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Overview

We are seeking a CNC Machinist to join our federal team at our York, PA location, where we custom design and manufacture complex chilled water HVAC and refrigeration equipment for Navy vessels. The role involves planning, fabricating, and assembling various components using advanced welding techniques.

Responsibilities

  • Use tool preset machine, precision measuring instruments, hand and hand power tools, deburr tools and appropriate material handling equipment.
  • Work from drawings, process sheets, specifications, tape program, instructions, or visual display units.
  • Perform fixture change-overs, loading and unloading of production parts, on-line piece parts inspection and manual data input to ensure specified finishes and tolerances.
  • Maintain tooling and backup tooling where necessary.
  • Monitor control messages and take appropriate corrective action.
  • Perform utility functions to maintain process.
  • Perform housekeeping and deburr internal to machining operations.
  • Fill out PM check lists and may assist in the PM of the machine.

Requirements

  • Ability to read shop prints, mathematics, handbook formulas, precision measuring instruments, process sheets, and program tapes.
  • Knowledge of N/C controlled machines and shop practices equivalent to 1 to 2 years trades training.
  • Ability to setup and operate any type of tape controlled milling and drilling machines for all specified machining operations.
  • Ability to perform moderate physical effort working continuously with light weight or frequently with average weight materials.
  • This position requires proof of US Citizenship due to DOD Federal Contract.

Additional Information

  • Location: York, PA Navy Systems Plant
  • Shift: 2nd Shift, Monday-Friday
  • Union: This is a bargaining unit (union) position.
  • Pay: $37.62 per hour, plus $2.00/hour shift differential.
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How this job compares in Philadelphia, PA

Pay in context

At roughly $38/hr, this posting sits about 18% above the $32/hr median for welding jobs in Philadelphia, PA — toward the top of a $30–$45/hr middle band drawn from 25 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 56% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. Pay that far above local median usually comes attached to something: a harder cert requirement, travel, night shift, or overtime that isn't really optional. Worth establishing which before you accept.

The local market in Philadelphia, PA

We're tracking 47 other active welding openings in Philadelphia, PA right now, from 34 different employers. 17 of them were added in the last week. Across Pennsylvania as a whole we're tracking 324 other active welding openings from 215 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Philadelphia, or widen the search to Pennsylvania.

Johnson Controls currently has 5 other openings live in Pennsylvania, which is usually a sign of either steady growth or steady turnover — worth asking which in the interview.

The most active employers in Pennsylvania at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Rhoads Industries (13), Greene Tweed (9), and Department of the Navy - Agency Wide (8). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Pennsylvania, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are Philadelphia at $32/hr and York at $27/hr. Philadelphia is among them.

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Pay figures are medians computed from live postings in the Welding Pros index, not from survey data, and they move as employers post. CNC Machinist - 2nd Shift (Job Number: 1612) figures were last recalculated when this page was built.