Job Description

Overview

At Northrop Grumman, employees have opportunities to work on revolutionary systems that impact lives globally. The company is seeking a Machinist 2 for its Armament Systems Business Unit in Mesa, AZ, to contribute to the fabrication of components for advanced weapon systems.

Responsibilities

  • Fabricate various components and samples that meet design specifications.
  • Operate conventional and numerically controlled machining centers, lathes, and surface grinders on semi-complex jobs.
  • Work from blueprints, sketches, planning sheets, and verbal instructions.
  • Contribute to initiatives to increase productivity and reduce costs.
  • Perform manual and CNC machine operations including turning, milling, forming, drilling, tapping, and reaming parts.
  • Adjust feeds, speeds, and depth of cut to machine quality parts.
  • Operate hand and power tools to deburr precision and complex machined parts.
  • Inspect parts for conformance to specifications using measuring instruments.
  • Maintain equipment to ensure cleanliness, accuracy, and reliability.
  • Implement lean initiatives by identifying and providing suggestions for improvement.
  • Observe all company policies and procedures, especially safety rules.

Requirements

  • High School Degree.
  • Minimum of 2 years experience on CNC Lathes and Mills in a machining environment.
  • Ability to follow written, electronic, and verbal instructions.
  • Experience working in a team environment.

Benefits

  • Health Insurance
  • PTO

Additional Information

  • This is a second shift position: Hours: M-Th 4x10, 3:00 – 1:30 A.M.
  • Location: Mesa, AZ

Benefits

Health Insurance
PTO

How this job compares in Mesa, AZ

Pay in context

At roughly $28/hr, this posting lands within a few percent of the $29/hr median for welding jobs in Mesa, AZ, whose middle half runs $24–$33/hr across 22 postings with published pay. Put another way, it pays more than about 41% of the comparable postings we have wage data for. In other words it is a market-rate offer, so benefits, overtime, and shift schedule are where the real difference between this and the next posting on the list shows up.

The local market in Mesa, AZ

We're tracking 56 other active welding openings in Mesa, AZ right now, from 39 different employers. 26 of them were added in the last week. Across Arizona as a whole we're tracking 488 other active welding openings from 276 employers. A metro this active generally means you have real leverage — employers here are competing for the same welders. Browse every welding job in Mesa, or widen the search to Arizona.

The most active employers in Arizona at the moment, by number of open welding reqs, are Sundt Construction (14), Welding Shop in Phoenix, AZ (14), and GTI Fabrication (11). Volume like that usually means either a genuine expansion or a staffing agency working several client sites — worth knowing which before you apply.

Within Arizona, the best-paying metros we track by median hourly rate are El Mirage at $38/hr, Waddell at $34/hr, and Phoenix at $32/hr. If you can relocate or commute, that spread is worth factoring in.

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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. Machinist 2 figures were last recalculated when this page was built.