Machinist - Manual

6 days ago


Houston, Texas, United States Gulf Electroquip Full time
Job Title: Machinist - Manual

Gulf Electroquip and IDEAL Electric are a team of electric motor and generator companies with a presence in Houston, Texas, USA.

We specialize in new, remanufactured, and repaired AC and DC motors and generators for the oil & gas, power generation, dredging, paper, petrochemical, mining, utilities, and transportation industries.

Our power equipment can be engineered and manufactured to meet the specific needs of our clients. All our engineering is performed at our facility, ensuring that exact specifications are met.

Role and Responsibilities

This position is required to maintain efficient production of machined parts in the manual machine shop.

A list of requirements are as follows:

  1. Setting up and operating a manual horizontal boring mill, vertical turning lathe, horizontal lathe, three-axis knee milling machine, key cutting machine, shaft balancing machine, 500T press, etc.
  2. Using measuring instruments to meet tolerance requirements
  3. Maintain quality and safety standards
  4. Keeping records of jobs completed
  5. Attend short monthly safety and training exercises for the machine shop
  6. Able to read and interpret blueprints or engineering plans
  7. Specify and identify materials
  8. Set zero and reference points using basic math functions
  9. Setup manual machines for production runs using vises and other material holding parts
  10. Load and unload parts into machines
  11. Train other machinists to complete jobs on machines while using various bridge cranes to load and unload machines
  12. Keep work area clean and organized
  13. Verify that parts currently being machined are within tolerance
  14. Oversee and maintain safe operation of all machines and ensure that machines are being used in a safe manner
  15. Measure parts with high precision measurement devices, including but not limited to manual caliper, micrometer, gauge, etc.
  16. Coordinate with the Quality department and the Quality Inspector Level 1 to ensure that new production parts meet quality standards
Required Skills

Proficiency with high precision measurement devices

Able to read and interpret blueprints and engineering plans

Ability to perform basic mathematical computations


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