Aerospace CNC Machinist

**Job Summary** We are hiring skilled CNC Machinists to join our high-mix, low-volume aerospace and defense machine shop. In this role, you will machine mission-critical, tight-tolerance components for satellites, fighter jets, helicopters, and beyond. Our machinists own their work end-to-end, from setup through final inspection, and play a direct role in quality, delivery performance, and continuous improvement. **Why Join Us?** - **Sign-On Bonus: $30,000** - **Unrivaled Equipment:** Work with high-precision 3-, 4-, and 5-axis mills and lathes across the highest end brands - **Fertile Soil for Growth:** A highly dynamic job shop setting where you have autonomy over your work - **Premium Environment:** Do high-impact aerospace work in a facility that is modern, clean, and fully air-conditioned. **Compensation** - Starting pay negotiable and market competitive, and communicated through the interview process. **Shifts** - **Day Shift** - Monday - Friday **Consistent Overtime** - 10+ hours / week for those who want it - Rarely required for those who don't **Relocation** - Relocation assistance available **Responsibilities** - **Autonomy:** Setup, run, inspect, and document results across our floor, heavily utilizing advanced 5-axis machines and mill-turn centers. - **Manual Fundamentals:** You don’t just rely on the machine; you understand exactly what the cutter is doing. You leverage deep manual machining fundamentals to troubleshoot chatter, read chip formation, optimize tool pressure, and tackle the most complex setups. - **Strategy & Execution:** Select tooling, establish offsets, build bulletproof workholding strategies, and optimize processes. - **Quality Control:** Hold tight tolerances from the first piece through the final run using manual micrometers, indicators, and precision gauges. - **Programming Mastery:** Read, understand, and efficiently edit G-code and M-code on the floor to restore quality and maximize throughput. - **Problem Solving:** Troubleshoot dimensional, tooling, and machine variables on the fly to achieve first-article success on both proven and unproven parts - **Advanced Quality (preferred):** The ability to program/operate CMMs and independently conduct formal First Article Inspections (FAI) is highly preferred). - **Advanced Programmer (preferred):** Experience fully programming from scratch in Mastercam is a plus but not required **Qualifications** Required - **Experience:** 8+ years in precision, tight-tolerance machining (more is always welcome). - **Precision:** Proven ability to hold **.0005” (5 tenths / ~13 microns)** or tighter on critical features, and the manual skills to verify it. - **Technical Fluency:** Deep understanding of complex blueprints and advanced GD&T (true position, parallelism, profile, concentricity, flatness, coaxiality). - **High-Setup Environment:** Comfortable in shops where setup time is 30%+ of the job, frequently handling complex setups with 10+ tools. - **Quality Background:** Deep expertise of manual CMM's Preferred - **Aerospace:** Strong tenure in Aerospace manufacturing and machining environments - **Quality Standards:** Experience in ISO 9001 or AS9100 shops - **Equipment Mastery:** Extensive experience setting up multi-axis equipment (5-axis mills, mill-turns, and/or multi-axis lathes). - Medical, dental, vision - 401(k) with match - PTO