Glasgow
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 rotating shift pattern of 2 weeks on early (6am) and then 2 weeks on backshift (2pm) OR; 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 experience utilising multi-axis machine tools and / OR experience operating Rotary Table Grinder, CNC Table Grinder or 5 Axis CNC Grinders, • 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