Manufacturing Engineer (CNC Programming)

Company description Waukesha Bearings are a leading designer and manufacturer of hydrodynamic fluid film bearings, active magnetic bearing systems and seals for high-performing turbomachinery and rotating equipment in oil & gas, power generation, marine and industrial markets. Part of Dover Precision Components, we are an integrated provider of performance-critical solutions for rotating and reciprocating machinery.

DOVER PRECISION COMPONENTS

Dover Precision Components DPC (the Company) is part of Dover Corporations (the Parent Company) Pumps and Process solutions segment. DPC holds market leading positions globally and delivers performance-critical solutions across the oil & gas, power generation, marine, industrial, chemical and general processing markets. We design and manufacture mission-critical equipment components to deliver more affordable, cleaner energy solutions and enable manufacturers to operate more efficiently.

Job description Based at our Waukesha Bearings manufacturing plant in Glasgow, as a Manufacturing Engineer you will be primarily responsible for the creating and planning of CNC programs, utilising CAM software to control contour path machining of metal parts on automatic machine tools, coordinate required tooling and fixturing, whilst supporting our continuous improvement initiatives to positively influence our lean manufacturing efforts.

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.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

Analyse drawings, sketches and design data of parts to determine dimension and configuration of cuts, selection of cutting tools and machine speeds and feed rates

Determine reference points and direction of machine cutting paths

Analyse routings during programming stage and updates processes to guarantee CNC machine tools are used to their fullest capability

Compute angular and linear dimensions, radii and curvatures, and outlines sequence of operations required to machine parts

Create CNC Programs in line with routed operations using available software

Create set-up documents to supplement written programs

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