Production Assistant
We offer
- Competitive rates of pay
- Shift allowance after 12 weeks
- Enhanced Pension contributions
- Generous annual leave entitlement
- Life assurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Access to 24 hour online GP
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Fresh fruit on site
- Opportunity to secure a permanent position after a successful 12-week temporary period.
Your Responsibilities
- Emptying the wash lines, ensuring that all customer parts are appropriately matched with their respective route cards, and that the parts are correctly stored ready for batching.
- Ensuring that any damage spotted, to tools is immediately communicated to supervisors/managers.
- Storing of parts and documentation in a safe and secure manner.
- Correctly deciphering route cards, Part forms, specifications and engineering drawings ensuring: coating type, tool type, material, line quantities, correct delivery dates, are used to correctly create production batches to the production plan and to Oerlikon Balzers Standards for coating operations. Notification & documentation of any discrepancies or damage to supervision and customer services.
- Placing tools and parts onto coating fixtures, adhering to process documentation, Oerlikon & Customer requirements; ensuring safe handling methods with no scope for tool damage.
- Loading batches safely, and operation of all coating equipment and vacuum chambers as deemed appropriate by supervision and to the defined Oerlikon standards
- Receive, unpack and inspect customer parts.
- Prepare components for the surface coating process.
- Follow all health, safety and quality procedures.
- Keep work areas clean, organised and safe.
- Carry out basic equipment checks and report any faults.
- Work with colleagues to ensure customer delivery deadlines are met.
- Support continuous improvement and housekeeping activities (5S).
- Communicate any production, quality or safety concerns to your supervisor.
Your Profile
- Experience of working in a busy production environment
- Strong eye for detail/accuracy
- Excellent communication skills
- Good IT/Computer skills
- Experience of following quality standards/carrying out quality checks would be advantageous.
- Ability to read engineering drawings is desirable but not necessary
- Ability to follow Health and safety standards
- Willing and able to work shifts
Can you identify with this position and are you looking for a new challenge? Then we are eager to meet you! Please apply online.
Contact
Pamela Dodd
Pamela.Dodd@oerlikon.com
About Oerlikon
Oerlikon is a global leader in surface technologies and advanced materials. With a unique portfolio spanning surface engineering, high-performance materials, coating equipment and components, we make products better by enhancing performance, efficiency and sustainability. Oerlikon serves a wide range of industries, including aerospace, automotive, energy, medical, luxury, semiconductors and tooling. Head-quartered in Pfäffikon, Switzerland, Oerlikon operates in 38 countries with around 10,000 employees, achieving sales of CHF 1.6 billion in 2025.
We offer a wide variety of job profiles in a dynamic, supportive environment where people are empowered to grow and reach their full potential — guided by our core values of integrity, team spirit, excellence and innovation.
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