Instrument Maker III

About Us

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Job Summary

Perform and oversee modification, maintenance and repair of instrumentation and related equipment used in laboratory operations. Inspect finished products. This position will interact on a consistent basis with: shop supervisors and co-workers, student assistants. This position typically will advise and counsel: student assistants and lower level Instrument Makers. This position will supervise: NA.

Responsibilities

• Job Duty 1 -
  Operate and maintain machinery (e.g., milling machines, computer controlled mills and lathes, shears and press brakes).
• Job Duty 2 -
  Modify, repair and rebuild laboratory equipment in accordance with design specifications.
• Job Duty 3 -
  Fabricate and assemble equipment.
• Job Duty 4 -
  Instruct students in safe operation of shop equipment.
• Job Duty 5 -
  Provide guidance to lower level Instrument Makers.
• Job Duty 6 -
  Confer with shop customers (faculty, students, etc.) regarding work requirements.
• Job Duty 7 -
  Provide input to design of equipment.
• Job Duty 8 -
  Assist supervisor in shop operation (oversight, work order generation, etc.) during absences or times of high volume production.
• Job Duty 9 -
  Perform other duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements
Technical Diploma, Associate's Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Experience
Ten years of job related experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

SKILLS
This job requires advanced level skills in: fabrication techniques, use of shop math, reading prints, drawings; sheet metal work; equipment repair; materials and components identification and selection; welding and soldering; use of machine tools and hand/power tools. Skills in work guidance and communication are required.