Overview
CNC Machine Operators
Love seeing how things get made? As a CNC Machine Operator apprentice, you'll set up and run mills, lathes, and other CNC machines to produce high-precision parts, building real shop-floor skills while you complete your training.
What you'll do:
- Set up mills, lathes, and other CNC machines by selecting, aligning, and securing fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, and materials
- Read blueprints, drawings, specs, or sample parts to understand dimensions, tolerances, and the order of operations
- Install the right tooling from the tooling list, then enter and verify tool offsets
- Start and monitor machine runs, catch malfunctions or out-of-tolerance machining, and adjust controls as needed
- Check finished parts against specs using calipers, micrometers, and depth micrometers, with a working familiarity with CMM, GD&T, and SPC
- Flag process issues to your supervisor so they can be investigated
- Complete the paperwork and computer entries that keep production on track
What you'll bring:
- Ability to operate vertical/horizontal mills, lathes, or Swiss machines
- A troubleshooting mindset and the ability to make basic adjustments and changes to machinery
- 1+ years of experience
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Bonus points for a 2-year machining degree and metalworking experience
Welders
Take pride in a clean, precise weld? As a Welder apprentice, you'll TIG and orbital weld stainless steel and other high-purity materials, gaining hands-on experience in a high-tech manufacturing environment while you complete your welding training.
What you'll do:
- Weld stainless steel and other high-purity materials, both by hand with a TIG welder and with an orbital welding machine
- Study prints, drawings, and specs to lay out tasks and complete finished welds using specialized computer welding equipment
- Process and inspect your work to print
- Perform a sequence of operations while consistently meeting quality and output standards
- Follow Ichor's Standard Operating Procedures for all manufacturing duties
- Pitch in on other duties as assigned
What you'll bring:
- Completion of a 2-year professional trade program in Welding Technology (or equivalent), or current enrollment in one
- 1–2 years of experience TIG welding stainless steel, or less experience with a Welding Technology degree (or current enrollment in a Welding Technology degree program)
- 1–2+ years of manufacturing or related work experience; semiconductor industry preferred
- Experience working in a high-purity cleanroom environment
- Blueprint reading and weld-to-print skills, plus the ability to read and understand technical drawings, correspondence, and documents
- Solid math skills: add, subtract, multiply, and divide in units of measure using whole numbers, common fractions, percentages, and decimals
- Basic understanding of related mechanics, flow control elements, and MRP concepts
- Basic PC skills for manufacturing
- Mechanical aptitude, visual acuity, and manual dexterity
- Confidence using approved hand gauges to inspect component quality at the work center
- Ability to handle fragile products, perform repetitive tasks, and work with safety in mind
- Good judgment, discretion, and an eye for spotting deviations from accepted practices
- Clear verbal and written communication with supervisors, leads, and peers
- A commitment to quality and a customer-focused mindset, both internally and externally
- Ability to sit, stand, walk, bend, and lift up to 50 lbs
ITAR ONLY
The business site where this position is located is an ITAR-compliant operation. Due to ITAR regulations, Ichor Systems is only able to employ US Persons. A US person is a lawful permanent resident (immigrant with “green card” permanent authorization to work document) or who is a protected person (a citizen, a national, a refugee, or a person granted asylum). Non-citizens with other visas are not eligible for hire at this location.
Ichor Systems Inc. is an equal opportunity employer