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Tool & Model Maker

USA, IL, Buffalo Grove💼 Full-time💰 $27–$27🗓 2026-07-27 → 2026-09-26

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

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