Job Description

Roles & Responsibilities

The CNC Machinist is responsible for the end-to-end manufacturing and assembly process, ensuring every component meets rigorous engineering specifications.

Machining & Technical Operations

• Comprehensive Machining: Perform all required layout, complex setups, manual machining, and CNC machining on both ferrous and non-ferrous materials.

• Equipment Mastery: Adeptly operate vertical and horizontal lathes, milling machines, turrets, and grinders.

• Advanced CNC Operation: Operate CNC mills and lathes by entering instructions (including zero and reference points), setting tool registers, offsets, compensation, and conditional switches.

• Setup Excellence: Install and adjust three- and four-jaw chucks, tools, attachments, collets, bushings, cams, gears, stops, and stock pushers; perform indicating vices and tramming heads.

• Tooling Management: Recognize, deploy, and properly use inserts, fixtures, and tooling. Sharpen and replace worn tools as required.

• Production Tasks: Execute drilling, grooving, cutting, turning, facing, knurling, and thread chasing operations.

Planning, Assembly & Quality Control

• Technical Planning: Plan machining by studying work orders, blueprints, engineering plans, materials, specifications, and orthographic drawings; interpret geometric dimensions and tolerances (GD&T).

• Inspection & Verification: Conduct dimensional inspections, verify settings by measuring positions, and check first-run and sample workpieces against international standards.

• Assembly & Finishing: Perform subassembly, tool setting, deburring of parts, and final assembly of components according to specifications.

• Programming: Prove part programs and calculate requirements using basic math, geometry, and trigonometry.

Leadership, Maintenance & Safety

• Supervision & Training: Plan and oversee work with minimal supervision while directing and training other employees on all workshop processes.

• Preventive Maintenance: Maintain equipment by completing PM requirements, following manufacturer s instructions, and troubleshooting malfunctions.

• Process Improvement: Evaluate experimental procedures and recommend modifications for increased efficiency and production adaptability.

• Documentation: Maintain continuity between shifts by documenting actions, irregularities, and quality logs.

Desired Candidate Profile

Education: High School Diploma or equivalent.

Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in a mechanical manufacturing or repair environment.

Technical Expertise: Proven experience in G-Code programming and execution.

• Extensive experience in manual machining (highly desired).
• Ability to read and interpret complex mechanical drawings, reference planes, and locations of surfaces.

Core Competencies:

• Proficiency in basic math, geometry, and trigonometry.
• Ability to lift stock into position and manage feed mechanisms.
• Commitment to maintaining a personal inventory of basic tooling for routine setups.

Professionalism: A strong commitment to safety, quality, and professional conduct at all times.

Leadership: Ability to accept ownership for new requests and explore opportunities to add value to the organization.