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COMPOSITE TECHNICIAN — LAMINATING / TRIMMING / FITTING

Eynsham, Oxfordshire | Permanent, Full-Time

THE OPPORTUNITY

We're recruiting across multiple levels for a growing composites manufacturing team in Eynsham, Oxfordshire. Whether you're an experienced pre-preg laminator, a composites trimmer or fitter, or someone with strong practical skills who's ready to make a move into composites, we want to hear from you.

The business is a well-established precision composites manufacturer working across some of the most demanding programmes in the industry. They've just landed a significant new project and are building a team to deliver it, with immediate hires needed now and further roles coming as the project scales.

This is a business that takes composites seriously. The team is experienced, the facility is well-equipped, and some of their best people started with no composites background at all. What they care about is quality, attitude and the willingness to get stuck in.

WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR

We're hiring across three profiles, read on and see where you fit.

TIER 1 EXPERIENCED LAMINATORS (immediate requirement)

This is the priority hire. If you have genuine pre-preg laminating experience, we want to speak to you first.

* Proven hand laminating experience, pre-preg carbon fibre, unidirectional prepreg

* Vacuum bagging and debulk operations

* Autoclave experience, cure preparation and cycle familiarity

* Ability to work confidently from ply books and engineering drawings

* High standards of workmanship and right first time mentality

Sector background is fully open, F1, motorsport, automotive, marine, aerospace, defence. If pre-preg and autoclave are your world, get in touch now.

TIER 2 COMPOSITES TRIMMERS, FITTERS AND BONDERS

As the project grows, we'll need people who can trim, fit, bond and finish composite components to a high standard. If this is your background, don't hold back, these roles are coming and we'd rather know about you early.

* Experience trimming, finishing or bonding composite components

* Comfortable working to engineering drawings and tight tolerances

* Good hand skills and attention to detail

* Experience with hand tools and air tools in a composites environment

Laminating experience alongside trimming or fitting is a bonus but not a requirement at this level.

TIER 3 PRACTICAL BACKGROUNDS LOOKING TO MOVE INTO COMPOSITES

The business has a strong track record of taking people with the right practical foundations and developing them into skilled composites technicians. If you're hands-on, technically minded and genuinely motivated to learn, this could be the opportunity you've been looking for.

Backgrounds that transfer well include:

* Aircraft or vehicle body technician

* GRP or fibreglass worker

* Boat builder or marine fabricator

* Joiner, cabinet maker or furniture manufacturer

* Panel beater or automotive repair technician

* General manufacturing operative with strong hand tool skills

* Upholsterer, pattern cutter or materials handler with precision experience

You don't need composites experience at this level, you need good hands, a strong work ethic and the attitude to learn properly.

THE SETUP

* Permanent roles, all levels

* Day shifts to start, with the possibility of early and late shifts as the project scales

* Well-equipped facility with in-house tooling

* A team with a genuine culture of training and development, this is a business that invests in its people

* One-stage on-site interview

INTERESTED?

Whichever tier you sit in, get in touch. The roles at Tier 1 are moving now, but we're actively building a pipeline across all three levels so it's worth a conversation whatever stage you're at