Machinist

Full Job Description

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Domestic Defense Industrial Base Facilities and the Major Range and Test Facilities Base to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: This position will serve as a multi-faceted role for the planning and execution of industrial equipment maintenance, repair, installation, and production facility utilization.

Who May Apply: US Citizens Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. There is no specific length of training or experience required.

However, you must be able to demonstrate, through experience shown in your written application materials that you possess the sufficient knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position without more than normal supervision.

Minimum Qualifications (Screen Out Element): Ability to do the work of a(n) Machinist without more than normal supervision.

Must possess the ability to perform common tasks including manufacture castings, forgings, weldments, and other fabrications using various metals and materials, use of various tools to perform these tasks and working with blueprints and other layout work.

- Failure to meet this Screen out Element will result in an ineligible rating.

PHYSICAL EFFORT: Is required to stand, stoop, bend and reach; and frequently handles objects weighing up to 10 pounds and occasionally objects weighing as much as 40 pounds.

Hoists, hand trucks, lifts, and other workers are available to assist with heavier items.

WORKING CONDITIONS: Usually works inside in areas that are noisy and dirty, and where there is a danger to skin and eyes from flying metal chips, abrasive particles, and hot metal; skin irritation from contact with coolants, lubricants, and abrasive compounds; and danger to the fingers, hands, and other parts of the body from cutting tools, grinding wheels, rotating work pieces, and moving parts of the machines.

May be exposed to explosive hazards while working on production equipment while explosive operations are in progress. Major Duties:

• Set up and operate conventional machine tools such as lathes, vertical and horizontal boring mills, bench, plane or universal millings machines, shapers, planers grinders and radial drills.
• Lay out work from blueprints, sketches and work orders, model of part to be made, or other specification and determines proper tools and attachments to use.
• Determine speeds, feeds and coolants, lubricants or adhesives to be used to cut, turn, drill, mill, bore and tap to finish item.
• Operate precision measuring instruments such as vernier calipers, inside and outside micrometers, surface and height gauges, squares, dial indicators and comparators.
• Calculate mathematical computations and apply formulas to establish dimensions.