General Machinist - Manual

GENERAL MACHINIST Location: Aldershot, Hampshire (close to the A331 and M3) Contract: Permanent, full time Hours: Monday to Friday, 08.00 to 17.00 (40 hours per week, one hour lunch) Pay from: £13 per hour, dependent on experience Overtime: Available as required; [weekdays at time and a third, Saturdays at time and a half, Sundays at double time] Holiday: 20 days plus 8 bank holidays Pension: Workplace pension (The People's Pension) THE COMPANY A specialist UK manufacturer of high-performance anchor systems for the highways sector. The company designs and manufactures its own proprietary range of anchors and holding-down components for lighting columns, vehicle restraint systems and sign structures used on road and rail infrastructure. [It supplies a substantial share of the anchors used for UK highway lighting columns.] All products are manufactured in-house at Aldershot and distributed daily across the UK. THE WORKSHOP The workshop runs a wide range of heavy-duty manual machinery, including: * Centre lathes * Threading and tapping machines * Deep hole boring * Bending and grinding equipment The workshop also has a welding and fabrication section. The team is small and experienced, [currently nine engineers], each able to work across most of the machinery. The principal material is a high-strength stainless steel, [duplex grade], with roughly twice the strength of standard stainless grades. It demands c...