CNC Operator

CNC Operator

Location: Glasgow, GLG, GB

Work Arrangement: Onsite

Working for Waukesha Bearings, a Dover company, as a Skilled CNC Operator you will be part of a fully integrated CAD/CAM manufacturing facility, utilising multi-axis CNC machining-centers for milling, turning 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 milling and turning centres 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, supplying customers throughout Europe and further afield.

*Please Note: This is an initial 6 month fixed-term contract, working a mixture of early and back-shifts, Monday to Friday.

Salary is £44,919, inclusive of shift premium.

What You Will Bring

• HNC or SVQ/NVQ level 4 in Mechanical Engineering, or time-served apprenticeship in a machining discipline
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience operating CNC machine tools within a lean-manufacturing work environment
• 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 reduce setup times and improve productivity
• Visually inspect final components, boxing of parts to include cleaning, oiling, wrapping and boxing the final product for shipment
• 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 identifying components after assembly/manufacture