CNC SetterOperator

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 facility has a broad range of multi-axis machine tools lathes mills 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.

• 44919.62 for rotating shift pattern of 2 weeks on early (6am) and then 2 weeks on backshift (2pm) OR;
• 52452.37 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 experience utilising multi-axis machine toolsideally 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
• Performcleaning 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

Dover Precision Components who deliver performance-critical solutions for rotating and reciprocating machinery across the oil & gas power generation marine industrial chemical and general processing markets. Comprising Waukesha Bearings Bearings Plus InproSeal and Cook Compression brands our portfolio includes hydrodynamic bearings active magnetic bearings system and bearing protection and reciprocating compressor valves sealing technologies pistons rods and more. Each solution is custom engineered to provide optimum efficiency reliability and productivity and backed by comprehensive aftermarket services. Dover Precision Components serves its global customer base through facilities in North America Europe Asia and the Middle East as well as technical sales representatives around the world.

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