Posted: 20h ago
The role
Join our busy manufacturing facility in the Ellesmere Port, where your day to day will entail moving Parent Reels, Finished Goods, and machinery components to required areas.
Shift pattern: 4 on 4 off (comprising of 2 days, 2 nights, then 4 off).
Job OpportunityYour day to day:
Safe movement and transport of Raw materials, components and Finished goods from one area to another, as requested and directed by the Operations or Supply Chain Supervisory & Management teams
Follow all company SSOW, SOPs and HSE guidelines to ensure that they and those around them are kept safe
Unloading of Raw materials & transporting them to appropriate storage areas
Loading of Trailers with Finished goods in a timely manner
Safe removal of Finished goods away from the production lines
Placing components at production lines
Transporting & supplying pallets to production lines
Removal and transport of large bulky items from the factory (for example waste skips and core cages)
Ensuring that equipment is kept in a well-maintained condition, free from damage and ensuring that any damage, faults or malfunctions are to be reported to management immediately
Company Benefits
Company pension
Life assurance
Sick pay
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
Essential SkillsWe're looking for:
Valid Counterbalance B2 licence with Clamp attachment.
If your B2 Clamp licence is inhouse only, we require the training to have been delivered by an Instructor certified in RTITB, ITSSAR, CITB, or another certified body.
Willingness to move heavy materials across our manufacturing site, prioritising and promoting safety at all times.
Collaborative approach, supporting with deep-cleans and adopting a clean-as-you-go approach.
Ideally, we're looking for experience operating in a paper converting or reel storage environment (or transferable knowledge and skills).
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
