Technical Operator

**ROLE**:Technical Operator
**LOCATION**:Trafford Park
**HOURS**:3 Rotating shift pattern: Monday to Friday OR Weekend shift pattern roles available.
**SALARY**:Starts at 90% of, and then up to £28,639 dependant on experience + shift allowance of £6178 (For Monday-Friday) or £5159 (Weekends)

**ABOUT UNILEVER**
Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Persil, Dove, Knorr, Domestos, Hellmann’s, Lipton, Wall’s, PG Tips, Ben & Jerry’s, Marmite, Magnum and Lynx. Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’.

Our Supply Chain teams play a vital role in getting our goods to consumers; from sourcing rawmaterials to manufacturing and delivering theend product. You could be finding a new way to get 12,000 litres of ice cream across the desert without it melting; or designing a more efficient distribution network to enable us to store and deliver our products sustainably to our customers.Our Global Supply Chain includes approximately 100,000 employees who work with over 70,000 suppliers and 1.5 million farmers. We manage a logistics network that transports acrossa distance of over1.5 billion km a year.

In the UK & Ireland, we are home to the production of PG Tips, Magnum, Pot Noodle, Persil and many more.Looking forward, we want to embracethe digital revolutionin order tobuild a more agile, integrated and synchronized Supply Chain. Be part of the most successful purpose-led business in the world and see the true impactthat you’re having in the work you do. There’s always a new challenge to tackle and our peoplehave the opportunity tomake a big impact every day on a local level, across Europe and the world
**JOB PURPOSE**

We’re looking for a Technical Operator to join this busy team to look after the operation, maintenance, improvement and repair of all the machinery.
As a successful Technical Operator here at Unilever, you will join us bringing your hands-on experience from your previous maintenance and engineering roles, ideally gained in a fast paced manufacturing environment.
**RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Spotting and finding any faults in the mechanical and pneumatic machinery and getting to the root cause of a problem quickly
- Assisting in the identification of the critical control points on the machine modules, ensuring that they are able to be inspected according to the correct procedures
- Working on high tolerance machinery, improving the performance of it by developing maintenance tasks
- Completing quality checks
- Communicating with the wider engineering, operations and distribution teams and maintenance team across the factory
- Developing any training and experience you already have in World Class Manufacturing tools and techniques
- Performing risk assessments as appropriate
**ALL ABOUT YOU**
- Qualified to NVQ Level 2 or 3, or equivalent (such as City & Guilds) in Maintenance and Engineering will be beneficial, but if you have experience but no qualification, we believe you can be successful
- Ability to communicate with colleagues at all levels of the factory team
- Computer literate
- Experience in using World Class Manufacturing tools and techniques, such as Kaizen and 5W1H, (although again, if this isn’t the case we can help you develop in this area)
**WHAT WE OFFER**

Not only do we offer a competitive salary, but also our pension scheme, an annual bonus, a free gym, a staff shop and shares. You’ll get the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and agile environment. We strive to achieve a family-friendly culture and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
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