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CNC Setter Operator Days or Nights

Alma Personnel

Wednesbury

On-site

GBP 40,000 - 60,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Job summary

Join a leading company in the manufacturing of high-precision components as a CNC Setter Operator. You'll work with a dedicated team, enjoy a clean and organized workshop, and benefit from competitive rates with opportunities for overtime. If you take pride in quality and precision, this role is for you.

Benefits

Pension scheme
Death-in-service cover
Employee assistance programme
Clean and well-organized workshop
Supportive work environment

Qualifications

  • Competent in reading drawings and using measuring equipment.
  • Experience setting and operating various CNC machines.
  • Programming experience preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Set up and operate CNC lathes using Fanuc controls.
  • Complete full machine setups and work with exotic materials.
  • Edit programs and ensure quality standards are met.

Skills

Attention to detail
Proficiency in CNC machining
Ability to read engineering drawings
Understanding of feeds and speeds
Experience with Fanuc controls

Job description

You're someone who works best when the setup's solid, the drawings are clear, and the machine is running just right.

As a CNC Setter Operator, you're not chasing targets or cutting corners. As part of our team, you will contribute to the manufacturing of high-precision components for critical industries such as nuclear, defence, and oil and gas.

  • You're focused.
  • Take pride in your work.
  • Someone who spots something's off before it becomes a problem.

If that sounds like you, this could be somewhere you will fit right into.

It's not just pressing buttons; you'll be setting and operating CNC lathes using 2 and 3 axis Fanuc controls.

You may be working on conventional CNCs, Twin spindle and twin turret, Doosan's, Biglia's and sliding head machines, machines that are maintained properly, with everything you need to do a good job.

As a CNC Setter Operator, you'll be involved from the start of the job.

  • Completing full machine set ups on various types and sizes of machines.
  • Working with exotic materials.
  • Editing programmes when needed. Checking everything is to the required standard.

There's a team of engineers and programmers around you, but you'll be trusted to get on with things and do them properly.

Why would you leave where you are?

Because this is a company where process matters, where things are tidy, tools are ready, and people take pride in getting it right first time.

You will be working alongside a steady, highly skilled team who know their machines and care about doing things properly.

And it's a place people stay, not because they have to, but because they're respected and treated well.

What kind of CNC Setter Operator fits here:

  • You take pride in a good first-off You know your feeds and speeds & understand turning strategy
  • You can work to tight tolerances You're comfortable working on Fanuc-controlled lathes
  • You may have experience in setting sliding heads, Doosan's and Biglia's You are thorough and love to make things a CNC Setter Operator who gets the job done

Setter operators need to be competent in reading drawings using measuring equipment i.e. verniers micrometres thread micrometres calliper gauges ring gauges and working to tight tolerances also working close with inspection.

And if you're on a higher rate with strong experience, still reach out, there's flexibility for the right person, they are investing in becoming the best in their industry.

If you've got programming experience on top of setting and operating, we want to hear from you.

Alma Personnel are working in conjunction with Marshall Harmony on this CNC Setter Operator role, you won't be contacted by any other third parties.

For the day shift:

  • Competitive hourly rates
  • Monday to Thursday 7:30am to 4:00pm
  • Friday 7:30am to 3:30pm
  • Overtime available at time and a half and double time.
  • Pension scheme and death-in-service cover
  • Employee assistance programme
  • A clean, well-organised workshop and a supportive environment

For the night shift:

  • Competitive hourly rate
  • Monday to Thursday 6pm - 6am ( Finishing Friday Morning at 6am)
  • Night Shift Allowance of GBP3ph
  • Overtime available at time and a half and double time.
  • Pension scheme and death-in-service cover
  • Employee assistance programme
  • A clean, well-organised workshop and a supportive environment

If you feel you have the right skills and experience and love the opportunity to work for an expanding forward thinking organisation, then apply now without hesitation.

Alma Personnel are working in conjunction with Marshall Harmony on this CNC Setter Operator role, you won't be contacted by any other third parties.

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