Vacancy

Manufacturing Administrator – Witney, Oxford

November 18, 2025
 

Permanent – Full Time

We reward our people, and you’ll have good benefits, a competitive salary, ongoing development and an opportunity to develop your career. This full-time role is 37.5 hours per week Monday to Friday, with an opportunity for flexible working.

30 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, family private medical insurance, 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.

A Bit About the Role

Reporting to the Office Supervisor, you will be an integral part of the Manufacturing department, providing general administrative support to meet the department objectives.  This will include the accurate and timely processing of information, as well as delivering accurate and timely administration assistance of Manufacturing information, to ensure the product is delivered to a high-quality standard and to agreed timescales.

You will look at the consumption of material on the ERP system and shipping of sales order lines, as well as processing Delivery notes and drawing packages.   Assistance will be required by the Materials Manager in any processes that leads to the successful delivery of product and recording of information relating to Manufacturing.  As well as general administration, such as filing and archiving and the generation of purchase order for deliveries.

 

Your Skills

We are looking for the person to be able prioritise their workload, to ensure a proactive approach to deliver the administration requirements of the department.

You will have the ability to maintain confidential and sensitive information, whilst having excellent attention to detail. You will be well organised and be a great communicator, be flexible in your approach and proficient in Microsoft packages, ie. Word, Excel and Outlook

We will offer you the chance to develop your skills further through our performance management process, giving you the opportunity to progress your career either within Donaldson Timber Systems division or across other divisions within the Donaldson Group.

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 on our journey.

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.