Need to know where to go to find good CNC Machinists!

[MWallin07]

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

[Arty 3000]

Where Are You Located

[SIG]

Originally Posted by MWallin07 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.

[DJPLAST]

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.

[MWallin07]

Originally Posted by Arty 3000 Where Are You Located

Hey Arty,

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

[Rekd]

Originally Posted by MWallin07 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.

[phucdallas]

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

[g-codeguy]

Originally Posted by phucdallas 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?

[modernprecision]

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.

[satronics]

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

[millmonkey1]

Originally Posted by MWallin07 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

[MrWild]

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.