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Job Title: Extrusion Operator

Location: Helsby, WA6 0DJ

Salary: £11.44 to £12.96 plus shift allowance

Job Type: Full time, Permanent

Shifts:

Must be flexible, work shifts and overtime as required.
Currently 06:00 - 14:00 / 14:00 – 22:00 / 22:00 – 06:00 rotating each week but with flexibility as this could change.
About us:

Heat Trace is part of the Global NIBE Group, part of NIBE Element (the world's largest element manufacturer) and represents NIBE in the UK as one of over 60 Group companies that are based all over the world. NIBE is a global group that develops and manufactures intelligent, energy-efficient indoor comfort solutions for all types of properties. This allows our clients to reduce their energy consumption and their impact on the environment. NIBE Element manufactures components and solutions for intelligent heating and control for industry and infrastructure.

Heat Trace is a manufacturing and engineering company with our headquarters and main manufacturing unit in Helsby Cheshire, we also have two manufacturing facilities at Bredbury, Stockport. The prime activity of the business is the manufacture of highly technical heating cables for use predominantly in the oil and gas and advanced processing industries.

About the Role:

Setting, operating and monitoring the company’s main extruder machines
Make sure the extrusion machine is running efficiently to maximise output and reduce downtime
Verify that manufactured product meets visual, dimensional, and functional specifications
Ensure that the correct product is made from the correct material, with the correct product marking and labelling
Completing quality checks ensuring that all products leaving the extrusion line complies with the required product marking
Record all production data on the relevant, computerised system
Take responsibility for own workload, thinking on your own feet, booking in to the company stock systems, labelling products correctly
Basic maintenance checks, including die cleaning and decontaminating
Quality sampling of finished product
About you:

Extrusion Operator experience highly desirable
Role could suit transferable skills from someone being a machine operator position previously
Need to have an eye for detail, able to follow plans, complete quality checks
Be a proactive and positive individual
Flexible to working rotating shifts and overtime when needed
Team player, working in a small team of extrusion setters
Ideally have good technical / machine experience and understanding
Good communication skills
Good numeracy and literacy skills
Practical thinking
Ability to keep pace, in a high-volume production environment
What we can offer you:

Cash Health Plan
Free on-site parking
25 days holiday plus Bank Holidays, rising with length of service
Company events
Company pension scheme
Please Note:

Previous applicants need not apply.

Candidates will be contacted for interview in early January 2025.

No agencies.

Candidates with the experience or relevant job titles of; Extrusion Machine Operator, Machine Operative, Production Operative, Extrusion Technician, Production Machine Operator, Machine Operatives, Warehouse Machine Operator, Machine Handler, Machine Technician, Machine Engineer may also be considered for this role