CNC vacancy at Hope

[dbmtb]

This
http://www.hopetech.com/page.aspx?itemID=SPG267

popped up on my facebook last time I logged in....

I don't need it so here it is!

 

[Sparkzz]

Good luck to em, getting decent skilled turners is a thing of the past!.

Trainee Training is the only way forward.

 

[Russell]

Good luck to em, getting decent skilled turners is a thing of the past!.

Trainee Training is the only way forward.

You just have to look in the right places and offer a good package. We've had to increase our rates considerably and be more proactive in our recruitment to find good skilled engineers.

There are less around but they're out there.

( I'm supervisor of the turning section for a sub con shop. 9 cnc lathes and a few manuals at my disposal. )

 

[Sparkzz]

Good luck to em, getting decent skilled turners is a thing of the past!.

Trainee Training is the only way forward.

You just have to look in the right places and offer a good package. We've had to increase our rates considerably and be more proactive in our recruitment to find good skilled engineers.

There are less around but they're out there.

( I'm supervisor of the turning section for a sub con shop. 9 cnc lathes and a few manuals at my disposal. )

Out of all the CNC shops we speak to in our area they all report the same, its about advertising at the right time/place i suppose. which area are you in? maybe that's effecting us.

I own a 2.5 million pound turnover company with 10 CNC lathes & 15 milling machines, Our turning section has:
1 X Citizen Slider
3 X doosan LM driven tool lathes
4 x 3 axis LATHES
1 X 230mb Puma
1 X 2600SY Puma

My skilled engineers are getting approx 50k pa.. nice young family run company with a great attitude to engineering.. intersting work etc.. but its getting people through the door for us to show this to them. I had only one application in the last drive and he was LIVING in poland!!! :roll:

Cant understand it...

I have started a training program and its seems really successful (so far)
Where abouts are you based?

 

[Russell]

We're in Cheltenham which I suppose spoils us as we seem to be a bit of a hotbed for Engineering with companies such as Renishaw, Moog and Spirax-Sarco all within a few miles of our front door. We do pick up staff from these but obviously we lose people to them aswell. We're a small family run shop too and we just can't compete with the likes of Renishaw when they offer a 9% pension and company gym as part of the package!

You're quite right that generally there is a problem though, Engineering isn't sexy and frankly, kids are leaving school without the necessary education to actually become 'Engineers'.

Our milling section is half the size of yours with just four machines, though we've a 5th arriving later this week. We've also just invested in a Star SR20 for the turning section which is arriving late May. We did consider a Citizen Slider but went for the Star instead.

 

[mikee]

most of us good engineers dont want to move anymore
its only the bad ones that keep trying to get back into engineering
that we see , everyone else has gone off to be a social worker or
summat

 

[Sparkzz]

have you invested in the SR20 for particular work, the sliders are a difficult machine to fill if you dont have the right type of work or contract, to make them pay you need them to run near on 24/7 overnight is a must! otherwise you will only pull in 5 or 6k.. they are very hungry!!

Cracking machine to have though.. its good when you quote 26p and the bloke down the road quote 3.50

Good choise the SR20, turn back the clocks and i think we would have gone for a star, only the sales guy there told me to go and buy a citizen cause i asked him to knock 5k off the 135k price tag, so i did!!

 

[The Ken]

And I thought with CNC you clamped a block of metal in a machine and it did it all for you. I guess not.

 

[mikee]

i just make it look that way tk

 

[cyfa2809]

write the code, put in the code, watch the code, watch the code some more, made mistake, re write the code, put in the code, watch the code, watch the code


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