Tool & Model Maker
Core
Fabricates, repairs, and maintains high-precision tooling, specialized handling devices, and development models for new manufacturing technologies and equipment.
Role type
Tool & Model Maker
Builds
Manufacturing tooling, special production parts, prototype models, and test equipment components
Domain
Manufacturing / Precision Engineering
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Machining operations, blueprint reading, material selection, heat treat techniques, tolerance control, shop mathematics, mechanical drawing
Preferred skills
Associates degree, advanced shop mathematics, knowledge of metal and plastic properties
Technologies
Machine tools, specialized handling devices, mechanized tooling
Responsibilities
Construct, alter, repair, or maintain complex tooling and specialized machinery; work to .00002 tolerances; set up and operate machine tools to fabricate complex development hardware; determine methods and sequence of machining operations; assemble, adjust, and debug tooling/equipment; advise on design and build optimization for form, fit, function, and cost.
Seniority
Entry-level to Mid-level, hands-on IC