Night Shift CNC Machinist

We here are Siamo Recruitment are proud to be working with a leading Engineering company in the Stroud area. A leader in their industry, with a large dedication to employee welfare, this role as a CNC Machinist with our client is an opportunity to not be missed.

While booming in their market, our client is always expanding and evolving. Therefore, they require more staff to keep up with the growth. On offer, there are day shifts, double day shifts and night shifts.

Our client is looking for a well-rounded individual with a keen eye for quality, who will look to be an asset to their team.

Why work the night shift?

In addition to a bonus in pay, the night shift offers other impactful gains for workers. You'll be driving to and from work on significantly less busy roads; the work will be in a quieter environment and working a nightshift, much more of your free time will be during daylit hours.

Benefits: As a CNC Machinist, you will be part of an ever-expanding team that has a core focus on maintaining high standards of staff wellbeing. Therefore, on offer are many company benefits available, including but not limited to:

• Free onsite parking
• 3 x Free hot beverages a day, with machine tokens
• Free eye tests
• Annual salary review
• 25 days of annual leave + bank holidays (ability to book on an hourly basis)
• Christmas
• Industry leading pension scheme
• Life Assurance (3 x basic salary, eligible after probation, under 65s only)
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Early workday finish on Fridays
• Bonus Scheme, potentially over £2000.

Duties: As a CNC Machinist, you will have the following responsibilities:

• Running the CNC machines, in compliance with the speeds and feeds provided by the programs and monitoring the performance, ensuring that cycle times are carried out correctly.
• Execute cycle inspections, making sure all parts produced are within tolerance and completing ADRS report sheets when required.
• Setting up the machines and tooling fixtures, as requested by the Production Engineers.
• Supporting apprentices with their on-the-job learning.
• Cleaning and de-burring the parts you’ve produced.
• Immediately reporting any non-conformant parts, after establishing the cause of error.
• Maintaining Health and Safety standards, following appropriate protocols and assisting colleagues to do the same.
• Recording all production hours and non-productive hours.

For a CNC Machinist working the night shift, the standard working hours are:

22:00-06:00 (17:00-22:30 Fridays)

Who will the ideal CNC Machinist be?

• Previous Workshop experience.
• Experience in all aspects of machining, both manual and CNC.
• Qualification with an Engineering apprenticeship or possessing relevant experience.
• Confidence with rudimentary IT skills.
• Experience with controlling Fanuc machines.
• Experience and knowledge working with Duplex and Nickel Alloy Materials.
• Strong literacy and numerical skills.
• Experience of machine part inspections using gauges.
• Capability in metric conversions, based on drawings.
• Ability to edit CNC programmes when needed.
• Ability to use CMM for inspections.
• Versatility with multiple machines.

Our client understands the desire for overtime work, this is why they offer a leading overtime pay structure.

This overtime bonus structure offers 1.5 x basic hourly pay Monday - Saturday and for any Sundays or bank holidays worked 2 x basic hourly pay.

There are many more benefits on offer, in a company experiencing fantastic growth, while already leading their market. If you join this role as a CNC Machinist, you’ll be a part of a fantastic team and cooperation that will look after you and provides you a brilliant career opportunity.