How to hire a machining associate

How to hire a machining associate, step by step

Here's a step-by-step machining associate hiring guide:

• Step 1: Identify your hiring needs
• Step 2: Create an ideal candidate profile
• Step 3: Make a budget
• Step 4: Write a machining associate job description
• Step 5: Post your job
• Step 6: Interview candidates
• Step 7: Send a job offer and onboard your new machining associate
• Step 8: Go through the hiring process checklist

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1. Identify your hiring needs

   Before you post your machining associate job, you should take the time to determine what type of worker your business needs. While certain jobs definitely require a full-time employee, it's sometimes better to find a machining associate for hire on a part-time basis or as a contractor.

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   A machining associate's background is also an important factor in determining whether they'll be a good fit for the position. For example, machining associates from different industries or fields will have radically different experiences and will bring different viewpoints to the role. You also need to consider the candidate's previous level of experience to make sure they'll be comfortable with the job's level of seniority.

   This list presents machining associate salaries for various positions.

   Type of Machining Associate	Description	Hourly rate
   Machining Associate	Machinists and tool and die makers set up and operate a variety of computer-controlled and mechanically controlled machine tools to produce precision metal parts, instruments, and tools.	$11-33
   Grinder	Depending on the industry, a grinder has a diverse range of duties. Typically, they oversee setting up and operating bearing grinders, cam grinders, and CNC lathes... Show more	$12-19
   Computer Numerical Controller Machinist	A computer numerical controller machinist is responsible for operating computer-based equipment, creating new machine components by programming, and evaluating machine blueprints. Computer numerical controller machinists must have extensive knowledge of the technology industry to understand its complexities and define accurate solutions, as well as excellent analytical skills for calculation requirements... Show more	$14-26

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2. Create an ideal candidate profile

   Common skills:

   • Calipers
   • CNC
   • Quality Checks
   • Safety Standards
   • Customer Service
   • Troubleshoot
   • PC

   Responsibilities:

   • Assemble and repair speakers and components utilizing precision saws, drill presses, buffing machines, sanders, and CNC mills.
   • Gain manual mill and lathe experience through creation of material blanks for use in CNC machines while maintaining specify tolerances.
   • Support day to day production operations and troubleshoot equipment and provide direction to maintenance as necessary.
   • Collaborate with part suppliers, SME consultants, and full contract manufacturers to proactively troubleshoot propose design modifications.
   • Cast iron end bell machining on Mazak.
   • See cut stock to appropriate lengths to be put into Haas lathes and mills.

3. Make a budget

   Including a salary range in your machining associate job description is one of the best ways to attract top talent. A machining associate can vary based on:

   • Location. For example, machining associates' average salary in oklahoma is 46% less than in alaska.
   • Seniority. Entry-level machining associates 65% less than senior-level machining associates.
   • Certifications. A machining associate with certifications usually earns a higher salary.
   • Company. Working for an established firm or a new start-up company can make a big difference in a machining associate's salary.

   Average machining associate salary

   $41,443yearly

   $19.92 hourly rate

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   Entry-level machining associate salary

   $24,000 yearly salary

   Updated December 15, 2025

4. Writing a machining associate job description

   A job description for a machining associate role includes a summary of the job's main responsibilities, required skills, and preferred background experience. Including a salary range can also go a long way in attracting more candidates to apply, and showing the first name of the hiring manager can also make applicants more comfortable. As an example, here's a machining associate job description:

   Machining associate job description example

   The mission of the AI Transformation & Engagements team is to enable at-scale development, testing, deployment, and continuous integration and delivery of AI/ML technologies in order to drive fundamental improvement in the quantity and quality of AI training data sets, accelerate AI delivery (measured in days and months), and improve AI performance. Enable a firm wide AI ecosystem with integrated platform, controls, compliance, and responsible AI. Provide the foundation and support for our business partners to consistently deliver AI solutions within targets, and in turn, create next generation market share.
   
   The Machine Learning team at JPMorgan Chase combines cutting edge machine learning techniques with the company's unique data assets to optimize all the business decisions we make. In this role, you will be part of our world-class machine learning team, and work on the collection, annotation and enrichment of data for machine learning models. Our work spans the company's lines of business, with exceptional opportunities in each.
   
   The successful candidate will work on multiple projects and provide data annotation services across a variety of data types including, but not limited to, text, chats, emails and audio. We expect the candidate to understand the business use-case and own the data annotation pipeline to go from the raw data to a reliable, annotated ground truth that can be used by sophisticated machine learning methods for banking applications such as risk assessment, trading models, customer relationship management, and pricing models.
   Responsibilities
   
   * Work on data labeling tool(s) and annotate data for machine learning models. Sift through structured and unstructured data; identify the right content and annotate with the right label.
   * Collaborate with stakeholders including machine learning engineers, data scientists, data engineers and product managers across all of JPMorgan Chase's lines of businesses, such as Investment Bank, Commercial Bank, and Asset Management.
   * Work on engagements from understanding the business objective through the data identification, annotation and validation.
   * Comprehend the subtleties of language used in the financial industry. Conduct research and bring clarity in business definitions and concepts. Annotate the terms, phrases, and data as per the project requirement.
   * Understand and define the relationship among entities.
   * Validate model results from the business perspective and provide feedback for model improvement.
   * Effectively communicate data annotation concepts, process and model results to both technical and business audiences. Break down ML annotation topics in a clear manner.
   * Adapt to changes in guidelines, priorities and environments
   * Transcribe verbatim audio recordings, single and multi-speaker of varying dialects and accents and identify relevant keywords and sentiment labels
   * Build a thorough understanding of data annotation and labeling conventions and develop documentation/guidelines for stakeholders and business partners
   * Develop key workflows, processes and KPIs to measure annotation performance and assess quality.
   * Become a subject matter expert and trusted advisor to your business partners to create and structure new annotations, labels and sub-labels. Represent data annotation team on multiple internal forums with other stakeholders.
   * Create an effective roadmap and implement best practices of data annotation for production-level machine learning applications.
   * Build rapport and work with stakeholders and understand the business use-case. Collaborate with other members in the team to deliver accurate and relevant data annotations.
   
   Qualifications
   
   * Strong financial knowledge. Full-time masters in a business management (MBA) with finance specialization.
   * 5 -7 years of hands-on experience in data collection, analysis or research.
   * Should be able to work both individually and collaboratively in teams, in order to achieve project goals.
   * Must be curious, hardworking and detail-oriented, and motivated by complex analytical problems and interested in data analytics techniques.
   * Interest in Machine learning and should be able to develop
   * a working level domain knowledge on machine learning concepts
   * an understanding of model scoring parameters such as precision, recall and f-score
   
   Beneficial Skills
   
   * Experience in data extraction/collection form financial documents
   * Experience with data annotation, labeling, entity disambiguation and data enrichment.
   * Familiarity with industry standard annotation and labeling methods
   * Exposure to voice translation services and tools
   * Familiarity with Machine learning and AI paradigms such as text classification, entity recognition, information retrieval

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5. Post your job

   To find the right machining associate for your business, consider trying out a few different recruiting strategies:

   • Consider internal talent. One of the most important sources of talent for any company is its existing workforce.
   • Ask for referrals. Reach out to friends, family members, and current employees and ask if they know or have worked with machining associates they would recommend.
   • Recruit at local colleges. Attend job fairs at local colleges to recruit machining associates who meet your education requirements.
   • Social media platforms. LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter now have more than 3.5 billion users, and you can use social media to reach potential job candidates.

   Post your job online:

   • Post your machining associate job on Zippia to find and recruit machining associate candidates who meet your exact specifications.
   • Use field-specific websites.
   • Post a job on free websites.

6. Interview candidates

   During your first interview to recruit machining associates, engage with candidates to learn about their interest in the role and experience in the field. During the following interview, you'll be able to go into more detail about the company, the position, and the responsibilities.

   It's also good to ask about candidates' unique skills and talents to see if they match your ideal candidate profile. If you think a candidate is good enough for the next step, you can move on to the technical interview.

   The right interview questions can help you assess a candidate's hard skills, behavioral intelligence, and soft skills.

7. Send a job offer and onboard your new machining associate

   Once you've decided on a perfect machining associate candidate, it's time to write an offer letter. In addition to salary, it should include benefits and perks available to the employee. Qualified candidates may be considered for other positions, so make sure your offer is competitive. Candidates may wish to negotiate. Once you've settled on the details, formalize your agreement with a contract.

   You should also follow up with applicants who don't get the job with an email letting them know that you've filled the position.

   To prepare for the new machining associate first day, you should share an onboarding schedule with them that covers their first period on the job. You should also quickly complete any necessary paperwork, such as employee action forms and onboarding documents like I-9, benefits enrollment, and federal and state tax forms. Finally, Human Resources must ensure a new employee file is created for internal record keeping.

8. Go through the hiring process checklist

   • Determine employee type (full-time, part-time, contractor, etc.)
   • Submit a job requisition form to the HR department
   • Define job responsibilities and requirements
   • Establish budget and timeline
   • Determine hiring decision makers for the role
   • Write job description
   • Post job on job boards, company website, etc.
   • Promote the job internally
   • Process applications through applicant tracking system
   • Review resumes and cover letters
   • Shortlist candidates for screening
   • Hold phone/virtual interview screening with first round of candidates
   • Conduct in-person interviews with top candidates from first round
   • Score candidates based on weighted criteria (e.g., experience, education, background, cultural fit, skill set, etc.)
   • Conduct background checks on top candidates
   • Check references of top candidates
   • Consult with HR and hiring decision makers on job offer specifics
   • Extend offer to top candidate(s)
   • Receive formal job offer acceptance and signed employment contract
   • Inform other candidates that the position has been filled
   • Set and communicate onboarding schedule to new hire(s)
   • Complete new hire paperwork (i9, benefits enrollment, tax forms, etc.)

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