CNC Machinist
Onshore applicants only
Visa sponsorship
Trade · Sydney, NSW, Australia · Full-Time · $40 - $50/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored · Applicants: Onshore applicants only
For a machinist planning the next stage of a career, this Sydney opening offers real breadth, combining production runs with prototype development for manufacturing, defence, infrastructure, construction and oil and gas clients.
The employer is a long-established, high-precision CNC business hiring several CNC Machinists for the evening shift. It seeks 4+ years of recent programming and setting, with 70% of the position devoted to setting and operating. Experience on any CNC platform is considered and the role is structured around the successful candidate, while ongoing development of your programming capability is built into the job itself.
This position is limited to applicants already in Australia with work rights. Visa sponsorship will be considered for the right candidate.
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Key Responsibilities
- Own the programming, setting and running of varied CNC machinery, among them CNC Mills, CNC Lathes and a Sliding Head Lathe
- Prepare tooling, work holdings and jobs across the machining centres
- Design work holding solutions for prototype and production components
- Perform final inspection and measurement of manufactured parts
- Deliver a production workload interspersed with prototype projects for manufacturing, oil & gas, construction, defence and infrastructure customers
- Continue advancing your CNC programming expertise
- Contribute to the evening shift as one of multiple new machinists
Requirements & Eligibility
- Professional experience of 4+ years as a machinist or CNC machinist
- Recent CNC programming and setting experience of 4+ years
- Comfortable in setting and operating CNC machines, which constitutes 70% of the role
- Qualification in Fitting and Turning or comparable
- CAM software programming background
- Strong computer literacy and experience in interpreting engineering documentation and drawings
- A strong appetite to learn and progress
- An A++ work ethic and an outstanding team orientation, for whom "not my job" is never an option
- Capacity to work individually and as part of a team
- Candidates must have the right to work in Australia
- Desirable: CAD-CAM proficiency; Fusion360 proficiency is likewise desirable, and Okuma OSP proficiency is desirable too
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