Job Title: Sewing Machinist
Location: Denham, Middlesex
Salary: Competitive with Benefits
Job type: Permanent, Full Time
Working Hours: 37 Hours Per Week
Application Deadline: Friday, June 28, 2024
Why work for Martin-Baker
A career in aerospace with a British engineering firm that is saving lives worldwide. When you work at Martin-Baker, you’re providing pilots with their last form of defence.
Martin-Baker is the world’s leading manufacturer of ejection seats, helping to protect aircrew in the world’s most advanced military aircraft. Our mission is simple – to save aircrew lives.
What you’ll be doing:
Join us on this mission as a machinist, you’ll be assembling, cutting and stitching all fabric and webbing parts required for seat assembly and survival aid containers.
Aspects of the role include to:
- Make components using the appropriate fabrics from standard template/ patterns and instructions from drawings, including making first off pieces
- Part marking components and labels using ink pads and rubber stamps
- Cut patterns/templates from drawing prints and using templates to cut fabric pieces prior to sewing
- Monitoring imperfections in material or threads or mistakes in patterns / instructions
- Using drawings and technical / process specifications identifying and applying part numbers, drawing issues, and relevant ADR `s and surface finishes
About you:
Characteristics & Skills:
- Experience of working on industrial sewing machines in a manufacturing environment
- Able to interpret technical drawings and specifications
- Good hand to eye coordination – able to cut templates and fabric accurately using a template
- Understand weft and weave
- Simple maintenance of sewing machines- changing needles etc.
- Working to verbal instructions on development jobs
At Martin-Baker you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside experts who will help you to obtain a wide understanding of an engineering business, and you’ll develop new skills and gain a strong industry experience.
Your benefits in detail:
- Highly competitive 9% non-contributory pension scheme (18+)
- 4x salary Life Assurance (18+)
- Personalised training and development plan
- Healthcare Cash Plan
- 25-days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Workplace Nursery Benefit
- Cycle to work scheme (including e-bikes)
- Midday finish on Friday
Additional Information:
We believe in equal opportunity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is respected. We want you to be able to do your best work.
All candidates will be treated equally and fairly, regardless of their background, or any characteristic protected by law. Candidates will be selected entirely on their skills and competencies and in alignment with each role’s specifications and / or requirements. All published adverts will be aligned with the Company’s Diversity and Inclusion commitment.
For all successful candidates, Martin-Baker will undertake background security checks. As part of this, we will need to confirm your identity, employment history and address history to cover the past five years as well as your nationality, immigration status and criminal record. For positions that require Security Clearance, the successful candidate must hold or be willing to obtain security clearance up to the relevant level for the role.
Please click on the APPLY button to submit your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; Fabric Machinist, Sewing Machine Operator, Fabric Machinist, Operative, Upholsterer may be considered for this role.
