CNC Machinst

At Key Technology, we’ve been innovating in the food processing industry since 1948. Our advanced equipment helps food producers worldwide deliver high-quality, safe products—from fresh-cut produce to dried fruits and nuts. 

If you're a skilled CNC Machinist looking to make a real impact and grow your career with a supportive team, we want to hear from you. As a CNC Machinist you would set up, operate, and make tool adjustments for various types of manual, numerically controlled, and computerized machine shop equipment. 

Day Shift: Monday – Friday, 6a.m – 2:30p.m.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Read and interpret engineering drawings, production routings, layouts, and set-up sheets.
• Use precision measuring equipment to verify dimensional conformance of parts.
• Set-up and operate various classes of production CNC machines including; lathes, vertical mills, and horizontal mills.
• MUST be able to write simple to complex CNC programs at the machine and make tool offsets and adjustments as needed.
• Operate manual machine tools as needed.
• Provide training and assistance to other employees in the CNC machine cell.
• Sets up and operates conventional, special purpose, and numerical control (NC) machines and machining centers to fabricate metallic and non-metallic parts.
• Training on studying blueprints, sketches, drawings, manuals, specifications, or sample part to determine dimensions and tolerances of finished work piece, sequence of operations, and setup requirements.
• Selects, aligns, and secures holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories, and materials on machines such as mills, lathes, jig borers, grinders, and shapers.
• Training on the following: Set controls to regulate machining factors such as speed, feed, coolant flow, and depth and angle of cut, or enters commands to retrieve, input, or edit computerized machine control media.
• Verifies conformance of finished work piece to specifications.
• Possesses a mid-level working knowledge of other job functions within all of the Production areas.
• Other duties as assigned.

Position Requirements: 

• Education and/or Experience: High school diploma and at least 5 years experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. CNC Certificate or Associate’s degree, preferred.
• Proficiency in CAM Programming (CAMWorks, Fusion 360, and/or Mastercam.
• Strong knowledge of cutting tools, inserts, holding fixtures and tool holders.
• Experience with the download and start-up of CNC programs.

Why Join Key Technology?
Key Technology offers a competitive benefits package for all full-time employees, including the following:

• Medical coverage through your choice of a high deductible health plan or a PPO plan. All plans include prescription drug coverage.
• Flexible spending accounts, when allowed by tax laws.
• Health Savings Accounts (HSA), when allowed by tax laws.
• Dental and Vision Coverage
• Paid life insurance and disability insurance, and options to purchase additional coverage.
• Paid Maternity Leave
• Optional coverages include Long-term Care, Accident Insurance, and Critical Illness Insurance
• 401k plan with a 100% match on the first 3% of employee contributions, and 50% on the next 2% of contributions (4% match if you contribute 5% of pay)
• Educational Assistance reimbursement
• Accrued paid time off (PTO)
• 10 paid holidays annually

All candidates must successfully complete a pre-employment drug screen and background and reference check.