Nordson Corporation

CNC Machining Careers in Clinton, SC — Multi-Axis VMC, Horizontal Mill & Lathe Machining | Machine & Fabrication Shop | Precision Dispensing & Coating Equipment Manufacturing

🔎 At a glance

Company Name: Nordson Corporation
Location: Clinton, SC 29325 (headquarters in Westlake, OH)
Founded: 1954
Shop Type: OEM Manufacturer with an In-House Machine & Fabrication Shop
Industries Served: Packaging, Automotive, Electronics, Medical, Semiconductor
Machining Capabilities: CNC Milling, Horizontal Milling, CNC Turning, Multi-Axis VMC, Swiss-Type

🏭 About Nordson Corporation

Nordson Corporation was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Westlake, Ohio. The company engineers and manufactures precision technology, including fully integrated systems, aftermarket parts, and consumables, with specialties in precision dispensing, fluid management, and surface treatment, plus measurement, testing, and inspection equipment. Nordson is publicly traded on the Nasdaq (NDSN), employs more than 8,000 people, and has operations and support offices in more than 35 countries.

Its Industrial Coating Systems business makes powder coating and liquid spray equipment, container coating systems, and 1K and 2K dispensing systems for industries including automotive, electronics, and eMobility. In July 2024, that business announced a $30 million investment in a 225,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Clinton, South Carolina, with more than 125 new production, machining, engineering, and management jobs, and readySC and Piedmont Technical College assisting with recruiting and training.

For machinists, the Clinton opening sits in a Machine and Fabrication Shop whose job families include CNC, machine operations, tool and die, and mechanic. It is a place for someone who wants to work across a wide mix of machines inside an established manufacturer, not on one repeating part.

👍 Why you'll like working here

You'd be joining an established, publicly traded manufacturer with a long history and a growing South Carolina footprint. The Clinton location has been expanding, with a 225,000-square-foot facility and more than 125 new jobs announced across production, machining, engineering, and management.

The machining work is varied. The current Senior CNC Machinist opening calls for setting up and running mills, horizontal mills with pallet changers, twin-spindle lathes, Swiss-type machines, and multi-axis VMCs, with limited supervision on defined runs. Senior machinists also lead cross-training and new-hire training for the group, which is a way to build leadership experience while staying hands-on at the machine.

⚙️ What you'll be working on

Machining and maintaining machinery, machine tools, equipment, and metal and plastic parts in the Machine and Fabrication Shop. Day to day that means setting up tool registers, offsets, and workholding on mills, lathes, drills, and Bridgeport machines, editing CNC programs, interpreting blueprints and title block GD&T, checking parts with calipers, gauges, indicators, and micrometers, catching out-of-spec parts, and keeping equipment running with routine maintenance.

⭐ Shop highlights

• Founded in 1954, headquartered in Westlake, Ohio, with operations in more than 35 countries
• Publicly traded manufacturer (Nasdaq: NDSN) with more than 8,000 employees worldwide
• Machine and Fabrication Shop covering CNC, machine operations, tool and die, and mechanic roles
• Wide equipment mix, from Citizen Swiss lathes and DMG Mori and Mori Seiki lathes with bar feeders and live tooling to Makino and Hitachi Seiki mills, multi-axis VMCs, and horizontal mills
• Clinton, SC facility announced in 2024: $30 million investment, 225,000 square feet, and more than 125 new jobs
• Senior machinists lead cross-training and new-hire training

🛠️ Machines & technology

CNC Mills: Makino horizontal mills with two tombstones, Makino PS105 vertical mills, Hitachi Seiki VG45 vertical mill, multi-axis vertical machining centers (VMCs)
CNC Lathes / Mill-Turn: DMG Mori NLX 2500 single-turret, single-spindle lathes with bar feeders and live tooling; Mori Seiki NZ2500 dual-spindle, dual-turret lathes with bar feeders and live tooling; Hitachi Seiki single-turret, single-spindle lathes
Swiss: Citizen L20 and L32 floating-headstock Swiss lathes with bar feeders
Other Production Equipment: gun drill, hone, bandsaw, drill presses, Bridgeport machines, air pneumatic deburring tools, standalone soft wheel grinders, wash stations

Controls and CAM software for the Clinton shop have not been published.

📏 Quality & inspection

Machinists at the Clinton shop work to blueprints with title block GD&T and verify dimensions and tolerances with calipers, gauges, indicators, micrometers, and other hand tools, and the shop has a comparator for inspection. They are expected to detect non-spec parts and equipment malfunctions and correct them. Specific certifications and inspection systems for the Clinton shop have not been published.

💼 Current CNC career opportunities

Senior CNC Machinist — Clinton, SC

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