Safety comes first at Northwood, and we take pride in our workspaces where our excellent production takes place!
We are committed to providing well-maintained and safe workspaces, relying on our Facilities Engineer to make this happen!
If you enjoy a balance of routine and variety, hands-on work, and competing priorities, read on!
Please be advised that the weekly hours for this role are 38.75 per week.
Job OpportunityHere’s what your day to day could look like:
*Keeping our site well maintained through general work, fabric repairs across the site.
*Ensuring our colleagues and visitors have clear pathways, and robust barriers and handrails to safely navigate the site.
*Maintaining our Engineering workshop, adopting best practice housekeeping procedures.
*Deterring pests from site, following responsible, ethical, and safe precautions/practices.
*Involvement with Health and Safety projects, including water sampling.
*Working at a height where the role reasonably requires, ensuring safety protocol is followed thoroughly.
*Occasionally, you’ll drive a medium-sized company van for supplier visits/collections, assisting other departments, and transport visitors as required.
*Creating (and carrying out) work requests raised within our CMMS in a responsive and timely manner.
Company Benefits*Company pension
*Life assurance
*Free company products
*Free on-site parking
*Food, retail, holidays, cinema, and gyms discounts
*Wellness programmes, including Employee Assistance Program and OnDemand GP service
*Free early access to pay scheme
*Salary sacrifice schemes
*Employee referral scheme
Essential SkillsA valid, full, clean UK driving licence is a requirement for this position.
We’re looking for the following qualities, skills, and experience:
*Hands-on approach to grounds maintenance, building fabric repairs, and general repairs.
*Driven by problem-solving with an inquisitive nature.
*Process-driven approach, prioritising and communicating proactively.
*Happy to operate across a variety of environments, e.g. Outdoor areas, Factory/Manufacturing/Production workspaces, Offices, and Distribution Centres/Warehouses.
*Proficient in the safe operation of hand tools and power tools (including pre-use inspection).
*Experienced with working at a height.
*Qualification in Counterbalance FLT with Clamp/Boom (desirable, but not essential).
*Good basic knowledge of Health and Safety principles and protocol, with the desire to maintain this.
Northwood is a family-owned group of associated companies that provide the manufacturing, supply and transportation of paper hygiene and wiping products for both the away-from-home and consumer market.
Our mission is to be the market-leading partner of choice in the away from home tissue industry. One of only a small handful of companies in the UK market that is fully vertically integrated; Northwood is involved at each point in the supply chain, from raw material supply, tissue and towel manufacturing, end-user product converting, storage and transportation.