About the Role
Safety comes first at Northwood, and we take pride in our workspaces where our excellent production takes place!
We are committed to providing well-maintained and safe workspaces, relying on our Facilities Engineer to make this happen!
If you enjoy a balance of routine and variety, hands-on work, and competing priorities, read on!
Please be advised that the weekly hours for this role are 38.75 per week.
Job Opportunity
Here's what your day to day could look like:
* Keeping our site well maintained through general work, fabric repairs across the site.
* Ensuring our colleagues and visitors have clear pathways, and robust barriers and handrails to safely navigate the site.
* Maintaining our Engineering workshop, adopting best practice housekeeping procedures.
* Deterring pests from site, following responsible, ethical, and safe precautions/practices.
* Involvement with Health and Safety projects, including water sampling.
* Working at a height where the role reasonably requires, ensuring safety protocol is followed thoroughly.
* Occasionally, you'll drive a medium-sized company van for supplier visits/collections, assisting other departments, and transport visitors as required.
* Creating (and carrying out) work requests raised within our CMMS in a responsive and timely manner.
Essential Skills
A valid, full, clean UK driving licence is a requirement for this position.
We're looking for the following qualities, skills, and experience:
* Hands-on approach to grounds maintenance, building fabric repairs, and general repairs.
* Driven by problem-solving with an inquisitive nature.
* Process-driven approach, prioritising and communicating proactively.
* Happy to operate across a variety of environments, e.g. Outdoor areas, Factory/Manufacturing/Production workspaces, Offices, and Distribution Centres/Warehouses.
* Proficient in the safe operation of hand tools and power tools (including pre-use inspection).
* Experienced with working at a height.
* Qualification in Counterbalance FLT with Clamp/Boom (desirable, but not essential).
* Good basic knowledge of Health and Safety principles and protocol, with the desire to maintain this.
About Company
Northwood is a family-owned group of associated companies that provide the manufacturing, supply and transportation of paper hygiene and wiping products for both the away-from-home and consumer market.
Our mission is to be the market-leading partner of choice in the away from home tissue industry. One of only a small handful of companies in the UK market that is fully vertically integrated; Northwood is involved at each point in the supply chain, from raw material supply, tissue and towel manufacturing, end-user product converting, storage and transportation.
Our remit is huge, with a portfolio of products covering two key systems brands, professional wiping, commodity, consumer paper and private label. We sell into a distribution network spanning the UK, Ireland and Europe, which in turn service markets such as healthcare, hospitality, hotels, engineering, janitorial, catering and education.
We are a highly successful, award-winning and ambitious business that has grown from a humble paper sales business to a market leader employing over 800 colleagues, across 11 sites in the UK and Spain.
We differentiate ourselves by excelling in product quality alongside market-leading service and sales support.
DE&I
At Northwood, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone is welcomed and respected. We strive to promote a workplace that celebrates diversity and encourages individuals to express their opinions and beliefs. We are dedicated to providing equal opportunities for all.
Benefits
* Company pension
* Life assurance
* Free company products
* Free on-site parking
* Food, retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms discounts
* Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program and OnDemand GP service
* Free early access to pay scheme
* Salary sacrifice schemes
* Employee referral scheme