Howdy all,

I'm looking for some advice on finding out where my company can go to find good CNC machinists for the Oil & Gas industry, as well as the Aerospace industry. What advice do you have for a newbie?

Thanks!
Michelle

Where Are You Located

Howdy all,

I'm looking for some advice on finding out where my company can go to find good CNC machinists for the Oil & Gas industry, as well as the Aerospace industry. What advice do you have for a newbie?

Thanks!
Michelle

Sub it out.

You need to grow your own. We put an apprenticeship program together and took the best employees that we had and trained them in house. Schools were of no use to us (High school or Jr College), the JC instructor told me he had no students that he could even recommend to me. That is how the future is looking. Pretty sad. After the apprentice program got started, everyone wanted in, until thety found out they needed to qualify first, as per the program standards. That meant proof of apptitude on the job, BEFORE consideration of allowing them into the program. They actually had to be able to do something in the shop. We had to teach and they had to learn and the company had to make money too.

Where Are You Located

Hey Arty,

Our company is in Dallas and Houston...and we are the "sub out" people!

Hey Arty,

Our company is in Dallas and Houston...and we are the "sub out" people!

You likely won't find any (decent) machinists out of work.

You'll have to steal them from other shops. The ones that want to be working are. Especially the good ones. There's almost always a demand for (talented) machinists, and most don't do temp agencies.

Unless they're just starting out, in which case they're not "good" machinists. Yet.

Machining is often considered an "art", and it takes time to be good at it.

As was suggested, you might consider telling your clients to look from within.

i need jobs programer for gibbs cam , master cam , campat . i live in garland , tx

i need jobs programer for gibbs cam , master cam , campat . i live in garland , tx


Are you looking for employees to work in the area, or people that can do the programming from where they live?

Do you need machinists to work at the shop or is your shop willing to send prints/drawing/sketches via email then the shop (my shop) can make the parts? I say this because we can machine the parts or tooling with drawings.

i am wanted to relocate in america currently i am in edmonton alberta with experience on setup and operation of haas, tosnuc and heidanhein cnc mill

Howdy all,

I'm looking for some advice on finding out where my company can go to find good CNC machinists for the Oil & Gas industry, as well as the Aerospace industry. What advice do you have for a newbie?

Thanks!
Michelle
Michelle,
What part of houston?
chris
slavingforblondie@yahoo.com

You're the "Sub out people?" Something you need to understand right away. CNC professionals for the most part are good enough they don't like folks leaching off the top. This may work well for menial labor and office work, but this isn't office work nor menial. The talent you're likely to get will be the floatsum of the trade. Not exactly a good thing for you to be leasing out to other companies if you want to maintain your credibility. If your leased out CNC worker makes a screw up and ruins $20k in the blink of an eye, how does that reflect on you? This is the nature of the beast. Good ones don't need "sub out people" and bad ones will kill ya.

What would be the salary for a person that can design in solids, design molds, make parts programs in Mastercam and work in the Machining Center.

Michelle, I have been an aerospace machinist for 14+ years. Your best bet is to take out an ad in places like Seattle, San Diego, a few Virginia locations or call some of the top companies and politely ask their HR department where they find their employees.

Hi Michelle,
I’m from Grand Rapids Michigan. I didn’t like the statement someone made of “all the good cnc people already have jobs” because, there are MANY unemployed Journeyman Machine Builders, Tool Makers, and cnc people, in the Grand Rapids Michigan Area, and in the whole state. Industrial jobs are leaving Michigan like Rats jumping off a burning ship! Many manufactures are closing or moving to Mexico. I would say in the last 5 years, Michigan has lost over half the industrial skilled trades jobs. There is a lot of industrial talent going to waist around here, like electrical engineers, and Tool Makers, now working at the Home Depot Hardware store, etc., that should be building and wiring up machinery.

Well then give me a call because I need real machinists for my shop in Seattle

Hi Michelle,

You're leaving a lot to the imagination. How much are you willing to pay, and where do you need us, and what kind of programming / designing do you want? I've been in Aerospace in all manner of design and CNC and once you get the experience that someone like me has, it's best for both the company and myself to work as a contractor. Most shops won't pay the money I want (or many experienced CNC machinists (and that means experience in both the engineering, design, programming, set-up, inspection) for full time, and even more so they don't need to. You can find dedicated employees that know CNC programming well or machining well, but they are in high demand and you will pay a premium to get them out of, what is probably, a comfortable job. If you want someone experienced in all aspects, chances are they are self employed or you're REALLY going to have to pay them high wages.

We have a low shop rate and do every thing from injection mold tooling to custom motor cycle rims, reverse enginered heads for a 1965 Cushmman, to cnc rapid prototype parts. Our rate it 45.00 per hour and we are in the U.S.A. We are not yet ISO 9000 certified but we will be soon. We are not huge so we pass the savings on to the customer. We are open 24-7, just not in a row (2 man shop). Send me an email, at least let me quote it to see if I charge enough.