Milling Machinist

J C Smale; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

J.C. SMALE ENGINEERING in Melbourne's south-east is seeking an experienced machinist for a permanent role. The successful candidate will set and run a range of CNC milling centres, interpret drawings, and optimise processes to deliver precise components from castings to finished parts.

You will work with various machines, support apprentices on the floor, and contribute to ongoing shop modernisation and efficiency improvements. Overtime and steady workload are typically available.

Qualifications

• Australian-recognised trade qualification (Certificate III in Engineering or equivalent).
• Machinist by trade with ability to setup and run jobs from drawings.
• Proven CNC milling experience including setting and running.
• Solid understanding of speeds, feeds, depth of cut for surface finish and tool life.
• Able to read and interpret engineering drawings including GD&T.

Responsibilities

• Set and run our milling machines on multiple centres listed.
• Work from drawings and determine setups, tooling, and cutting parameters.
• Machine components from rough castings to finished parts.
• Interpret drawings with machining symbols, GD&T and surface finishes.
• Edit and optimise G and M codes at the machine to improve output.
• Verify work with micrometers, verniers and height gauges to tolerance.

Skills

CNC milling

Setup & run

GD&T reading

Measuring equipment

Tooling knowledge

Education

Certificate III in Engineering (Mechanical Trade)

Tools

G-code editing

Job description

You will machine a wide variety of components, spare parts and castings on our CNC milling and machining centres. We are a jobbing shop: most work is low volume and continually changing, and even our repeat spares run in small batches. Setting and proving a job is the work, not an interruption to it.

Key responsibilities

Set and run our milling machines - a Vtec VisionWide NF-6230AC bridge-type 5-face machining centre with auto angle head (6,000 x 2,050mm table), a Sunmill JMV-1400 vertical machining centre, a Kiheung POINT-U6 bed-type universal mill with bi-rotary head, and a King Rich knee mill

Work out your own approach - workholding, datums, tooling, sequence of operations and cutting parameters, from the drawing and the job

Machine components from rough castings through to finished drawing

Interpret engineering drawings, including machining symbols, surface finishes and geometric tolerancing

Manipulate and edit G and M code at the machine to correct and optimise as you go

Verify your own work with micrometers, verniers, dial gauges and height gauges, and confirm tolerance before the job moves on

Handle large components safely using overhead crane and rigging

Maintain your machine, tooling and work area, and watch consumable life

Support apprentices and less experienced machinists on the floor

About you

Australian-recognised trade qualification - Certificate III in Engineering (Mechanical Trade) or equivalent

A machinist by trade rather than a machine operator - given a job and a drawing, you can work out the setup, tooling and process yourself

Proven CNC milling experience, setting as well as running

Sound understanding of speeds, feeds and depth of cut, and how you change them to manage surface finish, cycle time and tool life

Knowledge of tooling types and their application, and of how different materials behave

Confident with measuring equipment and verifying your own work to tolerance

Able to read and interpret engineering drawings, including GD&T

Able to manipulate G and M code at the machine

Mechanical aptitude - you understand what the part does and what matters about it

Sound understanding of safe work practices and OH&S obligations

About us

J.C. SMALE ENGINEERING has been building machines and equipment since 1962. We are a family-owned Australian manufacturer operating from Notting Hill in Melbourne's south-east, with a wholly owned facility in Malaysia. We design, build, install and support process and test equipment for the mining, clay and brick, and general industrial sectors, working directly with our customers rather than through head contractors. We are ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 certified. Our machine shop feeds our own builds as well as customer work, so the parts you cut go together on our floor - you see where they end up and whether they were right.

A permanent, full-time position in a stable, profitable, sixty-year-old business - no labour hire, no rolling contracts

Based at our Notting Hill workshop, close to the Monash Freeway

Overtime and weekend work is usually available for those who want it, subject to workload

Genuine variety - low volume and always changing, so the work does not go stale

A machine shop we are actively modernising - new CNC and manual machines already in, and further capability to come as the plan rolls out

A machine shop that supports its own builds - you see the whole job, not just your part of it

Your view on machines, tooling and capability will count - we want someone who will help shape where the shop goes, not just run what is there

Support to broaden your capability across machines and controls

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