Trainee Production Technician - Full-time

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We have an exciting opportunity to join our manufacturing company based in Midhurst.
As a Trainee Production Technician, you will be joining a highly skilled team who are competent in the final processing of a wide range of critical products, including medical devices, aerospace, automotive, cosmetic, electronic, and general industrial products.

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Depending on your skills and abilities, processes that you may be trained to perform include, close visual inspection of components for potential defects, ultrasonic cleaning, component assembly, electronic assembly including soldering, printing, product measurement, component testing, and sterile barrier packaging. Duties also include completing batch documentation (written and data entry) and following clean down procedures. These processes are conducted in a range of environments including our state-of-the-art ISO Class 6 and 7 Cleanrooms, which are designed and managed to maintain tight environmental and procedural control over our processes, something which we are highly respected for by our customers and in our industry.

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If you are meticulous, with a keen eye there is an opportunity to thrive within our business. It will be key to collaborate with the rest of the team with a shared mindset. We recognise that not everyone has the same skill set, so we will support your training so we can meet our goals.
With training and experience, Trainee Production Technicians can advance to become Production Technicians and when opportunities are available, candidates looking for greater responsibility who are able to demonstrating leadership skills, anticipating and overcoming challenges, identify bottlenecks and improve efficiency, build trust, facilitate collaboration, and manage risk can become Senior Production Technicians.

About your working day:

• 08:15 – 17:00, Monday to Thursday and half day 8:15 - 12:45 on Friday.

• 10-minute paid rest break at 10:30, and a ½ hour lunch break.

• The company is closed for all UK bank holidays plus additional closure over the Christmas period.

Salary / Pay and Benefits:

• Hourly rate of £11.85, equivalent to an approximate salary of £23,108, with overtime at £16.00 per hour. Having received the required training, and demonstrating adequate experience and competence, Trainee Production Technicians can advance to the Tier 2 Trained Production Technician role with an hourly pay rate of £12.85, equivalent to an approximate salary of £25,058, with overtime at £17.35 per hour. Subject to availability of permanent positions, qualifying agency workers may typically transfer over to becoming Hunt employees at this stage.

• Annual Leave entitlement for a full-time position is 28 days (including bank holidays), with additional annual leave for long service.

• Free on-site Parking

• Being a family business, culture and a feeling of belonging are truly important to us, and promotion of diversity and inclusion is an essential part of that. We choose to proactively support our team by offering an employee assistance programme (EAP), which provides all employees with 24/7 access to free advice and counselling which is intended to help resolve a wide variety of issues that employees might need help to resolve in both their home and work lives, advice which includes medical health, financial wellbeing, legal information, and family issues.

• We are a social bunch, so expect to be invited along to barbeques, and sponsored events…

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Recruitment Process:

• Please contact us by email at careers@huntdevelopments.co.uk

• Or give us a call on 01730 813020.

• We can arrange a phone and/or an onsite interview, including a tour of the facility and then, if possible, offer you the chance to ‘have a go’ to see if you enjoy the work. Our team enjoy working in our Cleanrooms, but we understand that it may not be the same for everybody, so we encourage potential candidates to come and meet us so we can show you what is involved and give you the chance to see if you like it.

• We also use the services of recruitment agencies as an alternative way of joining our team. Being hired via an agency can be a good way to see if you enjoy the role and then it is possible for the company to directly employ you on a full-time basis shortly thereafter.

 

How to find us:​

• We are based on the Holmbush Industrial Estate in Midhurst, West Sussex

       (see map and address below)

• Our ‘what-three-words’ location is party.grandest.modem

• If travelling by Bus:

from the North, you can catch the 70 bus from Guildford, Haselmere, and Fernhurst.

from the East, you can catch the 01 bus from Worthing, Pulborough, and Petworth.

from the South, you can catch the 700 bus from Bognor, and then the 60 bus from Chichester.

from the West, you can catch the 92 bus from Petersfield, Rogate, and Stedham.

 

Schedule:

• Day shift Monday to Thursday

• Half Day Friday

• No weekends

• Overtime

 

COVID-19 considerations:
As a Medical Device manufacturing company, we naturally maintain high levels of cleanliness, in addition to hand sanitising stations and a Covid policy. 
 

Ability to commute / relocate:

• West Sussex, GU29 9HX: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

 

Language:

• English (required)

 

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

 

Reference ID: 

• Production Technician