Job Title: Lead Set-Up Machinist

Job Description

The Lead Set-Up Machinist is an intermediate-to-advanced level position responsible for setting up and operating machines according to company procedures and instructions. The role involves maintaining quality, dimensions, and key characteristics of the products, performing periodic checks, and ensuring that CNC mills and lathes are set up properly. The machinist will make necessary adjustments to optimize productivity and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Set up and operate machines according to job specifications and shop traveler instructions.

• Perform periodic checks to ensure machines are well-stocked with needed materials and maintained properly.

• Conduct spot checks of the finished product to ensure it is defect-free and ready for the next production step.

• Make adjustments to machine control speed, material feed, and proper cuts to optimize productivity and efficiency.

• Follow company operational policies and procedures.

• Maintain the company's quality and safety standards.

• Edit CNC programs and machine a wide variety of materials.

• Lead a team in a fast-paced, flexible environment running 5+ machines.

• Ensure strong collaboration amongst the team to integrate manufacturing capabilities with design objectives.

• Program mills and/or lathes by entering instructions, including zeros and reference points.

• Set tool registers, offsets, compensations, and conditional switches.

• Review blueprints to determine product dimensions and tolerances.

• Calculate requirements, including basic math, and adjust three and four-jaw chucks, tools, attachments, collets, bushings, cams, gears, stops, and stock pushers.

Essential Skills

• 5-10 years of machinist experience

• 5-10 years of CNC lathe and/or mill experience

• 5-10 years of CNC programming, set-up, and production experience

• Ability to edit CNC programs

• Experience machining a wide variety of materials

• Excellent geometric dimensioning and tolerancing and blueprint familiarity coupled with inspection knowledge

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Strong technical judgment and autonomy in managing operations

• Ability to support the team without direct oversight from senior management

• Experience in leading decision-making for setup, fixturing, machine troubleshooting, and probing

• Strong collaboration skills to ensure integration of manufacturing capabilities with design objectives

• Active participation in the vehicle design process, offering strategic manufacturing insights and solutions

Why Work Here?

Enjoy working in a family-owned and operated company with a sustainable business model and long-term opportunities. Benefit from health insurance, paid sick leave, and paid vacation accrual once permanent. Paid holidays include New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day once permanent.

Work Environment

First shift hours are Monday-Thursday from 6:30 AM to 3:30 PM, and Friday from 6:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Once comfortable, optional overtime is available on Saturdays. The work environment is a standard machine shop equipped with 13 mills, 13 lathes, Fanuc controls, and Haas machinery.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Chino, California.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $30.00 - $34.00

• Medical, dental & vision

• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital

• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available

• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)

• Short and long-term disability

• Health Spending Account (HSA)

• Transportation benefits

• Employee Assistance Program

• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Chino,CA.

Application Deadline

This position will be accepting applications until Dec 25, 2024.

About Aerotek:

We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies’ construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.

Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.