Dimension Control Tech 2/3

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman · Aerospace · St. Augustine, FL +1 · Manufacturing and Production

This role involves laying out, fabricating, and assembling jigs, fixtures, and tooling, requiring precise measurements and coordination. Responsibilities include planning work, setting up optical instruments for alignment checks, developing holding devices, and preparing operational sequences. The position requires experience with tool building, laser tracking, and computer-aided metrology systems in a manufacturing setting.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lay out, fabricate, and assemble a variety of standard and nonstandard major jigs, fixtures, tool masters, master tooling gauges, and related tooling involving compound angles and complex contours where the establishment and coordination to exacting tolerances of numerous tooling holes and reference points between several planes are required.
  2. Plan work to be performed and determines methods and sequence of operations working from tool design drawings or own designs.
  3. Sets up and operates optical instruments to check overall and detailed alignment, fit, or adjustment of assemblies.
  4. Develop and designs holding devices and jig and fixture details.
  5. Prepare operational sequences and shop drawings covering parts fabrication and assembly to be performed by others.

Skills

Required

  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • 2-4 years of related education and/or experience with tool building and laser tracking in a manufacturing environment
  • Experience devising reference systems and creating working build models
  • Ability to frequently move and position objects weighing 35 pounds and ascend and descend ladders
  • Ability to work inside and outside in a warehouse environment and a shop floor environment
  • Ability to work within MS applications i.e., MS Word, Excel, and Adobe PDF
  • Ability to obtain and maintain U.S. Department Clearance
  • Ability to obtain and maintain Special Access Program (SAP) clearance

Nice to have

  • Master level knowledge of multiple computer aided metrology systems such as laser trackers, articulated arms, scanners
  • 6+ years of Tool and Die or related experience
  • Experience in reverse engineering and model building from collected data
  • Knowledge of Integrated Systems Air Frames and Aero Structures
  • Experience with computer aided graphic interfaces (Verisurf X, SA and Maya matrix, Build!IT, and Polyworks)