Donaldson Timber Systems

ROLE PROFILE

MANUFACTURING TECHNICIAN – backshift

Base salary £36,920 to £38,297 plus benefits

Witney, Oxfordshire

We reward our people, you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, ongoing training, development, and an opportunity to develop your career. Working hours are 40 to 46 hours per week, finishing at 12 noon each Friday. All hours over 40 are paid at 1.5 times with potential for further overtime.

You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, dental insurance and dine out discounts.  Hours from 16.45 to 04.45 Monday to Friday morning.

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple.  We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

A bit about the role

Our manufacturing technicians are core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, you’ll learn how to make our sustainable timber frame wall, floor and roof panels and work within a team to deliver components for our customers. We’ll train you to meet our standards in quality, productivity, and safety, enabling you to manufacture and build homes for communities around the UK.

If you enjoy making things, you can learn quickly, get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, you could be perfect for this role.

If you have some experience of joinery, timber frame manufacture or timber frame installation would be helpful or experience working within an automated production line. It’s not essential though as we’ll invest in training you now and for your future.

Knowledge and grasp of basic arithmetic would be helpful so that you can understand technical drawings.

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch.

A bit about us

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

Join us and make a difference.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need new people to join us and help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, ongoing training, development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer. Working hours are 40 to 46 hours per week and you’ll finish at 12 noon on a Friday. All hours over 40 are paid at 1.5 times with potential for further overtime. Hours from 16.45 to 04.45 Monday to Friday morning

You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, dental insurance and dine out discounts.

ROLE PROFILE

MANUFACTURING TECHNICIAN – Witney, Aberdeenshire

Base salary £32,104 to £33,302 plus benefits

Witney, Oxfordshire

We reward our people, you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, ongoing training, development, and an opportunity to develop your career. Working hours are 40 to 46 hours per week, finishing at 12 noon each Friday. All hours over 40 are paid at 1.5 times with potential for further overtime.

You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, dental insurance and dine out discounts.

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple.  We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

A bit about the role

Our manufacturing technicians are core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, you’ll learn how to make our sustainable timber frame wall, floor and roof panels and work within a team to deliver components for our customers. We’ll train you to meet our standards in quality, productivity, and safety, enabling you to manufacture and build homes for communities around the UK.

If you enjoy making things, you can learn quickly, get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, you could be perfect for this role.

If you have some experience of joinery, timber frame manufacture or timber frame installation would be helpful or experience working within an automated production line. It’s not essential though as we’ll invest in training you now and for your future.

Knowledge and grasp of basic arithmetic would be helpful so that you can understand technical drawings.

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch.

A bit about us

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

Join us and make a difference.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need new people to join us and help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, ongoing training, development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer. Working hours are 40 to 46 hours per week and you’ll finish at 12 noon on a Friday. All hours over 40 are paid at 1.5 times with potential for further overtime.

You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, dental insurance and dine out discounts.

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MANUFACTURING TECHNICIAN – Westhill, Aberdeenshire

Base salary £25,397 to £35,027 plus benefits

Westhill, Aberdeenshire

We reward our people, you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, ongoing training, development, and an opportunity to develop your career. Working hours are 40 hours per week, finishing at 12 noon each Friday. All hours over 40 are paid at 1.5 times with potential for further overtime.

You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, dental insurance and dine out discounts.

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple.  We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

A bit about the role

Our manufacturing technicians are core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, you’ll learn how to make our sustainable timber frame wall, floor and roof panels and work within a team to deliver components for our customers. We’ll train you to meet our standards in quality, productivity, and safety, enabling you to manufacture and build homes for communities around the UK.

If you enjoy making things, you can learn quickly, get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, you could be perfect for this role.

If you have some experience of joinery, timber frame manufacture or timber frame installation would be helpful or experience working within a production line. It’s not essential though as we’ll invest in training you now and for your future.

Knowledge and grasp of basic arithmetic would be helpful so that you can understand technical drawings.

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch.

A bit about us

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our facilities in Witney, Oxfordshire and Westhill Aberdeenshire are known for driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

Join us and make a difference.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need new people to join us and help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, ongoing training, development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer. Working hours are 40 hours per week and you’ll finish at 12 noon on a Friday. All hours over 40 are paid at 1.5 times with potential for further overtime.

You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, dental insurance and dine out discounts.

MANUFACTURING TECHNICIAN

Base salary £25,390 to £27,180 plus overtime, plus benefits

Witney, Oxfordshire

We reward our people, you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, ongoing training, development, and an opportunity to develop your career. Working hours are 40 to 46 hours per week, finishing at 12 noon each Friday. All hours over 40 are paid at 1.5 times.

You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, dental insurance and dine out discounts.

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple.  We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

A bit about the role

Our manufacturing technicians are core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, you’ll learn how to make our sustainable timber frame wall, floor and roof panels and work within a team to deliver components for our customers. We’ll train you to meet our standards in quality, productivity, and safety, enabling you to manufacture and build homes for communities around the UK.

If you enjoy making things, you can learn quickly, get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, you could be perfect for this role.

If you have some experience of joinery, timber frame manufacture or timber frame installation would be helpful or experience working within an automated production line. It’s not essential though as we’ll invest in training you now and for your future.

Knowledge and grasp of basic arithmetic would be helpful so that you can understand technical drawings.

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch.

A bit about us

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

Join us and make a difference.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need new people to join us and help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, ongoing training, development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer. Working hours are 40 to 46 hours per week and you’ll finish at 12 noon on a Friday. All hours over 40 are paid at 1.5 times.

You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, dental insurance and dine out discounts.

MANUFACTURING ADMINISTRATOR   

Witney, Oxfordshire  

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

And we’re asking you to join us on our ambitious journey.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need Design Technicians across the UK, to help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, car allowance / company car, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, based at our offices in Witney Oxfordshire with hybrid working available.

You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

A bit about the role

Our Manufacturing Administrator is a key part of the team, responsible for the operation of our business.

Reporting to the Manufacturing Manager, you’ll be responsible for assisting the Logistics and Materials Manager in implementing processes that support successful delivery of orders, order processing, collation and provision or reports to support streamlined operations, loading CDT files on our automated manufacturing lines.

You’ll also manage information sharing, team holiday and absence data and drawings related to manufacture while ensuring objectives are met to meet business needs.

Your skills

We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career.

If you have a passion for getting things right, are happy to work on your own and as part of a team, you get on well with other people and have a proactive approach to improving systems and processes, this could be the role for you.

You’ll also have excellent skills using systems and software to improve manual tasks. You can plan your working week, manage time, information, and report in a succinct manner.

You’ll undertake your role in an organised and agile way to support business goals. You’ll handle confidential business data in a professional manner.

You’ll be proficient in standard Microsoft packages along with other softwares to manage tasks and information such as Scribe and SharePoint.

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch.

If this sounds like the right step for your career, please apply to DTScareers@donaldsontimbersystems.com

MAINTENANCE ENGINEER   

Witney, Oxfordshire

We reward our people, you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, car allowance / company car, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career. This full-time role is 40 hours per week Monday to Friday, based at Witney Oxfordshire with hybrid working available.

You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

And we’re asking you to join us on our ambitious journey.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need Design Technicians across the UK, to help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, car allowance / company car, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer. This full-time role is 40 hours per week Monday to Friday, based at our offices in Witney Oxfordshire with hybrid working available.

You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

A bit about the role

As a Maintenance Engineer for our backshift, you’ll be an important member of the manufacturing team, responsible for meeting or exceeding production targets while ensuring our automated systems remain fully maintained and operational.

Reporting to the Maintenance Manager, you’ll be working in a fast paced environment, where you’ll take responsibility for our planned preventative maintenance programme, ensuring all machinery and equipment meets optimised performance while meeting health & safety requirements and relevant legislation.

You’ll be responsible for ensuring all plant and buildings within the factory are maintained through a PPM programme, able to meet production targets while maintaining a safety focused culture.

You’ll be responsible for managing the use of approved maintenance contractors where required, ensuring works are undertaken to the highest compliance standards, minimising business impact.

You’ll ensure that automated systems are fully operational with minimal downtime, resolving any issues as they arise, quickly to minimise impact on customers timelines.

You’ll implement and maintain the PPM for using our CMMS system (FIIX).

You’ll be competent in contributing to the introduction of new products and manufacturing techniques (CIP/5S) with the introduction of new process equipment and modification of existing and plant/equipment

Your skills

We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career.

If you have a passion for success, are happy to work on your own and as part of a team, you get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, this could be the role for you.

You have a minimum of 5 years’ experience as a Maintenance Electrician or Maintenance Fitter in a production related maintenance role with some exposure to PLC fault diagnosis. IPAF MEWP Licence (Type 3A & 3B).

You have recognised qualifications in a relevant core trade with the ability to maintain and repair both simple and complex machinery, ideally within an automated process manufacturing environment.

You’ll be comfortable taking decisions and recommending solutions based on data. You have a good working knowledge of PUWER/LOLER/COSHH and other relevant Health & Safety regulations.

You’ll have experience in maintaining Robotics/Cobotics and an understanding of data communications in a machine environment/fieldbuses/IP addressing and common communication protocols. You’ll be competent in working with I.T. networks. (Ethercat/Ethernet/Profibus/Profinet/Modbus/TCPIP/UDP)

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch.

If this sounds like the right step for your career, please apply to DTScareers@donaldsontimbersystems.com

Contracts Supervisor

Southeast England Region

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

And we’re asking you to join us on our ambitious journey.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need Design Technicians across the UK, to help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, car allowance / company car, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, with an opportunity for flexible working/ part-time hours (shorter working days or fewer days each week).

You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

A bit about the role

Our Contracts Supervisors are core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, reporting to the Contracts Manager, you’ll be responsible ensuring our sites meet pre-agreed standards of health & safety, customer service standards and construction standards. Your role is key in ensuring we deliver the build agreed programme, meeting budgets and quality standards.

We put focus and priority on Health & Safety and the Environment, so you’ll have specific accountabilities for that. Your role is responsible for managing each site that sits under your area of responsibility, taking time to ensure operational targets are met, all operatives have been inducted, sub-contractors are being managed with clear direction. You’ll attend site meetings ensuring progress and variances are documented and shared with all relevant parties. Your priority is ensuring that all site works are delivered to agreed HSE standards including, but not limited to scaffold, slab and crane lift plans.

You’ll maintain quality standards to ensure our customer site handovers meet pre agreed contract specifications and any remedial elements have been documented and addressed prior to handover.

Your skills

We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career.

If you have a passion for construction, are happy to work on your own and as part of a team, you get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, this could be the role for you.

You will need to hold valid CSCS card. You’ll come from a joinery background with extensive timber frame erect experience. You’ll be competent in reading working drawings, with a proven ability to manage, motivate and support operatives in a site environment.

You’ll also have excellent communication and organisation skills, you can plan your working week, manage time, information, and reporting.  You’ll understand the importance of putting the customer first, capable of working in a fast paced environment, adhering to strict deadlines.

You can demonstrate your ability to write clear and concise reports, identifying requirements for labour, deliveries and plant and any variances in programme.

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch.

If this sounds like the right step for your career, please apply to DTScareers@donaldsontimbersystems.com

Contracts Supervisor

Yorkshire Region

About us…

We are an Off-site manufacturer, at the forefront of the sector. We have a range of sustainable build systems, that utilise Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) that allows us to construct homes which are Greener, Faster, Better.

We supply the nation’s House Builders with state of the art, third party certified wall panel systems, large floor cassettes and roof systems. Nationwide, from Exeter to Aberdeen and everything in between we have a network of skilled Installers and regional Construction Managers and Supervisors installing timber superstructures on our client’s developments.

With a capacity to manufacture 10k houses a year, we supply and install for the UK’s leading private house builders. We do the same in the affordable sector working for national and regional contractors. We also enjoy strong relationships with more regionally focussed house builders. So, our portfolio of projects is diverse from small developments to large schemes and a variety of designs. We have a range of Build Systems and services to suit our client’s needs; it’s what we call tailored customisation. We differentiate ourselves through great client service, even going so far as offer training modules to our clients on MMC.

We are always pushing for better ways to make Off-Site Manufacturing more efficient, better quality, more cost effective and make net carbon homes a reality. That’s why our business is growing.

What a great time to join the Off-Site sector and Donaldson Timber Systems: building in volume and faster to overcome the housing shortage crisis; building leaner with Off-Site Manufacturing techniques to overcome skills shortages; building with the world’s truly sustainable material: timber – to help the country get to net zero carbon by 2050.

Want to know more? You’ll find us here: https://www.donaldsontimbersystems.com/

And…We are part of the Donaldson Group

We are a part of a group of 11 businesses operating from 48 locations throughout the UK. Established in 1860, Donaldson Group is one of UK’s largest, privately owned timber companies supporting the construction industry. Family owned, our offer includes: B2B, retail, ecommerce, all with shared values and a common vision, driven by the desire to always do good. We are focused on always providing a number one customer experience, embracing innovation, and doing things in a sustainable way, not just for our business but also for the communities we operate in. But most of all, our People are at the heart of everything we do, which is why we are committed to nurturing and empowering our 1,500+ colleagues across the UK.

We are ambitious about diversity and inclusion. We specifically encourage those from minoritised groups to apply for this post as they are currently underrepresented in the manufacturing and construction sectors of our organisation.

Our success has been built from our ability to build long-term relationships with clients, becoming an integral part of their business process with our complete service solution.  Our services cover concept design information and technical guidance, full design service, manufacture, delivery and construction on site.

The Role

You will have responsibility to ensure our sites meet pre-agreed standards of health & safety; customer service and construction, together with delivering the build programme meeting budgets and quality standards.

In keeping with the specific importance given to Health & Safety and the Environment by the Donaldson Group you have specific accountabilities as set out in our Corporate Responsibility for Health & Safety and Environmental Policy.

We will offer you the chance to develop your skills and experience further through our performance management process giving you the opportunity to progress your career within the Donaldson Group.

This role is to assist and cover sites across Yorkshire.

My Responsibilities

1. Achieve onsite visit to each of the sites under your area of responsibility, allocating ½ to full day to ensure operational targets are being met.
   1. All operatives have been inducted
   2. Sub-contractors are being managed and have clear direction
   3. Attendance at site meetings ensuring progress/variances are put in writing and copied to all relevant parties

2. Ensure work on site is delivered to agreed HSE standards including, but not limited to, the undernoted:
   1. Scaffold
   2. Slab
   3. Crane lift plans

3. Maintain quality standards to ensure site client handover meets pre agreed contract specification and all snagging elements have been documented and addressed prior to handover.

How will I be supported?

• You will have a Contracts Manager, who will guide and support you, especially during your induction period.
• You will have a supportive team in our Contracts Department.
• We will train you on our business processes and management systems but provide other skills and competency training.

My Skills

• Hold valid CSCS card.
• Joinery background with extensive Timber Frame erect experience.
• Demonstrate ability to manage and motivate operatives in site environment.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills with operatives; clients and colleagues.
• Demonstrate ability to write clear and concise reports, identifying requirements for labour, deliveries and plant and any variance in the programme.
• Demonstrate ability to read working drawings.
• Demonstrate ability to operate in a high pressure environment within tight timeframes and deadlines.

The full-time hours for this role are 37.5 hours per week over 5 days, Monday to Friday, however there is the opportunity for flexible working/ part-time hours with a variety of options which could be considered. Part-time hours could include shorter working days or fewer days each week.

Salary and Benefits

Donaldson Timber Systems is proud to develop our employees, offering career development and promotion opportunities across the Group.

• Holidays – 30 days per annum (Including bank holidays)
• Pension Scheme
• Bonus – Subject to bonus rules
• Car allowance/ Company Car
• Life Assurance
• Company Sick pay after probationary period (refer to contract)
• Flexible Benefits Package, options including – Holiday Trading, Cycle scheme, Dental insurance and Taste/Gourmet card.
• Employee Assistance Programme

• Employee Referral Scheme

If this sounds like the right step for your career, please apply to DTScareers@donaldsontimbersystems.com

DESIGN TECHNICIAN  –  SENIOR DESIGN TECHNICIAN

Salary range £38k to £48k plus benefits

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and a chance to develop your career. You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.

You must have design experience in timber frame or trusses. You should have a good working knowledge of Consultec (or HSB CAD, Mitek Wood Engine, Wolf Horizon) and AutoCAD.

Our people have made us great. Their knowledge, ideas, commitment, and energy over the last 50 years has helped to create a successful business.

Our purpose is simple. We’re building the sustainable low carbon homes of the future.

In our factory controlled environments in England and Scotland, we’re changing the way we build homes, delivering engineered sustainable homes and buildings across the UK.

A bit about the role

Our Design Technicians are core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, reporting to the Senior Design Technician, you’ll be responsible for designing timber frame superstructures for homes and buildings using architectural designs, specifications, and structural engineering guidance.

You’ll ensure accuracy of approved drawings, production designs for building components including walls, floors, and roofs. You’ll develop bills of materials for all structural and joinery components, steel fabrication, ensuring each design meets standards for programme compliance, quality, budget, health, and safety. You’ll be proactive in offering solutions to value engineer for our customers, working as part of a team to deliver great customer communication.

Your skills

You must have design experience in timber frame or trusses. You should have a good working knowledge of Consultec (or HSB CAD, Mitek Wood Engine, Wolf Horizon) and AutoCAD.

We’ll train you with your own growth plan so you’re ready for the next steps in your career.

If you have a passion for design, are happy to work on your own and as part of a team, you get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, this could be the role for you.

You’ll also have excellent organisation skills, you can plan your working week, manage time, information, and reporting.

You ideally have experience within the construction industry.

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch.

If this sounds like the right step for your career, please click here to apply and find out more

A bit about us

Our ambition is to reduce waste and reduce carbon, creating positive futures for generations to come. Our automated facility in Witney, Oxfordshire is known for its state of the art robotics, technology driving quality and innovation, building over 10,000 timber frame homes a year, to the highest standards. Our products are award winning, accredited, and sustainable.

We’re part of the Donaldson Group, a legacy of over 160 years with over 1,500 employees across the UK. 14 businesses, from timber importing, timber merchants, retail, timber engineering and offsite, we’re a business with long standing customers, even longer standing employees.

Together we have a great company culture that looks to the future, a culture built around our people, our customers and their visions that ensures we are focused on doing the right thing for our customers, our employees, and the planet.

And we’re asking you to join us on our ambitious journey.

The offsite manufacturing industry in the UK is robust and growing. Over the last 50 years, we’ve built over 150,000 homes, 300 hotels and many schools and medical facilities. We’re growing and we need Design Technicians across the UK, to help us to grow further.

We value our people, so you can expect a company that is supportive and encouraging, we make you feel welcome, looked after, secure.

We invest in our people so you can benefit from training and support as you learn and develop your skills. You’ll have your own learning path, a way to learn new skills, grow and flourish on an ongoing basis. This also ensures you’re ready for the next step when it comes along.

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, bonus scheme, ongoing development, and an opportunity to develop your career with the UK’s leading timber frame manufacturer.

You’ll have 30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, gym membership, dental insurance and dine out discounts as well as access to our Employee Assistance Programme.