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Crazy Job Market

What's the CMM job market like near you?

I live and work in the far northern outskirts of Chicago. There is a fair amount of industry around me, but there are typically only two or three CMM job openings at a time within my commuting area. Most of them are normally the same few jobs that nobody wants or they just don’t pay enough.

However, right now it seems like there are quite a few jobs available near me that I'd be happy to take if I didn't already have a good thing going. Also, where I work we have been down a CMM programmer for many months and recently lost two more who left for greener pastures. HR tells me that no one is even applying, let alone anyone with good qualifications! We are working to build talent from within, but it's going to take some time.

How about you?
Are you currently understaffed? Or should I say, more understaffed than usual?
Do you see a lot more job openings near you?
Am I the only one dumb enough to do this for a living? What am I missing here?
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  • We are going to be hiring here soon. My shop is in North Dallas (Close to Denton). There should be a posting within the next few weeks.

    It is going to be more of a Quality Technician position though. It will be CMM operating, hand checks, bubble drawings, gage validation, in-process inspections, first articles, and CMM Programming (I put CMM programming last because it likely will be last, we are hiring this person to relieve me so I can program more).

    We are going to try and find a "jack of all trades" or a good CMM operator and train them to do the rest.
    We work Mon-Thur 6:00am-4:30pm. There is currently not a lot of overtime but that should change soon.

    I don't know what they are thinking for salary but it will likely be around $28 per hour. If you do apply and interview ask for whatever hourly rate you actually want because they are actually really good about paying competitively I think most people in this convo are probably "overqualified" for the position because it will not be full time programming thus will not be full time programming pay. Very small shop (>35 people) but its an amazing place to work and the owners are really cool.


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  • We are going to be hiring here soon. My shop is in North Dallas (Close to Denton). There should be a posting within the next few weeks.

    It is going to be more of a Quality Technician position though. It will be CMM operating, hand checks, bubble drawings, gage validation, in-process inspections, first articles, and CMM Programming (I put CMM programming last because it likely will be last, we are hiring this person to relieve me so I can program more).

    We are going to try and find a "jack of all trades" or a good CMM operator and train them to do the rest.
    We work Mon-Thur 6:00am-4:30pm. There is currently not a lot of overtime but that should change soon.

    I don't know what they are thinking for salary but it will likely be around $28 per hour. If you do apply and interview ask for whatever hourly rate you actually want because they are actually really good about paying competitively I think most people in this convo are probably "overqualified" for the position because it will not be full time programming thus will not be full time programming pay. Very small shop (>35 people) but its an amazing place to work and the owners are really cool.


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