Machinist 2 - Night Shift

Position: Machinist 2                                                                                         Salary Grade: 5

Purpose: Correctly operate assigned machines to produce high quality parts while meeting or exceeding productivity expectations. Reports to designated supervisor or lead.

• Roles: Expected behaviors and activities performed to fulfill responsibilities


• Promote a safety culture within the team and the department.


• Understand and implement 5S as part of continuous improvement.


• Set an example of working hard and doing the right things, exhibiting energy and positivity.


• Accountable to follow instruction and established routines and process to achieve results; ability to evaluate procedures and refine as required.


• Engage in clear, courteous, effective, honest, and open communications with team members and others within and outside the company.


• Accept responsibility for consistently excellent productivity and quality.


• Develop and seek positive relationships; actively participate in regular huddles and goal setting.

• Responsibilities: Quantifiable metrics to which a person is held accountable


• Capable of reading advanced prints.


• Understands how to verify and load tooling and enter tool data.


• Able to create more complex part setups utilizing all available tools and devices.


• Full ability to read and understand programs and able to write and edit simple programs.


• Fluent with all measurement devices.


• Capable of effectively training employees.


• Good understanding of machine controls and axis movement.


• Good knowledge on feed rates and spindle speeds.


• Able to run parts that are “new” to themselves or the company.


• Minimal quality issues.


• Able to recognize and document patterns in process and problem solving.


• Participate in regular employee reviews including setting and achieving goals.


• Arrive at work and position consistently on time; remain present and engaged the entire assigned shift.

Skills: Essential qualifications and functions gained through training and experience

• High school diploma or General Educational Development (GED).


• Previous manufacturing or machine assembly experience required (equivalent to a junior machinist at Burr Oak Tool).


• General computer skills.


• Good written and verbal communication skills.


• Strong interpersonal skills. Ability to get along with diverse personalities, tactful, mature, and flexible.


• Ability to remain calm and determined to attain goals.


• Able to read and interpret engineering prints, including making accurate measurements.


• Documentation of a current drug screen must be provided prior to start date.