Job Title: Assembler Tester
Location: Watson Marlow - Bickland Water Road
Location Type: On-Site
Website: https://www.wmfts.com/en/
Group: https://www.spiraxgroup.com/
When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.
This role will focus on:
Working as part of the Pumps Assembly team to produce and assemble high quality peristaltic pump drives and heads. With safety at the forefront, you will be employed within work cells manufacturing, calibrating, and testing the company products in accordance with specifications, procedures, and quality standards. You will embrace and champion LEAN production principles ensuring wastes are eliminated and processes are continually reviewed/improved.
What you’ll be doing:
1. Manufacture and assemble WMFTS products in compliance with official documentation such as BOMs, G.A. drawings, wiring diagrams, assembly procedures and test specifications.
2. Select the relevant components specific to main assembly and sub-assemblies, utilising the internal stock control process.
3. Follow and adhere to rigid work instructions ensuring all relevant test procedures and associated results are recorded in line with departmental procedures.
4. Become a champion for quality and adopt the right first time principle. Report and record any quality issues.
5. Ensure Kanban signals are actioned as part of the material replenishment system.
6. Using Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP system, prioritise daily workload ensuring all dated orders are satisfied to meet customer demand.
7. Prioritise workload to ensure the correct replenishment of sub-assembly stocks are aligned with the Kanban system.
8. Be a flexible member of the Assembly team, relocating to various product cells when responding to the demands of the business.
9. Assist with the training of individuals in new and existing products when required.
10. Self-manage online training and IT related production tasks.
11. Ensure that your immediate working area is maintained, tidy, clean and a safe working environment.
12. Champion your passion for health, safety and wellbeing.
13. Willing to adapt to a shift-based rotation if business demand dictates.
14. Provide support for various production activities including the end of line processes.
15. Embrace Continuous Improvement initiatives throughout the pumps value stream, working closely with Team Leaders to develop and implement new ideas.
16. Assist with the process validation of new equipment.
17. Support and drive 5S activities across the Pumps value stream, ensuring the workspace is efficient and safe.
18. Support process improvement investigations including Root Cause analysis and Corrective Actions.
To be successful in this role, you will need:
* A willingness to work in a fast-paced production environment.
* Medical device manufacturing background would be an advantage.
* Knowledge of Lean manufacturing principles.
* Experience of 5S processes.
* A keen eye for detail and a willingness to utilise all available resources to drive process improvement.
* Be flexible and willing to adapt to changing customer demands.
At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:
* A competitive salary
* Flexible working arrangements
* A generous holiday allowance
* Three days’ paid volunteering leave
* Comprehensive private healthcare
* An enhanced retirement plan
* Life assurance
* Additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan
Everyone is Included at Spirax Group
We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.
We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include:
* Gender-neutral parental leave
* 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave
* Paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse
* Menopause-friendly workplace principles and more.
Learn more at Our Inclusion Commitments.
Company Overview
At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.
Watson-Marlow is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.
Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!
Our inclusive culture and values unite us, guide our decisions and inspire us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.
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