Tool & Die Maker

Walker Tool & Die, Inc. • Full-time • Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States • 2d ago

Walker Tool & Die, Inc., a family owned business for over 60 years, known for quality work and superior customer service, is seeking experienced tool and die makers.

All shifts have available openings

Qualified candidates must have proven build/assembly and tryout skills in progressive, line and/or transfer dies. They must be a team player, reliable, and responsive to change and direction.

Walker Tool & Die offers competitive wages and a great medical insurance plan along with dental insurance, company paid life insurance and short and long term disability insurance.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities of Tool & Die Makers include the following:

Is consistently at work and on time; ensures work responsibilities are covered when absent. Arrives at meetings and appointments on time.
Carefully observes safety procedures, uses equipment properly, and reports unsafe working conditions.
Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner; gathers and analyzes information skillfully; develops alternative solutions; works well in group problem solving situations.
Looks for ways to improve and promote quality; demonstrates accuracy and thoroughness.
Studies specifications such as computer aided designs, part data, machine prints, models, and descriptions used to fabricate individual details.
Working from engineered designs, the die maker computes dimensions, plans layout, and determines assembly method and sequence of operations.
Sets up and operates machine tools such as lathes, milling machine, and grinder, to machine individual details, and verifies conformance of machined details to specifications.
Verifies dimensions, alignments, and clearances.
Completes other tasks as needed in order to build conforming and functioning tools and dies.
Tests completed tools and dies to ensure that they meet both Walker and customer specifications.
Class A experience a plus.

Walker Tool & Die is an Equal Opportunity Employer

Job Type: Full-time

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