CNC Setter/Operative in Milton

Dover Precision Components delivers performance-critical solutions for rotating and reciprocating machinery across the oil & gas, power generation, marine, industrial, chemical, and general processing markets. Working for Waukesha Bearings, a part of Dover Precision Components, as a Skilled CNC 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 workload includes customised fluid-film bearings, seals and isolators with typical applications in turbo and industrial machinery, 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).
• £52,452.37 for working on night shift.
• These rates are inclusive of shift premium, productivity bonuses, employer pension contributions up to 13%, life insurance and 25 days holiday. Plus, attractive overtime rates.

Responsibilities:

• Read process sheets, blueprints and sketches of parts to determine machining to be done, dimensional specifications, set up and operating requirements.
• Read, understand, edit or write complete programs.
• Understand applicable quality systems and perform necessary quality inspections.
• Apply principles of Lean Manufacturing to reduce setup times and improve productivity.
• Perform boxing of parts to include cleaning, oiling, wrapping and boxing the final product for shipment.
• Use precision measuring instruments and gauging devices and perform various quality inspection procedures to include dimensional verification.
• Properly identify components after assembly/manufacture.

Requirements:

• 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 experience utilising multi-axis machine tools, ideally Correa and/or Doosan or similar.
• Experience working with machine control systems such as Fanuc, Mazak, Heidenhain or Haas.
• Proven ability to hold tight machining tolerances of less than .
• 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.

Dover Precision Components delivers products and services that enhance performance, improve safety, reduce carbon emissions, and accelerate clean energy adoption, through collaborative customer relationships, expert engineering, and an innovative culture.

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