CNC Machinist

Job Overview

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, grinders and associated equipment. The workload is 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.

Salary and Benefits

• 44,919.62 £ per week for a rotating shift pattern of early (6 am) and backshifts (2 pm).
• 52,452.37 £ per week for working on night shift.
• Shift premium included.
• Productivity bonuses, employer pension contribution up to 13%. Life insurance, 25 days holiday and attractive overtime rates.

Qualifications

• Time‑served apprenticeship in a machining discipline or SVQ/NVQ level 3 or HNC in Mechanical Engineering.
• 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 0.0025 mm.
• Experience with precision inspection equipment including micrometres, callipers, height gauges and bore gauges.
• Ideally with experience in the power generation, oil & gas, aerospace or similar environment.

Responsibilities

• 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 reduce setup times and improve productivity.
• Visually inspect 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 perform various quality inspection type procedures to include dimensional verification.
• Properly identify components after assembly/manufacture.

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