Job Summary

The Lab Machinist III produces machined parts by programming, setting up, and operating a computer numerical control (CNC) machine and other machining tools. They maintain quality and safety standards, instruct staff and students, and maintain equipment and a neat and clean working environment.

Essential Functions

• Ensure that all faculty, staff and students comply with all laboratory rules and regulations, including health and safety policies guaranteeing the highest quality of results and providing training to ensure compliance.
• Assist staff, students or others by providing lab instructions or procedural guidance. Must anticipate potential problems and help students resolve them as they occur to keep projects on schedule.
• Design and build equipment or systems needed for undergraduate and research laboratories.
• Ability to work from drawings with minimal instruction to close tolerances, make sketches, work independently also from Verbal instruction.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment, provide timely and prompt turnaround for projects and tasks, use excellent judgment when problem solving and bring innovative solutions.
• Plan machining by studying blueprints, engineering plans, verbal instructions, materials, specifications, orthographic drawings, reference planes, locations of surfaces, and machining parameters; interpreting geometric dimensions and tolerances (GD&T).
• Program mills and lathes by entering instructions, including zero and reference points; setting tool registers, offsets, compensation, and conditional switches; calculating requirements, including basic math, geometry, and trigonometry; proving part programs.
• Set-up mills and lathes by installing and adjusting three- and four-jaw chucks, tools, attachments, collets, bushings, cams, gears, stops, and stock pushers; indicating vices; tramming heads.
• Design or assist in the design of complex machine parts, fixtures, tests, specimens and experimental apparatus.
• Perform welding, brazing, and soldering tasks in conjunction with machine repairs or laboratory apparatus construction.
• Interact with other laboratory personnel at the technical level required to correct, improve, or otherwise modify existing or new designs.
• Supervise students working in the machine shop.
• Set goals each year in compliance with the yearly performance evaluation process.
• Assist and demonstrate use of equipment to students and others.
• Perform daily and weekly maintenance.
• Perform additional duties as assigned by the Director.
• Program CNC mills and lathes by entering instructions, including zero and reference points; setting tool registers, offsets, compensation, and conditional switches; calculating requirements, including basic math, geometry, and trigonometry; proving part programs.
• Provide care, maintenance and repairs on CNC systems.
• Can train others in the programming and use of the CNC machines.
• Design or assist in transferring the design coding of complex machine parts, fixtures, tests, specimens and experimental apparatus into the CNC machine.

Required Qualifications

• Vocational or Technical School or the equivalent combination of education and work experience. 
  • Please review the Equivalency Chart for additional information.
• At least 10 years of relevant experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Have knowledge of all machining aspects Manual and C.N.C.
• Have working knowledge of CA-CAM programs / BOB-CAD or PRO-E or AUTO-CAD.
• Have completed training at a technical or vocation school.
• Be able to program and set-up Hass mill and lathe without guidance.
• Have working knowledge of insert tooling.
• Have good communication skills and be a team player.
• Ability to work from drawings with minimal instruction to close tolerances, make sketches, work independently also from verbal instruction.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a team environment, provide timely and prompt turnaround for projects and tasks, use excellent judgment when problem solving and bring innovative solutions.
• Plan machining by studying blueprints, engineering plans, verbal instructions, materials, specifications, orthographic drawings, reference planes, locations of surfaces, and machining parameters; interpreting geometric dimensions and tolerances (GD&T).
• Set-up mills and lathes by installing and adjusting three-and four-jaw chucks, tools, attachments, collets, bushings, came, gears, stops, and stock pushers; indicating vices; tramming heads.
• Interact with other laboratory personnel at the technical level required to correct, improve, or otherwise modify existing or new designs.

Physical Demands

• Typically standing, walking
• Typically bending, crouching, stooping
• Lifting demands > 50lbs

Location

• University City - Philadelphia, PA

Additional Information
This position is classified as Non-Exempt, grade K. Compensation for this grade ranges from $26.16 to $39.24 per hour. Please note that the offered rate for this position typically aligns with the minimum to midrange of this grade, but it can vary based on the successful candidate’s qualifications and experience, department budget, and an internal equity review.

Applicants are encouraged to explore the Professional Staff salary structure and Compensation Guidelines & Policies for more details on Drexel’s compensation framework. For information about benefits, please review Drexel’s Benefits Brochure.

Special Instructions to the Applicant
Please make sure you upload your CV/resume and cover letter when submitting your application.

A review of applicants will begin once a suitable candidate pool is identified.

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