Senior CNC Machinist Setter
Visa sponsorship
Manufacturing · Dunedin, New Zealand · Full-Time · $38 - $45/hr · Visa: Employer sponsored
Ten or more years behind a CNC machine is the usual starting point for this Senior CNC Machinist Setter role in Dunedin, New Zealand. The employer is a growing precision manufacturer of about 30 staff, producing many different parts in small runs for fields such as medical and aerospace. Permanent full-time vacancies exist on both day and night shift.
You would set up and run mill-turn, Swiss-type and multi-axis machines on parts with complex shapes and tight tolerances, taking ownership of the result inside robust processes. The company is an Accredited Employer; sponsorship in the form of potential immigration support may be available to exceptional candidates whose skills, experience and attributes closely align with what it wants.
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Key Responsibilities
- Set up and run complex CNC jobs, safely and to specification
- Own the quality of each part against drawings, tolerances and customer needs
- Read engineering drawings, process documents and work instructions
- Choose tooling, workholding, fixtures and machine parameters per job
- Prove first-off parts and inspect as you go with the correct measuring tools
- Track machine performance and the flow of work, solving problems early
- Escalate programming or process issues when needed, knowing how tooling, offsets and parameters affect quality and productivity
- Handle several machines and competing priorities
- Deburr and finish parts to a customer-ready standard
- Coach and guide less experienced team members
- Liaise with programmers, quality staff and production leaders on delivery commitments
- Add to continuous improvement
- Help set best-practice machining standards
Requirements & Eligibility
- A career of typically 10+ years as a CNC Machinist that has included complex setups and tight-tolerance work
- Hands-on with one or more of: mill-turn machining centres, Swiss-type lathes, 5-axis or 3-axis machining centres
- Capable at reading and interpreting engineering drawings
- Advanced grasp of machining processes, tooling, workholding and cutting strategies
- Proficient with precision measuring instruments: calipers, micrometers, bore gauges, height gauges
- Deburring and finishing experience on precision-machined components
- CMM experience (Micro-Vu and/or Hexagon) would be advantageous
- Exposure to CNC programming or CAM such as TopSolid would be advantageous
- Self-motivated, works independently, still a team player; strong problem-solving and methodical troubleshooting
- Excellent English, written and spoken; relevant trade qualification preferred
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