Wood Machinist

JOB TITLE: Wood Machinist (Trainees considered)

LOCATION: Worthing, West Sussex

REFERENCE: TSLGJ1675

SALARY & BENEFITS: Salary will be discussed at interview stage depending on experience

Other benefits to include:

• We will issue you with company t-shirts, polo shirts and sweat shirts
• 21 days holiday + all bank holidays
• Company pension scheme
• Christmas bonus

WORKING HOURS: Monday – Friday 8.00am – 5.00pm & every third Saturday 8.00am – 12.00pm

THE COMPANY: Our client is, established in 1876 and based in Worthing, offer a vast range of timber and timber related products, everything from screws to spiral staircases.
THE ROLE: The Wood Machinist will be working on various machines and will be part of a team that will make profile tooling and run the machines to produce high quality softwood & hardwood mouldings.

Machines currently using are: Weinig Unimat 3000, Weinig Powermat 700, Weinig Multi-rip Saw and Weinig profile grinder. Full training will be given.

Should the occasion arise you will be expected to carry out any other duties reasonably requested of you that you are trained for or capable of doing. You may also occasionally be required to work in either other departments or at a different branch

THE CANDIDATE: The ideal candidate will be self-motivated and well organised, be able to plan and prioritise their workload in a busy environment. A general level of literacy and numeracy is required. The successful Wood Machinist will have the physical ability to manually handle timber of various sizes.

Desirable requirements for the role of Wood Machinist based in Worthing, West Sussex:

• Will live within a commutable distance of the Worthing
• Gallad software to produce templates for tooling.
• Profile grinding for producing tooling
• Weinig operating software logocom/powercom
• Weinig 5-7 head moulders
• Friendly disposition
• Experience with timber
• Forklift experience
• The ability to work as part of a team

Our client will also consider a trainee position for the right candidate. If you have previously operated wood machinery, have any knowledge of timber and have experience operating computers our client wants to hear from you!

Does this sound like you? If yes and you would like to apply for the Wood Machinist position then please hit the apply now button.

You will then be sent to an online questionnaire to support your CV and application, please fill in the details and we will be in touch to advise you of the next steps.