Carton Folder/Gluer Operator/Team Leader - Scotland - £25-30k basic + benefits

Carton Folder/Gluer Operator/Team Leader

This position has now been filled, but has been left on our website as we have other similar vacancies to this on an ongoing basis that might interest you. More importantly, we have vacancies that are not advertised due to their confidential nature therefore it would certainly be in your interest to email your CV, as a word document, depending on which sector you are in, to :-

Head of Packaging recruitment - Greg Nelson -
Head of Print recruitment - Neil Pearson -
Head Paper recruitment - Gary Young -

Board level, account management and all levels of sales vacancies -

Our divisional heads will then email your CV internally to the consultant who specialises in your exact sector, for example a category of packaging is cartons, a category of print is print management, in fact we have over 30 specialist categories. Our specialist consultant will contact you if we have a live vacancy that matches, or contact you in the near future as soon a good match to skill set and experience becomes available.

This market leading packaging company seeks an experienced folder gluer operator or team leader. More details are as follows:

Responsibilities for Team Leader role:

• Demonstrable Team Leader or Lead Operator experience
• Passionate about results and fundamental belief in Health & Safety, Quality, performance and training
• Commercial awareness of the cost of waste, machine utilisation and absenteeism etc
• Strong interpersonal and people management skills
• Desire to lead the Team and support individuals
• Self motivation with the ability to think individually with well reasoned decision making qualities
• Ability to be the link between the Management Team and Shop Floor Team
• Excellent attention to detail and willingness to challenge
• Flexibility in both thought and action, offering proactive, creative solutions and improvements

Responsibilities for both roles:

• Set up, make ready and run folder Gluer machines (ideally Bobst, Heidelberg / Jagenberg or Signature), including Glue detection and code reader QA systems
• Maximising efficiencies whilst following the company's quality systems and procedures
• Carry out daily cleaning and routine maintenance of machines and work area

If this is you? If yes, please send Microsoft Word CV to and tell me about the relevant machines you have run, the product (eg cartons) and the number of years experience.

We ask that you only apply for any of our vacancies if you are resident in the UK and you work / have recently worked in the print, packaging or paper sectors .

We prefer MS Word format (.doc or .docx)