Quarry Operative

**Description**:
Are you someone looking for a new challenge or career change? At Welsh Slate, we can offer a truly different quarrying role and our teams take immense pride in their work and the production of our slate products. As a whole, we endeavor to grow the slate product portfolio from our quarries and continue to expand our footprint and we’d like to take you on that journey with us.

**Key Responsibilities**:
You will primarily operate a variety of fixed plant to aid in the safe undertaking of our quarry activities, including the processing of slate block at our onsite slate manufacturing facilities. You’ll be an ideal fit for this position if you have a great sense of humour and don’t mind getting your hands dirty

What you'll be doing:

- Operate fixed plant machinery to process slate block in to roofing and architectural products
- Carry out pre-start safety inspections
- Adhere to health and safety policies and procedures

The current working pattern for this role is days, however there may be future requirements to work shifts.

**Skills, Knowledge and Expertise**:

- A full UK Driving Licence - owing to the location of the quarry you will need to be able to drive your own vehicle or otherwise be able to reliably get yourself to work on time.
- A genuine interest in the construction materials industry, specifically an interest in roofing and architectural slate.

**Salary and Benefits**:

- A tailored, competitive salary
- Pension
- 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays on top
- Share Saver Scheme
- Life Assurance
- Access to our employee benefits platform, giving you discounts on a wide variety of high street shops and brands
- Broad learning opportunities and career progression pathways.

**About Breedon Group**:
Breedon is a leading vertically-integrated construction materials group in Great Britain and Ireland.