Job Description

Overview
Role: CNC Turning Technician (Week Day Night Shift)
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Leamington Spa
Role ID: 2025-2998
Salary: 17.92 per hour plus 20% shift allowance and benefits
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
The Role
This position supports small batch CNC turning work for high-quality transmission components in motorsport and aerospace, working within a small, focused team and supported by offline programming tools.
Key Competencies and Experience

• Proven ability to interpret technical drawings and planning route cards to produce components to the highest quality, within routed timeframes
• Experience working on CNC lathes, including:

• Victor Turn II 26 HD
• Leadwell LTC 25iL with Siemens 828D
• Doosan Puma GT3100
• Familiarity with Fanuc controls is essential; knowledge of Siemens controls is advantageous
• Ability to read, understand, and edit CNC programmes, including adjusting speeds and feeds as necessary
• Working knowledge of turning tips and their correct applications
• Advantageous: experience operating a small manual lathe and/or Harrison Alpha 400 Plus NC lathe
• Comfortable working in a small team with a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving and continuous improvement
• Flexible in supporting other areas of manufacturing when required
• Willingness to work additional hours to help meet delivery deadlines

Working here
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.
We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.
Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.
Our core benefits include 25 days' annual leave, plus 8 flexible bank holidays, a competitive company pension scheme, life assurance and professional subscriptions reimbursement. We also offer a wide range of flexible benefits to suit your lifestyle.
Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees and to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team via if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.
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