Machine Setter / Operator

Supreme Recruitment are looking for an experienced Machine Operator to join one of our clients based in Sutton Coldfield. To work for a great company, an established family business leading to permanent work.

Job Purpose: Setting of machinery and production of wire

Working Hours Monday to Friday: 6.45am 3.30pm Friday: 6.45am 3.00pm

Pay: £13.44ph – £30,469pa

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

These include wire drawing, wire crimping, wire rolling, annealing, packing but are not limited to these tasks.

Personal Skills / Responsibilities:

1. Ability to set and work with machinery

2. Ability to work in a small team.

3. Ability to follow the requirements of Quality Operating procedures

4. Ability to communicate effectively with other employees and managers

Wire Drawing operator sets up and operates one or more wiredrawing machines to draw round or rod through one or series of dies to reduce its cross-sectional dimension, applying knowledge of the wire drawing machine, the working properties of metal and wiredrawing.

Operator studies specifications and determines setup procedures. Positions and secures specified dies in die holders.

Operator takes redraw wire from feed reel, tapers end, and threads it through dies before securing the end of the wire onto the drawing block or onto spool which rotates and pulls wire through dies.

Operator will weld ends of separate coils together as required to increase their length, using welding equipment.

Operator inspects and measures drawn wire to verify conformance to specified shape, size, or electrical resistance, using measuring instruments, for example wire gauges, micrometers, and resistance testers.

Operator documents measured parameters on works order cards