Dover Corporation
CNC Operator
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Working for Waukesha Bearings, a part of Dover Precision Components, as a Skilled CNC Setter/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 weekly rotating shift pattern of early (6am) and backshifts (2pm)
- OR;
- £52,452.37 for working on night shift.
These rates are inclusive of shift premium. Additional benefits inc. productivity bonuses, employer pension contribution up to 13%, life insurance and 25 days holiday. Plus, attractive overtime rates.
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- 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, 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
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