Mechanical Assembly Technician — Helicoil and Chamber Build

Build with purpose

Join the team on Daniel Road that turns engineering intent into reliable, tested hardware. In this Mechanical Assembly role, you’ll execute final assembly, finishing, and testing so every deliverable aligns with drawings, specs, and customer quality standards.

Your impact

• Prepare threaded inserts: install/remove Heli-Coils to spec.
• Assemble and align components to create chambers and complete mechanical assemblies for test.
• Investigate fit or function issues and drive resolution.
• Complete customer-defined cleaning/finishing procedures.
• Inspect work-in-progress, verify conformance, and escalate any damage immediately.
• Close the loop before release: ensure all assembly, finishing, and test steps are complete for sign-off.
• Partner with engineering, production, and QA to achieve customer satisfaction.

Qualifications & experience

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Hands-on mechanical experience with vehicles, small engines, or bodywork.
• 3–5 years of mechanical assembly experience is a plus.
• Proficiency reading engineering drawings/specifications and deriving product and quality criteria.
• Fluent English communication (reading, writing, speaking).

Professional competencies

• Language: Comfortable interpreting technical procedures, journals, business publications, and regulations; able to write reports, business correspondence, and procedures; effective presenting to supervisors, managers, clients, and the public.
• Mathematics: Knowledge of probability, basic statistical ideas, plane/solid geometry, and trigonometry; capable of using fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions on the job.
• Analytical reasoning: Skilled at defining problems, collecting data, establishing facts, and drawing valid conclusions; able to follow complex written, verbal, diagrammatic, or scheduled instructions and juggle abstract and concrete variables.

Must-have fundamentals

• Mechanical aptitude and craftsmanship.
• Hands-on experience with common hand tools.
• Entry-level blueprint reading.
• Self-motivated, reliable, and accountable work style.

Legal and work conditions

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; and use hands or fingers, handle or feel. The employee is frequently required to stand and work, lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, depth perception, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Work environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and sometimes loud.