Get hands-on with advanced production machinery as a Skilled Machine Operator with Northwood Hygiene Products!
You will work with advanced machinery, adopting high standards and following critical processes to deliver excellent quality to the customer, ensuring safety comes first at all times!
We reward our colleagues with an attractive pay rate, excellent employee benefits including Company sick pay, early access to pay, life assurance, and many more lifestyle benefits.
In this full time Machine Operator role, you will ensure the smooth operation of our paper converting machines, performing checks and ensuring quality meets specifications.
You will work a 4 on 4 off, 12-hour shift pattern of both days (06:00-18:00) and nights (18:00-06:00).
A key part of your role is performing adjustments to machinery (manually or electronically with HMI) to keep the product within specification, referring to job cards and centrelines, and ensuring completion of documentation to a high standard.
Before you use our machinery, you'll need to carry out pre-use lifting and equipment guarding checks to ensure Zero Harm!
Once safe to do so, you will operate our high speed converting machinery and conduct regular quality checks, changeovers, basic maintenance, and rectify defects/minor issues as best you can, or escalate to a Shift Engineer or Cell Leader/Shift Manager if additional support is required.
What we need from you:
- Technical and mechanical flair
- Experience setting machinery and/or changeovers, performing basic maintenance when required
- Fault finding, supporting our Shift Engineers and reducing downtime.
- Experience in Converting, Packaging, Foods, or a similar FMCG environment (beneficial)
- Familiarity with winding/rewinding machinery (beneficial)
- Critical thinking with an inquisitive mindset (i.e. confidence to challenge) will go a long way.
Please note: You may be asked to complete a role-relevant assessment for this role if you are shortlisted, this may take place online or in-person. If you require any adjustments to be made to enable you to complete the assessment, either in person or online, please let us know at your earliest opportunity.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From £35,252.10 per year
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Telford TF3 3AB: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Application question(s):
- Do you have experience operating high speed automated machinery in an FMCG or Production environment?
- What is your process for rectifying defects on the production line?
- Please confirm your annual salary expectations in GBP.
- Please confirm your availability or notice period.
Work authorisation:
- United Kingdom (required)
Work Location: In person
