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Production Planner/Programmer
Job Posted: 8 days ago
Salary: £ 48,000 - 55,000 / Annum
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Wickford, Essex
Expire in: 20 days
Job Description
NexGen Consultancy are currently recruiting for a Production Planning Engineer to join a well established, successful engineering manufacturer located in Essex.
Our client are a long-established subcontract CNC machining company primarily supplying components for the Aerospace Industries, with approximately 36 machine tools of various configurations from Pallet Loaded Horizontals to 3m 5-Axis Indexers.
We are currently recruiting for a Production Planning Engineer to join their current team, to learn and develop within the company, with future incentive to become the Planning Manager.
Planning Department is responsible for the following:
* Providing Quotations for New Projects from “Rough Order of Magnitude” up to “Definitive Estimates”
* Industrialisation of New Projects.
* Providing input on Machine requirements and procurements
* Providing Detailed methods of Manufacture
i. Route-cards
ii. Stage Drawings
* Designing bespoke Fixtures including Detailed Drawings and Bill of Materials
* Designing bespoke Gauges when required
* Creating off-line CNC Programs and Setting Details for Fixtures
i. Detailed Tool Lists
ii. Setting Instructions
* Creating off-line CNC Programs and Setting Details for Components.
i. Detailed Tool Lists
ii. Setting Instructions
iii. Loading Instructions
iv. Gauging Requirements
* Maintaining and improving methods for existing parts.
* Reduction of Cycle Times
* Reduction of potential manufacturing risks
* Implementation of Customer Concerns
* Maintaining our CNC Program Database
* Integrity of Proven Programs returned from the Shop Floor
* Maintaining a Database of Customers Supplied Models.
To carry out the above we are conversant with the following software:
* Autodesk Inventor Series
* To receive and review customers models
* To Design Fixture Assemblies and Gauges
* To Provide Detailed Fixture and Stage Drawings
* HyperMill
* For Creation of CNC Toolpaths for Fixtures and Parts
* For Post Processing of CNC Output.
* Vericut Simulation
* For Simulation and Optimisation of Post Processed Toolpaths.
The ideal candidate(s) would require the following:
* Extensive knowledge of Manufacturing and Machining Methods using CAD/CAM software.
* Experience of CNC Programming from 3-Axis to 5-Axis, using Frames and Simultaneous cycles.
* Experience in Verification of Post Processed CNC Output.
* Ability to read and understand CNC Output for a variety of Controls such as Siemens/Fanuc/Heidenhain/Mazak.
* Ability to Design Fixtures and Gauges in a parametric environment.
* Ability to provide detailed drawings and assemblies for Fixtures/Gauges/Stage Drawings.
This is a very exciting opportunity to shadow their current Planning Manager, who is retiring in 2 years, and takeover the production responsibilities.
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