Machine Operator (Converting/FMCG)

Learn and develop your skillset daily as a Northwood Machine Operator!

You will work with advance machinery, adopting high standards and following critical processes to deliver excellent quality to the customer, ensuring safety comes first at all times!

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. In addition, you'll have opportunities to grow with the business and progress.

Our 4 on 4 off shift (2 days and 2 nights) provides work-life balance, alongside our Christmas production shutdown, and 22 days' holiday!

Job OpportunityUpon joining us, you'll receive full training across our state of the art production machinery and balers.

Your day to day:

You will be working with a high performing, talented, and supportive team

Prior to machine operation, you will conduct pre-use lifting and equipment guarding checks to ensure absolute safety.

Operate our high speed/high volume converting machinery, you'll conduct quality checks, performing electronic or manual adjustments as required.

Within permitted scope, you will rectify any defects or minor issues in the first instance before escalating to a Shift Engineer or Cell Leader/Shift Manager.

You will regularly collate waste paper product into balers which will be delivered in batches to our Mills to be recycled.

Continuous Improvement is embedded into everything we do, therefore you will seek out opportunities for cost reductions and added value where appropriate.

During breaks, you will have access to a common area where you can eat and rest prior to returning to your workday.

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 SkillsWhat we need from you:

Technical and proactive approach, setting our machines safely and correctly, and carrying out basic fault finding and minor PPMs to reduce downtime and sustain machine reliability.

Experience in a Converting or similar FMCG environment.

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