Job Title: Multi-Skilled Machine Operator
Location: Kettering
Salary: £24,000 – £26,000 dependant on experience
Shift: Day shift (Monday – Thursday 07:30 – 16:30, Friday 07:30 – 14:00)
Job Type: Full Time – Permanent
Holiday: 24+ bank holidays. 19 days to be taken during scheduled factory closures with 5 days floating
Seddon Boxes is a small family-owned packaging manufacturer. We produce bespoke paper-over-board rigid boxes as well as adults and children’s jigsaw puzzles.
We are recruiting for enthusiastic new staff members who possess excellent problem-solving skills to be trained to operate different types of machinery.
Main responsibilities:
- Daily recorded machine pre-use safety checks
- Machine set-up according to individual bespoke job specification
- Problem solving machine faults
- Modification of tooling
- Regular quality checks to ensure the produced goods meet the desired criteria
- Manually recording daily outputs on written productivity timesheet
- Manually load materials into machinery
- Supervision of packing personnel and machine assistants
- Ensure production outputs are as expected, meeting the specified run rates and KPIs
- Daily machine clean down
- Regular machine maintenance
- Ensuring your work area is neat and tidy and meets the required housekeeping standards
- Adhere to all company Health and Safety policies and procedures
- Ensure compliance to relevant company systems of working and accreditations
- Potential future requirement to train alternative staff members on the machine as/when required
Desired experience
- Experience running a machine or an engineering background – full training will be provided
- Able to remain calm under pressure
- Able to work logically to fault-find and resolve production issues
Please include your salary expectations in your application.
Benefits
- Day shift only
- 2pm Friday finish
- Onsite parking
- Voluntary overtime paid at enhanced rates
- Employee Assistance Programme
You must have the right to work in the UK to be considered for this vacancy. Recruitment agencies need not apply.
Seddon Boxes is an equal opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Finishing Operator, Press operator, packaging machine operator, bindery operator, CNC Operator, printing press operator, machine operator, mechanical engineer may also be considered for this role.
