Mason Controls

Overview

Mason is a subsidiary of Transdigm that designs, manufactures, and markets highly engineered products for the aerospace and defense markets. The Tool / Die Maker III position involves operating various machines to fabricate and repair production tooling while ensuring compliance with specifications and quality requirements.

Responsibilities

• Determine and execute methods to fabricate and repair production tooling such as dies, fixtures, and molds.
• Perform die work including sharpening dies and fabricating new punches or die block sections.
• Establish build and repair routines, recording produced values and variances.
• Change over cores and cavities of molds and fabricate or repair cores and cavities.
• Construct or repair various fixtures for different applications.
• Improvise or adapt tooling as needed for engineering data gathering.
• Manufacture first run and production run parts when tools are not available.
• Understand tool steel heat treating processes.
• Set up and operate wire and sinker EDM machines as required.
• Document general data related to daily work performed.

Requirements

• Ability to use inspection instruments and precision measuring devices.
• Ability to make coordination checks to tolerance and create part layouts.
• Read and analyze complicated blueprints and drawings.
• Knowledge of 2D and 3D solid geometry and related mathematics.
• Broad knowledge of metals and their reactions to processes used by the company.
• Knowledge of inspection requirements and company quality standards.
• Ability to keep accurate inspection records and communicate with engineering personnel.
• Experience in laying out, fitting, and assembling parts.
• Ability to fabricate specialized tools where no design is available.

Additional Information

• This position works first shift from 7:00am - 3:30pm.
• The position is primarily based inside the NPI – Toolroom but supports production as needed.