Trainee Composite Technician

The Trainee Composite Technician will be a member of a small team of highly skilled people, working as a group and individually to manufacturer a variety of Blades and Stators within the composites workshop.

This will involve everything from complex RTM and Vacuum moulding, through to sanding and filling final parts. The role is not limited to any specific set of tasks as the Technician can be called upon for any number of additional manufacturing jobs.

Core Responsibilities

• To manufacture composite parts, following and understanding the company’s Standard Operating Procedures.
• Trimming, sanding and finishing parts to a high standard.
• Safe use of hazardous substances along with a good COSHH awareness.

• Finial testing of parts, both physically and electrically.
• Following and Completing inspection forms as parts are being made.
• Work with and undertake any instructions given by the Composites manager.
• Full compliance when the use of PPE is deemed necessary by management.

Requirements

• Experience using a variety of power tools and hand tools.
• A keen interest in making and or mending. Anything from carpentry to welding.
• Must be responsible and dependable.
• Able to take instructions and follow them without deviation.

• Filling, ideally using 2 pack fillers epoxy or polyester.
• Sanding. Car body parts or windows. A good understanding of the various grits used.
• Painting. Experience using 2 pack polyurethane systems or any other application.
• Trimming GRP parts. Cutting/finishing fiberglass with a variety of tools.

What's in it for you...

Healthcare plan, life assurance and generous pension contribution
Volunteering day
Various company discounts (including shops, days out and events)
Holiday of 25 days (plus bank holidays) & ability to buy/sell days
Cycle to work scheme, car pooling and onsite parking available

As a valued member of the team you will be supporting the Group Environmental policy and its associated targets to make the Green Britain Group net carbon neutral by 2025

Flexibility statement

The fast moving nature of the company's business means that from time to time you may be asked to perform duties or tasks outside of your original job description on an ad hoc basis. This allows the company to use it's people in the best possible way at all times and helps the employees to make make their contribution in a changing environment.

Ecotricity is Britain's greenest energy company. When we started back in 1995, we were the first company in the world to provide a new kind of electricity- the green kind.

Our mission was, and remains, to change the way energy is made and used in Britain- by replacing fossil fuels with clean, renewable energy.

We don't just supply green energy, we use the money from our customers' bills to make it ourselves too- we build windmills and sun parks in Britain. We call this 'bills in to mills'. In 2021, we started work on building two new solar parks, and now, in 2022, we're bringing geothermal energy to our customers' fuel mix, a first in the UK. We're also developing green gas mills which will generate 100% green gas from a source that we will never run out of- grass.

We don't just focus on energy though- we built Electric Highways, Britain's leading network of electric vehicle charging points, we helped Forest Green Rovers become the greenest football club in the world, and, in partnership with RSPB, we launched Britain's greenest mobile phone service, Ecotalk + RSPB.

Ecotricity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to providing equality for all.