CNC Setter / Operator

Our Principal Consultant Robin Thomas, is looking for a highly experienced CNC Setter/Operator to join one of the UK’s most respected precision engineering companies.

Our client services blue-chip clients across a broad range of sectors including Aerospace, Defence, Motorsport, and Robotics.

All out of their Hertfordshire based, high-quality engineering facility that offers a clinical and precise working environment, utilising state of the art machine tools and supporting equipment.

As a CNC Setter/Operator,  you’ll join a well-established team of CNC Engineers, and have the chance to produce highly complex components that test your abilities on the cutting edge of machined componentry.

Key Duties & Responsibilities 

Day to day, you’ll be ensuring mills have minimal downtime, working efficiently to produce high precision components to drawing specifications, always keeping the mills in a clean operational condition.

• Working from tooling information given by programmer
• Setting Tools
• Defining machine datums
• Prove out new jobs
• Editing machine offsets
• Carrying out first off inspection checks
• Maintaining machining tolerances
• Interpreting engineering drawings
• Collaborating with inspectors to ensure drawings tolerances are met
• Self-management of workload to work efficiently
• Working to 5S

Key Skills & Experience

• 4 Years previous experience Operating CNC Mills
• 4 Years previous experience Setting and operating
• Background producing CNC components for motorsport, aerospace or similar industries requiring high standards
• Operating Lathes and Mills
• Good time keeping
• Understanding engineering drawings
• Carrying out first off inspection checks
• Acute attention to detail

Preferred 

• Experience using Heidenhain controls and DMG Machines
• Level 3 B-Tech Mechanical Engineering
• NVQ Level 3
• Apprentice Trained

Contact Robin today to learn more about this CNC Setter/Operator role, or click below to get started with your application right away.