Location: Tuthill, Oxfordshire, UK
About Us: Tuthill is a family-owned business with over 50 years of success in the motorsport and automotive industry. Based in Oxfordshire, we are globally recognised for our high-performance vehicles and historic Porsche builds. Our team takes pride in restoring and building bespoke road, race, and rally cars, with all aspects of the process completed in-house. With a rich legacy of innovation, integrity, and competitive success, we are committed to delivering excellence while fostering a supportive and collaborative environment for our employees.
About the Role: We are seeking a motivated and responsible Manual Machinist to join our team. As part of the team, you will play a key role in repairing or producing parts, using manual equipment with precise measurements. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is organised, detail-oriented, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. You’ll be working in our state-of-the-art facility alongside a friendly, supportive team.
Key Responsibilities:
- Ensuring the appropriate machines are chosen for each job
- Ensuring the machines are monitored at all times
- All types of cylinder head works including, but not limited to, Valve guide removal / fitting, Valve seat removal / fitting, Cutting valve seats, Cylinder head skimming
- Responsible for identifying any issues with the machines
- Repair minor damages as and when required
- Planning the sequence of necessary actions for the completion of a job
- Taking measurements and mark material for cutting or shaping
- Operating and maintaining lathe and milling machines
- Identifying and using the correct material for each job
- Record keeping for all completed jobs
- Perform routine machine maintenance
- Comply with and role model health and safety principles and processes at all times
What We're Looking For:
- Minimum of 5 years experience operating manual machines
- Previous Automotive / Motorsport experience would be desirable
- Able to read and manufacture parts from drawings
- Ability to use precision tools (e.g. Micrometres) to take accurate measurements
- Excellent organisational skills and the ability to prioritise own workload and manage conflicting priorities
- Positive and proactive approach
- Self-motivated and uses own initiative
Key Competencies:
- Energetic, proactive, calm under pressure, highly personable with a mature personality
- Strong Team-worker with the ability to thrive in a small, closely-knit, and dedicated team
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to build and maintain excellent working relationships
- Flexibility – being prepared to work longer hours when occasionally required
- Self-motivated and with the ability to work unsupervised
What We Offer:
- The chance to work in a highly respected, family-owned business
- A modern, well-equipped workplace in Oxfordshire
- A collaborative and welcoming team environment
- The opportunity to contribute to world-class road, rally and race car projects
- A competitive salary
- Guaranteed time off over Christmas
- An on-site gym
- Free parking
- After work team activities
- Staff events
- Fish and Chip Fridays
- Looking After Me, wellbeing support.
If you are a dedicated and enthusiastic individual looking to grow your career with a company that cares about its people, we would love to hear from you!
Pay: £32,000.00-£40,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
Work Location: In person
