We are seeking an experienced, detail-driven Thread Mill Operator with a minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience to work in our specialty thread milling operations.In this role, you won’t be sitting at a production bench cutting small fasteners. You will be setting up and operating specialized thread milling equipment to produce precision lead screws, Acme/stub-Acme threads, and custom thread profiles ranging anywhere from 4 feet to up to 40 feet in length.This work requires a true machinist’s mindset: mastering long-shaft setups, making precision cutting tools, managing tool pressure, and holding tight lead and pitch diameter tolerances across extreme workpiece lengths.
Key Responsibilities
- Setup & Operation: Set up, dial in, and operate dedicated thread milling machinery to cut precision external threads on shafts up to 40 feet in length.
- Rigging & Material Handling: Safely load, position, align, and support heavy, extended-length bar stock using overhead cranes, steady rests, and roller supports.
- Tolerance & Quality Control: Hold tight dimensional tolerances (lead accuracy, pitch diameter and depth) across long passes. Inspect parts using pitch micrometers, optical comparators, thread gages, wires, and precision calipers.
- Tooling & Feeds/Speeds: Select, install, and adjust thread milling cutters, inserts, and indexables; calculate and dial in optimal feeds, speeds, and coolant flow for each alloy.
- Material Expertise: Machine a wide variety of metals, from standard carbon and chromoly alloy steels (4140/4340) to stainless steels, specialized bronzes, and high-tensile materials.
- Print/Technical Drawing Reading: Work directly from engineering drawings, prints, and customer specifications destined for multiple industry applications.
Qualifications & Experience
- Experience: Minimum of 2+ years of hands-on experience operating thread mills.
- Large-Part Handling: Familiarity with long, parts of varying diameters (shafts, cylinders, or rods) and understanding how to combat deflection, vibration, and thermal growth during machining.
- Gage & Inspection Proficiency: Proven ability to use precision measuring instruments (micrometers, dial indicators, thread pitch micrometers, 3-wire method).
- Material Handling Safety: Experience using overhead bridge cranes, rigging straps, and roller supports safely and independently.
- Reliability & Attention to Detail: A high degree of personal accountability—you take pride in clean thread finishes, zero scrap, and pristine tooling maintenance.
- TOOLS - You must have your own tools for this position.
Why Join the Rempco Team?
- Work on What Matters: The shafts and screws you mill potentially go straight into naval and defense applications, aerospace launch assemblies, heavy rail networks, and advanced automation platforms.
- Unique Trade Craft: Operating equipment that can accurately thread a 40-foot screw is a rare and highly respected skillset. You’ll be doing work very few shops in North America can accomplish.
- Competitive Pay & Comprehensive Benefits: We reward skill, consistency, and pride in workmanship with dependable hours, competitive wages, and solid benefits.
- Stable, Respected Shop: Clean, safety-first manufacturing environment with leadership that knows the floor and respects the trade.
You should be proficient in:
- Minimum of 2 years experience on a Lees Bradnor Thread mill, ability to fabricate a part from a technical drawing is a MUST, ability to expertly make your own precision cutters.
Machines & technologies you'll use: