Machine Shop Support Operator

Build Your Career in a High‑Tech, Hands‑On Manufacturing Environment

If you enjoy working with your hands, mastering different machines, and ensuring high‑precision parts meet exacting standards, this role is an exciting opportunity to grow in a fast‑paced production environment. You’ll work independently within a manufacturing cell, operating a variety of equipment, supporting material movement, and helping ensure parts meet the strict quality standards required by our industry.

What You’ll Do

In this role, you’ll take ownership of work from start to finish, including:

• Set up and operate a variety of machines—including band saws, blast cabinets, parts washers, and part‑marking equipment—to verify capabilities and confirm parts meet specifications.
• Interpret and work from prints and technical documents such as diagrams, sketches, specifications, formulas, and verbal instructions.
• Use precision measuring tools—calipers, gauges, micrometers, dial indicators—to check your own work and ensure parts conform to drawings and manufacturing plans.
• Select and set up tools, fixtures, and attachments necessary to complete assigned tasks, and identify faulty tools when needed.
• Perform material handling, including receiving, storing, issuing, and tracking materials for your assigned area.
• Finish and prepare parts using bench or hand tools to meet final specifications.
• Operate required information systems to support production and documentation.
• Verify alignment, tolerances, finishes, and part functionality, ensuring every component meets exacting standards.
• Collaborate with customers, support teams, and your supervisor to solve production or developmental challenges.

Who Thrives Here

Someone who enjoys…

• Hands‑on mechanical work
• Working independently
• Solving problems using technical information
• Ensuring high quality through precision and craftsmanship
• Learning new machines and tools
• Being part of a team that builds complex, safety‑critical components

What You Bring

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 1–2 years of experience in a manufacturing environment

What Makes You Stand Out

• DOE Q‑Clearance (or ability to obtain)

Physical Requirements

This position involves active, hands‑on work including standing, lifting, using hand tools, and working around industrial equipment.

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.

This position will require a pre­-employment background check and a pre-employment drug test.

Centrus Energy and all subsidiaries shall abide by the applicable legal requirements. We prohibit discrimination against qualified individuals based on their status as protected veterans or individuals with disabilities and prohibit discrimination against all individuals based on their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin.

This position requires the successful candidate to obtain and maintain a Q security clearance.  Candidates for positions requiring a security clearance are required to be tested for the absence of any illegal drug as defined in 10 CFR 707.4 prior to an offer of employment being made.  In addition, once employe, employees will become part of a random drug testing program and may also be tested in the event of any incident causing injury or causing damage to property, or if it is determined that there is a reasonable suspicion the employee is under the influence of drugs or alcohol.  This position will require preemployment background check on the part of the Company and in order to receive a Q security clearance, a background investigation by the Federal government.  Subsequent Federal government reinvestigations may be required.

Centrus Energy Corp. is an Equal Opportunity Employer