CNC Punch Press Setter / Operator, Days or Nights

Sheet metal fabrication business in Telford (TF7) is taking on five punch press setters and operators. One seat on days, four on nights. Temp to perm after twelve weeks. Read this bit first: the shifts are fixed. You…

Pay rate £15.60 – £17.10/hour
Job type Temporary
Posted 24 August 2026

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About this job

Sheet metal fabrication business in Telford (TF7) is taking on five punch press setters and operators. One seat on days, four on nights. Temp to perm after twelve weeks.

Read this bit first: the shifts are fixed. You pick days or you pick nights and that is the shift you stay on. There is no rotating, no alternating weeks, no getting pulled across at short notice. Whichever one you choose is the one you work.

Days
Monday to Thursday, 8am to 4.30pm
Friday, 8am to 3pm
Up to £15.60 per hour

Nights
Monday to Wednesday, 4.30pm to 3am
Thursday, 4.30pm to 2am
No Friday night, so it's a four night week
Up to £17.10 per hour

The work
Setting and running CNC turret punches, Trumpf on this site. Setting and changing tooling, grinding and keeping tools in condition, loading programmes, working off engineering drawings and checking your own components as they come off the machine.

What they're after
Punch press setting on Trumpf or Amada, or something close enough that you'll pick these up quickly. Confident reading drawings and gauging your own work. Fluent English for drawings, paperwork and safety. On nights especially you need to be able to run your machine without anyone stood next to you, there's no day shift on site to lean on.

If you've operated turrets for years but never properly set them, still get in touch, there are operative seats on the same site and we'd rather have the conversation than not.

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