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Machinist III

Benchmark
Tempe, AZ Full Time
POSTED ON 8/22/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 10/16/2026
At Benchmark, we are driven by our purpose: to innovate for a healthier, safer, and better-connected world to create a brighter future. When you join us, you become part of a team passionate about making a meaningful impact across various sectors, including commercial aerospace, defense, advanced computing, next-generation communications, complex industrials, medical, and semiconductor capital equipment. We prioritize career growth, fostering a culture that ensures you reach your full potential. At Benchmark, your work is purpose-driven, enabling you to create a positive impact on the world and make your career truly meaningful. You’ll be part of a collaborative, and inclusive team that values your ideas and contributions.

Summary:

Perform diversified general maintenance activities, at various levels of complexity, referring to blueprints and drawings for the machinery plan and perform the machining operations.

Responsibilities:

  • Set up and operate lathes, millers, shapers, grinders, planers and power drills
  • Work from blueprints, sketches and verbal instructions
  • Perform highly diversified machining operations, such as boring, turning, facing, reaming, grinding, milling and tapering
  • Perform work on machined parts, forgings and castings, which are of varying degrees of complexity in mature and critically dimensioned
  • Determine and maintain the proper operational sequences at all times, make all necessary mathematical calculations to complete the job
  • Determine the appropriate feeds and speeds for all operations
  • Check own work; Usually work to tolerance of /- .00005
  • Read and interpret complex blueprints and manufacture parts from a layout drawing without use of sketches or verbal instructions, making all necessary mathematical calculations to complete the job according to the drawing
  • Bench work, including any necessary operations such as filing, de-burring, grinding, lapping, indexing, scraping and fitting, in order to complete mechanical assemblies from crude sketches, verbal instructions or work samples
  • Check own work by making set-ups and interpret gauges, electro-limit gauges and size blocks
  • Occasionally make decisions as to fits and tolerances
  • Perform all the essential functions and competencies listed above
  • Set-up, operate, alter, repair and plan own work
  • Perform complex checking and interpret results of own work by setting up and operating instruments such as air gauges, electro-limit gauges and size blocks
  • Usually work to tolerances of /- .001 /- .0005
  • 6 years of experience in complex machining operations; May include CNC programming
  • All employees are responsible for the Quality of their work to ensure BEI meets, or exceeds Customer Satisfaction.

Other information:

Education: Highschool Diploma or equivalent is a must, a 2 year technical degree (or apprenticeship certification) preferred

Physical Location: Tempe, AZ

Shift: Shift 3

Work Schedule: Friday-Sunday 5:30am-6:00pm

Full Time

In our innovative environment, you'll work with cutting-edge technology, leading the way in engineering design and delivering world-class manufacturing services for products that make a real difference in the lives of others. At Benchmark, your career is more than just a job. It’s an opportunity to be part of something bigger, where your work matters and helps shape a brighter future for everyone. Together, we will achieve extraordinary things.

Safety-Sensitive Position and Drug Testing Notice: This position is classified as safety-sensitive because impairment while performing job duties could pose a significant risk of harm. Where permitted by applicable law or required by federal regulation, Benchmark will conduct a pre-employment drug screen , which may include testing for THC . In jurisdictions that restrict pre-employment cannabis testing or prohibit action based solely on non-psychoactive cannabis metabolites, Benchmark will comply with local requirements. Benchmark maintains a drug- and alcohol-free workplace and may conduct reasonable-suspicion and post-incident testing in accordance with applicable law.

Export Control: This job position may include access to controlled information or technology covered under applicable U.S. export control laws. As such, employment for this job position may be contingent on either verification that an applicant falls under the definition of a “U.S. Person” (which includes U.S. citizens, U.S. lawful permanent residents, and those granted U.S. asylum or refugee status) or on the Company timely obtaining any necessary export license required under federal laws. The Company evaluates such export license situations on a case-by-case basis and may decline to proceed with a job applicant in its sole discretion since export license applications can take many weeks to be processed.

Benchmark is an equal opportunity employer. We are bringing together a diverse workforce with unique talents, life experiences, cultures, and perspectives to promote an innovative, collaborative, and creative place to work. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at careers@bench.com .

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