General Operative

Job Title: General Operative

Location: Canterbury, Kent

Salary: 23,795.20 - 24,169.60 (depending on experience)

Hours: Monday to Friday 7.30am - 4.30pm

Our Client:

Our client designs and manufactures Structural Timber Engineered Products, including Roof Trusses, Floor Systems, Metal Web and Timber Frame Structures.

Role Summary:

You will be responsible for assembling heavy timber frames, joists, wall panels and other timber objects.

Benefits:

• 20 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays (increasing with service)
• Monthly bonus scheme (based on attendance, productivity, Health & Safety and company profit)
• Overtime premium paid after your standard 40 hours.
• Social events
• Christmas Shutdown
• Christmas Voucher

Key responsibilities within your new role would be to:

• Manufacture products following work orders.
• Use of hand tools, cutting machines, presses and other industrial machinery.
• Identify what plates are needed for building and were to find them.
• Make initial template and then complete remainder of production using the template.
• Liaise with forklift drivers when production is complete to remove completed items.
• Report when plates are running low and need re-stocking.
• Maintain and clean and tidy work space.
• Attach customer orders to completed items to make identification easier.
• Cover over areas/departments within the business when required.

Experience and skills required for this position:

• Be able to lift 25kg repetitively throughout your shift.
• Experience using crosscut and table saws.
• Experience using hand tools and basic joinery/woodworking or other relevant practical experience.
• Forklift certification would be ideal but not essential.
• Experience of working on general carpentry and/or manufacturing.
• Good numerical and communication skills.
• Good attention to detail and a 'get it right first time' attitude.
• Excellent team working skills.
• Good organisational and time management skills.
• Able to use initiative and solve problems.

Next steps:

If this sounds like the ideal position for you and you have the experience outlined above, then please apply and you will be contacted by a member of our team if your CV matches our requirements.

If you would like any further information before applying, then please call Ellie (Permanent Consultant) on (phone number removed).

Alternatively, if you know someone who may be suitable for this role please share the details, if you successfully refer a friend, you will receive a 50 voucher *terms apply*.

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