CNC Grinder Technician (Week Day Night Shift)

Ricardo; Radford Semele; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A global engineering consulting company in Radford Semele is seeking a CNC Grinder Technician for the Week Day Night Shift. In this role, you will operate advanced gear cutting and grinding machines, producing high-quality components primarily for the motorsport and aerospace industries. The ideal candidate will demonstrate proficiency in interpreting technical prototypes and show a commitment to teamwork. Competitive hourly wage with additional shift allowances offered.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to interpret technical drawings and planning route cards.
• Experience operating various gear cutting and grinding machines.
• Willingness to work additional hours to meet delivery deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality transmission components for motorsport/aerospace.
• Interpret technical drawings and produce components within timeframes.
• Support team with a proactive problem-solving approach.

Skills

Interpret technical drawings

Operate gear cutting and grinding machines

Cut spur gears, helical gears, and splines

Edit programs and adjust speeds and feeds

Problem solving and continuous improvement

Tools

400K

Hofler 400SK

Hofler Promat

Hofler Viper 500

G30 Bevel Grinder

Klingenberg PNC 100/P26 & P40 Gear Checker

Job description

Overview

Role: CNC Grinder Technician (Week Day Night Shift)

Contract Type: Contract / Temporary

Location: Leamington Spa

Role ID: 2025-3005

Salary: £17.92 per hour plus 20% shift allowance

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.

The Role

We are seeking a CNC Machine Technician, to increase our capability / capacity in this area, working on small batch work.

This role involves working in a small team to deliver high quality transmission components, mainly for the motorsport / aerospace industries, with a right first-time philosophy.

Key Responsibilities

• Proven ability to interpret technical drawings and planning route cards to produce components to the highest quality within routed timeframes
• Experience operating the following gear cutting and grinding machines:
  • 400K
  • Hofler 400SK
  • Hofler Promat
  • Hofler Viper 500
  • G30 Bevel Grinder
  • Klingenberg PNC 100/P26 & P40 Gear Checker
• Skilled in cutting spur gears, helical gears, and splines using hobs and gear data from technical drawings
• Able to read, understand, and edit programmes, including adjusting speeds and feeds as necessary
• Demonstrates a proactive and innovative approach to team support, problem solving, and continuous improvement
• Flexible in supporting other areas of manufacturing when needed
• Willingness to work additional hours to meet delivery deadlines

Working here

You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.

We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.

Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.

Next steps

Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.

Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team [e-mail] you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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