Careers make things that fly.
Setters, programmers, inspectors and apprentices. Paid overtime, a real training budget and a canteen that serves breakfast to the night shift.
Seven roles. Days, nights, apprenticeships.
These roles are part of a concept site and are not real vacancies.
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CNC setter-operator, 5-axis
Machining · Days · Permanent · £34,000 to £41,000 · closes 14 Nov 2026
Set, prove out and run our Hermle and DMG 5-axis machines on aerospace and medical work, from first-off to batch.
What you'll do
- Set tools, fixtures and work offsets from the process plan
- Prove out new programs with the programmer, and suggest improvements
- Carry out first-off and in-process inspection, and record results
- Keep your cell 5S and FOD clean
What you'll need
- Time-served or qualified to Level 3 in machining
- Experience setting 5-axis or 4-axis machining centres
- Comfortable reading drawings with GD&T
- Heidenhain or Siemens control experience is a plus
CAM programmer, 5-axis
Engineering · Days · Permanent · £45,000 to £54,000 · closes 21 Nov 2026
Write and simulate 5-axis programs for new part numbers, and own them through to a stable, repeatable process.
What you'll do
- Plan operations, workholding and tooling with the setter
- Program in simultaneous 5-axis with full machine simulation
- Build probing routines into every critical feature
- Support quoting with cycle-time estimates
What you'll need
- Three or more years programming 5-axis
- Strong understanding of datums and GD&T
- Shop-floor background preferred
- Calm under motorsport lead times
CMM inspector
Quality · Days · Permanent · £33,000 to £38,000 · closes 30 Nov 2026
Program and run our ZEISS and Mitutoyo CMMs, producing first-article and batch inspection reports.
What you'll do
- Write CMM programs from 3D models and drawings
- Complete AS9102 FAIRs with the quality engineer
- Investigate non-conformances with production
- Keep the metrology lab within its environmental limits
What you'll need
- CMM programming experience (Calypso or similar)
- Confident with GD&T to ASME Y14.5 or ISO GPS
- Methodical, with clear written reports
Sliding head setter
Machining · Nights · Permanent · £36,000 to £42,000 + 20% shift · closes 14 Nov 2026
Run our Citizen and Star sliding-head cell overnight, keeping bar-fed machines running and in tolerance.
What you'll do
- Set and change over sliding-head machines
- Monitor tool wear and size through the shift
- Carry out in-process checks and record results
- Hand over clearly to the day shift
What you'll need
- Sliding-head setting experience
- Able to edit programs at the control
- Happy working nights, four on and four off
Press brake operator
Sheet metal · Days · Permanent · £29,000 to £33,000 · closes 7 Dec 2026
Form stainless and aluminium chassis parts on our TRUMPF and Amada press brakes.
What you'll do
- Set up tooling and backgauges from the job sheet
- Form parts and check angles and flanges
- Insert PEM fasteners
- Feed back on flat patterns that could be improved
What you'll need
- Experience on a CNC press brake
- Able to read drawings and use measuring equipment
- Care with cosmetic parts
Engineering apprentice, Level 3
Apprenticeships · Days · Apprenticeship · 4 places · £18,500 rising each year · closes 28 Feb 2027
Four years, four departments and a qualification at the end. September 2027 intake, with college release one day a week.
What you'll do
- Rotate through turning, milling, inspection and programming
- Study for a Level 3 Machining Technician apprenticeship
- Work on real customer parts from your first year
- Get a mentor from the shop floor for the whole four years
What you'll need
- GCSEs at grade 4 or above in maths and English, or equivalent
- Curiosity about how things are made
- Leaving school or college in summer 2027
Quality engineer, medical
Quality · Days · Permanent · £44,000 to £50,000 · closes 5 Dec 2026
Own process validation and customer quality for our medical device accounts.
What you'll do
- Write and run IQ, OQ and PQ protocols
- Lead customer audits and supplier audits
- Manage change control and CAPA
- Maintain the ISO 13485 quality system with the quality director
What you'll need
- Medical device quality experience under ISO 13485
- Process validation hands-on
- Degree or equivalent experience in engineering
Benefits, in writing.
- Holiday
- 25 days plus bank holidays, rising to 28 with service
- Pension
- 6% employer contribution, matched to 6%
- Overtime
- Paid at time and a half, double on Sundays
- Shift allowance
- 20% for nights, 12% for back shift
- Training
- £1,500 per person per year, plus paid study days
- Health
- Cash plan for dental, optical and physio
- Food
- Subsidised canteen, free breakfast on nights
- Getting here
- Free parking, cycle store, 10 minutes from Sandwell & Dudley station
CApprenticeships
Four years. Four departments. One trade for life.
Our Level 3 apprentices rotate through turning, milling, inspection and programming, with a shop-floor mentor for the whole programme and one day a week at college. Applications for September 2027 close on 28 February.
- Year 1
Bench fitting, manual turning and milling, at college and in our training bay.
- Year 2
CNC operation in turning and milling, real customer parts.
- Year 3
Inspection and CMM, setting, first CAM programs.
- Year 4
Specialise: setting, programming or quality.