Tool and Die Maker - 1st Shift

Shift: Monday - Friday, 6:00 AM - 2:30 PM

Summary: Plans, designs, and constructs, or repairs a wide variety of highly intricate and complicated

tools, dies, gauges, fixtures, to extremely close tolerances.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

Constructs tools where a design is or isn't available

Select allowances and devises mechanism detail

Highly skilled fitting, adjusting, and timing

Performs any tool room machine operation

Works from complicated drawing and sketches

Uses advanced shop mathematics and all types of precision measuring instruments

Do skilled fitting, timing, and adjusting

Supervises die construction and/or completes tool making operations, together with related maintenance

Education and/or Experience:

One-year certification from trade school; or three to six months related experience and/or training; or

equivalent combination of education and experience. 8+ years tool room experience.         

Requirements

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee tosuccessfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is occasionally required to sit. The employee must regularly lift and /or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision and depth perception.  

THE G.A. RICHARDS GROUP

The G. A. Richards Group consists of several Michigan-based operations that each engineer and build components for various global manufacturers. With 100 years of experience, we compete across the general industrial and office furniture market. We provide the necessary input to our customers that optimizes component design for our manufacturing processes.