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