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in: cities where drinking water is leaking away, greenery is disappearing, streets are flooding after heavy rain, and outdated sewer systems are polluting our groundwater.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 Technical Moulding Operator  to join us at Chippenham. If you want to make a difference and work for a purpose-led company, please read on.

The role

• Set, Start, Monitor, and remove mould tools from injection moulding machines producing plastic building products whilst working to Wavin BS and ISO standards.
• Ensure that tools are set to achieve the production plan requirements.
• Undertake minor tool repairs i.e Water, Hydraulic & Switch Repairs.
• Manage own work area consumables and proactively approach for availability.
• To report all damaged consumables to the Moulding Team Leader, so replacements can be sourced.
• Complete Mould Care tasks as per SOP requirements.
• Use overhead Crane & Forklift truck to transport and move tooling.
• Enter and maintain all relevant information for shop floor data collection and as required to meet QC standards.
• Be proficient / able to use and understand Shop Floor data collection System.
• Participate in the development and implementation of Chippenham improvement plans.
• Exceptions reported to the Moulding Team Leader.
• Ensure compliance with Health & Safety Policy and procedures and that all work is undertaken to the appropriate standards.
• Raise and address Safety Concerns as required.
• Completion of autonomous maintenance tasks as per schedules.
• Behavioural & safety audits completed to plan.
• Ensure a completion of a minimum of one Peer to Peer audit per month.
• Support the Moulding Team to deliver required Shift Outputs.

The profile

• General secondary education.
• Desirable - Recognised mechanical engineering qualification to NVQ level 3 or equivalent
• Experience of Tooling & Injection Moulding Processes.

• Practical experience of the Tool Setting & Moulding process.

• Practical experience of medium batch production process.
• Experience with Stork & Engel Moulding machines beneficial
• Experience with Automation equipment (Packing & Handling) Including Robots Capping and Stacking
• Certificated and proficient in the use of Lifting, Craning and Slinging operations.
• Must be able to demonstrate a flexible and adaptable work ethic
• Must be able to work positively within a team and form good working relationships with other team members
• Must be able to plan, manage and organise activities of self, to achieve balance of proactive and reactive tasks.
• Must be able to communicate effectively both orally and in writing.

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.