Our client is seeking an experienced Programmer / Setter – CNC Turning (Sliding-Head) to join their team in St Leonards-on-Sea. This is an excellent opportunity for a skilled CNC professional with strong sliding-head experience to play a key role in producing high-precision machined components in a modern production environment. What’s on Offer? Job type: Full time, permanent Location: Hastings Salary: Up to £35,000 p/a Working pattern: Monday – Thursday 08:00–17:00, Friday 08:00–13:00 (39 hours per week) Key Responsibilities: Program, set and operate Sliding Head CNC Lathes to produce high-precision components to specification and schedule Create CNC programs using CAD/CAM software and manual programming techniques Work on Star, Citizen and Tornos Sliding-Head machines Investigate and implement appropriate tooling and workholding solutions Lead NPI first runs, ensuring optimal programming, tooling and workholding strategies are used Produce and maintain documentation and toolkits to support efficient future production runs Monitor and manage tooling wear, offsets and counters during production Carry out in-production inspection, recording results accurately using first principles measurement methods Use inspection equipment including shadowgraph, OGP and CMM systems Input daily production and setting data into the production scheduling system Monitor production rates and es...