CNC Setup Machinist Recruiting Built for Machine Shops
hireCNC helps machine shops across North America hire skilled CNC setup machinists through recruiting services built specifically for the machining industry.
Contact Our TeamWhy Setup Machinists Are Worth Fighting For
On hireCNC’s own job board, setup machinists earn roughly $9.50/hr more than general operators — $33.00 versus $23.50 at the median. That gap reflects how much more a shop depends on someone who can actually run the job from blank to finished part: reading prints, choosing tooling, dialing in offsets, and troubleshooting on the fly instead of just running a program someone else built.
hireCNC’s recruiting team focuses on candidates who’ve done real setup work, not just operated a machine someone else programmed and set — so the candidates you see have already been screened for that experience level.
Two Ways hireCNC Helps You Hire Setup Machinists
Different hiring needs call for different approaches. hireCNC offers flexible recruiting solutions built around how urgently you need to fill the seat.
Recruiting Partnership
Our recruiting partnership model gives machine shops access to a dedicated recruiting team focused exclusively on CNC talent, including setup machinists — ongoing sourcing, screening, and candidate delivery for as long as you need to fill the role.
Contingent Search
Pay only when we deliver a hire. A contingent search is a lower-commitment way to get help filling a single hard-to-fill setup machinist seat without a long-term recruiting contract.
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hireCNC helps machine shops across North America hire skilled CNC setup machinists faster through recruiting services built for the machining industry.