CMM Programmer

Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced CMM Programmer to support precision inspection and dimensional validation for cold plate manufacturing and related liquid‑cooling components. This role is responsible for developing, validating, maintaining, and improving CMM programs used to inspect critical features on machined and plated cold plates.

The ideal candidate has strong hands‑on experience programming and operating CMM equipment, interpreting complex engineering drawings, applying GD&T, validating measurement methods, and supporting production ramp activities. This person will work closely with Quality Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, NPI, Operations, and Inspection teams to ensure cold plates meet dimensional, functional, and customer requirements.

This role requires someone who can not only program the CMM, but also understand whether the measurement strategy makes sense for the product, process, and risk.

• Create, modify, validate, and maintain CMM programs for cold plates, machined components, and related liquid‑cooling parts.
• Develop inspection routines based on engineering drawings, GD&T requirements, control plans, CTQs, and customer specifications.
• Program inspections for critical features such as flatness, parallelism, perpendicularity, hole position, true position, profile, thickness, port locations, sealing surfaces, datum structures, and critical interface dimensions.
• Establish proper alignment strategies, datum reference frames, probing paths, measurement points, and inspection sequences.
• Optimize CMM programs for accuracy, repeatability, cycle time, and production usability.
• Support CMM inspection for prototype, First Article, NPI, ramp, and sustaining production phases.
• Ensure CMM programs are controlled, revision‑aligned, and properly documented.

• Support dimensional validation of cold plates used in liquid cooling applications.
• Inspect features related to fluid flow, sealing, mounting, assembly fit, and thermal performance.
• Develop inspection strategies for machined surfaces, brazed/joined areas, ports, internal/external interfaces, and plated surfaces.
• Support measurement of features impacted by machining, deburring, cleaning, nickel plating, silver plating, and final finishing processes.
• Understand how plating thickness, surface condition, burrs, contamination, and part handling can impact dimensional inspection results.
• Work with Quality and Engineering teams to define inspection methods for CTQs, datums, and critical tolerances.
• Support dimensional studies related to process capability, Cp/Cpk, GR&R, and supplier/process readiness.

• Operate CMM equipment to perform dimensional inspections as needed.
• Troubleshoot CMM program issues, measurement variation, fixture issues, probe qualification problems, and alignment errors.
• Investigate abnormal or questionable CMM results and determine whether the issue is related to the part, program, fixture, setup, probe, datum strategy, or measurement method.
• Support manual verification when CMM results indicate failures or when measurement correlation is required.
• Partner with inspectors to ensure CMM programs are easy to run, clearly documented, and production‑ready.
• Train inspectors on proper CMM program execution, setup requirements, part loading, fixture use, and basic result interpretation.

• Correlate CMM results with manual inspection methods where required.
• Use or support verification with calipers, micrometers, height gauges, pin gauges, bore gauges, indicators, surface plates, optical comparators, thread gauges, and other precision tools.
• Support measurement system analysis, including GR&R and repeatability studies.
• Confirm measurement methods are appropriate for tolerance requirements and product risk.
• Identify and resolve gaps between CMM results, manual measurements, supplier data, and engineering expectations.
• Support inspection method improvements to reduce false failures, missed defects, and unnecessary inspection variation.

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