We are hiring a Production operative to join our growing upholstery team in F2 Goban Street, Portadown. The post holder will be responsible for working across all aspects of production operations, ensuring that deadlines are met, whilst ensuring products are built to appropriate quality standards, right first time.
Responsibilities
- Ensure Health & Safety standards are adhered to at all times
- Maintain a safe, organised and efficient work area
- Ensure efficient production flow and make suggestions as to how work flow could be improved
- Escalate issues to line management as required
- Clean and maintain supplies, tools, equipment, and storage areas to ensure compliance with
quality and safety regulations.
Reward
We are an employer of choice in the local manufacturing industry, with regular opportunities for progression interdepartmentally. We are part of one of the world’s largest aerospace companies, but we haven’t forgotten our roots. We began this journey 11 years ago with one great idea and handful of eager engineers with a shared creative vision. We’ve gained more than a few new recruits in that time, and a lot more factory floor space, but our passion for our products and flair for innovation has remained. We are proud to say that we’ve nurtured that creativity and grown the business to the top ten companies in our industry, worldwide and there’s more to come!
Benefits include, Healthcare, 33 days annual leave, Perks discount, Contributory pension scheme, discounted gym membership, £5,000 employee referral bonus, Life assurance, Wellbeing Initiatives, and Employee Recognition scheme.
Requirements
Essential
- Experience in a production environment
- Pass in Maths and English GCSE or equivalent
- Ability to prioritize workload
- Excellent attention to detail, organisation and time management skills.
- Strong communication and team working skills
- High regard for Health and Safety
- Use of variety of hand tools
Desirable
- Good IT skills with working knowledge of MRP
- Metal work experience
- Upholstery experience
- Sewing machine experience
- Time served in aerospace industry
- Metal work experience
- Experience with working and producing templates
The position is day shift, hours of work will be 6.30am to 2.45pm M-F, 40 hours per week.
Thompson Aero Seating is an equal opportunities employer.
We reserve the right to enhance criteria on shortlisting.
The closing date for applications is the 24th of March 2023 at 12 noon.
A full specification is available by contacting careers@thompsonaero.com, quoting the job title and reference number.
