Vacancy Machinist Apprentice (Level 3 Machining Technician)
Vacancy overview
Code: 1000322938
Join the Druck team as a Machinist Apprentice. You’ll learn to operate precision machinery, read technical drawings and craft metal parts to exact specifications. Gain practical experience whilst working towards a rewarding career in manufacturing. Apply now for a September 2025 start!
- Set-up and operate special purpose equipment, conventional (lathe and/or mill), and/or numerical control (NC) machines and machining centers for fabrication of metallic and nonmetallic parts that hold to the high-quality machine standards required within the organisation
- Read and interpret blueprints, sketches, drawings, manuals, specifications, or sample parts to determine dimensions and tolerances of finished work pieces, sequence of operations and setup requirements
- Start and observe machine operation to detect malfunctions or out-of-tolerance machining, and adjust machine controls as required
- Select, align and secure holding fixtures, cutting tools, attachments, accessories and materials on machines such as mills, lathes, jig borers, grinders, and shapers
- Demonstrate intermediate skill level (indicate part, turn OD's, and qualify ID and OD) on at least three machines: CNC mill, CNC lathe, and NC (figure feed rates), manual mill, broach, drill press, rework lathe/press lathe
Requirements and prospects
Loughborough College will be initially shortlisting applications, please check your email for updates on your application. Loughborough College reserves the right to withdraw this vacancy before the end date, following consultation with us.
Desired skills and personal qualities:
- Attention to detail
- Problem solving skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Patience
About the employer
DRUCK LIMITED
Druck, a Baker Hughes business, delivers world-class expertise, excellence, and reliability in the toughest environments. Druck’s piezo-resistive pressure sensors, pressure transducers, pressure test and calibration instruments provide our companies high performance, stability, quality, accuracy, and quick response – in any environment. Since 1972, Druck products have successfully applied technological innovation and application focus to a diverse and demanding world of pressure. Druck manufactures and delivers a comprehensive range of pressure sensors and related test/calibration instruments for the field, workshop and laboratory used a diversity of applications from aerospace to subsea and from industrial to medical.