CNC Operator - #2141415

Working for Waukesha Bearings, a part of Dover Precision Components, as a Skilled CNC Setter/Operator you will be part of a fully integrated Computer Aided Manufacturing facility, utilising CNC machining centres for turning, milling and grinding operations to produce customised designs from a variety of steel grades, copper, brass, aluminium and bronze.

The facility has a broad range of multi-axis machine tools, lathes, mills, grinders and associated equipment, The workload being a high-mix of customised fluid-film bearings, seals and isolators with typical applications in turbo and industrial machinery, where we are supplying customers throughout Europe and further afield.

Annual Salaries: 37 hour working week, Monday to Friday. Permanent Employment Contracts;

• £44,919.62 for weekly rotating shift pattern of early (6am) and backshifts (2pm) OR;

• £52,452.37 for working on night shift.

*These rates are inclusive of shift premium. Additional benefits inc. productivity bonuses, employer pension contrib. up to 13%, life insurance and 25 days holiday. Plus, attractive overtime rates.

What You Will Bring;

• Time-served apprenticeship in a machining discipline or SVQ/NVQ level 3 or HNC in Mechanical Engineering

• A minimum of 5 years’ experience operating CNC machine tools within a lean-manufacturing work environment

• Established milling, grinding or turning experience utilising multi-axis machine tools, ideally Correa and/or Doosan or similar

• Experience working with machine control systems such as Fanuc, Mazak, Heidenhaim or Haas

• Proven ability to hold tight machining tolerances of less than .0025mm

• Experienced with precision inspection equipment including, but not limited to, micrometres, callipers, height gauges and bore gauges

• Ideally with experience in the power generation, oil & gas, aerospace or similar environment

What You Will Do;

• Read process sheets, blueprints and sketches of part to determine machining to be done, dimensional specifications, set up and operating requirements

• Locate and download programs from a DNC storage system

• Interpret work instructions, identify, select and install proper tooling for operations being performed

• Calculate proper feeds and speeds for a variety of steel grades, copper, brass, aluminium and bronze

• Read, understand, edit or write complete programs

• Intuitively understand capabilities of tooling and machinery

• Understand applicable quality systems and perform necessary quality inspections

• Apply principles of Lean Manufacturing to reduced setup times and improve productivity

• Visually inspects final components

• Perform boxing of parts to include cleaning, oiling, wrapping and boxing the final product for shipment

• Perform cleaning, fitting, filing, tapping, reaming, blending, polishing and aligning to ensure free action of movable parts and operating requirements

• Use precision measuring instruments and gauging devices and performs various quality inspection type procedures to include dimensional verification

• Properly identify components after assembly/manufacture