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Machine Operator (Finishing) 2nd Shift

Kelly
Chicago, IL Full Time
POSTED ON 12/31/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/29/2026
Machine Operator (Finishing)

Location: Chicago 60618 (North Side)

Pay: 17.50/hr

2nd Shift: 2PM-10:30PM (Monday through Friday)

What You’ll Do As a Finishing Machine Operator

  • Utilize abrasive belts and wheels to finish hardened dental instruments
  • Finish instruments with technical difficulty and with excellent precision and eye/hand coordination to achieve required product dimensions and unique customer requirements
  • Progress to different product families as skills are mastered at each category level, usually after 1–2 years
  • Detect unacceptable quality on instruments and correct any practices or processes that do not meet established standards
  • Maintain compliance standards and specifications for products using specified measurement tools and drawings
  • Follow all OSHA and company-specific guidelines for safety
  • Record work performed via bar code reader system, or in manual log where/when appropriate
  • Complete other duties, as assigned

Requirements:

  • Minimum of one year experience with machines, tools, equipment, including grinding machines and small tools for set up
  • Basic reading and writing (English), and basic math skills. Minimal to moderate physical strength is needed
  • Ability to perform routine, repetitive operations while maintaining attention to detail
  • Must work well under general supervision; required to make some independent judgments concerning product quality and take necessary corrective action
  • Able to learn to use measuring instruments such as calipers, micrometers, protractors, and have basic blueprint reading ability
  • Ability to learn new instruments, using written specifications or an approved sample
  • Ability to train others to follow established work instructions and assignments (minimum 1 year)

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

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About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

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