If you would like to be part of our team here at AG Major, have a look at our Vacancies below:

General Machinist – Manual & CNC

Job Description

Do you have experience of working in an engineering machine shop tool room environment?

As a sub contract manufacturing company, you will be working with special metal-based products in a business that is well known for producing high quality, challenging parts throughout the industry. We’ve been running for over 80 years and are going through a growth period with new contracts bringing new work.

In this role you will be producing tooling and engineering items for press machinery, metal spinning and other machining centres. You’ll also be able to use your skills to machine small to medium batches of production parts.

The ideal person will have a proven record with experience of CNC Lathes and Mills and experience of manual machining, i.e. Lathes, Mills, grinding, drilling etc

The use of CAD-CAM would be preferably.

The Role:

• Making and preparing tooling for production
• Maintaining existing tooling
• Machining production jobs

The Person:

• Experience of Engineering Machining
• CAD-CAM experience on CNC lathes and mills
• Press Tooling experience
• Problems solver
• Flexible approach to work

Required skills:

• General workshop experience
• Apprenticeship
• Turning
• Milling
• Heat treating knowledge

Preferred skills:

• Toolmaking

Metal Spinner

Job Description

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and fully skilled Metal Spinner to work for a small, but exciting & growing engineering company in Croydon, London.

The ideal candidate will have a good all-round knowledge of all aspects of an engineering machine shop but is specialised and has good experience of both manual and CNC Metal Spinning.

They will be spinning a variety of different metals including, but not limited to Stainless Steel, Aluminium, Brass and some precious metals.

Store Person

Job Description

A dynamic and growing engineering solutions business in Croydon seeks an enthusiastic and experienced Store Person.

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• booking goods in/out
• stock taking
• loading and unloading
• driving the forklift and reach truck
• preparing jobs and/or materials for manufacture
• picking jobs
• organising and controlling sub-contracted work
• storing and filling up consumables such as cleaning products etc
• organising overall and PPE storage and replacements
• carrying out tasks required by the management
• basic production work

The successful candidate will be able to competently use a computer, have the required forklift licence, be friendly and accommodating and to be able to work on their own incentive.

Junior Technical Estimator

Job Description

We’re looking for an enthusiastic Junior Technical Estimator to join our estimating team.The successful candidate will ideally already have had some experience of working as technical estimator within the manufacturing engineering sector and/or have a hands on, shop floor background and is now looking to move their career forward.A working knowledge of Microsoft Office particularly Excel is essential and an understanding of MRP systems is desirable.

We are seeking someone who is able to build relationships with existing and new customers and is focused on putting customer relationships first and foremost.

The successful candidate will join an establish team and will be an important member of that team in helping to continue the company’s growth.They will have full training and guidance from our team of experienced estimators.The type of work they will be quoting and estimating on will included Presswork, Metal Spinning, Tool Room/ Machine Shop work, Tooling and Sheet Metal/ Fabrication work.

Fine Limit skilled Sheet Metal Worker/Fabricator

Job description

We’re seeking a highly skilled and experienced Sheet Metal worker. The successful candidate will be expected to work with customers and our estimating team to produce the best possible solution to their requirement.

The successful candidate will:

• MUST have the ability to read technical drawings
• MUST have experience in fine limit & general sheet metal work
• MUST have experience of all aspects of sheet metal working hand tools and equipment. ie guillotine, CNC & manual brake press, tig and mig welding, grinding and finishing to high standard
• CAD knowledge would be desirable but not essential
• Ability to work with all types of metal up to 6mm
• Have a proven track record as a fine limit sheet metal worker/ fabricator
• Must have attention to detail
• Be able to finish a product to a very high standard
• Be punctual and a good time keeper
• Be confident, organised and methodical
• Be enthusiastic, self-motivated and able to motivate others
• Work well as a team member
• Be able to problem solve and come up with solutions

XYZ CNC Operator & Programmer/Setter

Job Description

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced and fully skilled XYZ CNC operator and programmer/ setter to join our exciting & growing engineering company in Croydon, London.

The ideal candidate will have a good all round knowledge of all aspects of an engineering machine shop, but is specialised and has good experience of running an XYZ CNC machining centre.The primary machine that they would be working on would be a XYZ Prototrack LPM M7243 Machining Centre, for which they would be expected to run all aspects of it, from programming, setting and running, with an emphasis of producing parts in a timely and efficient manner.

We also have a XYZ Proturn SLX 425 L585 Lathe which the candidate would also be able to run all aspects of it.