CNC Grinder

Working forWaukesha 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 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.

• 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 experience operating Rotary Table Grinder CNC Table Grinder or 5 Axis CNC Grinders and / OR 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 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

We consider several job-related non-discriminatory factors when determining the pay rate for a position including but not limited to the positions responsibilities a candidates work experience a candidates education/training the positions location and the key skills needed for the position. Pay is one of the Total Rewards that we provide to compensate and recognize employees for their work.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without discrimination on the basis of race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status disability age genetic information or any other factors prohibited by law.

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