Toolmaker
Stone Bridge Personnel
📍 Location: Fort Worth, TX
💲 Pay: $35.00 per hour (paid weekly)
🕒 Experience Required: 3+ Years
About the Opportunity
Stone Bridge Personnel is seeking an experienced Toolmaker for a growing advanced manufacturing company in Fort Worth, TX. This is a hands-on role supporting production, engineering, and tooling operations by designing, building, modifying, and repairing precision tooling and custom-machined components used in manufacturing and prototype development.
This position is ideal for a skilled machinist who thrives on solving complex manufacturing challenges and enjoys helping build a world-class machine shop. Candidates with experience establishing machine shop processes, tooling organization, equipment, workflows, and best practices are highly encouraged to apply.
Key Responsibilities
- COAL INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE
- Set up and operate manual lathes, manual mills, and surface grinders to manufacture precision tooling and custom components.
- Set up and operate CNC machining equipment for production and prototype work.
- Build, modify, repair, and maintain tooling, fixtures, jigs, gauges, and other precision-machined components.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to develop prototype tooling and manufacturing solutions.
- Perform precision turning, milling, drilling, boring, tapping, threading, grinding, and finishing operations.
- Read and interpret engineering drawings, blueprints, and GD&T specifications.
- Inspect finished parts using precision measuring equipment to ensure quality and dimensional accuracy.
- Troubleshoot tooling issues and implement repairs or design improvements.
- Assist in establishing machine shop standards, tooling inventory, preventive maintenance programs, workflows, and shop organization.
- Maintain tooling documentation and work orders.
- Keep the machine shop clean, organized, and compliant with all safety standards.
- Qualifications
Required
- 35+ years of experience as a Toolmaker, Precision Machinist, or Tool & Die Maker in a manufacturing or heavy industrial environment.
- Strong experience operating manual lathes and manual milling machines.
- Hands-on experience with precision surface grinding.
- Experience setting up and operating CNC machining equipment.
- Ability to machine complex parts to tight tolerances.
- Strong blueprint reading and GD&T interpretation skills.
- Proficiency with precision measuring instruments, including:
- Micrometers
- Calipers
- Dial indicators
- Height gauges
- Bore gauges
- Excellent mechanical aptitude with strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Experience helping establish, organize, or expand a machine shop is highly preferred.
- Experience working in coal, mining, power generation, or other heavy industrial environments is strongly preferred.
Compensation $35.00 per hour (paid weekly) Competitive opportunity with a growing advanced manufacturing organization.
Stable, long-term position with opportunities to contribute to continuous improvement and shop development.
Ready to build precision tooling and make an impact? Apply today through Stone Bridge Personnel and join a team that values precision, craftsmanship, and industrial manufacturing expertise.
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