Machinist

About the Position: This position is located within the US Army Corps of Engineers, Huntington District, Regional Rivers Repair Fleet, Marietta Repair Station, with duty in Marietta, OH, where you will machine surfaces at unusual or compound angles and independently interpret and translate work orders, engineering drawings and specifications often lacking dimension tolerances, and types of fits and finishes.

Receive work assignments in the form of work orders or oral instructions accompanied by blueprints, sketches, drawings, models of parts, or other work specifications.

Interpret and apply sets and series of interrelated prints and drawings, to prepare supplementary sketches, and to calculate missing dimensions and tolerances.

Independently determine the work procedures, machine tools and attachments to be used, and the sequence of machining operations to accomplish each job.

Determine uncommon materials, dimensions, and tolerances.

Apply advanced shop mathematics, including geometric and trigonometric formulas, in laying out work and setting up machine tools.

Use any of the accepted trade methods and techniques and all conventional machine tools.