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Cris_C
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?
  • Well... I'm searching the job market again.

    Wow, I didn't know was that bad! Sunglasses
  • in reply to A-machine-insp
    Nope. Other issues that will not be resolved.
  • in reply to A-machine-insp
    Good luck with the search and the potential transition. I am starting a new position myself in about 2 weeks with another company.
  • in reply to A-machine-insp
    Sorry to hear that Justin. Your good at what you do, so shouldn't have a hard time finding something. Good luck looking!
  • There are a few places I'm going to submit my resume to tonight and I have already contacted my old boss at my last job. It $ucks cause I've only been at this job for 4 months but the director of operations is a production guy and does not care at all about quality and knows NOTHING about dimensioning (wantsa to check complex profiles on the comparator). They have, and will continue to run 400+ piece orders without a buyoff and that will not change. I am the 3rd person to hold this position in the last year and the previous 2 have quit. I know one of them is on here (not that often) and the other may be as well.
  • There are a few places I'm going to submit my resume to tonight and I have already contacted my old boss at my last job. It $ucks cause I've only been at this job for 4 months but the director of operations is a production guy and does not care at all about quality and knows NOTHING about dimensioning (wantsa to check complex profiles on the comparator). They have, and will continue to run 400+ piece orders without a buyoff and that will not change. I am the 3rd person to hold this position in the last year and the previous 2 have quit. I know one of them is on here (not that often) and the other may be as well.

    I know the feeling. Where I was before, the operations manager referred to quality as a "no value added" department. We were constantly assigned tasks to "provide value to the company". I would spend half my day running presses or driving a forklift loading and unloading trucks. He literally implemented a policy where we would ship bad parts and, if the customer had an issue, they could just send them back. They lost a major customer a month after I left.Smiley


  • I know the feeling. Where I was before, the operations manager referred to quality as a "no value added" department. We were constantly assigned tasks to "provide value to the company". I would spend half my day running presses or driving a forklift loading and unloading trucks. He literally implemented a policy where we would ship bad parts and, if the customer had an issue, they could just send them back. They lost a major customer a month after I left.Smiley

    He (and the guy I deal with) are correct to a point. Quality is all overhead costs. They do not make money because of us, we actually cost money in scrap material and lost production time. That being said, we are contractually required to exist. We are a necessary evil. I have had this discussion many times with my former roommate because he was the director of operations for a billion dollar company. The difference is those that actually work with quality and realize why we are there vs those that wish we didn't exist and try to circumvent us. Accept that we need to be there and help us to make the shop and processes run better and more accurately. This guy just goes around us every chance he gets. There is a reason why we have lost and continue to loose customers. That is NOT the kind of company I want to be a part of.
  • in reply to KronkGitBasher
    The reduction in warranty work does justify a quality dept.
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