CNC Manufacturing Documentation Reviewer

Review real-world CNC job packs to determine whether the documentation is authentic, technically relevant, complete, and suitable for a manufacturing workflow research project. This is a documentation review role focused on evaluating submitted materials, not designing parts or programming machines. Key Responsibilities

• Review CNC job packs submitted by manufacturing companies, CNC shops, machinists, and production teams.
• Assess whether documentation appears to originate from real CNC manufacturing work and is not publicly available, AI-generated, generic, or artificially created.
• Confirm that files relate to the same part, job, drawing number, customer part number, or production workflow.
• Evaluate the technical completeness of engineering drawings, ballooned drawings, tolerances, material specifications, setup sheets, tooling lists, process flow charts, control plans, and inspection documents.
• Verify that production artifacts, including G-code, CAM output, toolpath documents, and setup instructions, are meaningful and connected to the job.
• Identify missing or weak documentation and flag confidential, personal, customer, or company-sensitive information requiring redaction.
• Provide a concise quality assessment with a recommendation to accept, accept with minor issues, request more information, or reject.

• Customer requests, RFQs, purchase orders, or internal work orders.
• Job cards, route cards, travelers, engineering drawings, and ballooned drawings.
• CAD files, including STEP, IGES, DXF, DWG, native CAD files, CAM files, toolpath exports, operation sheets, and setup sheets.
• G-code or NC files, tooling lists, CNC setup instructions, process flow charts, and control plans.
• Material specifications, mill test certificates, raw-material inspection reports, in-process inspection reports, final inspection reports, CMM reports, and photos of parts, setups, fixtures, or machining processes.

• Direct practical experience in CNC manufacturing, CNC programming, machining, or manufacturing quality control.
• Experience with CNC milling and/or CNC turning.
• Ability to read engineering drawings, GD&T, and tolerances.
• Familiarity with CNC setup sheets, machining instructions, CAD/CAM workflows, G-code or NC files, tooling lists, cutting tools, process routing, job cards, travelers, inspection reports, QC checklists, CMM reports, control plans, material certificates, and mill test reports.
• Comfort reviewing technical drawings and real shop-floor manufacturing documentation.

• Remote engagement.

• $40 to $50 per hour.