Production Operative

6 months ago


Long Stratton, United Kingdom Paneltex Limited Full time

**Company Overview**

Formed in Kingston upon Hull in 1991 as a manufacturer of insulated panels for cold storage, Paneltex is one of the world’s leading temperature-controlled vehicle body builders and converters. Thirty years later, Paneltex produces hundreds of refrigerated vehicle bodies, vehicle body kits, and portable cold stores a week out of seven specialised factories across the UK.

**Position Title**: Production Operative - Laminator

**Location**:Paneltex Somers, Long Stratton

**Hours of work**:40 hours per week - Monday-Friday 0800-1630

**Salary**:Up to £13.70 per hour (DOE)

**Other Benefits**:Equivalent of 32 days annual leave (inclusive of bank holidays), Contributory pension scheme & Life Assurance cover.

**Job Overview**

Working in a team environment you will work on a range of parts. You will need to read and understand lay-up drawings and use your laminating skills to carry out the required workload to the lay-up specification. The role will be utilised in both mould manufacture and vehicle laminating.

**Key Duties and Responsibilities**
- Check all dies, templates, and cut out patterns to be used in the manufacturing process to ensure that they conform to dimensional data, photographs, blueprints, samples, and/or customer specifications.
- Check completed products for conformance to specifications and for defects by checking them visually, or by tapping them to detect bubbles or dead spots.
- Cure materials by letting them set at room temperature, placing them under heat lamps, or baking them in ovens.
- Inspect, clean, and assemble moulds before beginning work.
- Mask off mould areas which are not to be laminated, using cellophane, wax paper, masking tape, or special sprays containing mould-release substances.
- Mix catalysts into resins, and saturate cloth and mats with mixtures, using brushes and rollers.
- Press layers of saturated mat or cloth into place on moulds using brushes.
- Release air bubbles and smooth seams, using brushes and rollers.
- Repair or modify damaged or defective glass-fibre parts, checking thicknesses, densities, and contours to ensure a close fit after repair.
- Trim excess materials from moulds, using hand shears or trimming knives.

**Knowledge, Skills and Abilities**
- Attention to detail and a methodical approach to tasks.
- Health & Safety Knowledge.
- Experience in wet lay-up GRP.
- Knowledge of chemical mixes.
- Good team player and excellent communicator.
- Punctual & reliable.

**_ No agencies please._


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