You will machine a wide variety of components, spare parts and castings on our CNC milling and machining centres. We are a jobbing shop: most work is low volume and continually changing, and even our repeat spares run in small batches. Setting and proving a job is the work, not an interruption to it.
Key responsibilities
Set and run our milling machines - a Vtec VisionWide NF-****AC bridge-type 5-face machining centre with auto angle head (6,000 x 2,050mm table), a Sunmill JMV-**** vertical machining centre, a Kiheung POINT-U6 bed-type universal mill with bi-rotary head, and a King Rich knee mill
Work out your own approach - workholding, datums, tooling, sequence of operations and cutting parameters, from the drawing and the job
Machine components from rough castings through to finished drawing
Interpret engineering drawings, including machining symbols, surface finishes and geometric tolerancing
Manipulate and edit G and M code at the machine to correct and optimise as you go
Verify your own work with micrometers, verniers, dial gauges and height gauges, and confirm tolerance before the job moves on
Handle large components safely using overhead crane and rigging
Maintain your machine, tooling and work area, and watch consumable life
Support apprentices and less experienced machinists on the floor
About you
Australian-recognised trade qualification - Certificate III in Engineering (Mechanical Trade) or equivalent
A machinist by trade rather than a machine operator - given a job and a drawing, you can work out the setup, tooling and process yourself
Proven CNC milling experience, setting as well as running
Sound understanding of speeds, feeds and depth of cut, and how you change them to manage surface finish, cycle time and tool life
Knowledge of tooling types and their application, and of how different materials behave




Confident with measuring equipment and verifying your own work to tolerance
Able to read and interpret engineering drawings, including GD&T;
Able to manipulate G and M code at the machine
Mechanical aptitude - you understand what the part does and what matters about it
Sound understanding of safe work practices and OH&S; obligations
About us
J.C. SMALE ENGINEERING has been building machines and equipment since ****. We are a family-owned Australian manufacturer operating from Notting Hill in Melbourne's south-east, with a wholly owned facility in Malaysia. We design, build, install and support process and test equipment for the mining, clay and brick, and general industrial sectors, working directly with our customers rather than through head contractors. We are ISO **** and ISO ***** certified. Our machine shop feeds our own builds as well as customer work, so the parts you cut go together on our floor - you see where they end up and whether they were right.
A permanent, full-time position in a stable, profitable, sixty-year-old business - no labour hire, no rolling contracts
Based at our Notting Hill workshop, close to the Monash Freeway
Overtime and weekend work is usually available for those who want it, subject to workload
Genuine variety - low volume and always changing, so the work does not go stale
A machine shop we are actively modernising - recent CNC and manual machines already in, and further capability to come as the plan rolls out
A machine shop that supports its own builds - you see the whole job, not just your part of it
Your view on machines, tooling and capability will count - we want someone who will help shape where the shop goes, not just run what is there
Support to broaden your capability across machines and controls
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📌 Milling Machinist (Melbourne)
🏢 J C Smale
📍 Melbourne