MACHINIST — LAD ENGINEERING | LANSING, MI | $19–$32/HR

Most CNC shops hire you to run a machine. That's it. Show up, hit the green button, go home.

That's not this job.

LAD Engineering is a precision CNC job shop, ISO 9001:2015. We make parts for government contractors and manufacturers — and the programs our parts go into can't absorb a bad one. If we ship junk, somebody downstream eats it. So we don't ship junk.

We're hiring a machinist now. Two or three years from now, we want that same person reviewing quotes and owning the schedule.

If that doesn't sound like you — keep scrolling. If it does, read the rest carefully.

THE PATH

Here's the comp, the timeline, and what you have to do to move.

• Machinist – Training (Months 1–3): $19–$21/hr. You're learning how we do things. How we set up. How we document. What a finished ...