Northwood
Machine Setter/Operator
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Get hands-on with advanced production machinery as a Machine Setter/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!
What We Offer
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.
Role Overview
In this full-time Machine Setter/Operator role, you will ensure the smooth operation of our paper converting machines, performing checks and ensuring quality meets specifications.
- Shift Pattern: 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).
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Key Responsibilities
- Perform 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.
- Carry out pre-use lifting and equipment guarding checks to ensure Zero Harm.
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
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Assessment
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.
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