Tool & Die Maker; Technical Inspector

Overview

Working across the globe, V2X builds smart solutions designed to integrate physical and digital infrastructure from base to battlefield. We bring 120 years of successful mission support to improve security, streamline logistics, and enhance readiness. Aligned around a shared purpose, our $3.9B company and 16,000 people work alongside our clients, here and abroad, to tackle their most complex challenges with integrity, respect, responsibility, and professionalism.

Tool & Die Maker – Technical Inspector, constructs and repairs jigs, fixtures, cutting tools, gauges, or metal dies or molds used in shaping or forming metal or nonmetallic material (e.g., plastic, plaster, rubber, glass). Work typically involves planning and laying out work according to models, blueprints, drawings, or other written or oral specifications, understanding the working properties of common metals and alloys, selecting appropriate materials, tools, and processes required to complete the task, making necessary shop computations, and setting up and operating various machine tools and related equipment.

Work for someone in this position also involves using various Tool and Die Maker's hand tools and precision measuring instruments, working to very close tolerances, heat‑treating metal parts and finished tools and dies to achieve required qualities, and fitting and assembling parts to prescribed tolerances and allowances.

• The Technical Inspector (TI) examines work in progress, the construction and final inspections of repairs jigs, fixtures, cutting tools, gauges, or metal dies or molds used in shaping or forming metal or nonmetallic material (e.g., plastic plaster, rubber, glass).
• Examines specifications such as blueprints, sketches, models, or descriptions, and visualizes product to determine materials required and machines to be used to fabricate parts.
• Inspect welds on both gas welding or brazing and any combination of arc welding processes.
• The TI will inspect and give guidance related to tasks such as thermal cutting and grinding, repairs broken or cracked parts, fills holes and increases size of metal parts, positions, and clamps together components of fabricated metal products preparatory to welding.
• They may locate and task repairs for cracks in industrial engine cylinder heads, using inspection equipment and gas torch.
• The TI will need to be knowledgeable in working with steel, aluminum, cast iron, nickel, brass, sheet metal and ballistic armor plating of various metals.
• Inspect painters after coating surfaces of motor vehicles such as automobiles, buses, and trucks with paint, lacquer, epoxy, resin, or other material, using brushes, rollers, spray guns and other devices, removes old paint from vehicle.
• Inspect surfaces after liquid paint remover and scrapers have been used to ensure the surfaces are smooth.
• Inspect equipment when the painters are masking and covering portion of surfaces not to be painted.
• Inspect finished painted equipment or specified portion of the vehicle that requires paint.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• Various machine tools and measuring instruments.
• Steel Toe shoes are required.
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) is required in certain areas while work is being conducted. Such PPE includes, but is not limited to:
  Face Mask, head, foot, hand, vision and hearing protective devices.
• Periodic use of computer systems and multi-function devices (MFD).

• Work is generally conducted in a shop environment. However, duties may involve the conduct of work in the outdoors area with a potential exposure to extreme climatic condition.
• Work requires prolonged standing at a maintenance table and periodic use of a solvent parts cleaning machine.
• Dirt, dust, grease and oils are always present.
• There can be exposure to chemicals that may burn and irritate the skin and eyes if proper personal protective equipment is not worn. Failure to follow appropriate safety procedures could result in cuts, bruises, shocks and strains.
• Must comply with OSHA, EPA, installation fire prevention regulations and published company work rules.
• May be required…