CNC Machinist – Large-Part Precision & Setup Expert

KHS USA Inc.; Waukesha (WI); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision insurance

Educational Reimbursement program

Life and Disability Insurance

Paid Time Off

Ten paid holidays per year

401K with Company Match

Job summary

KHS USA Inc. in Waukesha, WI is seeking a skilled machinist to study drawings, set up and operate CNC machines, and verify finished parts meet strict tolerances.

You will prepare tooling, align fixtures, and create or modify CNC programs, performing dry runs and debugging to ensure accuracy. The role requires hands-on experience with VTLs, vertical machining centers, and horizontal boring bars, plus ability to interpret complex drawings and research drawings in a database.

Qualifications

• Reading blueprints, sketches, drawings, or specifications to determine dimensions and tolerances.
• Ability to research drawings in drawing database program.
• Experience and ability to set up and operate CNC machinery.

Responsibilities

• Studies blueprints, sketches, drawings, manuals, specifications, or sample part to determine dimensions and tolerances of finished workpiece, sequence of operations, and setup requirements.
• Using precision measuring equipment, measures, marks, and scribes dimensions and reference points on material or workpiece as guides for machining.
• Create offline and edit CNC programs; dry run, debug and edit CNC programs at machine.
• Selects, aligns, and secures holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, and materials on machines such as mills, lathes, jig borers, grinders, and shapers.
• May set up machines for operation by others.
• Starts and observes machine operation to detect malfunctions or out-of-tolerance machining and adjusts controls as required.
• Verifies conformance of finished workpiece to specifications.
• Grinds and adapts tooling and attachments for special work requirements.
• Works with large and expensive parts or smaller parts of a complicated nature having critical and exacting requirements as to tolerance and finish.
• Diagnoses and rectifies tooling problems and machine malfunctions.

Skills

Blueprint reading

Detail orientation

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

VTLs

Vertical Machining Centers

Horizontal boring bars

CNC controls

Job description

KHS USA Inc. in Waukesha, WI is seeking a skilled machinist to study drawings, set up and operate CNC machines, and verify finished parts meet strict tolerances.

You will prepare tooling, align fixtures, and create or modify CNC programs, performing dry runs and debugging to ensure accuracy. The role requires hands-on experience with VTLs, vertical machining centers, and horizontal boring bars, plus ability to interpret complex drawings and research drawings in a database.