Manufacturing Technician

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.

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.

And we’re asking you to join us on our ambitious journey.

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. Working hours are 40 to 46 hours per week and you’ll finish at 12 noon or 1:00 p.m. on a Friday. All hours over 40 are paid at 1.5 times.

You’ll have 32 days holiday per year, pension, sick pay, life assurance and inclusion in our Flexible Benefits programme that includes cycle to work scheme, dental insurance and dine out discounts.  

A bit about the role

Our manufacturing technicians are core to the operation of our business. A key member of our team, you’ll learn how to make our sustainable timber frame wall, floor and roof panels and work within a team to deliver components for our customers. We’ll train you to meet our standards in quality, productivity, and safety, enabling you to manufacture and build homes for communities around the UK.

If you enjoy making things, you can learn quickly, get on well with other people and are good at finding solutions, you could be perfect for this role.

If you have some experience of joinery, timber frame manufacture or timber frame installation would be helpful or experience working within an automated production line. It’s not essential though as we’ll invest in training you now and for your future.

Knowledge and grasp of basic arithmetic would be helpful so that you can understand technical drawings.

Our culture is friendly, open, and welcoming, so if that working environment sounds good, please get in touch.