**Job Title: Machine Operator - Production Team** **Job Description** Join our production team, specializing in the manufacturing of Carbon Rings and Seals for the Oil Industry. This unique opportunity includes roles in machine operating, grinder operating, quality control, material handling, CNC, and more. Our products, made from pressed carbon, serve as seals, couplings, washers, etc., and are known for their heat insulation properties. **Responsibilities** + Operate machines to press powder carbon into small rings. + Operate grinding machines to ensure pieces are the correct size after quality checks with micrometers and calipers. + Perform offsets on machines to ensure parts are produced to specifications. + Visually inspect rings for imperfections and stack them neatly into large buckets. + Move buckets into a giant furnace to solidify the rings over 5 days. + Operate lapper machines and monitor progress. + Perform repetitive tasks and maintain consistent quality. **Essential Skills** + Previous production experience working with machinery. + Experience with micrometers, calipers, drop gauges, or veneer. + Familiarity with blueprints. **Additional Skills & Qualifications** + Grinding experience. + Experience with press machinery, manual machines (mills/lathes/grinders), thermoforming machines, or injection molding machines. + Strong mechanical aptitude. + Understanding of 'ID, OD' terms. + Good vision for handling small parts. + Ability to read and write English. + GED or high school diploma. + Willingness to submit to a drug test and background check. **Why Work Here?** We hire employees as soon as their contracts are completed, typically after 90 days. Our company offers excellent benefits and a 401K plan. Join a team that values internal promotion and provides a supportive work environment. **Work Environment** Training occurs from 7am-3:30pm, Monday through Friday. The environment can be dirty and hot, depending on the weather. We provide uniforms and daily laundry service for only $2 a week, ensuring clean uniforms every day. This is a great opportunity to enter the CNC field in a smaller but significant facility. **Job Type & Location** This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Crystal Lake, IL, Illinois. **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.