Hard Machining Operator

Company: The Timken Company
Location: Union
Posted on: January 25, 2025

Job Description:

What Timken makes possible begins with you.
Those who came before us helped land a man on the moon, create the world's infrastructure, and introduce renewable energy alternatives. Now you can join the Timken team to write your own unique story and help drive what's next. A career at Timken means you can have an immediate impact doing Work That Matters to the world improving the efficiency of today's industrial equipment and preparing for the future of motion on our planet and beyond. New employees can start contributing right away, and there are many opportunities to advance your career at your own pace. Join our global team of 19,000 people in 45 countries, and start helping our customers push the limits of what's possible in their world of motion. Position Summary:Perform job within a work team environment under minimum direct supervision to demand quality and production objectives. Efficiently perform all operations on the various grinding and hard-machining equipment. Essential Responsibilities:

• Responsible for procurement and use of proper gauges and maintaining quality requirements that meet or exceed customer drawing specifications, both written and understood.
• Will be required to produce parts to a level that is acceptable when compared to standard pieces per hour as designated on routings.
• Responsible for daily lubrication and maintenance of machine and other duties such as wheel dressing and machine setup to keep parts within tolerance and finish specifications.
• Perform all necessary loading and unloading of machine; procure and properly utilize setup material; synchronize manual and automatic operations while grinding or turning and allow for temperature changes.
• Interpret and follow drawings, instructions, routings, and specifications; install and maintain proper grinding wheels; or inserts, set up and operate at proper and/or prescribed feeds and speeds.
• Will operate all grinding and turning machines - must be multi-skilled.
• Responsible for preventive maintenance and maintaining inventory of tooling and inserts.
• Responsible for proper care of company tools, observance of safety regulations, and correct reporting of time and production.
• Responsible for maintaining equipment in good working order and maintaining a neat & orderly work area. Basic Qualifications:
  • 18 year of age or older.
  • Must be eligible to work in the US.
    • Must be willing to work overtime.
    • Must be willing to work any shift.
      • Ability to use shop mathematics.
      • Ability to interpret a variety of prints.
      • Ability to plan and perform unusual & difficult work.
      • Ability to make decisions that involve considerable judgment.
      • Must be willing to work on any Grinder 4 job. Preferred Qualifications and Skills:
        • Previous ID or OD grinding experience in a bearing manufacturing environment.
        • Previous hard machining experience in a bearing manufacturing environment.
        • Precision gauging/inspection experience. All qualified applicants shall be treated equally according to their individual qualifications, abilities, experiences and other employment standards. There will be no discrimination due to gender or gender identity, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran/military status or any other basis protected by applicable law.
          
          
          

Keywords: The Timken Company, Columbia , Hard Machining Operator, Professions , Union, South Carolina