James Sheppard
Tool Room Machinist
Sherwood,OH
Summary
current tool room machinist. good attendance record and long employment with same employer (21 + years ). worked my way from high school as a production machinist at my start to a group lead for many years. then was able to advance again to tool room machinist. work hard to continue to advance my skills. know how to operate vast number of machines whether it be manual or cnc. am able to work with several different programs to self generate programs and operate cnc lathes. have had to work for many years holding tight tolerances on metal and plastic parts that range in size of several hundred thousandths to 130+ inches in diameter. strive to be flexible and have had to work extensive amounts of overtime over the years with current employer.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Tool Room Machinist
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions
Fort Wayne , Indiana
03.2023 - Current
- operate manual mills , lathes , and grinders
- program and operate cnc lathes and mill for custom and production parts
- custom build parts needed by engineering and production
- machine cavities out of blank steel for production parts
- interpret prints and machine parts to match out of various types of material. steel , plastics , rubber etc.
Production Machinist / Group Lead
trelleborg sealing solutions
Fort Wayne , In
05.2003 - 03.2023
- machine parts to print for production
- set up and operate cnc lathes
- set up and operate cnc lathes to manufacture new parts
- proof out new programs for production
- for almost 10 years of this time was group lead over 4 machining and 2nd op departments
- as group lead was responsible for operators and scheduling work for all the machines in the departments
- as group lead had to work with engineers and planners to interpret and fix prints to get work scheduled and out on time
- work with supervisors to move work and operators around to help with demand and schedules around the plant as needed for production and overtime
Education
High School Diploma -
Paulding Exempted Village Schools
Paulding, OH05-2003
Machining Certificate -
Vantage Career Center
Van Wert, OH05-2003
Skills
- Blueprint interpretation
- CNC programming
- CNC machine operation
- Measurement tools
- Micrometer reading interpretation
- Gauge reading interpretation / gage making
- adaptability to change
- Machine tool operations
- Surface grinding
- Drilling operations
- Production methods development
- Precision machining
- Manual lathe operation
- Deburring techniques
- Fixture design
- Manual milling
- manual lathe
- manual surface grinder
- working alone and or with minimal supervision
- self motivated
Affiliations
- spending time with family. wife and 3 children
- small farming operations at home
- hunting / fishing
- four wheeling
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Tool Room Machinist
Trelleborg Sealing Solutions
03.2023 - Current
Production Machinist / Group Lead
trelleborg sealing solutions
05.2003 - 03.2023
High School Diploma -
Paulding Exempted Village Schools
Machining Certificate -
Vantage Career Center