Technical Staff Assistant IV in Mechanical Enigineering at Cockrell School of Engineering

Teaching/Student Machine Shop Coordination Responsible for maintaining flow of the curriculum supporting each teaching lab in the student machine shop every fall and spring semesters and summer sessions.Maintain an inventory of student machine shop lab equipment and consumables required for each teaching lab in the shop.Work with graduate teaching assistants, students, and professors on teaching lab needs, including preparing lab equipment set-up and specimens and hands on assisting in the student Machine Shop.Trouble-shoot, repair, and maintain machine shop equipment to ensure education mission is met.Coordinate the purchase of all materials necessary for each teaching lab in the student machine shop.Co-Responsible for teaching the Machine Shop certification classes.May be asked to teach the Departments ME 350, Machine Tool Operations for Engineering, course for the ME undergraduate student.Professional Machine Shop Support Support in filling Professional Machine Shop work orders.Independent set-up and operation of CNC mills, CNC lathes, drill press, shears, brakes, tool cutter grinders, vertical band saws, horizontal band saws, arbor presses, hardness testers, sanders, a variety of hand tools and power saws. Responsible for the use of initiative and independent judgment in constructing instruments to precise standards from start to finish, from rough sketches or general verbal instructions. Lays out and plans complicated fabrication processes and implements designs.Trouble-shoot, repair, and maintain machine shop equipment to ensure education mission is met.May be assigned additional duties in accordance with the needs of the Department.