Lean Manufacturing Operative Apprentice

Working with experienced team members, you will learn skills required to make our range of sheds and summerhouses. You’ll understand how buildings are designed, where and how raw materials are sourced, and experience our sales team in action. We’re keen that you gain a good understanding of the business you’ll be part of.

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Team working
• Initiative
• Good hand-eye coordination
• A good work ethic

• GCSE · English and Maths · 4 or above · Essential
• GCSE · Design and Technology · 4 or above · Desired

On an ongoing daily basis the post involves working with wood and the regular lifting and carrying of heavy and awkward items (e.g. timber, shed panels). It will also involve the use of vibrating equipment such as air powered nail guns.  A good level of physical fitness is therefore required.

We are a global market leader in the design, manufacture and retail of garden and leisure buildings. Products range from entry level greenhouses and sheds through to luxury greenhouses, summerhouses, and garden offices.   Our Head Office and Factory is in Cresswell, Stoke-on-Trent and we also have over 30 display sites based at garden centres from Aberdeenshire to Dorset.   Dynamic, innovative, customer driven, caring - a few words we use to describe our family owned and run business. Our people, circa 170, are of the utmost importance to us. We pride ourselves on the quality of our products and on our customer service, which are considered integral to our growth.

STOKE ON TRENT COLLEGE · Engineering and manufacturing · Level 2