CNC Machinist

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity.

Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

• Plays a critical role for customer satisfaction and future business development by fielding and demonstrating new technologies to meet mission needs
• Partners with projects to prioritize needs and schedules with flexibility to provide a range of services from low cost, quick engineering changes to full-scale design and fabrication
• Handles real-time design/engineering changes, installations, and modifications of prototypes
• Develops and fabricates a wide range of diverse and unique solutions
• Provides low cost, quick turnaround custom prototypes

• Work with shop supervisor, engineers, and other shop staff to fabricate and produce quality parts
• Demonstrate flexibility to work from blueprints, specifications, detailed verbal instructions, or detailed sketches
• Demonstrate knowledge and skill to fabricate prototype and short run production of parts from prints and CAD models with the ability to hold to +/- 0.001 tolerances when necessary
• Have knowledge and experience in machining metals, plastics, fiberglass, composites, and wood
• Support the engineering design group and technologists applying leading edge technology to develop electronic systems to solve challenging problems
• Support fielding of systems and associated travel, as needed, to include kitting, set-up, operation, test and tear-down
• Perform additional duties related to shop maintenance and operations including maintaining shop and equipment used in shop processes
• Follow all proper safety guidelines including wearing proper PPE
• Demonstrate ability to work in a team environment and display a collaborative approach in working with the fabrication team

• Typically requires a minimum of 2 - 4 years of related experience with a High School Diploma or equivalent in education, or 2 years’ experience and an Associate degree, or equivalent combination of education and related work experience.
• Understanding of machining and conventional fabrication technologies and experience with the programming, set-up, and operation of computer numerical control (CNC) milling machines and lathes
• Knowledge, proficiency, and experience with Mastercam Computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software
• Ability to set-up and operate manual milling machines and manual lathes
• Knowledge of machinist hand tools like micrometers, calipers, and dial indicators
• Ability to safely operate grinders, shears, sanders, drill presses, horizontal and vertical band saws, table saws, radial arm saws, and all types of electric hand tools
• Knowledge of trigonometry
• Ability to travel up to 20% of time to support field work
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S Government issued Security Clearance. Per the U.S. Government’s eligibility requirements, you must be a U.S Citizen to be considered for a security clearance.
• This position has an on-site requirement of 5 days a week on-site

• 10+ years…