Job Summary:

The Horsburgh & Scott Company has over 135 years of experience designing, manufacturing and maintaining gearboxes in heavy-duty applications around the world. We have proven design standards for gearboxes up to 5000 HP and 4 million ft-lbs. with speeds from 0.5 to 3600 rpm.

As a Machine Operator for H&S, you'll use innovative equipment such as the Fellows 65-16 Shaper with full CNC controls, Giddings & Lewis VTC 2000 vertical turning, Gleason-Pfauter P1600/2000 hobber/gasher, Gleason-Pfauter P2000Ga and P2006 form grinders, Gleason-Pfauter P2400/3000 hobber/gasher, Hofler 1600, R1600/2000 and R6000 form grinders, Schiess horizontal boring mill, G&L 3500 vertical turning center, and Farrel 50 foot vertical turning center to produce large industrial gears and gear parts while ensuring those products meet precise specifications using appropriate measurement tools and devices.

Primary responsibilities:

• Operate machine tools such as lathes, milling machines, and grinders to produce metal parts.
• Review electronic or written blueprints or specifications for a job.
• Calculate where to cut or bore.
• Shape steel, aluminum, titanium, plastic, silicon and other materials.
• Determine how fast or slow work piece is fed into machine.
• Determine how much material to remove.
• Select tools and materials for the job.
• Plan the sequence of cutting and finishing operations.
• Mark the work piece to show where cuts should be made.
• Position work piece on the drill press, lathe, or milling machine.
• Monitor and control feed rate and speed.
• Ensure work piece is properly lubricated and/or cooled.
• Regulate temperature of work piece.
• Detect problems by listening for specific sounds.
• Adjust cutting speed to compensate for harmonic vibrations.
• Monitor the accuracy of cuts.
• Replace dull cutting tools.
• Check accuracy of work against blueprints and specifications.
• Produce large quantities of parts.
• Determine how automated equipment will cut a part.
• Determine cutting path.
• Concert path, speed, and feed information into set of instructions for machine tool.
• Use manual and computer-controlled machinery.
• Write basic programs.
• Modify programs in response to problems.
• Able to perform the essential functions of the job with or without accommodation.