Machinist A at The Timken Company in Union, South Carolina

Job Description:

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If you're ready for a challenging career that provides you with the ability to advance personally and professionally, look to Timken. Our associates make the world more productive by improving the efficiency and reliability of the machinery that keeps industry in motion.

Job Description:

Sets up and operates conventional, specific purpose, manual milling machines, lathes, and grinders to fabricate metallic parts. Essential duties and responsibilities include the following:

• Studies blueprints, sketches, drawings, manuals, specifications, documents, or sample part to determine dimensions and tolerances of finished work piece, sequence of operations, and setup requirements.
• Measures, marks, and scribes dimensions and reference points on material or work piece as guides for subsequent machining and all other bench-type work.
• Selects, aligns, and secures holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, and materials on machines such as mills, lathes and grinders.
• Calculates and sets controls to regulate machining factors such as speed, feed, coolant flow, and depth and angle of cut on all machines. Machines are manual type.
• Starts and observes machine operations to detect malfunctions or out-of-tolerance machining or grinding and adjusts machine controls as required.
• Verifies conformance of finished work piece to specifications using calipers, micrometers, indicators, optical comparators, etc.
• Sets up and operates machine to verify accuracy of machine settings before making final cuts. Installs machined replacement parts in mechanisms, machines, and equipment, and tests operation of unit to ensure functionality and performance.
• Sets up and uses Elox machine to remove broken taps, drills or other damaged tooling.
• Develops specifications from general description and draws sketch of part or product to be fabricated.
• Confers with engineers, production personnel, programmers, technical personnel, or others to resolve machining or assembly problems.
• Performs other duties as deemed necessary to help the plant achieve goals and objectives.

Minimum Requirements:

1) Associates Degree in Machine Tool Technology.

2) Ability to use complicated drawings.

3) Ability to do advanced mathematics and handbook formulae.

4) Ability to use complicated measuring tools.

5) Requires a thorough knowledge of mechanical and/or electrical principles.

6) Must be willing to work any shift and over-time.

Preferred Requirements:

1) 3 years minimum Machinist experience.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Join one of the World's Most Ethical Companies® - an honor we've received ten times.

The Timken Company designs a growing portfolio of engineered bearings and power transmission products that improve the reliability and efficiency of global machinery and equipment to move the world forward. Timken posted $3.8 billion in sales in 2019 and employs more than 17,000 people globally, operating from 42 countries.
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