MACHINIST I

Our company culture is built upon YKK’s philosophy called the CYCLE OF GOODNESS™.  We believe that providing value and being fair to our customers and our employees is what makes us a successful company in return.  Guided by our core values and fundamental behaviors, we strive to foster a caring company, committed employees and challenging work that benefits our employees, customers, and communities. We offer competitive compensation packages, training and advancement opportunities. YKK AP America provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package designed to provide the security they need to enjoy life at home and at work.  By providing a high level of benefit coverage at a reasonable cost to the employee, we hope to foster a long and productive employment relationship.

Essential Functions and Key Responsibilities

• Basic communication skills, written and verbal
• Performing basic and fractional mathematics 
• Understanding decimal and fractional measurements
• Operate manual machines within the Die Manufacturing process

Additional skills within 12 months of employment:

• Identify common extrusions and their applications
• Perform duties of heat treating and nitriding
• Perform duties of deburring and finishing dies
• Perform duties of rework for die correction
• Properly extract inventory for production and perform routine inventory transactions

NOTE – All job skills must be maintained and cross training needs to remain consistent during employment.

Qualifications and Skill Requirement

• High school diploma or GED
• Machine Tool Technology or similar program or at least 5 years of die making or machinist experience within a production or manufacturing environment
• Must have good communication and organizational skills.
• Demonstrated troubleshooting skills and techniques.
• Good working knowledge of Excel and Word Software
• Forklift and material handling experience
• Must have good communication and organizational skills
• Be vigilant about safety
• Quality - conscious, oriented to excellence

About the Company

Our company culture is built upon YKK’s philosophy called the CYCLE OF GOODNESS™.   We believe that providing value and being fair to our customers and our employees are what makes us a successful company in return.  Guided by our core values and fundamental behaviors, we strive to foster a caring company, committed employees and challenging work that benefits our employees, customers, and communities. We offer competitive compensation packages, training and advancement opportunities. YKK AP America provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package designed to provide the security they need to enjoy life at home and at work.  By providing a high level of benefit coverage at reasonable cost to the employee, we hope to foster a long and productive employment relationship.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Minorities / Women / Veterans / Disabled

YKK AP America Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a culturally diverse workforce. We take affirmative action to ensure equal opportunity for all qualified applicants to receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status or protected veteran status, or other legally protected characteristics. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant (Opens in a new window).

YKK AP America Inc. will not discriminate or retaliate against applicants who inquire about, disclose, or discuss their compensation or that of other applicants. United States Department of Labor. Learn more (Opens in a new window).

YKK AP America Inc. participates in the E-Verify program as required by law. Learn more about the E-Verify program (Opens in a new window). 

YKK AP America Inc. is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process can follow the process outlined below when applying for a position: Provide your name and contact information to YKK AP's  Accommodations team at accommodationrequest@ykkap.com. Your request will be responded to as soon as possible. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

Employment with YKK AP America Inc. is conditioned upon successfully completing a negative drug test for the presence of illegal drugs.