Location
Ellesmere Port, Cheshire | United Kingdom
Job description
Cook Compression , with over 100 years of history in the Energy Resources industry, have pioneered technology developments and are renowned for the quality and reliability of their product range which includes reciprocating compressor valves, packing cases, pistons, rings, and wipers, supplying to both OEM's and the aftermarket. With established manufacturing sites globally, we are now seeking to recruit additional permanent staff due to expansion at our facility in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
About The Job - The CNC Operator , works within a precision engineering manufacturing facility, operating conventional and CNC lathes.
What You Will Bring
- HNC / NVQ level 4 in Mechanical Engineering, or a time-served apprenticeship in a machining discipline.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience operating CNC machine tools – predominantly 2 & 3 axis lathes, ideally with some experience of multi-axis machines and within a lean-manufacturing work environment.
- Proven ability to hold tight machining tolerances of less than .0025mm.
- Experience working with machine control systems ideally Fanuc and ISO, with a proficiency in standalone programming and editing, with knowledge of setting and correction offsets to ensure repeatable dimensional accuracy and surface finish.
- Experience with precision inspection equipment including, micrometres, callipers, height gauges and bore gauges.
- Ideally with experience in the power, oil & gas, aerospace or similar environment.
- Ability to work rotating shifts early and back shifts, Monday to Friday.
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 and i nterpret 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 and boxing of parts to include cleaning, oiling, wrapping and boxing the final product for shipment.
- Performs cleaning, fitting, filing, tapping, reaming, blending, polishing and aligning to ensure free action of movable parts and operating requirements
- Uses precision measuring instruments and gauging devices and performs various quality inspection type procedures to include dimensional verification.
- Properly identifies components after assembly/manufacture.
More About the Company
Cook are part of Dover Precision Components, who are in turn owned by Dover Corporation, a diversified global manufacturer with annual revenue of over $8.5 billion. Delivering innovative equipment and components, specialty systems, consumable supplies, software and digital solutions, and support services, our team of 25,000 employees are dedicated to redefining what is possible to better serve our customers. Dover Corporation is headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois.
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