Machine Operator

Machine Operator

HIGHLIGHTS

Location:Â Â Torrance, CA (Onsite)
Position Type: Contract

Hourly / Salary:Â BOE
Residency Status:Â US Citizen or Green Card Holder ONLY

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Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Machine Operator to join a small, close-knit machine shop team. This is a hands-on role for someone who understands how machines operate, takes pride in quality work, and values structure, safety, and consistency.

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Key Responsibilities

• Operate and monitor production machines used for cutting, marking, and related processes
• Set up jobs based on drawings, work instructions, and job specifications
• Interpret purchase orders, prints, and specifications to determine machine adjustments and material requirements
• Perform continuous quality checks to ensure parts meet customer requirements for accuracy, clarity, and length
• Use measuring tools such as rulers, scales, and calipers to verify dimensions
• Perform basic machine maintenance (oiling, cleaning, minor adjustments)
• Accurately estimate remaining work and time required to complete jobs
• Communicate realistic completion timelines to support production planning and delivery expectations
• Use computer systems for labeling and timekeeping
• Maintain a clean, organized, and safe work area
• Follow all safety, documentation, and process requirements without exception
• Complete required timekeeping and break documentation accurately

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Required Experience & Qualifications

• Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience in a machine shop environment
• Strong preference for 5–7 years of machine shop experience
• Solid understanding of how machines operate and run
• Experience with CNC machines is highly desirable (but not required)
• Assembly experience is a plus
• Transferable machine experience is acceptable (specific machine experience not required)
• High school diploma or GED required

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Critical Skill Requirement: Mental Math

This role requires strong mental math skills .

Candidates must be comfortable with:

• Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division
• Fractions, decimals, and percentages
• Estimating time, materials, and remaining work while continuing to work
• Making quick, reasonable calculations without stopping production

Precision to the thousandth is not required, understanding and estimation are.
These estimates directly impact customer delivery timelines and internal planning.

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Reasoning Ability

• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed written or oral instructions.Â
• Safety consciousness imperative.

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Physical Demands Â

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Â
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit and use hands to finger, handle, or feel.Â
• The employee frequently is required to reach with hands and arms and talk or hear.Â
• The employee is required to sit and/or stand for extended periods of time.Â
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 20 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.Â
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

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Work Environment

• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.Â
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts.Â
• The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes (non-hazardous odors from heated plastic tubing) and toxic chemicals, such as pure isopropyl alcohol.Â
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

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