CNC Applications Engineer

Applications Engineer

Location:

Remote (with regular UK & Ireland travel)

Salary:
Up to £55,000 as package

• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays – 33 days in total)
• Company Pension – 6% of base salary (salary sacrifice scheme)
• Healthcare
• Medical cover
• Company related profit scheme
• Annual OR Bi-Annual bonuses (dependent on role and company)
• Modern working environment
• Friendly and welcoming team with approachable management
• Continued staff development
• Interesting and challenging work
• Working with leading UK & Irish precision engineering companies / customers
• Great camaraderie throughout the business from hands on Management
• PPE / Company uniform provided (if appropriate)
• IT equipment, workwear & tools provided
• Company car provided (BMW 330 PHEV nominal), company-funded excluding private mileage
• Lots of additional company incentives.

A specialist precision CNC machine tool manufacturer and UK & Ireland sales/support hub for advanced sliding-head and multi-axis mill-turn turning centres.

The business has a long-established presence in British manufacturing, with two UK facilities supporting machine sales, applications engineering, service, spares, and customer training.

Backed by a wider global group, the company continues to invest in next-generation mill-turn technology, automation-ready platforms, and specialist applications support.

Demand is growing steadily across aerospace, medical, automotive, defence, energy, and high-precision subcontract machining - driving further expansion of the engineering team.

This is an engineer-led environment where practical know-how is valued.

You’ll be trusted to take ownership, supported with high-level product training, and surrounded by colleagues who enjoy solving real machining challenges with customers.

As the successful Applications Engineer, you will be working alongside a friendly team of applications and service specialists, responsible for delivering high-quality CNC applications support, programming, prove-outs, demonstrations, and customer/dealer training on advanced sliding-head and fixed-head mill-turn lathes. The goal is simple: help customers and internal teams get the absolute best productivity, accuracy and reliability from these machines.

You will come from a CNC mill-turn or sliding-head background, with strong, practical experience programming, setting and operating CNC lathes with live/driven tooling (Mill Turn) and/or CNC sliding-head machines. Because this role supports real production environments and turnkey delivery, you must be confident programming directly at the machine control, not purely offline.

• Provide on-site applications support to customers across the UK & Ireland, including machine set‑up, prove‑outs, cutting optimisation and operator training.
• Deliver technical and programming support to distribution partners, ensuring successful installations and ongoing performance of new and existing machine platforms.
• Run customer and partner machine demonstrations, setting up and programming machines for test or customer components, explaining processes clearly and professionally.
• Create, prove and refine machining methods and CNC programs that solve customers’ component and process challenges.
• Produce accurate and achievable cycle‑time studies, using full machine capability to maximise productivity.
• Support machine installations in showrooms and at customer sites, checking factory specifications and safe operation.
• Provide telephone/remote technical support on programming and application issues as required.
• Stay current with new machine developments, attending manufacturer training and helping develop internal/external training courses.
• Support exhibitions, open houses and in‑house events where needed.
• You may be asked to perform other duties on occasion.

• Excellent hands‑on knowledge of programming, setting and operating CNC lathes with live/driven tooling (Mill Turn) and/or CNC sliding‑head machines.
• Must have excellent knowledge of programming these machines on the controls at the machine.
• Strong metal‑cutting knowledge: tooling selection, cutting data, work holding, and process optimisation.
• A practical…