Production Operative - PM Shift

• Either
• Wet lay up formers and plasters using base materials and solvent-based adhesive, assembly work will include inserting beaded inserts, fixing brackets and metal details onto PD, stringing, cuffing, and working with jigs, patterns and detailed drawings. Remove PD work from plasters and formers.
• The preparation of formers by covering them with a fixed Fluon and if necessary a sliding Fluon, the cutting of base cloths and rolling them onto the former and gluing the seam. The preparation cleaning and routine maintenance of the winding machines. The loading of the formers onto the winding machine operating the winding machine through the winding process and manually removing the formers at the end of the process and placing them in a drying cabinet. Date stamping the tubes and then manually removing them from the formers.
• The sewing of inners on a round-arm sewing machine, cuffing lengths of flexible hose and silencer inners using formers and solvent based adhesives. Joining various connectors to silencer inners and flexible, rigid and semi rigid ducting using jigs, patters and detailed drawings. Use hand held cutting equipment and heat guns
• Mixing and pouring plaster into moulds, removing plaster from moulds when dry, dressing and waxing plasters before delivery to PD flow lines and cleaning moulds and reassembling
• Cuffing lengths of flexible hose using cuffing formers and solvent-based adhesives. Joining various connectors to flexible, rigid and semi rigid ducting using jigs, patterns and detailed drawings.
• Cutting fibreglass panels using templates and patterns. Laying up fibreglass panels using water based adhesives, lagging various products, finishing insulation panels using metallised tapes and various adhesives. Finishing lagged items using metallised tapes and various adhesives, the use hand held cutting equipment and operating spray guns.
• The Preparation of mixed materials required by the manufacturing plans and general production. Supplying primed helix to the manufacturing plans.
• Working to Standard Operating Procedures and Company policies and procedures.
• Working to COSHH requirements in force within the department.
• Deliver and book work into the quality/other department when completed.
• Responsible for good housekeeping and observing all H&S; requirements of the department.
In addition to these duties, employees are required to carry out such other duties as may be reasonably required.

Function: Manufacturing
Experience Level: Not Applicable