Tool and Die Maker- 76010

at  Boeing

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Boeing Commercial Airplanes is currently looking for Tool and Die Maker in Everett, Washington State!
Join our team as a skilled Tool and Die Maker! In this exciting role, you will unleash your expertise to plan, layout, fabricate, make, assemble, maintain, and repair a wide range of tools. Get ready to showcase your talent as you rebuild and repair hydraulic and vacuum fixtures. With a focus on precision, you’ll tackle coordinated tolerances across multiple working planes, mastering obtuse, acute, and right angle construction. Your craftsmanship will shine as you work with various dies, including push-through, blanking, piercing, cut-off, forming, joggle, deep, and compound dies. Take this opportunity to make a lasting impact with your exceptional skills and join our dynamic team today!

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS (REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE):

• 1+ years of experience in repairing, maintaining, construction, and/or the inspection of tools, dies, jigs, powerfeed, etc.
• 1+ years of experience in machine shop processes, geometric dimensioning & tolerances, and machining capabilities of different types of materials.
• 1+ years of experience with hydraulics and pneumatics.
• Experience using complete set of toolmaker shop equipment (milling, lathe, precision, grinding, polishing, and fitting).

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS (DESIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE):

• 5+ years of experience as a Tool & Die Maker.
• Completed an approved Mold Maker or Tool and Die Maker state apprenticeship program and/or certified by the U.S.
• Ability to perform machining operations with a specified degree of accuracy and within a timely manner Maintain close and exacting tolerances and finish requirements ensuring highest quality workmanship on all tools, gages, and fixtures with minimal scrap.
• Capable of creating a repeatable setup and working to tolerances of +/-.0002” in controlled environment.
• Possesses 4 and 5 axis CNC skills for mill or lathe, and extensive knowledge of detail cutting tool geometry for different cutting tool types and materials.
• Ability to reverse engineer and manufacture mold components within time limitations.

• Employees in this position have the responsibility to plan, layout, fabricate, assemble, repair and maintain tools;
• Have experience in mills, lathes both conventual and Computer Numerical Control (CNC), grinding, polishing, fitting, etc.
• Perform all functions of tool fabrication, rework and repair, as required.
• Troubleshoot problems and develop plans to resolve production issues; including, rebuilding and repairing hydraulic and vacuum fixtures.
• Determine sequence of and coordinate tool fabrication work.
• Obtain appropriate tool drawings, specification documents and/or sketches, as required, using computing systems (e.g., Bold/Web, Online Planning system, CATIA) if drawings, sketches and/or documents are not with work order.
• Studies specifications such as blueprints, sketches, models, or descriptions, and visualizes product to determine materials required and machines to be used to fabricate parts and molds.
• Develop plans for accomplishing work in fabrication, maintenance and repair of tools, as required.
• Coordinate planning or engineering change requests and routine maintenance work with other internal support groups.
• This job involves the ability to fabricate and build various types of tooling with dies such as push-through, blanking, piercing, cut-off, forming, joggle, deep, and compound dies.
• Knowledge of machining theory, mechanical systems, welding and assembly to layout.
• Read and interpret 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 completely fabricate and assemble all types and sizes of tools, molds, jigs, dies and fixtures.
• Lay out details, dimensions and tooling points of parts, tools, molds, jigs, dies and fixtures preparatory to fabrication operations using shop mathematics, geometry and trigonometry.
• Set up and operate hand tools and power machine tools.
• Fabricate, assemble and proof a variety of molds, jigs, fixtures, tools and dies, inspection check fixtures and tools, to required configuration, close and exacting dimensions, and tolerances, such as drill jigs having coordinated dimensions in planes not at right angles, progressive or compound dies, draw dies with deep, irregular or variable depth draws, form dies, hot sizing dies, punch press dies and fixtures incorporating indexing principles.
• Check work in progress and complete parts, using precision measuring devices, for adherence to specified configuration, dimensions, tolerances and finish.
• Record manufacturing data and statistics manually or with the aid of a computer or computer-based system
• Understanding of tolerance stack up and datum structures.
• Experience working with jigs, fixtures, inspection check fixtures and tooling dies.
• Proven safety record and understanding of factory processes, safety rules and requirements.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.
  This position must meet export control compliance requirements. To meet export control compliance requirements, a “U.S. Person” as defined by 22 C.F.R. §120.15 is required. “U.S. Person” includes U.S. Citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee.