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United States Mint Toolmaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
As a Toolmaker, you will:Fabricate jigs, fixtures, and special tooling, and constructs metal blanking dies.Maintain carbide and tool steel dies for domestic and foreign coinage and medal dies-by repairing and regrindingSet up and operate a variety of machine tools working to very close tolerances (i.e., turret and engine lathes, milling machines, surface grinders, external and internal cylindrical grinders, planners, shapers, drill presses, jig boring machines, horizontal boring machines, jig grinder,radial and bench drill presses and other related shop equipment)Plan and lay out work according to blueprints, sketches, specifications, or samples to exact and very close tolerances (0.0001)Heat treat tool steel items by hardening and tempering to specified hardness.Use precision instruments such as optical comparator, vernier calipers, micrometers, Johannson blocks and dial bore gauges