Position Title: Tool & Die Maker - 1st Shift

Wage: $28.00 - $34.00/hour

Shift: 1st

QPS Employment Group is hiring for a Tool & Die Maker at a company in Fredonia, WI. If you're looking for a great company to learn and grow with, this is your opportunity. Apply now!

Tool & Die Maker Responsibilities:
- Plan, lay out and perform machine operations to sharpen, alter and repair intricately designed and constructed tools, dies, fixtures, gauges, machine attachments, and mechanisms
- Work from blueprints, sketches, models, specifications or other drawings to plan sequences for operations and machining, compute dimensions, etc.
- Verify 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
- 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
- Assist in the development and designing of new tools and dies, using computer-aided design (CAD) software

Requirements for Tool & Die Maker:
- High school Diploma or GED and Journeyman Tool & Die Status with 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
- Able to read and understand blueprints, sketches or computer-aided design (CAD) files
- Good communication skills
- Basic shop mathematics with ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals
- Able to lift up to 50lbs

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Branch: Brown Deer WI

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