CNC Operator**
**Job Description**
The CNC Operator is responsible for machining, assembling, and finishing rare earth magnet material and hardware to meet customer specifications. This role involves setting up, operating, and maintaining various machining and finishing equipment while ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards.
**Responsibilities**
+ Optimize safety and minimize risk by wearing required PPE and adhering to safety precautions.
+ Read, understand, and follow work instructions and process control standards, accessing Paradigm to review and print them as necessary.
+ Interpret customer drawings, verifying drawing part numbers and revision levels to match manufacturing routers.
+ Set up machinery by installing proper tooling, fixtures, and measuring equipment, selecting programs, and calibrating tools as required.
+ Maintain machinery and work area by cleaning and organizing, filling coolant or oil, performing preventative maintenance, and requesting reorder of consumables.
+ Operate various machining and finishing equipment, including CNC and manual machining tools such as centerless grinders, CNC mills and lathes, wire EDM machines, and others.
+ Verify and accurately record data into ERP computer systems and manufacturing routers, maintaining records for inspections and quality assurance.
+ Perform in-process inspections using precision measuring instruments to ensure conformance to customer specifications.
+ Adhere to EEC escalation policy, reporting issues affecting quality, safety, or productivity to supervisors.
**Essential Skills**
+ Knowledge and competency in CNC machinery and operation.
+ Proficiency in inspection and use of precision measuring tools.
+ Ability to read and interpret blueprints.
+ Mechanically inclined with a solid understanding of machining processes.
**Additional Skills & Qualifications**
+ High school diploma or equivalent; additional technical training or certification preferred.
+ Minimum of 2 years of machining experience required.
+ Ability to follow standard procedures with some minor operational decision-making responsibilities.
+ Experience in verbal and written communication outside the department.
**Why Work Here?**
Employees are eligible to sign up for benefits immediately upon hire, including company-provided prescription safety eyewear, protective footwear, and a subsidized uniform program. After 30 days, employees receive health insurance options, 401(k) enrollment with company matching, life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and optional voluntary benefits like dental and vision plans.
**Work Environment**
The work environment is a clean, climate-controlled, and fairly quiet machine shop. The company has a good team culture with many tenured employees, and a new building is expected to be built within the next five years to combine current locations into one.
**Job Type & Location**
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
**Pay and Benefits**
The pay range for this position is $22.00 - $30.00/hr.
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 Lancaster,PA.
**Application Deadline**
This position is anticipated to close on Jul 8, 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.
**Job Description**
The CNC Operator is responsible for machining, assembling, and finishing rare earth magnet material and hardware to meet customer specifications. This role involves setting up, operating, and maintaining various machining and finishing equipment while ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards.
**Responsibilities**
+ Optimize safety and minimize risk by wearing required PPE and adhering to safety precautions.
+ Read, understand, and follow work instructions and process control standards, accessing Paradigm to review and print them as necessary.
+ Interpret customer drawings, verifying drawing part numbers and revision levels to match manufacturing routers.
+ Set up machinery by installing proper tooling, fixtures, and measuring equipment, selecting programs, and calibrating tools as required.
+ Maintain machinery and work area by cleaning and organizing, filling coolant or oil, performing preventative maintenance, and requesting reorder of consumables.
+ Operate various machining and finishing equipment, including CNC and manual machining tools such as centerless grinders, CNC mills and lathes, wire EDM machines, and others.
+ Verify and accurately record data into ERP computer systems and manufacturing routers, maintaining records for inspections and quality assurance.
+ Perform in-process inspections using precision measuring instruments to ensure conformance to customer specifications.
+ Adhere to EEC escalation policy, reporting issues affecting quality, safety, or productivity to supervisors.
**Essential Skills**
+ Knowledge and competency in CNC machinery and operation.
+ Proficiency in inspection and use of precision measuring tools.
+ Ability to read and interpret blueprints.
+ Mechanically inclined with a solid understanding of machining processes.
**Additional Skills & Qualifications**
+ High school diploma or equivalent; additional technical training or certification preferred.
+ Minimum of 2 years of machining experience required.
+ Ability to follow standard procedures with some minor operational decision-making responsibilities.
+ Experience in verbal and written communication outside the department.
**Why Work Here?**
Employees are eligible to sign up for benefits immediately upon hire, including company-provided prescription safety eyewear, protective footwear, and a subsidized uniform program. After 30 days, employees receive health insurance options, 401(k) enrollment with company matching, life insurance, short-term disability insurance, and optional voluntary benefits like dental and vision plans.
**Work Environment**
The work environment is a clean, climate-controlled, and fairly quiet machine shop. The company has a good team culture with many tenured employees, and a new building is expected to be built within the next five years to combine current locations into one.
**Job Type & Location**
This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
**Pay and Benefits**
The pay range for this position is $22.00 - $30.00/hr.
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 Lancaster,PA.
**Application Deadline**
This position is anticipated to close on Jul 8, 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.
Job ID: 482661690
Originally Posted on: 6/25/2025
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