Machinist-Bench - 2nd Shift

L3Harris•Canoga Park, CA

9h•Onsite

About The Position

L3Harris is seeking a Machinist-Bench to join its Canoga Park, California facility, which designs and manufactures rocket engines and power systems supporting space exploration and national defense. This is a union position on the second shift, with a 9/80 schedule: employees work nine days in each 14-day period, totaling 80 hours, and have every other Friday off. The Machinist-Bench completes, checks, reworks, and deburrs sheet metal and machined parts, assemblies, and extrusions. The role uses machinery, mechanics’ hand tools, and precision measuring instruments to carry out machining and finishing work, interpret technical documents, and verify parts before company inspection. The employee also records manufacturing data on a computer.

Requirements

High school graduate or equivalent preferred.
Three to five years of experience in a related field.
Ability to interpret blueprints, drawings, GD&T, specifications, MOR Books, sketches, engineering orders, and work instructions.

Responsibilities

Complete, check, rework, and deburr sheet metal and machined parts, assemblies, and extrusions using various machines and mechanics’ hand tools.
Determine dimensions, angles, tolerances, and finishes by interpreting planning documents, drawings, blueprints, manuals, and engineering orders.
Lay out holes, locations, constant-radius cutouts, step cuts, seal grooves, and mold lines.
Select, set up, and operate power hand-controlled tools to deburr, rework, and repair damaged or improperly machined parts made from various metals.
Machine, drill, grind, file, ream, face, tap, cut, and lap parts and assemblies to the required shape and dimensions.
Set up and operate roto-finishing equipment, selecting abrasives, compounds, and liquids to achieve the required finish.
Verify the accuracy of parts, assemblies, and extrusions before company inspection using precision measuring instruments.
Record manufacturing data on a computer.
Read and interpret blueprints, drawings, GD&T, specifications, MOR Books, sketches, engineering orders, and work instructions.