CNC Turning Setup Specialist (Aerospace & Defense)
TekPro Engineering
📍 Lombard, Illinois, United States
Job Description
TekPro has teamed up with a premier aerospace/defense precision machining organization to add an experienced CNC Turning Setup Specialist to their team. If you thrive on dialing in tight tolerances, editing G-code on the fly, and moving confidently across multiple machine brands, you’ll feel at home here.
A day on our floorYou arrive to a spotless, air‑conditioned 150,000 sq. ft. shop. After reviewing your work orders and production schedule, you study the latest drawings and GD&T callouts, select workholding, and stage tooling. A safe lift gets raw material to your machine. You set, touch off, produce a first article, verify every critical feature, and make smart offset/program edits. With the process locked, you run steady production—turning, facing, drilling, grooving, boring, and threading—while inspecting in process, documenting results, and communicating with programmers, engineers, and teammates. You keep machines healthy wi...