Balancing Apprenticeship (OMJ/MC)
The Balancing Company, Inc. (OMJ/MC)
Vandalia, OHFull-time$19/hrSeen 6 days agoSeen in employer's feed 6 days ago
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Job overview
The Balancing Company is hiring a balancing apprentice to become a trained balancing technician, applying correction methods to parts according to imbalance, component composition, and customer requirements. The role may involve material removal through milling, drilling, and hand grinding, as well as material addition through welding and adhesives. Preferred experience includes machining, engineering drawings, metal grinding, machinery troubleshooting, and trigonometry.
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Full job description
Balancing Apprenticeship - Starting Pay: $19.00/HR 1st Shift/Full-Time Become a trained balancing technician and contribute to our 58-yearreputation for providing high quality balancing solutions. Balancing technicians apply several different correction methods to a wide variety of parts based on the amount of unbalance, component composition, and specific customer requirements. Successful balancing technicians are meticulous and take pride in the quality of their work. Preferred Experience Level: • Certificate or Associate's Degree in Machining or a closely related field • 1 year of manual machining with Bridgeport mills and rotary tables • 1 year of working directly from engineering design drawings • 1 year of intricate metal grinding by hand • 1 year of troubleshooting and machinery repair • Proficient in trigonometry or higher Examples of Work You May Perform: • Material removal by milling, drilling, and grinding by hand • Material addition by welding and adhesives Parts You May Work On: • Parts weighing less than 1 ounce and up to 20 tons • Components for Aerospace, Automotive, Industrial, and Agriculture • Electromagnetic rotors, gears, and transmission components • Rolls, crushers, mixers, and centrifuges • Impellers, turbines, and compressor wheels Benefits $8000/$16000 ICHRA health insurance, 100% employer funded SEP-IRA, weekly paychecks, merit raises, bonuses, life insurance, paid vacation, paid sick leave, 100% tuition reimbursement, and weekly uniform stipend. Requirements: Background check/physical/drug screen
How this job compares
Set against the 1,375 open Apprentice jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 27, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$19/hr
- Ohio median$17–23/hr48 hourly ranges
- US median$17–23/hr1,119 hourly ranges
This rate, $19/hr, is 6% below the Ohio median midpoint ($20/hr) — in the middle half of Apprentice hourly ranges in Ohio.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 63 open Apprentice jobs in Ohio and 1,375 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
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- Experience
- Apprentice postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (96 postings).
- Education
- 4 of the 1,375 open Apprentice jobs (under 1%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 27, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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