Position Title: Onsite Machinist II
Summary
Under minimal supervision, the Onsite Machinist II will set up, operate, and adjust various types of conventional and CNC equipment, including mills, lathes, grinders, and other precision machinery. This role requires working from drawings and written instructions to create new replacement parts, stock parts, and perform breakdown repairs. Work may involve complex, high-demand applications with strict tolerances.
Job Duties
- Machine parts to specifications using lathes, milling machines, shapers, or grinders
- Set up, adjust, and operate machine tools for precision machining operations
- Measure, examine, and test completed units to ensure conformance to specifications using precision measuring instruments
- Monitor feeds and speeds of machine tools to maintain proper operational conditions
- Study blueprints, drawings, and engineering information or reverse engineer sample parts to determine fabrication methods or sequences
- Program CNC tools and diagnose malfunctions to determine necessary adjustments or repairs
- Set up and operate metalworking, brazing, heat-treating, welding, or cutting equipment
- Design fixtures, tooling, or experimental parts to meet engineering requirements
- Support projects from planning and fabrication through assembly, inspection, and testing, applying knowledge of machine functions, metal properties, and mathematics
- Prepare working sketches for reverse engineering purposes
- Perform other duties as assigned
- Overtime may be required; on-call rotation is one week per month
Education & Experience
- Technical school training and/or equivalent on-the-job training
- Minimum 5 years of machining experience
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Strong knowledge of metals and precision measurement instruments
- Ability to read and interpret blueprints, sketches, CAD, and CAM files
- Proficiency in setting up, operating, and disassembling manual, automatic, and CNC machine tools
- Ability to turn, mill, drill, shape, and grind machine parts to varying tolerances
- Experience with WinMax, MillPWR, ProtoTRAK, or similar conversational CNC systems
- Capability to independently fabricate parts from sheet metal and Lexan
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Equiliem
Sep 20, 2025