Job Description
Would you like to redesign your work and work in a dynamic environment? In a family-owned company operating throughout Europe, which offers you interesting tasks and challenges? Do you share our corporate values of respect, commitment and sustainability?
Then we are the right company for you. We are looking forward to your application!
In the course of a replacement, we are offering the following position within the Converting Department of WEPA UK as Converting Operator
Converting Operator
Bridgend
Your Responsibilities
- Adhere to health and safety policies, procedures, and safe systems of work, including the use of PPE and reporting near misses.
- Ensure compliance with quality procedures to maintain product standards.
- Operate production equipment efficiently to meet daily targets, with a “fix-it-myself” approach to problem-solving.
- Conduct machine and product changeovers effectively.
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement across the production line.
- Ensure accurate stock levels using the JDE system to support cost control, meet customer orders OTIF, and align with the production plan.
- Ensure clear and effective communication between shifts and with supervision.
- Training: Support and assist in the training of new operators.
Your Profile
Experience: Hands-on experience in operating production equipment.
- Communication Skills: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to effectively disseminate information to the
team.
- Team Player: A collaborative mindset with the ability to work well in a team.
- Problem-Solving: Strong problem-solving abilities with a focus on continuous improvement.
- Attention to Detail: Adequate literacy and numeracy skills, with a focus on accuracy and achieving results.
- Work Ethic: Ability to work under pressure, prioritise tasks, and maintain a positive, proactive attitude.
- Ownership & Flexibility: A sense of responsibility with a flexible approach to meet operational demands.
Your Benefits
- Our employees are an important key to our success. We offer you a responsible and varied job with sufficient freedom to work independently in an open and communicative team.
- Company pension scheme and lifetime working time account: We support you with a company pension scheme as well as a lifetime working time account, enabling various models of individual life planning, e.g. early retirement or a sabbatical.
- WEPA Academy: With our holistic training concept we identify and facilitate personal career and development opportunities. Qualified and committed employees are and remain the most important success factor for WEPA.
- Sustainable personnel policy: A low fluctuation rate and long periods of employment characterise working at WEPA.
- Health & Wellbeing: You can expect a wide range of health activities, cooperation with various fitness studios and the external employee support programme OTHEB.
The benefits shown may vary slightly depending on the position and location.
About Us
The WEPA Group is a future-oriented European family business specialising in the production and distribution of sustainable hygiene paper. WEPA offers sustainable and innovative hygiene solutions that provide a safe feeling of hygiene and contribute daily to the well-being of millions of people. With around 4,300 employees, the WEPA Group manufactures hygiene products such as toilet paper, paper towels, tissues and napkins at 14 European sites.
Role
A sustainable personnel policy has played a central role in this for more than 75 years. We consistently invest in the qualification of our employees, point out individual career and development opportunities and promote them. We are convinced of one thing:
our employees are and will remain our most important success factor. 
