
Coating Operative Kingston upon Hull, England
Job description
Are you interested in a career in manufacturing?
Do you want to work as part of a close-knit team where you will strive to deliver world class quality?
Our Wind Turbine Blade Manufacturing Facility in Hull is advertising for Production Operatives to work within our Surface Coating Department.
In the coating department, you'll apply a layer of primer and paint to blades using spray equipment, ensuring that they meet our high standards for quality and surface finish. Depending on where the blades are going in the world, you'll be finishing the paintwork with red dots, red tips, or red stripes, or a mix-and-match of all of them. While experience with paint application is beneficial, it's not essential. We'll provide you with all the training you need to excel in this role.
Areas of Responsibility:
Carry out blade painting using specialist machinery- Carry out sanding of blade exactly as specified during training and on the job coaching
- Adherence to all health and safety requirements for yourself and those around you.
- Good organizational skills and the ability to use the correct materials, tools, and equipment
- Plan and lay out work, following strict engineering specifications and quality standards
- Carry out sanding and filling of the blade as exactly specified in initial training and ongoing training.
- Check and monitor work constantly ensuring very high levels of attention to detail
- This role is often physically demanding, including the requirement to work in fully protective suits with breathing apparatus (RPE).
- You must be able to follow instructions exactly as you are directed. and not take implement process improvements without following the correct procedure.
Knowledge & Skills:
This role would be ideal for someone who has previously worked in a vehicle or large structure body shop/painting position.- Sanding and grinding experience advantageous, but not essential.
- You will be able to demonstrate your resilience and endurance.
- We pride ourselves on health and safety and we want you to show us you are equally committed to this.
- You will have exceptional levels of attention to detail, and the ability to follow all processes exactly.
- A desire to continuously improve.
- Ability to work a shift pattern that includes working days, nights and weekends
In return of your commitment we offer you…
The opportunity to become a part of our mission for sustainability: Clean energy for generations to come- A global team of diverse colleagues who share passion for renewable energy
- Trust and empowerment to make your own ideas reality
- Personal and professional development to grow internally within our organisation
- Competitive Pension Scheme
These positions will be recruiting throughout 2023, so will endeavour to get back to you as soon as possible, but please bear with us as we review all applications for this role.
We are a global team of diverse colleagues who share a passion for renewable energy and have a culture of trust and empowerment to make our own ideas a reality. We focus on personal and professional development to grow internally within our organisation. Siemens Gamesa offers a wide variety of benefits such as flexible working hours as well as home-office possibility for many colleagues, employer-funded pension, attractive remuneration package (fixed/variable) and local benefits such as subsided lunch, employee discounts and much more
How do you imagine the future?
Our global team is on the front line of tackling the climate crisis, reducing carbon emissions – the greatest challenge we face.
We are driven by people - from more than 100 different countries, they build the company we are every day. Our diverse and inclusive culture encourages us to think outside the box, speak without fear, and be bold. We value the flexibility that our smart-working arrangements, our digital disconnection framework and our family-friendly practices bring to the new way of working.
