece to determine the amount of material to be removed.
- Position on the table, face plate, or magnetic chuck in the fixture or chuck jaws or between centers of wheels.
- Start the machine, engage the automatic mechanism, direct the flow of coolant, observe operations and perform secondary operations to obtain high finish requirements.
- Obtain first-piece inspection approval.
- Make adjustments to ensure proper operations and check work for conformance to specifications.
- Place the workpiece in the designated location and maintain equipment; clean, oil, change worn wheels, and ensure that safety devices are operative.
- Provide assistance to other personnel as requested and notify the supervisor of unusual equipment or operating problems.
- Use measuring instruments such as micrometer, caliper, comparator, height gauge, band saw, various machine tools, and hand and power tools.
- Follow safety rules and keep the work area in clean and orderly condition.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- High School Diploma or GED
- 3+ years of manual machining experience
- Experience with manual milling, including facing, boring, drilling, and tapping
- Experience with manual lathes, including turning, boring, and single-point threading
- Experience using measurement tools such as caliper, micrometer, height gage, and optical comparator
- Skilled at blueprint reading, basic trigonometry, and other basic math skills
PHYSICAL AND VISUAL REQUIREMENTS, WORKING CONDITIONS
Physical Demands
- Occasionally 1-33%: Sit
- Occasionally 1-33%: Twist/Turn
- Occasionally 1-33%: Stoop/Bend
- Occasionally 1-33%: Push/Pull
- Occasionally 1-33%: Repetitive hand/wrist
- Occasionally 1-33%: Hand Movement - Fine Manipulation
- Occasionally 1-33%: Hand Movement - Gross Grasping
- Occasionally 1-33%: Hand Movement - Simple Grasping
- Occasionally 1-33%: Forearm Rotation
- Frequently 34% - 66%: Walk
- Continuously 67% - 100%: Stand
- Occasionally 1-33%: Lift / Carry 1-10 lbs.
- Occasionally 1-33%: Lift / Carry 11-25 lbs.
Visual Demands
- Continuously 67% - 100%: Close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less)
- Continuously 67% - 100%: Distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more)
Work Environment Hazards
- Occasionally 1-33%: Cold
- Occasionally 1-33%: Heat
- Occasionally 1-33%: Machine movement or vibration
- Continuously 67% - 100%: Loud noise, constant or periodic