Extrusion Technician

Join us at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin): Where purpose comes to life.

You’re purpose driven. Growth minded. Ready to stretch your potential. Welcome to Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, where our purpose ‘to advance life around the world’ drives our entire global team.

Every day, we are thinking big and working smart to solve some of the toughest challenges impacting the world. Whether it’s facilitating clean drinking water for communities, creating climate resilient cities, or designing more comfortable living spaces, we never settle for “good enough” when there’s an opportunity to make life better.

Where purpose comes to life, it changes lives. This is what we work for. How about you?

At Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin), we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments. And where is our help most needed? The places we live in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater. It’s time to join our team and help build more sustainable environments!

We are currently looking for a Extrusion Technician to join us at Chippenham. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

· Ensure site compliance with Health and Safety policy and procedures, supporting risk assessments, new equipment commissioning and problem solving.

· Ensure that all activities undertaken conform to the appropriate standards and regulations.

· Ensure timely and effective line changes are completed in accordance with required outputs and the production plan.

· Assist production in optimising the extrusion processes for quality, line speed and weight.

· Participate in the development and implementation of improvement plans.

· Assist in the training and develop of production operators and other technicians.

· Carry out machine start / shut-down – hand-over to operators, tooling repairs, replacements and modifications, handing over to production across all extrusion lines.

· Develop own competencies on extrusion tooling, materials up-stream and downstream processes.

· Ensure all extrusion tooling is correctly serviced and maintained, completing autonomous maintenance tasks, per required schedules.

· Provide technical assistance in improvement plans, capital project and new product development.

· Support external tool servicing / repairs / replacements and ensure work is carried out to the required standard.

· Support material and development trials.

· Work with engineering or external sub-contractors on extrusion lines to ensure the relevant repairs/maintenance are carried out and are compliant with Health and Safety policy and procedures.

· Work with other operational departments should the need arise.

The profile

· Academic Level: Min. Secondary Education

· Knowledge/Experience: Extrusion tooling & manufacturing processes.

· Excellent verbal and written communication

· Experience of short/medium size batch production.

· Autonomous in planning and organising activities for themselves.

· Able to communicate effectively.

· Flexible and adaptable work ethic, developing self and others to improve competencies.

· Health and Safety Level 1 responsibility statement.

· Willingness to embrace change and improve processes and systems develop.

What Orbia Building & Infrastructure offers

Do you want to make a difference by working with a purpose? Count on a warm welcome at Orbia Building & Infrastructure (Wavin)! Here we take responsibility for each other and our company. We stay brave in pursuing calculated risks that fuel innovation. And we embrace diversity in perspectives, skills and talents to transform the way we work and the impact we have on the world. Above all we encourage all our employees to develop their talents and to become the best version of themselves. Together, as a strong team, we grow and deliver on our purpose every day. Orbia B&I is the place to be if you truly wish to make an impact. In addition to working with an enthusiastic, professional team in an international environment, we offer a competitive compensation and benefit package.

Organization

Orbia’s Building & Infrastructure business, Wavin, is an innovative solutions provider for the global building and infrastructure industry. Backed by more than 60 years of product development experience, we advance life around the world by building healthy, sustainable environments for global citizens. Whether it’s to improve the distribution of clean drinking water, to make sanitation accessible for everyone, to create climate resilient cities, or to design comfortable living spaces, Orbia B&I collaborates with municipal leaders, engineers, contractors, and installers to help future-proof communities, buildings and homes. Orbia B&I has 11,000+ employees and 65 production sites worldwide, serving over 80 countries through a global sales and distribution network. Our key commercial brands are: Wavin, Amanco Wavin, Pavco Wavin, Plastigama Wavin, and Bow Wavin.

Orbia Building & Infrastructure is part of Orbia – a company driven by a shared purpose: to advance life around the world. Orbia operates in several sectors including: Polymer Solutions (Vestolit and Alphagary), Building and Infrastructure (Wavin), Precision Agriculture (Netafim), Connectivity Solutions (Dura-Line) and Fluor and Energy Materials (Koura). These five Orbia business groups have a collective focus on expanding access to health and wellness, reinventing the future of cities and homes, ensuring food and water security, connecting communities to information and accelerating a circular economy with basic and advanced materials, specialty products and innovative solutions. Orbia has a global team of over 24,000 employees, commercial activities in more than 100 countries and operations in over 50, with headquarters in Boston, Mexico City, Amsterdam and Tel Aviv. The company generated $8.2 billion in revenue in 2023.