CNC Specialist (NX CAM) - Blades & Vanes

The role

The CNC Specialist owns programming and process decisions for IGT blades and vanes. This role involves writing mill toolpaths and supporting a new blades and vanes line.

What you will do

• Use NX CAD/CAM to program blades and vanes processes
• Own process knowledge for machine capability, workholding, and consumables
• Verify NC files and own revision control on programs and documentation
• Select tooling and consumables and set parameters for superalloys
• Drive DFM by recommending and implementing drawing or process changes
• Design fixtures, brackets, holders, and rigging
• Support equipment selection, vendor engagement, and commissioning
• Troubleshoot machine, program, consumable, and process issues
• Train operators and CNC Programmers
• Own process development through prove-out to stable production

Required qualifications

• High school diploma/equivalency certificate
• 5+ years of CNC programming experience in NX
• Ability to lift 25 lbs. unassisted
• Lifting, standing, climbing, bending, grasping, sitting, pulling, pushing, stooping, stretching, and carrying are generally required
• U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful, permanent resident, Refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or Asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, or be eligible to obtain the required authorizations from the U.S. Department

Nice to have

• 7+ years of CNC programming in NX, including experience as a manufacturing engineer or lead programmer on blades/vanes
• Demonstrated ownership of turbine blade or equivalent airfoil processes
• Working knowledge of milling plus two or more of: grinding, sinker EDM, wire EDM, trailing-edge machining, laser drilling, and stem drilling
• 5-axis mill airfoil work: Starrag/Liechti, Hermle C-series, DMG MORI, Makino, GROB, Mazak VARIAXIS, Okuma MU-V, or equivalent
• IGT (or aero turbine) blades, vanes, or high-precision airfoils on superalloys
• Sinker and wire EDM (GF/Agie, Makino, Sodick, Mitsubishi, or equivalent)
• Cooling holes and stem drilling: fast-hole EDM and/or laser (Winbro, Huffman, Current EDM, Belmont, GF laser, or similar)
• CNC grinding/trailing-edge: IMM, Blohm/Mägerle/United Grinding, or equivalent
• Metrology (CMM, 3D scanning, on-machine probing)

About the company

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