CNC Operator​/Miller

Location:

Glasgow, GLG, GB, G42 0PT

Work Arrangement:
Onsite

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 supply customers throughout Europe and beyond.

37‑hour working week, Monday to Friday. Permanent Employment Contracts.

• £44,919.62 for weekly rotating shift pattern of early (6am) and backshifts (2pm)
• £52,452.37 for 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, plus attractive overtime rates.

• 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 with machine control systems such as Fanuc, Mazak, Heidenhain or Haas
• Proven ability to hold tight machining tolerances of less than .0025mm
• 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

• 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 set‑up 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