Founded in 1978, with roots dating back to 1957, Tencarva Machinery Company is a premier equipment distributor, engineering and design partner, machine guard manufacturer, and full-service repair center. Serving thousands of customers across the industrial and municipal segments, Tencarva’s various divisions cover 16 states and provide end-to-end, tailored solutions for complex systems within the fluid/solids/air/gas handling and water/wastewater treatment sectors. Our service offerings include system analysis and design, application engineering, custom fabrication and assembly, automation and controls, and equipment service, repair, and remanufacturing. 

Summary: Sets up and operates various manual metalworking machine tools (ex. lathe, mill, boring mill, VTL, balancing machine, etc.). Maintains a safe working space and a high quality of service. Interprets mechanical drawings.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following:

• Studies blueprints, sketches, drawings, manuals, specifications, or sample parts to determine dimensions and tolerances of the finished workpiece, sequence of operations, and setup requirements.
• Inspects, disassembles, selects parts from a repair parts list, and re-assembles rotating equipment. From the general description, sketches part or product to be fabricated.
• Measures, marks, and scribes dimensions and reference points on material or workpiece as guides for subsequent machining.
• Selects, aligns, and secures holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, and materials on machines such as mills, lathes, balancer, and other machine tools.
• Calculates and sets controls to regulate machining factors such as speed, feed, coolant flow, depth and angle of cut, or enters commands to retrieve, input, or edit computerized machine control media.
• Starts and observes machine operation to detect malfunctions or out-of-tolerance machining and adjusts machine controls or control media as required.
• Manual milling and general machining operations: drilling, milling, slotting, and boring to bearing fits with tolerances of +/- .002”
• General manual and turning operation; boring, grooving, and threading with tolerances of +/-.0005”
• Surface grinding: manual wet and dry, limited form, spin, and tolerances of +/-.0002”
• Installs machined replacement parts in mechanisms, machines, equipment, and unit tests to ensure functionality and performance.
• Verifies conformance of finished workpiece to specifications.
• Sets up and operates machine on trial run to verify accuracy of machine settings or programmed control data.
• Fits and assembles parts into complete assembly.
• Verifies dimensions and alignment of assembly.
• Inspect imperial and metric features.
• Confers with engineers, production personnel, programmers, or others to resolve machining or assembly problems.
• Maintain the shop area in a safe, clean, and working order.
• Other duties as assigned by management.

Must have experience operating Manual Machining equipment, including but not limited to the following: 

• Manual Lathes
• Manual Mills
• Manual Key Seater
• Manual Boring Mill
• Manual VTL (Vertical Turret Lathes)

Benefits Include:

• Paid Time off, including 10 holidays
• Bonuses
• Health Insurance, including medical, dental, vision, disability, and life
• 401(k) & Profit Sharing
• Employee Assistance Program

Supervisory Responsibilities: This job has no supervisory responsibilities.

Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or general education degree (GED); and 1-2 years related work experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Language Skills: Must have the ability to read, analyze, and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. The ability to write routine reports and correspondence. The ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers and employees.

Mathematical Skills: Must be able to perform basic mathematical equations including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, use of whole numbers, and percentage and decimals.

Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have basic computer skills and internet software knowledge.

Equipment Operated: Forklift, hoist, crane, sandblasting, lathe mills, band saw, drill press, balancer, paint booth, equipment vertical boring mill, horizontal boring mill, outside micrometers, inside micrometers, depth micrometers, dial calipers, dial bore, gauge dial indicators, thread gauges, vernier high gauge, power and hand tools, and other equipment deemed necessary to fulfill the functions of the job.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described herein represent those that an employee must meet to successfully perform this job’s essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Performance of duties of this position is considered very heavy work. Must be able to exert force over 100 pounds occasionally, and more than 50 pounds frequently; climb, balance, stop, kneel, crouch, reach overhead, stand, walk, push, pull, lift, finger, grasp, feel, talk, hear, and perform repetitive motions.

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include being able to accommodate/adjusting the lens of the eye to bring an object into sharp focus and maintain a good field of vision, observing an area that can be seen up or down or right or left while eyes are fixed in a given point.
• Must be able to meet the standards outlined in the WorkSteps program satisfactorily.
• Must be able to fulfill all essential job functions in a consistent state of alertness and safe manner.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here represent those an employee encounters while performing this job’s essential functions. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing this job’s duties, the employee is occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, fumes, airborne particles, and outside weather conditions; to wet and/or humid conditions; toxic or caustic chemicals; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

This job description is subject to change at any time.

Tencarva Machinery Company, LLC, is an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.