Job Description:

• 1) Lays out, machines, fits, and assembles metal parts to fabricate electronic dies used to form plastic products, working from blueprints or drawings and using milling machine, tools, and precision instruments: Studies blueprints, drawings, and specifications to plan machine operations applying knowledge of metal properties and machine shop math.

• 2) Selects and positions brass or steel stock on milling table, by hand or using hoist.

• 3) Sets up and operates milling machine to machine channels of specified width and depth in stock to form electrodes.

• 4) Measures, marks, and cuts electrodes to specified sizes, using rule, scribe, and cutoff knife.

• 5) Sets aside electrodes for further processing by other workers.

• 6) Positions completed electrodes on die board template to locate reference points for lugs and die parts, and marks reference points, using hammer and punch.

• 7) Drills and taps holes in aluminum plate that serves as base for die, using power drill with tapping attachment, and mounts dies to base with screws, using screwdriver.

• 8) Operates milling machine to reduce electrode altitude from die bottom to top of electrodes, working to tolerances of plus or minus.

• 9) 001 inch.

• 10) Measures dies to verify conformance to specifications, using vernier gauge, micrometer, and ruler.