Laborup

Senior CNC Machinist

Laborup  •  $34 - $70/hr  •  Indianapolis, IN (Onsite)  •  3 hours ago
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Job Description

We're hiring Senior CNC Machinists for our aerospace and defense job shop.

We build 1-of-1 components on a scale most machinists never see. Our smallest parts are the size of a suitcase. Many are the size of boats — complex weldments, castings, and exotic alloys where no two parts are identical.

Our floor is built for that work: Horizontal Boring Mills (HBMs), Vertical Turning Lathes (VTLs), large-format 5-axis mills, and massive gantry mills, running controls like Heidenhain that you won't find in a standard job shop.

Why Join Us

  • Hone your craft: Learn unique machines that let you work anywhere in the industry
  • High impact work: 1-of-1 parts for high-stakes aerospace and defense programs
  • Financial impact: Guaranteed 50 hours, optional overtime, profit sharing, employee ownership program

Compensation

  • $34–$48/hr
  • Unlimited optional overtime – guaranteed 50-hour week
  • Up to $140k/yr (including shift differential and 50 hr schedule)
  • 60-day review

Relocation

  • Relocation to Cincinnati required
  • Assistance available upon request

Hiring on 1st and 2nd Shift

  • 1st shift: 5:00 AM–3:30 PM (M–F)
  • 2nd shift: 5:00 PM–3:30 AM (M–F)

Responsibilities

  • Setups: Independent setups on parts weighing thousands of pounds
  • Rigging: Overhead cranes and heavy rigging to flip and position parts
  • Prove-Outs: Run 1-of-1 parts on your own
  • G-Code at the Control: Read, edit, and catch program defects
  • Weldments & Castings: Machine welded and cast parts and adapt to their inconsistencies
  • Blueprints & GD&T: Complex multi-view prints; establish your own datums and setups

What You'll Run

  • Equipment: Horizontal Boring Mills (HBMs), Vertical Turning Lathes (VTLs), large-format 5-axis mills, and gantry mills
  • Brands: Union, Cincinnati, MTE, Bost, Tosh Ulin, DMG, OMV, Parpas, and Dinamika
  • Controls: Heidenhain, Siemens, and FANUC controls
  • Materials: Titanium, Inconel, Hastelloy, and advanced composites

You don't need experience on these exact machines. If you're a senior machinist with strong fundamentals, G-code fluency, and complex setup experience, your skills will transfer.

Requirements

Requirements

  • 5+ years of CNC machining experience
  • Fluent in G-code and M-code
  • Edits and troubleshoots programs live at the control
  • Reads complex blueprints and establishes own datums
  • Runs own setups and tear-downs
  • Performs own first-article inspections
  • U.S. citizen (required for defense work)
  • Able to pass a drug screen and background check

Preferred:

  • Precision job shop experience
  • Aerospace or defense manufacturing experience
  • Large-format or heavy rigging experience
  • Time on HBMs, VTLs, 5-axis, or gantry mills
  • FANUC or Heidenhain controls

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision plan
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Bonus / profit-sharing program
  • Employee ownership / equity participation
  • Relocation assistance for qualified candidates
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About Laborup

Laborup is the #1 AI powered talent platform for America’s industrial workforce. We use AI to create jobs, not take them away. We help HR and plant leaders hire and keep the skilled workers who keep plants running: machinists, welders, maintenance techs, operators, industrial electricians, and engineers. USA Today called us the “LinkedIn for blue collar workers,” and Forbes profiled our work in “How AI Is Solving America’s 1 Trillion Dollar Manufacturing Labor Crisis.”

Today we work with manufacturers from 50 person shops to large public companies with tens of thousands of employees, and the story is the same everywhere. It is hard to find talent, hard to keep good people, and staffing costs keep rising. In a market where filling critical industrial roles can take months and turnover is constant, Laborup helps teams move qualified workers from first contact to on site interview in days instead of weeks and keep them on the floor longer.

Most of the workers our customers need are not on LinkedIn or the usual job boards. Laborup uses AI to find this hidden workforce, call and text them, screen and qualify them, build real profiles, and match them directly to the plants and roles where they can succeed. For workers, that means real, permanent roles at serious manufacturers, not one off gigs. For companies, it is durable infrastructure for hiring and retention at scale in a labor market that will stay tight for years.

We work across nuclear, defense, and advanced manufacturing, as well as sectors like aerospace, automotive, and food production. Teams that use Laborup hire 5 to 10 times faster, see around 3 times better retention, and cut cost per hire by up to 50 to 70 percent. That turns into fewer empty shifts, fewer missed orders, more stable teams, and more capacity without more headache.

We are building the modern talent system for America’s industrial base with a simple long term goal: put a billion industrial workers to work in good jobs that matter.

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Knoxville
Year Founded
Unknown
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