Factory Operative

**Foundry Operator - 6:30am to 6pm / Mon-Thur / £12.30PH inc holiday pay**

**Closest Station: Rye House (Greater Anglia)**

The general job title is Foundry Operator. This involves being stationed at the machine and doing the following.
- Take the parts off the machine as they are produced.
- Break the feed off the part either by hand or using a dedicated hydraulic press at the machine to trim them
- Inspect each part for obvious casting faults (metal missing, cracks etc.)
- Sometimes filing, sanding or removing excess metal (flash) from each part or doing some other form of operation and ideally, keeping pace with the machine output
- Conducting hourly quality checks on the parts using various types of basic gauges / equipment
- Recording these checks on a special form
- Flagging to others any faults or defects on the part early so it can be addressed / improved by others who may need to change the machine settings or by some other activity.
- Stacking and packing the parts into the correct containers and in the correct way. This includes filling out by hand, a bin card to identify each container of parts
- Completing the operator time sheet by hand at the end of each shift to record how many parts are made and how many scrap etc
- Cleaning the machine cell area at the end of each shift
- There may be other tasks such as moving good parts, scrap or other materials using a pallet truck or similar method or other related general operations

**The operator will need to be**:

- Literate (to understand the quality check paperwork and other internal documents)
- Ability to communicate in English (to understand instructions and enable adequate training)
- Ability to learn (to be trained on how to stop / start the machine and learn what defects to look for, how to conduct the quality checks, H&S procedures etc. )
- Able to concentrate for long periods (it is easy to miss a defect and create a lot of scrap if they “switch off” mentally)

**Alex - We Staff**

**Salary**: £11.00-£12.30 per hour

**Experience**:

- factory: 1 year (preferred)
- Manufacturing: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: WOCM19