About this role
Aliaxis: We make life flow 💧
What does that mean? If you think about it, fluids are needed in every place or process you can imagine - in every home, in every hospital, in every factory, in every farm, in every café… In fact, we rely on fluids everywhere and every day. That’s why Aliaxis are here to help create the safest, most effective, and reliable solutions for sustainable fluid management.
The Opportunity/Role 📢
We are currently recruiting for an Extrusion Operator to work in our forever growing manufacturing plant. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring products are produced and packaged in accordance with the production programme and safe Systems of Work. Other responsibilities will include:
To be responsible for conducting yourself in a safe manner
Produce the required product, using coiler, stillage and saw operations
To monitor and record product quality, using micrometre, PI. Tapes, verniers and documentation
Maintain product quality by stopping and restarting line as required
Keep supervision informed of equipment and product quality related issues
Complete FLT and crane operations as required, to expedite product despatch
Carry out product change overs, including tooling, material, lead tube and line equipment.
Carry out start-ups on product change overs
Be part of the production team, covering meal breaks, maintaining maximum machine efficiency
Shift & Pay
12 hour Panama shift pattern (inclusive of 12 hours day and night shifts)
Starting from: £36,067 per annum (inc shift premium)
Attendance bonus: £300 per quarter
Requirements
Previous experience within a manufacturing environment- Extrusion preferred.
Technical understanding would be an advantage
Ability to set and work to priorities
Self-disciplined with the ability to set and maintain high standards
Motivated to create a safe environment
Ability to communicate clearly
Ability to work effectively and build relationships in a team environment
Benefits
☀ Holiday purchase scheme
💸 Life Assurance 6x annual salary
🏥 Critical illness cover
📝 Pension contribution up to 10%
🦷 Dental and healthcare cash plan
👶 Enhanced parental leave
👚 Great discounts on local retailers and restaurants
🙌 Fantastic Health & Wellbeing package including an Employee Assistance Programme and access to My Strength
🚲 Cycle to work scheme
😍 Plus many more
Equal Opportunity Employer
Aliaxis is proud to be an equal opportunity employer who welcomes candidates and employees from all backgrounds. We are committed to building and investing in a culture of belonging, where all our employees feel empowered, can be their true selves and are able to bring their best ideas forward and contribute to the company’s “Growth with Purpose” strategy.
For us, equity and belonging starts at the application step: whether it's offering flexibility in scheduling interviews, or ensuring a supportive and inclusive environment, we strive to remove barriers and create equal opportunities for all applicants. Should you have specific needs, please do not hesitate to let us know and we will do our best to accommodate.
Other facts
About Aliaxis
Honesty, fairness, integrity, the golden rule: a customer-first culture. Customers want it- even demand it. And it’s so easy to promise.
This is ‘distance race’ thinking, and building a business on it is harder than you might think. It requires you to sacrifice many short-term opportunities for gain. It means spending whatever time it takes to help a client solve a problem on deadline. It means resisting the urge to cut corners on materials that, once in place, no one will ever see.
It means innovation: going beyond what your customers want or expect, and working restlessly to create new products and ideas to fill unmet needs. It means keeping your word, even when it’s inconvenient, and honouring relationships over transactions, even when it costs. And it means building a team with people who believe it, live it, and stand by it.
At IPEX we’ve long-since made a decision to embrace this long-term thinking, not just when it’s easy, but every day, in everything we do, for every customer and every employee. We don’t do it because we’re nice people, though we like to think we are. We do it because it’s good business, and that the reputation we’ve built over time, job by job, one customer at a time, pays the best dividends.
Alex Mestres
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
What you'll do
- The Extrusion Operator is responsible for ensuring products are produced and packaged according to the production program and safe systems of work. This includes monitoring product quality, conducting safe operations, and maintaining communication with supervision regarding equipment and product quality issues.
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