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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?


  • Yeah, but should a CMM Operator make more than $28/hr. Idk I haven't shopped the market in a while but that seems reasonable.

    The shop I was at before, I as doing everything you described AND was the primary CMM programmer AND was the interim quality co-manager for almost a year. I was making $21/hour and asked about a raise. I was told I already made too much. I now work somewhere else, where I mainly just do programming, and make much more. $28/hour isn't bad for someone fairly new but it does seem low for a programmer with experience that really knows their stuff.


  • The shop I was at before, I as doing everything you described AND was the primary CMM programmer AND was the interim quality co-manager for almost a year. I was making $21/hour and asked about a raise. I was told I already made too much. I now work somewhere else, where I mainly just do programming, and make much more. $28/hour isn't bad for someone fairly new but it does seem low for a programmer with experience that really knows their stuff.

    I agree. Definitely low for a skilled programmer.
  • Where do you all go to look for jobs? I search LinkedIn and Indeed. Any others I should look at?
  • in reply to A-machine-insp
    those two are the gold standard. monsterdotcom works as well

    you can also search for AS9100 & ISO 13485 companies online, cold call them, i've gotten a job like that before
  • in reply to A-machine-insp
    I've used both Indeed and Linkedin with success, but I found my last job using CareerBuilder.

    Once I made a profile I got a lot of calls from recruiters on there (about one a week). I hadn't had many people contact me for going on a year until the last 6 months after that. In Michigan, people are hiring like crazy so that is likely different depending on location
  • in reply to A-machine-insp
    I go old school (on top of indeed/monster/linkedin)... I physically locate (google maps, etc) companies within the area of where I'm willing to travel/relocate, then stalk them on the interwebs, eventually finding their careers page, and apply for them directly, within their website.

    Look for Medical manufacturing, Aerospace, Defense, Industrial Machining, automotive, electromechanical, gear manufacturers, other precision machining houses, even calibration labs. You should also consider other major OEM's (EX: Corning, Honeywell, GE, etc) as they have facilities all over the place and their proverbial fingers in many pies.
  • I emailed my old boss today. Maybe I can get my old job back. I'm also going to check Indeed today. I check LinkedIn daily and not much has changed.
  • Now I'm really looking. We had a mutual separation today so I am now very actively looking for a job. 4 Resumes submitted and I called one of them. They are very actively looking and the work would be four 10 hour days Monday through Thursday.
  • Now I'm really looking. We had a mutual separation today so I am now very actively looking for a job. 4 Resumes submitted and I called one of them. They are very actively looking and the work would be four 10 hour days Monday through Thursday.

    that 4 day schedule sounds sweet, id love that. hope it works out!


  • that 4 day schedule sounds sweet, id love that. hope it works out!

    Yeah, I have always wanted a 4 day work week like that. Although, most of the people I know who have had that schedule say that most of the time they had to work on Friday for OT. Still, at least you are more likely to get at least a 2 day weekend. Much better than working 5 days a week and needing to work OT on Saturday.
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