Wood Machinist

Wood Machinist

Wood Machinist role available to start immediately.

Location: Arbor Forest, New Holland

Job Type: Permanent

Shift Pattern: 2 Rotating Shifts

Salary: £17.47 - £19.58 per hour (depending on experience)

Arbor Forest is looking for an experienced and motivated Wood Machinist to join our production sawmill Team at our New Holland site. This is a permanent opportunity for experience wood machinist offering competitive pay, structured rotating shifts, and the chance to work with industry-leading woodworking machinery in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

If you have experience setting and operating moulders and take pride in producing high-quality timber products, we'd love to hear from you.

As a Wood Machinist, you will be responsible for setting and operating our Leadermac and Waco moulders to meet the production schedule. Working from technical drawings, you'll ensure products are manufactured to specification while maintaining high standards of quality, safety, and efficiency.

You'll also work closely with Wrapper and Infeed Operatives, providing guidance, overseeing their work, and signing off completed tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Set up and operate Leadermac 4200 and Waco moulders, including infeed and outfeed accelerator units.
• Configure moulders to the production schedule using the moulder operating system.
• Carry out daily cleaning and basic maintenance of machinery.
• Report maintenance issues using the T-card system.
• Perform quality inspections to ensure products meet specification and achieve the highest finish.
• Complete and sign off quality documentation and production records.
• Prepare process sheets and select the correct pack tickets.
• Support and oversee the wrapping process, ensuring correct machine settings and product bundling.
• Troubleshoot moulders and associated handling equipment.
• Follow all risk assessments, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and health and safety requirements.
• Work to achieve daily production targets.

Essential Skills:

• Good general education.
• Experience operating woodworking machinery (training on specific equipment can be provided).
• Strong communication skills.
• Ability to read and work from technical drawings.
• High attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Personal Qualities
• Confident, enthusiastic, and selfmotivated.
• Positive, proactive, and reliable with a "cando" attitude.
• Flexible team player who enjoys working collaboratively.
• Strong sense of responsibility and accountability.
• Able to build positive working relationships across the team.

What We Offer :

• Permanent, full-time employment.
• Competitive hourly rate of £17.47 - £19.58.
• Opportunities for training and ongoing development.
• Supportive team environment.
• Opportunity to develop additional skills across the production department.
• Stable role within a well-established business.

If you're an experienced Wood Machinist looking for your next opportunity with a company that values quality, teamwork, and continuous improvement, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply today and become part of the Arbor Forest team in New Holland.

About us:

Over the last 70 years, we’ve gone from humble beginnings to becoming one of the largest independent timber importers and processors in the UK. The same principles and values that have driven our success so far will continue to define our growth over the next seven decades and beyond. We’re a family business, and we treat our staff like family. Our shared values symbolise our people, their thoughts and behaviours. Built on a passion for service and people, we strive to set the highest standards in the quality of product, in the continuity of supply and in every aspect of customer service and support.

Our 90-acre site in North Lincolnshire allows us to hold more than 80,000m³ of timber on-site and facilitates a vast throughput of over 300,000m³ of quality timber, MDF and composite decking products per year. Quality products and quality processes are what drive our passion, but people are central to everything we do, and it’s thanks to our loyal workforce that we’ve built a strong and successful business. The Arbor team enjoy a small company culture operating at a giant scale.

Benefits include but are not limited to:

•             31 days’ holiday, inclusive of Statutory Bank Holidays

•             Option to buy up to an additional 5 days’ annual leave per annum or sell up to 3 days’ annual leave per annum

•             Length of service awards

•             Cycle to work scheme

•             Contributory pension scheme

•             Company sick pay

•             Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

•             Employee Assistance Programme, (24/7 helpline, counselling sessions, legal, debt and life management advice line)

•             Benefits Hub (inc discounts on gift cards, travel, cinema tickets, to name a few)

•             Excellent training and development and scope for career progression