Senior CNC Machinist – Onsite Glasgow, Multi-Axis

Markem-Imaje; Glasgow; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Productivity bonus

Employer pension

Life insurance

25 days holiday

Job summary

In Glasgow, Dover Precision Components is seeking an experienced CNC Machinist to operate advanced CNC machinery in a lean-manufacturing setting. You will set up and program for turning, milling and grinding, ensuring high-precision components from steel, copper, brass, aluminium and bronze.

The role demands a time-served apprenticeship or equivalent, 5+ years’ CNC experience, and proficiency with multi-axis tooling and quality inspection.

Qualifications

• 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, grinding or turning experience utilising multi-axis machine tools, ideally Correa and/or Doosan or similar
• Experience working with machine control systems such as Fanuc, Mazak, Heidenhain 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

Responsibilities

• Read process sheets, blueprints and sketches of part to determine machining to be done
• 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

Skills

5+ years CNC experience

Multi-axis milling/turning

Precision tolerance <0.0025 mm

Machining with different materials

Quality inspection with micrometers

Education

Apprenticeship in machining or SVQ/NVQ level 3 or HNC in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Correa

Doosan

Fanuc

Mazak

Heidenhain

Haas

Job description

In Glasgow, Dover Precision Components is seeking an experienced CNC Machinist to operate advanced CNC machinery in a lean-manufacturing setting. You will set up and program for turning, milling and grinding, ensuring high-precision components from steel, copper, brass, aluminium and bronze.

The role demands a time-served apprenticeship or equivalent, 5+ years’ CNC experience, and proficiency with multi-axis tooling and quality inspection.