Foundry Operative

**The Role**

As a Foundry Operative, you will play a key role in the continuous process involved in the supply of finished Fort Vale components which begins with the identification of customer need and ends with the delivery of customer satisfaction. The production of components begins with the castings at the Foundry. It is extremely important that FO’s understand the significance of their role within the Foundry and the continuous process of manufacturing at Fort Vale Engineering Ltd.

This is a permanent, full time role of 38 hours per week worked on the day shift. The working hours for this is Monday to Thursday 07:30 am - 04:15 pm and Friday 07:30 am - 12:30 pm

We are looking for someone to work in **Wax Production.**Working in such a small team it will be requirement that FO’s work across all areas of the Foundry and will be willing to train on other equipment.

**The main tasks of the role will include several of the following skills across departments**:
**Wax Production**
- Operation of wax injection moulding machines.
- Setting of wax injection moulding machines.
- Inspection of wax components.
- Use standard operating procedures to repair components.
- Assembly of wax components onto runner systems using hot knives and micro-welder equipment, following individual part guidelines.
- Inspection of completed work to ensure best quality is achieved.

**Shelling and mould production**
- Loading and unloading of moulding robots.
- Maintaining optimum slurry/sander parameters to ensure best mould build.
- Preparing slurry batches to specific tolerances.
- Monitoring and highlighting deviations from optimum environmental parameters within the shelling area.
- Ability to measure liquid viscosity and weights.

**Casting operations**
- Working in a hot metal environment, melting and pouring liquid metal.
- Shell and moulding de-waxing and preparation.
- Ensuring melt traceability to comply with casting certification.

**Post casting operations**
- Use belt linishing machines to grind various castings to specified tolerances.
- Operating air hand grinding tools.
- Operating abrasive wheel semi-auto cut off saws.
- Operate equipment in other areas of the Foundry as and when required: including knockout machine, hydraulic press and wheelbrators for metal cleaning.
- Use metal washing machines and guillotines to complete tasks.
- Contribute in a team working environment.
- Contribute to continuous improvement.
- To share knowledge and/or best practice with other team members.
- Maintain safe and clean working environment by complying with procedures, rules and regulations.
- Inspection of completed work to ensure best quality is achieved using the ‘right first time’ approach.
- Use computers to extract data.

**Skills and Abilities**
- Good organisational skills
- Computer literate
- Time management skills
- Good verbal communication and listening skills
- Manually handle weights up to 25kg

**Experience / Knowledge**
- Working within the Foundry environment is beneficial
- Experience with machining can be beneficial
- Having knowledge of the Foundry processes e.g. casting shelling process, shell making parameters, and robotic shell manufacture is advantageous

If you consider yourself to have a disability or special requirements, please give details of arrangements or adjustments you would require to attend the interview.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £12.03 per hour

Expected hours: No less than 38 per week

Additional pay:

- Bonus scheme
- Yearly bonus

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Bereavement leave
- Canteen
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Enhanced maternity leave
- Enhanced paternity leave
- Flexitime
- Free fitness classes
- Free flu jabs
- Free parking
- Gym membership
- Health & wellbeing programme
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Transport links

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Burnley BB12 7ND: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (preferred)

Work authorisation:

- United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person