Cnc Operator

Location: Glasgow City

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 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.

 * £44,919.62 for weekly rotating shift pattern of early (6am) and backshifts (2pm) OR;

 * £52,452.37 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 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 .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

DOVER PRECISION COMPONENTS

Dover Precision Components is part of Dover Corporation’s Pumps and Process solutions segment. DPC holds market leading positions globally and delivers performance-critical solutions across the oil & gas, power generation, marine, industrial, chemical and general processing markets. We design and manufacture mission-critical equipment components to deliver more affordable, cleaner energy solutions and enable manufacturers to operate more efficiently.

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