CNC Machinist – Night Shift £52,500 pa.

About the Role

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.

Annual Salaries

• £44,919.62 – Weekly rotating shift pattern of early (6am) and backshifts (2pm)




• £52,452.37 – Working on night shift

These rates are inclusive of shift premium. Additional benefits include productivity bonuses, employer pension contribution up to 13%, life insurance and 25 days holiday. Attractively high overtime rates are also available.

What You 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, 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, experience in the power generation, oil & gas, aerospace or similar environment

What You Will Do

• Read process sheets, blueprints and sketches of parts 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 to perform various quality inspection procedures, including dimensional verification




• Properly identify components after assembly/manufacture

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