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CNC Machinist

Onshore applicants only

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Trade · Sydney, NSW, Australia · Full-Time · $40 - $50/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored · Applicants: Onshore applicants only

Kabayan, if you have spent years behind a CNC mill or lathe, perhaps on a factory floor overseas, this opening in Sydney, NSW deserves a look.

A long-running precision manufacturer is filling several CNC Machinist places on its evening shift. You would set up, program and run the machines you are confident with, and setting and operating takes up 70% of the job. The parts are a mix of production orders and prototypes for clients in construction, manufacturing, oil and gas, infrastructure and defence.

The good news is that experience on any type of CNC machine will be considered, and the company is willing to build the role around the person it picks. You will need 4+ years of recent programming and setting. This vacancy is for applicants already in Australia with work rights, and visa sponsorship will be considered for the right candidate.

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Key Responsibilities

  • Setting, programming and running a variety of CNC machines, such as mills, lathes and a sliding head lathe
  • Getting tools, work holdings and jobs prepared for the different machining centres
  • Designing work holdings for prototype and production jobs, then inspecting and measuring the finished parts
  • Working on a mix of production and prototype jobs for manufacturing, oil & gas, construction, defence and infrastructure customers while you keep growing your CNC programming skills

Requirements & Eligibility

  • 4+ years of experience as a machinist or CNC machinist
  • 4+ years of recent experience in CNC programming and machine setting
  • Comfortable with setting and operating CNC machines, which is 70% of the role
  • A Fitting and Turning qualification or a similar one
  • Experience programming with CAM software
  • Strong computer skills, with experience reading and interpreting engineering documents and drawings
  • A real hunger to learn and grow, with an A++ work ethic, and a wonderful team player for whom "not my job" is never part of the vocabulary
  • Able to work on your own and with the team
  • Candidates must have the right to work in Australia
  • Proficiency with a CAD-CAM, preferred
  • Proficiency with Fusion360, preferred
  • Proficiency with Okuma OSP, preferred

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