MACHINIST (Title 32)
Navstar Inc., Groton, CT, United States
Job Title
The purpose of this position is to support the AVCRAD maintenance activities ensuring aircraft of the region are ready and available to support Federal and State missions. In addition, the AVCRAD performs National Maintenance Program (NMP) repair of rotary wing aircraft and components, limited depot airframe repair, aircraft painting, major airframe repair, depot-level component repair, and component repair and management, as directed by Army Materiel Command (AMC), and prioritized by the National Guard Bureau (NGB).
Job Description
Major duties include, but are not limited to:
Performs a variety of machine operations to manufacture, modify, and repair aircraft parts, support equipment, tools, and assemblies. Fabricates local manufactured items required for aircraft components.
Sets up and operates machine tools such as lathes, vertical and horizontal boring mills, bench, plain, or universal milling machines, shapers, planers, internal and external grinders, jig borers, jig grinders, and radial drills.
Plans and lays out work.
Conducts training for lower graded machinists, and traditional drilling service members assigned to the shop.
Fabricates local manufactured items required for aircraft components.
Working conditions include performing work inside in areas that are usually noisy and dirty, with constant danger to the skin and eyes from flying metal chips and abrasive particles; skin irritation from contact with coolants, lubricants, and abrasive compounds; danger to fingers, hands, and other parts of the body from cutting tools, grinding wheels, rotating pieces, and moving parts of machines. The work requires standing, stooping, bending, and reaching. Grade 8 operators frequently handle, lift, and carry objects weighing up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds). They are sometimes required to lift and move items weighing in excess of 23 kilograms (50 pounds) with the help of weight handling equipment or with assistance from other workers.
Requirements include:
National Guard Membership is required.
Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation.
Must meet Compatible Military Assignment within one year from placement.
Wear of the military uniform is mandatory.
Direct Deposit is mandatory.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance.
Must possess a valid state drivers license.
Qualifications include general experience and specialized experience in machining processes, planning and lay out work, applying shop mathematics, programming machining operations, setting up machines to machine unusual or compound angles, knowledge of the effect and relationship of heat-treating, annealing, plating, welding, and other related work processes on various machining operations, knowledge of all aspects of the machining operation as well as extensive knowledge of related trades in order to resolve problems concerning complex machining operations or procedures and to suggest more efficient or economic machining processes where necessary, knowledge of a wide range of welding operations, shop operations, equipment capability, metals/alloys (aluminum, titanium, thorium magnesium and other metals), measurement tools, and instruments, knowledge of related trades in order to resolve problems concerning problems of complex machining operations.
The purpose of this position is to support the AVCRAD maintenance activities ensuring aircraft of the region are ready and available to support Federal and State missions. In addition, the AVCRAD performs National Maintenance Program (NMP) repair of rotary wing aircraft and components, limited depot airframe repair, aircraft painting, major airframe repair, depot-level component repair, and component repair and management, as directed by Army Materiel Command (AMC), and prioritized by the National Guard Bureau (NGB).
Job Description
Major duties include, but are not limited to:
Performs a variety of machine operations to manufacture, modify, and repair aircraft parts, support equipment, tools, and assemblies. Fabricates local manufactured items required for aircraft components.
Sets up and operates machine tools such as lathes, vertical and horizontal boring mills, bench, plain, or universal milling machines, shapers, planers, internal and external grinders, jig borers, jig grinders, and radial drills.
Plans and lays out work.
Conducts training for lower graded machinists, and traditional drilling service members assigned to the shop.
Fabricates local manufactured items required for aircraft components.
Working conditions include performing work inside in areas that are usually noisy and dirty, with constant danger to the skin and eyes from flying metal chips and abrasive particles; skin irritation from contact with coolants, lubricants, and abrasive compounds; danger to fingers, hands, and other parts of the body from cutting tools, grinding wheels, rotating pieces, and moving parts of machines. The work requires standing, stooping, bending, and reaching. Grade 8 operators frequently handle, lift, and carry objects weighing up to 18 kilograms (40 pounds). They are sometimes required to lift and move items weighing in excess of 23 kilograms (50 pounds) with the help of weight handling equipment or with assistance from other workers.
Requirements include:
National Guard Membership is required.
Males born after 31 December 1959 must be registered for Selective Service.
Federal employment suitability as determined by a background investigation.
Must meet Compatible Military Assignment within one year from placement.
Wear of the military uniform is mandatory.
Direct Deposit is mandatory.
Must be able to obtain and maintain a secret security clearance.
Must possess a valid state drivers license.
Qualifications include general experience and specialized experience in machining processes, planning and lay out work, applying shop mathematics, programming machining operations, setting up machines to machine unusual or compound angles, knowledge of the effect and relationship of heat-treating, annealing, plating, welding, and other related work processes on various machining operations, knowledge of all aspects of the machining operation as well as extensive knowledge of related trades in order to resolve problems concerning complex machining operations or procedures and to suggest more efficient or economic machining processes where necessary, knowledge of a wide range of welding operations, shop operations, equipment capability, metals/alloys (aluminum, titanium, thorium magnesium and other metals), measurement tools, and instruments, knowledge of related trades in order to resolve problems concerning problems of complex machining operations.