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We are recruiting!
Our company is a successful family-owned business based in Royston, close to Cambridge, supplying prototypes and short production runs to customers across the UK. Substantial investments have been made over the last few years across all the departments.
Browse our current vacancies below.
About us
Prototype Projects is a successful family-owned business based in Royston close to Cambridge supplying prototypes and short production runs to customers across the UK. Substantial investments have been made over the last few years in all the departments.
Our values
We are proud of our company and want to ensure we have the right people in our team. As such, we have a set of values which can be read here. If you believe you share our values and have the skills and attitude that we’re looking for, we’d love to hear from you!
Employee benefits
Perks (after probation period):
- retail discount vouchers
- EAP (Employee Assistance Program)
Free parking
Vacancies
Rapid Prototype Technician – Silicone Tooling Specialist
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic, and motivated Workshop Technician with a speciality in Silicone Tooling preparation to join our expanding Rapid Prototyping team.
Reporting to the Senior RP Technician – Team Leader, you will be assisting with all aspects involved in producing rapid prototypes to customer specifications.
Working in the Rapid Prototype team, you will process orders to a high standard. Our customers expect fast turnarounds, so you will work with your colleagues to meet strict deadlines.
The ideal candidate
You will be able to:
- Master model preparation and painting
- Creating Silicon tooling – vents and feeds
- Vacuum casting processes – mix resins / calculate material to be used / mix colours
- Clean vacuum cast mouldings to a high standard for presentation to customers
- Work on all 3D printed parts to finish to customers specification
In addition you:
- Will have a minimum of 5 years experience
- Will be able to take any part and create a silicone tool and cast a part without any assistance
- Will be able to work under pressure
- Will be well organised
- Will be flexible as you will be required to complete additional workshop duties not related to silicone tooling
- Must be able to work to our company values
Salary, hours and holiday
Salary: £27k-£31k
Base: Royston, Hertfordshire
Hours: 40 hours per week, 7.30am-4.00pm (with 1/2 hour lunch break) although there is flexibility on start time
Annual leave: 21 days paid leave (increases with time served)
Bank Holidays: statutory Bank Holidays
Pension: auto-enrolment into the Government Scheme (provided by Nest)
Please note:
You will need to provide evidence that you are eligible to work permanently within the UK.
Relocation costs will not be supported so, ideally, you will live within a 45-minute commute of Royston.
Interested?
Please send your CV, with a covering letter/email, to Tim Rowell, Quality and Operations Manager: tim@prototypeprojects.com
CNC Programmer
We are looking for a CNC Programmer to join our CNC department, currently a team of eight, to enable fast turnaround times for clients’ orders. Your role will be to program CNC parts based on customer orders under the guidance of the CNC Manager.
The ideal candidate
The ideal candidate will meet the following criteria:
- Apprenticeship background and/or fully trained as a CNC programmer with a strong background in engineering
- At least 5-10 years CNC Offline Programming experience is essential
- Strong experience setting and operating machines
- Experience with Mastercam software is desirable (other packages will be considered)
- Experience with Fanuc, Haas and Heidenhain controls would be a distinct advantage
- Strong computer skills
- Competent in self inspection using necessary equipment
- Ability to independently interpret and work to engineering drawings and 3D models
- Knowledge of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing and Datum system
- Ability to work, as a team player, in a fast-paced environment
- Demonstrate working to the values of the company (which can be read here)
The Role
The successful candidate will:
- Create efficient milling programmes using Mastercam
- Competently set and operate milling machines with Heidenhain/Fanuc/Haas online control
- Produce tooling and setting sheets, as well as planning and designing necessary fixtures
- Communicate effectively and aid, when necessary, the setting up process
- Prove out new jobs
Salary, hours and holiday
We will offer a competitive salary to the right candidate. Please indicate your salary expectations in your covering email.
Location: office-based in Royston, Hertfordshire
Hours: you will work 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
Annual leave: 21 days paid leave (increases with time served)
Bank Holidays: statutory Bank Holidays
Pension: auto-enrolment into the Government Scheme (provided by Nest)
Note to applicants
You must be based locally to Royston, Herts, UK, ideally within a 30-minute/easily commutable drive. You must be eligible to work in the UK.
Interested?
Please send your CV, with a covering letter/email detailing your salary expectations, to Justin Pringle, Managing Director: justin@prototypeprojects.com
CNC Milling Machine Operator/Setter
We’re looking for a CNC Machine Operator/Setter to join the CNC team, currently consisting of eight, to enable faster turnaround times for customers’ orders. The successful applicant will set up and run programs under the guidance of the CNC Manager and Lead Programmer. You will have:
The ideal candidate
The ideal candidate will meet the following criteria:
- At least 5 years experience setting and operating CNC Mills
- Fanuc/HAAS & Heidenhain controls
- Working autonomously and under your own initiative
- Quick thinking and a problem solver
- Ability to work to short time scales and effectively manage self-time
- You will be expected to operate at least two machines ensuring maximum production is achieved during your shift
- Be willing to commit to overtime when available or required
- Have a can-do attitude towards challenges, with the desire to continuously work closely with colleagues and management in developing newer methods of engineering to increase efficiency/quality and health safety
- Have a good work ethic towards assisting with tasks that may not fully meet your job description but that you are either skilled or trained to do
- The ability to work both alone and as part of a team and contribute to problem-solving situations helping to identify issues and provide solutions
- Be able to finish and clean parts to a high standard
- Be able to inspect your own work and others
- Demonstrate working to the values of the company (which can be read here)
You will either be apprentice-trained or have equivalent work experience. You will also hold GCSE pass grades (4/C or higher) in Maths and English.
Salary, hours and holiday
Salary: £13.80-£14.80 (dependant on experience) paid monthly (1st of each month)
Contract type: full time, permanent
Work pattern: 4-day week / 10-hour day (40 hours per week). Alternative weeks of Monday to Thursday and Tuesday to Friday, starting between 06:00 and 07:00.
Location: office-based in Royston, Hertfordshire
Annual leave: 21 days paid leave (increases with time served) (calculated on a 4-day working week) plus Bank Holidays
Pension: auto-enrolment into the Government Scheme (provided by Nest)
Note to applicants
You must be based locally to Royston, Herts, UK, ideally within a 30-minute/easily commutable drive. You must be eligible to work in the UK.
Interested?
Please send your CV, with a covering letter/email detailing your salary expectations, to Justin Pringle, Managing Director: justin@prototypeprojects.com
Workshop Assistant
We are currently looking for a capable, friendly, and motivated Workshop Assistant.
You will be part of a team of 10 individuals who are all responsible for the cleaning and preparation of 3D printed parts ready for dispatch. This role requires a good eye for detail, good hand/eye coordination and precise handling. The role will also include a range of various general assistant duties supporting colleagues throughout the company. As such you will need to demonstrate a willingness to be flexible in your approach to this varied position.
Experience in a mould shop, silicon tooling workshop, or basic woodworking type skills would be beneficial but none of these is essential as training will be given.
In addition to this role, there are some driving responsibilities. This will be 2-3 hours of the day, and you will be part of a team of a few individuals that will share the delivery responsibilities of the finished items to customers. This is predominantly in the Cambridge area.
Therefore, you will need to have a full, clean driving licence. You will be expected to drive safely, economically (electric van), obey traffic laws, and respect other drivers and pedestrians.
You will also need to have initiative, make decisions for yourself, as you will enter secure sites/locations where your conduct could be observed, and/or delivery locations may not be obvious. On occasion, you could be asked to pick up supplies from nearby locations, go to the post office, and be flexible in your finish time if a delivery is urgent.
The role is a full time, 8 hours a day, but we will consider a flexible work hour pattern if you feel you have any of the above skills.
Salary, hours and holiday
Salary range: £23k per annum
Location: Royston, Hertfordshire
Hours: Monday to Friday – 40 hours per week, 09:00 – 17:30 (hour lunch)
Annual leave: 21 days paid leave (increases with time served)
Bank Holidays: statutory Bank Holidays
Pension: auto-enrolment into the Government Scheme (provided by Nest)
You will need to provide evidence that you are eligible to work permanently within the UK and have a clean driving license. Regular checks will be carried out.
Interested?
Please send your CV, with a covering letter/email – including available times for interview – to Tim Rowell, Quality and Operations Manager: tim@prototypeprojects.com