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 the company’s procedures and instructions. The role involves ensuring that quality, dimensions, and key characteristics are maintained while performing specific job and program specifications. The Lead Set-Up Machinist ensures machines are well-stocked with needed materials, maintained properly, and performs periodic checks. Spot checks of the finished product are also part of the daily tasks to ensure it is defect-free and ready for the next production step. Additionally, the Lead Set-Up Machinist ensures the CNC mills and/or lathes of various machines are set up properly on a daily basis, work well, and produce quality products. Necessary adjustments to machine control speed, material feed, and proper cuts will be made to optimize productivity and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Follow optimal company operational policies and procedures.

• Maintain the company's quality and safety standards as enforced by the Production Supervisor and Operations Manager.

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

• Edit CNC programs as needed.

• Machine a wide variety of materials successfully.

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

• Demonstrate excellent Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing and blueprint familiarity coupled with inspection knowledge.

• Lead decision-making for setup, fixturing, machine troubleshooting, and probing.

• Foster strong collaboration amongst the team to ensure the integration of manufacturing capabilities with design objectives.

• Demonstrate strong technical judgment and autonomy, particularly in managing operations, ensuring the team is supported even without direct oversight from management.

• Actively participate in the vehicle design process, offering strategic manufacturing insights and solutions.

• 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 dimensions and tolerances of products.

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

Essential Skills

• Machinist experience: 5-10 years

• CNC Lathe and/or Mill experience: 5-10 years

• CNC Programming, Set-Up, and Production experience: 5-10 years

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Ability to edit CNC programs

• Experience machining a wide variety of materials

• Excellent Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing and blueprint familiarity coupled with inspection knowledge

• Strong technical judgment and autonomy in managing operations

• Ability to lead a team and ensure strong collaboration

• Proficiency in programming mills and/or lathes

• Experience in calculating requirements and adjusting machine components

Why Work Here?

This is a family-owned and operated company offering a lead position in a sustainable business model with long-term opportunities. Employees receive health insurance, sick leave, and paid vacation accrual once permanent. Additionally, holidays such as New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day are paid once permanent.

Work Environment

The work environment is a standard machine shop with a 1st Shift from 6:30 AM to 3:30 PM Monday-Thursday and 6:30 AM to 12:30 PM on Fridays. There is also an option to work on Saturdays once comfortable. The shop is equipped with 13 mills and 13 lathes, using Fanuc Controls, Haas, and other 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

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following:

• 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 Jan 18, 2025.

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.