# CNC Machinist

> Laborup · Cottondale, United States · — · Posted 2026-07-02

**Salary:** USD 54,000–70,000

**Workplace:** on_site

## Description

**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?**

-   **Unrivaled Equipment:** Work with high-precision technology like DMG Mori machines that empower you to do the highest quality work
-   **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 communicated through the interview process.

**Shifts**

-   **Day Shift** (4 x 10s) 6:00am - 4:30pm
-   Monday - Thursday

**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

## Requirements

**Qualifications**

-   **Experience:** 7+ years in precision, tight-tolerance machining (more is always welcome).
-   **Aerospace:** Strong tenure in Aerospace manufacturing and machining environments
-   **Quality Standards:** Experience in ISO 9001 or AS9100 shops
-   **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).
-   **Equipment Mastery:** Extensive experience setting up multi-axis equipment (5-axis mills, mill-turns, and/or multi-axis lathes).
-   **High-Setup Environment:** Comfortable in shops where setup time is 30%+ of the job, frequently handling complex setups with 10+ tools.

## Benefits

-   Medical, dental, vision
-   401(k) with match
-   PTO

## Apply

[Apply at Laborup](https://apply.workable.com/laborup/j/887E86F2CF/apply)

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