Operative (Tufting)

Holme Mill (Ramsbottom)

Reports to: Operational Supervisor

Hours per week: 40 hours on a fortnightly rotating day shift
2.00pm - 10.00pm Sunday – Thursday
6.00am - 2.00pm Monday - Friday
Plus reasonable overtime as required

Main Duties: Contribute to the effective running of Cormar’s tufting operation. Daily duties include yarn creeling, splicing, and other duties as from time to time directed by Operations Supervisors / Line Manager. This may include but not be limited to recycling, baling, general housekeeping, running the yarn winding machines, yarn stripping machines, etc.

Job involves: Mobility for full shift, bending, lifting moderate weights, repeatedly twisting, climbing up and down steps repeatedly. Operating basic machinery such as winders, floor cleaners, yarn stripping machines but not Tufting machines.

Key Responsibilities:

Contribute to the achievement of organisation and department goals and targets through completion of daily duties to required standards/measures
Ensure the targeted performance/completion times for creeling and splicing are measured
Ensure product quality is to required standards
Flexibility to cover team and other duties as required
Maintain agreed house-keeping standards

Team Cormar:

Participate in, and make a positive contribution to Project Teams
Adhere to and promote Cormar Values
Demonstrate attitudes and behaviours which make a positive contribution to the team, department and company
Consider safety in all aspects of work, adhere to site and department safety rules and report all instances of concern.

Other:

Contribute to company improvement initiatives (eg. MSQ surveys, culture surveys)
Understand how own role impacts on the organisation and department objectives
Support the Operations Supervisor to deliver the above objectives

Skills / Qualifications:

Ability to communicate effectively within the team and in the wider organisation
Knowledge of how the department works and how it fits in with the rest of the organisation
Ability to work to agreed deadlines

Some of the benefits you can expect to receive as a Tufting Machine Operator are 31 days’ holiday pro rata, increasing to 35 after 5 full years’ service, discretionary annual bonus, Healthcare scheme (after 3 months service), generous pension (after 3 months service), free on-site parking and a substantial discount on our ranges.

Please send applications to Carla Grant, HR Manager, Cormar Carpets, Brookhouse Mill, Greenmount, Bury BL8 4HR, or email carla.grant@cormarcarpets.co.uk