Kilnsburner

Fortune Brands Innovations are a US based company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, that owns and develops a dynamic portfolio of brands for homes worldwide.

Our specialist kitchen and bathroom division, Fortune Brands Water Innovations, is made up of a collection of leading luxury UK brands: Shaws of Darwen, Perrin & Rowe, and Victoria & Albert Baths, which we market under the umbrella brand, House of Rohl.

In addition, Aqualisa completes our portfolio with its market leading digital showering technology.

All of our brands are united by a belief in design, innovation and craftmanship, leading to beautiful and high-quality products.

With manufacturing sites throughout the UK, and a House of Rohl showroom at the Design Centre in London, we currently employ over 600 people who are dedicated to delivering excellent products and service throughout our supply chain. A new multi-million pound state-of-the-art facility at the i54 Business Park in Wolverhampton will be completed later this year, generating exciting new opportunities across the business as we continue to grow.

Our people are what make our business, and we truly care about creating a ‘Home for All’ where employees are empowered to make a difference, and able to bring their authentic selves to work. We are passionate about rewarding excellence and helping people to grow, both personally and professionally, during their time with us.

If you are looking for opportunities within a progressive, innovative, and nurturing organisation; and have the energy, passion, and commitment to deliver excellence, we would love to hear from you.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join us as a Kiln Burner within our Operations Team.

**In a nutshell, you will be responsible for**:
Setting and firing kilns with hand-crafted luxury Shaws sinks, and to remove kiln cars after firing. This will be a standalone position at times, due to the 24hr process in kiln firing cycles.

**What you are already great at**:

- Loading and unloading kilns in accordance with the correct procedure
- To ensure that all sinks are dried correctly through the timely starting of dryers, emptying, and loading sinks into dryer and counting stock in dryers.
- Levelling and straightening sinks every hour to ensure they do not twist.
- Carry out hourly checks on kilns and dryers and record results.
- Regular testing and adjustment of casting slip to ensure slip specification is maintained.
- Adhering to health and safety policies, procedures, and guidelines always.
- Ensuring correct PPE is always worn.
- Always follow SOP standards as trained.
- Striving to do your best to achieve targets set for your area.
- Ensuring that housekeeping standards are always met through regular cleaning of the area.
- Communicating any material defects, unsafe practices, or equipment to the Departmental team Leader.
- Understanding the process, they are responsible for, and the impact of its failures.
- Being willing to undertake training to develop in role and improve performance across other departments.
- To make an hourly call to external security in line with the Check Call Procedure.

**For this role we would need you to demonstrate**:

- Previous experience in a similar role
- Excellent at multi tasking and working with competing priorities
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Ability to work in a cross-functional and collaborative team environment
- Be a confident and credible operator

**What your colleagues say about you**:

- An ideas and solutions-focused person
- An excellent and engaging communicator with the confidence to communicate at all levels
- Very organised and methodical
- Able to communicate ideas both verbally and in writing.
- Very high level of attention to detail

**Our Values**:
Aligned - in our work together

Agile - in the face of challenge

Accountable - to our promises

Action - with integrity and transparency

**Why work for us**:
We reward our employees not just for the big headline results we reward our teams for how you have positively contributed to the business and that isn’t always defined by hitting a financial target.

We have a pay for performance culture and reward annually on results. In an ever changing environment its key that you are a curious and nimble learner. We succeed as a team so the ability to collaborate is essential. And to continue to grow and continually challenge you need to ensure you are able to both plan and align so we are all pulling in the same direction.

**The benefits bit**:

- 33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays)
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Annual Incentive Plan Bonus Structure
- Life Assurance
- Health & Wellbeing Programme, including health cash plan and employee assistance
- Pension Plan
- High St Reward Scheme
- Refer a Friend Programme
- Free Parking
- Frequent Technology User Free Eye Care
- Flexible working model
- High 5 Employee Recognition Programme
- And as an employer who values y