Job Description:

Manual Machinist

• 5225


• Lansdale, Pennsylvania


• Operations & Production


• Full-time regular


• None

Job Description

We are CAES, a technologically advanced electronics company employing more than 3,600 talented makers, thinkers, innovators, and doers nationwide. We build things that solve challenging problems from deep space to the depths of the ocean. We serve customers in defense, aerospace, security, medical, and industrial markets.

Are you searching for a career with a company that offers challenging, diverse projects and opportunities? Are you looking for a position with a company that is growing and able to offer long-term professional advancement? Searching for a company that values a friendly work environment and that values YOU? Consider CAES. #peoplefocusedmissiondriven

A career with CAES is more than just a job, it is the pathway to a bright future.

Do you have machining capabilities that you are proud to call artisanship? Then we want to hear from you. Bring your expertise to work at CAES Lansdale, were we pioneer the future in many of the world's most critical defense missions.

At our sprawling Montgomery Country location we offer competitive wages, benefits coverage on day 1, climate controlled work environment, a work schedule that allows everyother Friday off (!), tuition reimbursement, generous PTO and 11 paid holidays per year.

As an experienced Machinist, you will plan, set-up, operate and make tool adjustments to cut and shape all types of metals and synthetics using manual (e.g. lathes, mills and grinders) and EZ Track computerized machine shop equipment.

You will work from blueprints, process sheets and sketches to perform production tasks and may communicate with engineers to better understand the purpose of a part assembly. With a keen eye toward quality, you will check and inspect machining operations against specified tolerances. And focused on productivity, you may identify and repair minor machine malfunctions.

Continuous improvement is expected and encouraged. What we do is complex and requires collaboration, teamwork, and collective brainpower focused on success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Works independently from complex blueprints, written or verbal instructions to fabricate, alter, or repair complex parts with close tolerances and impactful costs. Including fabricating own tooling and fixtures as needed.


• Check/adjust machinery and tooling to maintain critical dimensions


• Plan sequence of operations using detailed knowledge of machinery and its capabilities to determine best method for manufacture of parts.


• Performs highly diversified machining operations requiring progressive steps.


• Utilizes trigonometry to calculate complex, compound angles and dimensions.


• Checks own work using precision measuring equipment.
  
  

Minimum:

• High School diploma or accredited GED


• Minimum 4 years' experience as a machinist
  
  


• Excellent math skills including trigonometry and geometry
  
  


• Ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance.

Preferred:

• 6 years experience as a machinist


• 6+ years experience working on Bridgeport milling machines


• 6+Lathe experience


• Prior experience working with sheet metal


• Good computer skills (basic MicroSoft Office knowledge)


• Experience in defense, aerospace, or military environment
  
  
  

Employment Transparency:

CAES is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of CAES to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. CAES will refrain from discharging, or otherwise discriminating against, employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants.

The EEO is the Law poster is available here and the poster supplement is available here.

The Pay Transparency Policy is available here.

CAES is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to CAEScareers@cobhamaes.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.