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Office Location
Leamington Spa
Role Type
Contractor, Full time
Contract Type
On site - within office location listed
Closing Date
18 August 2025
Role ID
2025-3001
Manufacturing
CNC Milling Machining Centre Setter / Operator (Night Shift)
Contract Type: Contract / Temporary
Salary: £17.92 per hour plus 20% shift allowance
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
The Role
We are seeking a CNC Milling Machining Setter Operator, to increase our capability / capacity in this area. This role involves working in a small team to deliver high quality transmission components, mainly for the motorsport / aerospace industries, with a right first-time philosophy. You will be supported by our EdgeCam and Delcam offline programming, as well as your team leader.
Key Competencies and Experience
- Proven ability to produce precision components from technical drawings and route cards, working to tight tolerances and within routed timeframes
- Strong experience machining a variety of materials using 3-, 4-, and 5-axis (3+2) CNC machines
- Proficient in reading and understanding Fanuc machine code; capable of basic on-machine programming, with support from offline programmers
- Able to read, understand, and edit CNC programmes, including adjusting speeds and feeds as needed
- Competent in using measuring equipment to inspect work against planning and drawing specifications
- Demonstrates a proactive and innovative approach to team support, with a strong focus on problem solving and continuous improvement
- Flexible in supporting other areas of manufacturing operations
- Willing to work overtime and operate multiple machines as required to meet KPIs and delivery deadlines
- Basic knowledge of wire erosion is advantageous, though not essential
Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.