Job Description

Company Description

Who are Advanced Medical Solutions?

AMS is a world-leading independent developer and manufacturer of innovative tissue-healing technology, focused on quality outcomes for patients and value for payers. AMS has a wide range of surgical products including tissue adhesives, sutures, haemostats, internal fixation devices and internal sealants, which it markets under its brands LiquiBand®, RESORBA®, LiquiBandFix8®, LIQUIFIX™, Peters Surgical, Ifabond, Vitalitec and Seal-G®. AMS also supplies wound care dressings such as silver alginates, alginates, and foams through its ActivHeal® brand as well as under white label. Since 2019, the Group has made seven acquisitions: Sealantis, an Israeli developer of innovative internal sealants, Biomatlante, a French developer and manufacturer of surgical biomaterials, Raleigh, a leading UK coater and converter of woundcare and bio-diagnostics materials, AFS Medical, an Austrian specialist surgical business, Connexicon, an Irish tissue adhesives specialist, Syntacoll a German specialist in collagen-based absorbable surgical implants and Peters Surgical a global provider of specialty surgical sutures, mechanical haemostasis and internal cyanoacrylate devices. AMS's products, manufactured in the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Thailand, India, the Czech Republic and Israel, are sold globally via a network of multinational or regional partners and distributors, as well as via AMS's own direct sales forces in the UK, Germany, Austria, France, Poland, Benelux, India, the Czech Republic and Russia. The Group has R&D innovation hubs in the UK, Ireland, Germany, France and Israel. Established in 1991, the Group has more than 1,500 employees. For more information, please see www.admedsol.com

AMS provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants. We highly value and encourage diversity across our workforce meaning that no one will be discriminated against because of their gender, race, age, nationality, disability, or any other protected characteristic as prohibited by law.

Job Description

Responsible for the safe and efficient operation of manufacturing machinery to achieve production, quality, and delivery targets. The role focuses on maximising machine performance, maintaining high quality standards, ensuring full product traceability, and supporting continuous improvement initiatives. Working closely with the Team Leaders and cross-functional teams, the Machine Operator is accountable for delivering production plans, maintaining health and safety compliance, identifying and resolving operational issues, and contributing to a clean, organised, and high-performing manufacturing environment.

Job details:

• Always undertake duties in compliance with company policies and procedures.
• Deliver 100% achievement of the production plan by ensuring material yield and machine availability is optimised.
• To provide excellent levels of customer service always.
• To ensure that products are produced “right, first time every time”.
• To ensure that a safe and healthy work environment exists by adhering to the company health and safety and environment polices and ensuring full compliance with relevant legislation.

What the role will involve:

• Complete short interval control, to resolve issues that are impacting performance or alternatively escalate where issues are unable to be resolved without support.
• Comply to Raleigh’s Quality standards.
• Support technical trials and projects.
• Continuously challenge the status quo in relation to lost time and material losses.
• Identify opportunities for Continuous Improvement.
• Maintain 5’s standards within the workplace.
• Work to VODS.
• Attend scheduled meetings on time.
• Service as and when requested to do so by your Shift Leader.
• Support your work colleagues and Shift Leader.
• Ensure all Safety concerns are raised with your immediate Manager.
• Complete task in line with documented risk assessments.
• Take part in corporate employee initiatives such as Team days.
• Operate machinery as per the Standard Operating procedures.
• Ensure hourly performance is monitored and recorded.
• Identify and correct product quality issues.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Complete cleaning tasks as per standard operating procedures.
• Record production data that ensures full product traceability.

What we’re looking for:

• Be aware of and adhere to all Company policies and procedures.
• Undertake any other associated duties which may occasionally arise.
• Educated to GCSE level 9 to 5 or equivalent.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in manufacturing environment.
• Computer literate with good working knowledge of Microsoft applications, including Excel.
• PPT, and PPT Lift truck licenses.
• Overhead crane training certificate.
• Good communication skills with the ability to relay information at a level relevant to the audience.
• Experience of cleanroom operations.

Additional Information

4 x 12h Dayshift

3 x 12h Nightshift

Rotated weekly