Tool and Die Maker

Job Description

Boeing Commercial Airplanes is excited to offer opportunities for a Tool & Die Maker to join our Materials Management & Tooling team in Auburn and Everett, Washington
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In this hands-on position, you will be responsible for a variety of tasks, from interpreting blueprints and work orders to developing effective plans for tool fabrication and repair. Your skills will be essential in troubleshooting production challenges, operating advanced machinery, and ensuring that all tools meet stringent quality standards. Collaborating with cross-functional teams, you will also engage with customers and suppliers to address any functional issues, all while adhering to safety protocols and continuous improvement practices.

If you are passionate about precision engineering and ready to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment, we invite you to explore this exciting opportunity.

You will play a critical role in upholding our commitment to safety and quality standards, ensuring that all operations meet regulatory compliance and operational excellence. If you are detail-oriented, possess strong technical skills, and thrive in a collaborative environment, we invite you to apply and be a part of our mission to deliver excellence in aviation.

Position Responsibilities
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• Employees in this position are responsible for planning, laying out, fabricating, assembling, repairing, and maintaining tools. They should have experience in both conventional and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) and programming mills, lathes, grinding, polishing, fitting, etc.

• They should be able to perform all functions of tool fabrication, rework, and repair as required. Troubleshooting problems and developing plans to resolve production issues, including rebuilding and repairing hydraulic and vacuum fixtures.

• The ability to determine the sequence of and coordinate tool fabrication work is essential. They should be able to obtain appropriate tool drawings, specification documents, and/or sketches using computing systems if they are not provided with the work order.

• Studying specifications such as blueprints, sketches, models, or descriptions to determine materials required and machines to be used for fabricating parts and molds is necessary. They should also develop plans for accomplishing work in fabrication, maintenance, and repair of tools as required.

• The ability to use shop metrology equipment to reverse engineer.

• Coordinating planning or engineering change requests and routine maintenance work with other internal support groups is expected.

• This job involves fabricating and building various types of tooling with dies such as push-through, blanking, piercing, cut-off, forming, joggle, deep draw, and compound dies. Knowledge of machining theory, mechanical systems, welding, and assembly is required for layout.

• Reading and interpreting information from planning documents, drawings, tool orders, blueprints, sketches, specifications, engineering orders, and quality assurance manuals to determine the methods and sequence of operations necessary to fabricate and assemble tools, molds, jigs, dies, and fixtures is essential.

• Laying out details, dimensions, and tooling points of parts, tools, molds, jigs, dies, and fixtures using shop mathematics, geometry, and trigonometry is necessary. They should also be able to set up and operate hand tools and power machine tools.

• Fabricating, assembling, and inspecting a variety of molds, jigs, fixtures, tools, and dies to required configuration, dimensions, tolerances, and finish is expected. Checking work in progress and completed parts using precision measuring devices is also required.

• Recording manufacturing data and statistics manually or with the aid of a computer or computer-based system is necessary. Understanding tolerance stack-up and datum structures is important.

• Experience working with jigs, fixtures, inspection check fixtures, and tooling dies is required. A proven safety record and understanding of factory processes, safety rules, and requirements are essential. Excellent verbal and written communication skills are also necessary.

Physical Demands and Potential Hazards:

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