Plating Line Operator

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permanent
Wolverhampton, West Midlands, United Kingdom
Victoria and Albert Baths
22.04.2024
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Full Job Description

Fortune Brands Innovations are a US based company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, that owns and develops a dynamic portfolio of brands for homes worldwide.

Our specialist kitchen and bathroom division, Fortune Brands Water Innovations, is made up of a collection of leading luxury UK brands: Shaws of Darwen, Perrin & Rowe, and Victoria & Albert Baths, which we market under the umbrella brand, House of Rohl.

In addition, Aqualisa completes our portfolio with its market leading digital showering technology.

All of our brands are united by a belief in design, innovation and craftmanship, leading to beautiful and high-quality products.

With manufacturing sites throughout the UK, and a House of Rohl showroom at the Design Centre in London, we currently employ over 600 people who are dedicated to delivering excellent products and service throughout our supply chain. A new multi-million pound state-of-the-art facility at the i54 Business Park in Wolverhampton will be completed later this year, generating exciting new opportunities across the business as we continue to grow.

Our people are what make our business, and we truly care about creating a ‘Home for All’ where employees are empowered to make a difference, and able to bring their authentic selves to work. We are passionate about rewarding excellence and helping people to grow, both personally and professionally, during their time with us.

If you are looking for opportunities within a progressive, innovative, and nurturing organisation; and have the energy, passion, and commitment to deliver excellence, we would love to hear from you.

We currently have an exciting opportunity to join us as a Plating Line Operator within our growing Plating Team.

In a nutshell, you will be responsible for:

Working in a department to service the plating of brass components for kitchen and bathroom products. Working to a higher than industry standard in quality. We have 4 plating lines that offer 8 different surface finishes.

What you are already great at:

  • Jig/unjig and load/unload plant as required. 
  • Maintaining quality standards 
  • Identify record and pack components as required. 
  • Organise product for processing to ensure timely processing of trays and effective utilisation of plant. 
  • Recognise and report variations on process parameters. 
  • Make and record process additions and process maintenance as required. 
  • Undertake all work in accordance with work instruction sheets and standard process procedures and operations. 
  • Complete production and technical records as required. 
  • Conduct regular plant process and procedure audits / inspections. 
  • Recognise, rectify, or report any trends in rejects and other quality issues. 
  • Carry out the planned maintenance as and when required. 
  • Ensure compliance with company procedures and make suggestions for improvement. 
  • Maintain a clean, safe working environment and good housekeeping standards. 

For this role we would need you to demonstrate:

  • Experience of working in a fast-paced plating department, ideally working with Chrome and Nickel surface finishes. 
  • Knowledge of plating plant maintenance. 

What your colleagues say about you:

  • An ideas and solutions focused person
  • An excellent and engaging communicator with, confidence to communicate at all levels
  • Very organised and methodical
  • Able to communicate ideas both verbally and in writing
  • Very high level of attention to detail

Our Values :

Aligned – in our work together

Agile – in the face of challenge

Accountable – to our promises

Action – with integrity and transparency

Why work for us:

We reward our employees not just for the big headline results we reward our teams for how you have positively contributed to the business and that isn’t always defined by hitting a financial target.

We have a pay for performance culture and reward annually on results. In an ever changing environment its key that you are a curious and nimble learner. We succeed as a team so the ability to collaborate is essential. And to continue to grow and continually challenge you need to ensure you are able to both plan and align so we are all pulling in the same direction.

The benefits bit:

33 days holiday (inclusive of Bank Holidays)

Employee Assistance Programme

Annual Incentive Plan Bonus Structure

Life Assurance

Health & Wellbeing Programme, including health cash plan and employee assistance

Pension Plan

High St Reward Scheme

Refer a Friend Programme

Free Parking

Frequent Technology User Free Eye Care

Flexible working model

High 5 Employee Recognition Programme

And as an employer who values you, you will be welcomed with open arms and supported to succeed.

Our hiring process:

  1. You will be contacted by a member of our resourcing team for an initial discussion, this may be on Teams.
  2. You will be invited to site for either a 1 or 2 stage process depending on the role.
  3. We will inform you ahead of your interview what we will be discussing, we want to give you the opportunity to shine in these meetings.
  4. Successful candidates will be notified and the start date will be confirmed for when you will be beginning your Fortunes Brand journey.

Who we are

Fortune Brands Innovations are a US-based company, listed on the New York Stock Exchange, that owns and develops a dynamic portfolio of brands for homes worldwide. Our specialist kitchen and bathroom division, Fortune Brands Water Innovations, is made up of leading luxury British brands, Shaws, Perrin & Rowe and Victoria + Albert, plus Riobel from Canada. We market these together under the House of Rohl name.

In addition, Aqualisa completes our portfolio with its market-leading digital showering technology.

Our brands are united by a belief in design, innovation and craftmanship, leading to beautiful and high-quality products.

With manufacturing sites throughout the UK, and a House of Rohl showroom at the Design Centre in London, we currently employ over 600 people, dedicated to delivering excellent products and service throughout our supply chain. A new multi-million pound state-of-the-art facility at the i54 Business Park in Wolverhampton will be completed later this year, generating exciting new opportunities across the business as we continue to grow.

Watch our short video to discover more about Perrin & Rowe, Shaws, Riobel and Victoria + Albert – the brands that make up the House of Rohl.

The Benefits

Executive Team

Karen Sharpe – Customer Experience Director

Karen has worked for Fortune Brands since 2019. Initially working as part of Aqualisa, Karen is responsible for creating, managing and executing the Customer Experience and Service Delivery strategy across all brands. Prior to joining Aqualisa, Karen worked in a number of senior Customer Service positions over the past 30 years, managing teams of up to 1100. Earlier in her career, she worked for British Gas as firstly Resource , and then General Manager, after which she joined Barclaycard as Head of Site for their Partnership business. Following this, Karen joined Atlanticus as the COO and then moved to Southern Water as Head of Service Delivery before joining the Aqualisa team.

Jim Platt – Sales Director – UK & Ireland

Jim has worked for Fortune Brands since 2018. Jim is responsible for the integration and alignment of our sales teams across our four business entities, leading our cross-functional business improvement programmes. He is also currently developing our channel strategies and implementation programmes. Jim joined Fortune Brands having extensive experience across Sales and Marketing, especially Channel & Brand Management, and Account Management, Strategic Partnerships, Acquisitions, Business Integration, Change Management within the Sales Leadership arena. Jim has a Degree in Business & Finance (specialising in Marketing)

Paul Pickford – Technical and Innovations Director

Paul has worked for Fortune Brands since 2018. Paul leads all product development at Aqualisa. First starting work for Aqualisa in 1995, Paul worked on the development of the digital shower. He then moved within Baxi Group to take up the role of Group Technical Director and led a number of new product developments across the heating industry in Europe. Paul then joined Gtech to develop a ground-breaking cordless vacuum cleaner helping the company to grow from £5m turnover to £130m turnover in 5 years. Paul returned to Aqualisa at the end of 2018 to help turn the bathroom “Smart”. During his career he has won 3 Queens awards for innovations at Aqualisa, Baxi and Gtech. Paul is an Apprentice-trained engineer with a Master’s Degree in Engineering Design from Loughborough University.

Siobhan Spruce – HR Director - EMEAA

James Smith – Marketing Director EMEAA

James has worked for Fortune Brands since 2019. Focussed on developing and growing all our brands across the EMEAA region, James has created an integrated marketing team working across all the brands. Launching the House of Rohl concept into EMEAA, he has also introduced a new brand to the offer in Riobel, opening a showroom in London and re-branding all marketing materials in 5 languages, and most recently integrated the Aqualisa brand into the team. This new structure has enabled the Company to develop a market-leading future vision for our brands, which guides us in the development of new products and future marketing support. James has a Degree from Aston University in Marketing & Economics, and prior to joining Fortune Brands, was the European Marketing Director at Sherwin Williams, managing brands like Ronseal and Valspar.

David Masters – Chief Financial Officer

David joined Fortune Brands in 2020. David is responsible for all financial aspects of the business including reporting, planning, treasury, taxation, compliance, and business partnering. David and his team have redesigned the management accounts process, created an effective data analysis management system, and drastically improved the timeliness of information; most recently successfully adapting all our reporting processes to the Fortune Brands model. David is a qualified chartered accountant (FCA) having trained with Deloitte. He has almost 30 years post qualification experience and has worked in Retail, Manufacturing, Construction & Housing.

Okke Roosjen – Sales Director EMEAA International

Okke joined Fortune Brands in 2008 as Export Sales Manager Europe for our Victoria & Albert brand. He then moved quickly into the Global Sales Director role, taking up his current role as Sales Director EMEAA International for all brands in 2017. Okke’s focus is to consistently build and strengthen relationships in the International Kitchen and Bathroom industry. The main goal of his team is to expand our presence across geographies, offering a world class product and service to different regions with different cultures and habits, with emphasis particularly on Europe, the Middle East, South East Asia and Australasia. Before joining Fortune Brands, Okke worked as Sales & Marketing Director for 10 years with a Spanish Manufacturer of Bathroom and Wellness products. Okke studied Business Economics with a specialism in B2B Marketing at the University of Groningen, in the Netherlands.

Steve Geary - Vice President & General Manager – EMEAA

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What to expect

What to expect

Our people are what make our business, and we truly care about creating a ‘Home for All’ where employees are empowered to make a difference, and able to bring their authentic selves to work. We are passionate about rewarding excellence and helping people to grow, both personally and professionally, during their time with us.

Our Values are integral to the way we work, we are:

Aligned in our work together
Agile in the face of change
Accountable to our promises
Action with integrity and transparency

Underpinning our values are a set of behaviours which is one of the measures we use to track the progress towards our goals, both as individuals and teams. Those who are successful within our business have a strong ability to drive results, collaborate with others, plan and align; and be an active learner.

As a growing business with a focus on excellence, we are always looking for fresh talent to join us on our journey; and alongside that, we are committed to nurturing and growing our people to achieve their potential with us. We take a flexible approach to development and progression opportunities, always preferring to promote from within, even if someone isn’t quite the finished article yet.

We believe that everyone plays their part in helping to shape our future; whether that is joining one of our Early Careers Programmes, being part of our Mentoring Programme, or exploring how your strengths can be used cross-functionally, we want you to be a part of our journey. Meet some of our team to understand more about how their careers have developed during their time with us.

We reward our teams not only for big headline results, but for how positively they contribute to the business. The benefits we offer may vary depending on what role you come onboard as, but all of our employees can enjoy:

  • An annual incentive bonus structure based on business and individual performance
  • 33 days holiday.
  • A Health and Wellbeing programme, including health cash plan, employee assistance programme, occupational health, mental health first aid, and monthly themed activity to support team wellbeing.
  • Occupational Pension Scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Employee Incentive Schemes, such as our ‘High5 Rewards’ and Refer a Friend bonuses
  • Free parking on all company sites
  • And as an employer who values you, you will be welcomed with open arms and supported to succeed.

Meet the Team

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