Manual Machinist

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**Job Summary**

Moog Reading is currently recruiting for a Manual Machinist to join the team. Within this role, you will set up and operate machines as directed by the Machine Shop Manager in order to ensure the work allocated to the machine shop is completed to the required quality, accuracy, cost, and timescale.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Setting up machines for the jobs allocated.
- Perform the machining required to the required specifications.
- Make required calculations when performing layout and machining of angles, radii, location of milled slots, tapers, bores, etc.
- Check work visually and with a variety of precision measuring devices including a comparator.
- Assist in the inspection of goods inwards materials and final dimensional checks as per stamp register OPM F 041
- Remove and replace dull/broken tooling
- Sharpen cutting tools as necessary
- Perform necessary benchwork
- Assist in training department employees as assigned
- Purchase and maintain tools necessary to perform the job
- Maintain necessary records
- Move material as necessary in the performance of duties
- Detect and report improper operation, faulty equipment, defective materials, and unusual conditions to the supervisor.
- Maintain work area and equipment in clean, safe, and orderly condition
- Follow established company rules and regulations and maintain quality standards
- Assist Production Control when required to progress work through the factory.
- Assist in other areas of the Company as required against reasonable requests.

**Key skills and experience**
- An indentured apprenticeship, craft, or technical qualification is desirable but the relevant specialist experience is acceptable
- Minimum 5 years experience in a machine shop environment.
- Competent in setting up and using machine tools.
- Competent in using precision measurement equipment.

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**In Return Moog can offer you**
- A longstanding career within a culture of trust and innovation.
- 33 Days Annual Leave (including Bank Holidays).
- Benefits include Life Assurance, Company Pension Contribution beginning at 6%, Employee Share Option in addition to an extensive Flexible Benefits Package.
- This role is working 39 hours per week.

**You Matter at Moog - Our Mission and Vision**

At Moog, we believe in the people who work for us. As part of our investment in our people, we make diversity, equity, and inclusion a priority. Our goal is to create a culture where we value, respect, and provide fair treatment and equal opportunities for all employees.

Moog aspires to be a diverse, equitable, and inclusive company where employees are empowered to bring their whole, authentic selves to work every day.

By recognizing and celebrating our differences, we cultivate an environment that’s the right fit for every person inside of it. Moog is a place where employees are empowered to bring their whole, authentic selves to work every day.

It is our core belief that if we take care of our employees, they will take care of our customers, partners, shareholders, and communities where we live and work.

Working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work.

**You Can Do This**

**About Moog, Inc.**:

- Our company began in 1951 with Bill Moog’s invention, the servo valve, a device which became the heart of high performance motion control systems. Today, Moog Inc. (NYSE: MOG.A and MOG.B) is a worldwide designer, manufacturer, and integrator of motion control parts and systems.

Headquartered in East Aurora, NY, we proudly serve customers in more than 90 countries. Our operations extend to more than 27 countries and our talented, global workforce is nearly 13,000 strong.

Our company is organized into three operating groups: Aircraft, Industrial, and Space and Defense. Our high-performance systems control military and commercial aircraft, satellites and space vehicles, launch vehicles, missiles, automated industrial machinery, and marine and medical equipment. What sets Moog apart is our commitment to creating high-performance solutions that solve our customers’ most difficult technical challenges.

But it's more than technical excellence that defines us. Moog is a performance culture that empowers people to achieve great things. Our employees enjoy tackling interesting technical challenges in a culture of trust. For you, working with us can mean deeper job satisfaction, better rewards, and a great quality of life inside and outside of work.