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**Job Title: Manual Machinist****Job Description**Perform manual machining tasks (lathe, mill, saw, and drill) within a small precision machine shop. Quality is a top priority, utilizing a buddy system to inspect parts and ensuring all jobs are inspected prior to shipment. Our goal is to surpass customer expectations, and we rarely have parts rejected. Any issues are corrected before shipment. A positive, can-do attitude is essential, along with respect for others. Excellent attendance is required. The role includes assisting with estimates, sawing, machining, deburring, finishing, cleaning the shop, equipment maintenance, inspection, documenting time, packaging, pick-up/delivery, and other tasks to support customer and company needs. The candidate must operate saws, mills, and lathes to produce precision metal and plastic parts from customer drawings and CAD files, meeting company and customer standards for tolerances and cosmetics. Reading blueprints, understanding geometrical tolerancing, and utilizing measuring tools like micrometers, pitch mics, height gages, and depth gages are required. The machinist must efficiently estimate and meet set up and run times for jobs. The company specializes in quick turn shipments, requiring the machinist to operate in a fast-paced environment at times. Machining inside and outside unified and metric threads on the lathes is essential. The candidate must hold tolerances of +/-.005, often requiring +.001 / .000 on reamed holes, with most parts requiring a cosmetic finish. Grinding custom tools, co-designing machine fixtures, and drill jigs are necessary. CNC programming and CNC Mill operating experience are desirable but not required. CAD experience, especially with SolidWorks and SolidWorks Cam, is also desirable but not required. QuickBooks training may be provided. Occasionally, employees may be asked to pick up or deliver parts, compensated for their time and mileage.**Hard Skills**+ Manual Mill+ Manual Lathe+ Saw+ Reading Blueprints+ Geometrical Tolerancing+ Using Measuring Tools+ Machining Precision Parts+ Grinding Custom Tools+ Co-designing Machine Fixtures+ Drill Jigs**Soft Skills**+ Positive Attitude+ Team Player+ Excellent Attendance+ Flexibility+ Respect for Others**Job Type**This is a Contract-to-Hire position with a duration of 4 Month(s).**Work Site**This is a fully on-site position in Portland, Oregon.**Work Environment**Small machine shop, working alongside one other person who runs the shop.**About Aerotek:**We know that finding work is hard, and finding meaningful work is harder. Aerotek connects 180,000+ light industrial and skilled trades workers with 14,000+ employers each year, helping our workers navigate an evolving labor market and find jobs that meets their goals, skills and interests. Since 1983, we have provided a variety of career opportunities across North American industry – from short-term assignments at Fortune 500 companies where you can build your skills, to long-term opportunities where you can play a vital role solving for companies' construction, manufacturing and maintenance challenges. Our 1,500+ experienced recruiters across 250+ offices work relentlessly to put our workforce in a position to thrive. Let us rise to meet your challenges and put our people-are everything spirit to the test as your career continues to grow.Aerotek offers weekly pay, employee benefits including medical, dental & vision, life insurance, health advocacy and employee assistance programs, a 401(k) plan, and employee discounts.The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.