Machinist II

About Benchmark

Benchmark is a world-leading, top‑10 EMS provider of integrated electronic manufacturing services with total revenues exceeding $2.5 B. We operate in 7 countries across 3 continents and offer everything from product development to regional PCB build, including system‑level assembly in the United States, Mexico, South America, Europe and Asia.

Benchmark products and designs have been seen at the Olympics, the Super Bowl, and in Hollywood. America’s women and men in uniform count on our technical skills to help ensure our country remains safe and our work is part of many of the commercial aircraft seen crisscrossing the skies. Products we engineer live inside some of the world’s fastest computers and are saving lives every day in hospitals and surgical suites around the globe.

• Set up and operate lathes, millers, shapers, grinders, planers and power drills
• Work from blueprints, sketches and verbal instructions
• Perform highly diversified machining operations, such as boring, turning, facing, reaming, grinding, milling and tapering
• Perform work on machined parts, forgings and castings, which are of varying degrees of complexity in mature and critically dimensioned
• Determine and maintain the proper operational sequences at all times, make all necessary mathematical calculations to complete the job
• Determine the appropriate feeds and speeds for all operations
• Check own work;
  Usually work to tolerance of +/- .00005
• Read and interpret complex blueprints and manufacture parts from a layout drawing without use of sketches or verbal instructions, making all necessary mathematical calculations to complete the job according to the drawing
• Bench work, including any necessary operations such as filing, de‑burring, grinding, lapping, indexing, scraping and fitting, in order to complete mechanical assemblies from crude sketches, verbal instructions or work samples
• Check own work by making set‑ups and interpret gauges, electro‑limit gauges and size blocks
• Occasionally make decisions as to fits and tolerances

• Perform all the essential functions and competencies listed above
• Set‑up, operate, alter, repair and plan own work
• Perform complex checking and interpret results of own work by setting up and operating instruments such as air gauges, electro‑limit gauges and size blocks
• Usually work to tolerances of +/- .001 +/- .0005
• All employees are responsible for the quality of their work to ensure BEI meets, or exceeds Customer Satisfaction

• Position performance may be measured from a combination of Corporate and Divisional Balanced Score Card Goals, which will include but not be limited to Financial Performance, Customer Satisfaction, Operational Excellence and Employee Focus
• Individual position performance goals may be specific to the position, business segment or as it related to an individual’s contribution or employment within the organization

• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form
• Understanding of manufacturing systems and tooling development
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, as well as presentation skills
• Effective interpersonal skills
• Effective multitasking skills and the ability to take on additional responsibilities as required
• Effective organizational and prioritization skills
• Demonstrate high attention to detail
• Demonstrate discretion, confidentiality and professionalism when representing the company
• Ability to support a 24/7 global business operation as required
• Ability to work overtime when needed
• Ability to work with diverse groups
• Participate in a continuous improvement activity
• See job analysis forms for specific physical stressors of the job

• 2‑year technical degree (or apprenticeship certificate) preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience as approved by executive management
• 0‑3+ years of experience in machining operations

• 2‑year technical degree (or apprenticeship certificate) preferred or equivalent combination of education and experience as approved by executive management
• 6+ years of experience in complex machining…