Working for Waukesha Bearings, a Dover company, as a Skilled CNC Operator you will be part of a fully integrated CAD/CAM manufacturing facility, utilising multi-axis CNC machining-centers for milling, turning 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 milling and turning centres 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, supplying customers throughout Europe and further afield.
Annual Salary for working a rotating shift pattern of 2 weeks on early start (6am) and then 2 weeks on backshift (2pm) which, including 18% shift premium will give total earnings of £44,919.62, plus productivity bonuses, pension & life insurance.

• 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, boxing of parts to include cleaning, oiling, wrapping and boxing the final product for shipment
• 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 identifies components after assembly/manufacture