Cut-Off Operator
Summary
Operates CNC cutoff and end-finishing machines on a manufacturing floor to cut and finish steel tubing to precise tolerances. Daily tasks include setting up tooling, running production, measuring finished products with precision instruments, performing routine maintenance, and maintaining quality standards and safety protocols.
PTC is a leading manufacturer and marketer of welded and cold drawn mechanical steel tubing and tubular shapes, plated bar and tubing, and fabricated parts and precision components.
We at PTC value our employees’ health and wellness. We offer the following:
- Healthcare
- FSA option
- Dental
- Vision
- Life Insurance
- 401K plan with company match
- Voluntary Employee Life and AD&D
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Referral Bonus
- Annual college scholarship available for children & grandchildren of PTC employees
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Conscientiously work toward running a safer and cleaner operation.
- Ensure that all guards are always in place.
- Sets up, installs, and adjusts tools, collets, clamps, targets, etc. for product size, desired length and end finish.
- Operate controls to produce cut-to-length and chamfered or deburred tubing.
- Verify finished tubing is within size and length tolerance and satisfies order requirements for straightness and surface finish.
- Segregate discrepant material from prime product.
- Perform minor polishing of collets and clamps if/when necessary.
- Check bundle tag to verify tubing being delivered to the machine coincides with order requirements.
- Accurately and legibly complete product tags and production records.
- Refer concerns about tubing quality or equipment conditions to Shift Supervisor.
- Use tape measure, micrometer, common hand tools.
- Communicate with employees of other shifts regarding status of operations, equipment, tooling, special assignments, etc.
- Perform routine preventive maintenance procedures on cutoff and end finishing machines.
- Assist maintenance repairman in repair of cutoff and end finishing machines.
- Maintain a clean, orderly, and safe work area.
- Assumes various other duties at the direction of shift supervisor.
The incumbent is expected to understand that all employees have a shared responsibility for the quality of products and related services provided to our customers. Duties and Responsibilities are to be carried out in accordance with the PTC Quality Management System and its policies, procedures, and work instructions as applicable to the job or function being performed.