Your responsibilities

We are currently looking for a Plate Saw Operator to join us here at thyssenkrupp Materials UK! As the Plate Saw Operator, you will be cutting a range of products for various customers working from design drawing and adhering to tight tolerances.

Our Preston site specialises in Aerospace specific products and CNC machining, having the most impressive warehouse of all our sites. As an aerospace site, all our products need to be accurate and traceable back to us to ensure safety and accountability, so your organisational and attention to detail skills are imperative. There are lots of different areas in the warehouse for you to grow into and learn about, all with brand new resources such as machines and fork lifts. The canteen has just had a £30k refurb too!

Shift Pattern:

40 hours a week 

Mon-Fri 

Week 1: 6am-2pm.

Week 2: 2pm-10pm

Your main duties will include:

• Operating the Plate Saw to a high quality and safe standard
• Ensuring we have warehouse traceability
• Working from drawings you will be required to accurately set various machines and produce parts to order
• Use forklifts to gather material for the jobs and record all information on job sheets

Your profile

Experience, skills and knowledge:

• Saw operating knowledge would be advantageous but training will be provided for the right candidate
• Able to read drawings and record accurate details
• Flexibility to help with other tasks
• Strong communication and time management skills
• Team player
• Proactive attitude
• Counterbalance forklift trained, ideally 4 way

Your benefits with us

• £24,544 per annum + shift allowance of  up to £2,808 per annum
• Annual Leave: 25 days holiday + 8 bank holidays + your birthday
• Company bonus scheme (5%)
• Advantageous pension scheme
• Learning & Development opportunities
• Advanced Family Friendly Policies
• Employee high street vouchers & discounts
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Occupational health & health surveillance
• Length of Service Awards
• Christmas savings scheme
• Eye care vouchers
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Wellbeing events
• Recognition Portal
• Rewards Portal
• Company events
• Car Salary Exchange Scheme
• Company share schemes
• Christmas Closedown

This is us – your new employer

thyssenkrupp Materials UK operates a network of 9 sites with just under 500 employees in England and Northern Ireland which are; Preston, Darton, Birmingham, Central Warehouse, Head Office & Fabrications (Cradley Heath, Birmingham), Milton Keynes, Swindon, and 2 in Belfast. We offer a vast range of material products such as stainless steel, aluminium and mild steel. We also provide a range of services, whether it be fully welded and fabricated finished parts or bespoke flat products cut to exact sizes. We have years of experience in the aerospace, construction and architecture, automotive and the general engineering industries.

With around 480 locations in over 40 countries, thyssenkrupp Materials Services is the biggest materials distributor and service provider in the western world. The broad service spectrum offered by the materials experts enables customers to focus on their individual core business. The area of Materials Services spans two strategic areas: global materials distribution as a one-stop-shop – from steel and stainless steel, tubes and pipes, nonferrous metals and specialty materials to plastics and raw materials – and tailored services in the areas of materials management and supply chain management. An extensive omnichannel architecture offers 250,000 customers worldwide cross-channel, round-the-clock access to more than 150,000 products and services. A highly efficient logistics system ensures that all requested services are smoothly integrated into customer production processes “just-in-time” or “just-in-sequence”.

We value diversity and therefore welcome all applications, irrespective of gender, nationality, ethnic and social background, religion and beliefs, disability, age, or sexual orientation and identity.

Please note that we reserve the right to remove this advert prior to the advertised expiry date, dependent on the level of response received.  You are therefore advised to apply at your earliest convenience. Due to the volume of applications we receive, we are unable to supply individual feedback at the CV review stage.