Applications Engineer

Application Engineer

Sheffield

Circa £50k

We're recruiting an Application Engineer for a Sheffield machining business that supports demanding aerospace and high-spec work. The role is hands on, technical and customer-facing. They want someone who can get into the detail of a process, improve it properly, and explain it clearly. Start is as soon as possible for the right person.

What you'll actually do

• Review existing machining methods and tighten them up - better process control, better consistency, less wasted time.
• Build proper process control into jobs: probing, setup aids, cut/measure/cut routines, and reliable data.
• When something goes wrong, work out why before you change anything. First-principles thinking is the point of the job.
• Challenge the way things are currently done. If a process is slow, unstable or over-complicated, you're expected to question it and improve it.
• Understand machine tool kinematics and what the machine can and can't do.
• Run time studies on customer parts and show where the real savings are.
• Design custom fixturing or tooling when the standard approach isn't good enough.
• Explain your methodology clearly to customers and colleagues. You need to be able to talk people through what you're doing and why.
• Work as part of a team and share ideas rather than keep them to yourself.

You'll also need to be comfortable with ISO G-code and macro cycles. Experience writing and testing post processors, or with Zoller TMS, is useful but not essential.

What you need

• Solid experience operating, setting and programming CNC machines for both milling and turning. 5-axis mill/turn is ideal.
• Large scale machining experience is preferred.
• Strong CAD/CAM skills - Siemens NX is the preference.
• Experience working to Rolls-Royce standards is a clear advantage.
• You've designed fixturing before.
• Vericut (or RMVM) experience.
• Practical knowledge of probing cycles for setup and in-process inspection.
• Comfortable on Siemens Sinumerik controls, including tool data, monitoring and cycles.
• A practical, problem solving approach. If something isn't cutting right, you know how to diagnose it at the machine rather than just throw changes at it.

The basics

• Based in Sheffield.
• Circa £50k. May go higher for the right candidate.
• Full-time, permanent.
• Start ASAP for the right candidate

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