Location: Inverness
Type: Full Time
About Us
West Fraser is a diversified wood products company with more than 60 facilities in Canada, the United States and Europe. From responsibly sourced and sustainably managed forest resources, the company produces lumber, engineered wood (OSB, LVL, MDF, plywood, particleboard), and other products including pulp, newsprint, wood chips and renewable energy.
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Our UK-manufactured products are used extensively in the construction, DIY and furniture sectors. Our brands, SterlingOSB Zero, CaberFloor and Caber MDF, are well known in the construction industry and are commonly specified by architects, national housebuilders and specifiers.
We are proud that as a certified net carbon negative company we lock up more carbon in our products than we emit making them, helping the UK construction sector comply with net zero targets and beyond.
Our Inverness Mill
Our mill continues to invest in multi-million-pound projects following extensive upgrades over the last 5 years, making us one of the most competitive and largest OSB plants across the globe.
The Role
We have an exciting opportunity available for a Mechanical Fitter to join our continuous investment site in Inverness.
Reporting to the Mechanical Supervisor, this role will be responsible for providing maintenance and mechanical support throughout the site, ensuring reliability of equipment, maintenance of assets in a safe condition as well as developing and maintaining preventative maintenance schedules.
Other duties include:
- Identify MIP initiatives to supervisor.
- Identifying and implementing improvements
- Daily checks of workload at the start of each shift and ensure they are completed as required, signing off on all jobs.
- Complete all tasks in an efficient and effective manner.
- Assist through performance the achievement of area goals.
- Liaison with other departments to ensure safe and efficient running of the plant.
What We Require from You
- Minimum of City & Guilds / ONC Level of education in a mechanical discipline
- Manufacturing Experience (Preferable)
- The candidate must have strong health and safety awareness and the ability to work unsupervised.
Package
We recognise that our people are our future and the importance of investing in continuous training and development programmes. You will be provided with the opportunity to advance your career, in addition to the following package:
- Competitive Salary
- 30 days holiday per year
- Employee Assistance Programme
- 7% Pension
- Simply Health
- Cycle to Work Scheme
- Refer a Friend
- Access to occupational health nurse
If you’re interested in developing your career and joining the biggest plant of this type in
Europe then we’d love to hear from you.
