Looking for a hands-on role where you can fully utilise your talents and mechanical expertise? This opportunity could be yours! We're welcoming 4 Operator Maintainers to run our state of the art tissue converting machinery, maximising uptime, identifying any faults, and rectifying interruptions/defects efficiently. With your operational background, you will be familiar with principles including 5S, TPM and Kaizen, and in turn, improving efficiency and sharing best practice with colleagues.
About the Role
Operator Maintainer: your talents in mechanical, maintenance, and production will be fully utilised.
Responsibilities
* Production and CI: You will operate an impressive range of tissue/paper converting machines, perform quality checks and respond to product defects.
* Machine setup, optimisation, changeover, and troubleshooting processes; mentor colleagues in these areas.
* Continuous improvement: contribute input on new machine design, installation, and commissioning, as well as product development.
* Support operator upskilling and cross-functional development.
* Cost control, waste reduction, and maintaining compliance with ISO9001 (QMS).
* Maintenance: implement cleaning, lubrication and preventative maintenance strategies; troubleshoot issues to root cause and implement long-term solutions.
* Manage maintenance tasks and improvement projects using a Computerised Maintenance Management System (CMMS) and other planning tools.
Please be mindful that this working environment can encounter high temperatures, especially during hot spells of weather, and you will come across dust from the tissue fibres, which is common in a Converting setting. We have put measures in place to provide a safe working space, and we are committed to zero harm.
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
Requirements
* You will be mechanically-minded with relevant skills, able to read and interpret engineer drawings, and take a problem-solving approach.
* Focus on continuous improvement and ongoing development regarding production, maintenance, and colleagues.
* Fully qualified in NVQ Level 3 or 4, or you will have attained a HNC/HND in Mechanical Maintenance.
* You will be conducting equipment guarding and lifting checks, so safety conscious and a critical thinker.
* Fully indentured (Mechanical and Electrical) apprenticeship with relevant role experience is desirable.
* Bonus: proven experience implementing best practice Business Improvement tools such as TPM, Lean, 5S, Kaizen, etc.
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