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Manufacturing Operator

🏢 Ultra Electronics • 📍 Cheltenham, England • 🕒 Today

Salary Range

£46,341 - £52,889

£3,862 - £4,407 / mo

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Location Base

Cheltenham, England

Tier-1 UK Economic Zone

Est. Take-Home Pay

68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)

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Transatlantic Parity

1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard

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Position Overview & Specifications

The Ultra manufacturing function is responsible for the manufacture, integration and test of a wide range of products and systems providing innovative capabilities for our customers.

Wherever possible, we will consider a variety of working options to suit your lifestyle, whether that be hybrid home/office working, flexible working and part or full time employment. It's the 'innovating' and 'empowering' values that we ASPIRE to be. We welcome the challenge to work in new ways and have trust in you when getting the job done because we recognise, our business is our people.

Key Responsibilities:

To manufacture high precision products from detailed engineering drawings for the aerospace industry.
To manufacture a variety of sub-assemblies for use with Ultra’s range of high precision products using appropriate tooling and processes in accordance with the individual’s scope of approval.
Setup tooling such as presses, drills, special to type tooling etc in accordance with controlled documentation, and in accordance with the individual’s scope of approval.
To ensure that all build documentation is completed in accordance with company procedures.
To maintain training records in accordance with company procedure as evidence of work carried out.
Full understanding of the expectations and requirements of being an Ultra PCS certified Stamp Holder.
Complete all tasks in accordance with the relevant drawings, manufacturing instructions process sheets and specifications.

Required Skills and Experience:

Familiar with Code of Practices and IPC620A Standards – not essential as training will be provided.
Previous experience in a precision assembly environment

Security Clearance:

Candidates must be able to achieve BPSS security clearance

Benefits:

Every employee is critical to our success and as such we offer a range of flexible employee benefits along with career development opportunities.

Flexible working within core working hours
Early Finish on a Friday
25 days holiday with the option to buy/sell 5 days plus bank holidays.
4 times your annual salary in life assurance
Flexible benefits package (benefits such as, new car scheme, retail vouchers, gym discounts, health screening and more!)
Pension Scheme - Less than 5 years' service up to 5.5% employer contributions, 5 years' service + up to 7.5% employer contributions.
Sports and Social club
Supportive and friendly working environment with regular team events

Here at Ultra we are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity and inclusivity. Underpinned by our values, behaviours and policies, we want you to feel empowered to be the best version of yourself. We also believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures will increase our diversity of thinking, ensuring we successfully deliver to our customers.

We therefore do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We also support requests for flexible working arrangements wherever possible.