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Witney, Oxfordshire
We reward our people, you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career. This full-time role is 40 hours per week Monday to Friday, based at Witney Oxfordshire with flexibility up to 46 hours in busy periods.
You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.
Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.
In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.
A bit about the role
As a Forklift truck driver, you’ll be an important member of the manufacturing team, responsible for the safe and efficient movement of materials within our factory and yard.
Reporting to the Logistics Coordinator, you’ll play a key role in organising and carrying out material movements to meet safety, quality, and productivity standards. You’ll check and record dispatch information for stock systems accurately and support improvements in the way we do things.
Health and safety is important to us so we’ll always ask you to report any health and safety issues or material or equipment concerns,
Your skills
We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career.
If you have a passion for doing things well, are happy to work on your own and as part of a team, you get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, this could be the role for you.
- A current Forklift Truck Licence (Combi-lift conversion training available if needed).
- Ability to organise and manage loading information.
- Basic computer skills, with experience in stock control systems preferred.
- A can-do attitude
- The ability to priority workloads in line with business requirements
We want people who bring the right mix of skill, attitude, and character, people who take pride in their work and want to grow with us. You’ll be a great fit if you have:
- Strong core skills for the role and a willingness to keep learning
- A positive, proactive attitude and pride in doing things well
- Integrity, professionalism, and a respect for others
- A strong customer mindset, internally and externally
- The ability to think clearly, solve problems, and make good decisions
- A collaborative style that supports their team and builds trust
Ambition and the desire to develop your career as we grow
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A Bit About Us
Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.
We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.
Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.
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Join us and make a difference
The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need Forklift Truck Drivers within our Witney, Oxfordshire factory, to help us to grow further.
We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.
We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you
Permanent – Full time
We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, with an opportunity for flexible working.
You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.
Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.
In our factory-controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.
A bit about the role
Our Material Controller is core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, reporting to the Materials Manager, you’ll be responsible ensuring material requirements to service scheduled demand is achieved to support overall delivery of the Group Corporate Plan. You will have the opportunity to use your people and general administrative skills to provide clear site direction to the main manufacturing operations.
Your skills
Working closely with your counterparts in planning; production; procurement; design and logistics, implementing effective and efficient materials processes and procedures to ensure:
- Call-off of stock materials aligning to predetermined stock levels
- Scheduling of materials in line with design take off and production demands
- Raising and expediting purchase orders in line with material demands
- Ensure that all stock transacations are captured and completed in real time by the end of each day
- Monitoring, closing and investigating production works orders and associated BOMs through company ERP system
Produce and monitor departments KPIs through the ability to manipulate various forms of information and depict in Excel, ensuring delivery of performance, quality and productivity to agreed targets and suppliers SLA’s.
Optimise utilisation of MRP planning control systems and ensure customer requirements are met, as well as ensuring zero stock outs.
Develop and implement appropriate data monitoring and measurement to ensure effective and efficient stock management practices and identify areas of continuous improvement.
Carry out regular cycle counts and quarterly full stock takes, investigating differences and escalating to Materials Manager where appropriate.
Build and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external project teams and contractors to maximise success of KPI’s within your areas of responsibility.
Maximise the benefits of and deliver continuous improvement to current business processes.
Essential technical expertise
- Experience in manufacturing or construction preferable but not essential.
- Experience of MRP planning control systems
- Demonstrate ability for budgetary and planning within a manufacturing environment.
- Evidence of managing materials and stock control.
- Demonstrate ability for prioritising
- Computer literate with good excel skills.
We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career.
We want people who bring the right mix of skill, attitude, and character, people who take pride in their work and want to grow with us. You’ll be a great fit if you have:
- Strong core skills for the role and a willingness to keep learning
- A positive, proactive attitude and pride in doing things well
- Integrity, professionalism, and a respect for others
- A strong customer mindset, internally and externally
- The ability to think clearly, solve problems, and make good decisions
- A collaborative style that supports their team and builds trust
- Ambition and the desire to develop your career as we grow
A bit About Us
Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.
We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.
Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.
Join us and make a difference
The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need you, to help us to grow further.
We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.
We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you
Manufacturing Technician – Witney, Oxfordshire
Witney, Oxfordshire
We reward our people, you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, ongoing training, development, and an opportunity to develop your career. Working hours are 40 to 46 hours per week, finishing at 12 noon each Friday. All hours over 40 are paid at 1.5 times.
You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, dental insurance and dine out discounts.
Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.
Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.
In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.
A bit about the role
Our manufacturing technicians are core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, you’ll learn how to make our sustainable timber frame wall, floor and roof panels and work within a team to deliver components for our customers. We’ll train you to meet our standards in quality, productivity, and safety, enabling you to manufacture and build homes for communities around the UK.
If you enjoy making things, you can learn quickly, get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, you could be perfect for this role.
If you have some experience of joinery, timber frame manufacture or timber frame installation would be helpful or experience working within an automated production line. It’s not essential though as we’ll invest in training you now and for your future.
Knowledge and grasp of basic arithmetic would be helpful so that you can understand technical drawings.
Your Skills
- Ability to prioritise workloads, in line with business requirements
- A can-do attitude
We want people who bring the right mix of skill, attitude, and character, people who take pride in their work and want to grow with us. You’ll be a great fit if you have:
- Strong core skills for the role and a willingness to keep learning
- A positive, proactive attitude and pride in doing things well
- Integrity, professionalism, and a respect for others
- A strong customer mindset, internally and externally
- The ability to think clearly, solve problems, and make good decisions
- A collaborative style that supports their team and builds trust
- Ambition and the desire to develop your career as we grow
A Bit About Us
Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited and sustainable.
We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.
Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.
Join us and make a difference
The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need new people to join us and help us to grow further.
We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.
We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you