CNC Setter Operator

Salary: £30,000 - £37,400, Plus bonus and company benefits

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: Crewkerne

Are you a skilled CNC Operator looking to step up into more responsibility?

Or an experienced Setter looking for a stable, high-precision production environment?

We're recruiting for a CNC Operator / Setter to join the machine shop team a global engineering business manufacturing high-precision components for the off-road sector, supporting leading OEMs including JCB and Caterpillar.

If you enjoy working to tight tolerances, producing quality components, and being part of a structured production environment, this could be the role for you.

The Role

You'll be working within a machine shop team focused on CNC turning operations. The site operates a range of CNC automatic lathes, particularly sliding head machines.

Depending on your experience level, you'll be:

• Operating CNC sliding or fixed head machines
• Setting machines (if experienced or keen to develop)
• Working to tight tolerances on high-precision components
• Reading and working from engineering drawings
• Using micrometres and precision measuring equipment
• Supporting high-volume production output
• Working with tooling and fixtures

This is a production-focused environment where quality and consistency matters every time.

Machinery & Controls

You may have experience with:

• Citizen sliding head machines
• Star sliding head machines
• Tsugami machines
• CNC fixed head lathes

Controls include:

• Fanuc
• Siemens
• Mitsubishi

Fanuc experience is particularly desirable, but other systems will be considered if you can demonstrate CNC competence.

What We're Looking For

We welcome applications from both:

CNC Operators

• Experience operating CNC lathes (turning environment preferred)
• Comfortable using measuring equipment
• Able to work from engineering drawings
• Keen to develop into setting

CNC Setters

• Experience setting CNC lathes (sliding head highly advantageous)
• Strong understanding of tooling and fixtures
• Able to work independently in a production environment
• Experience working to tight tolerances

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