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We make medical-grade paper for healthcare and laboratory use around the world. When the machines stop, everything stops. Keeping them running, and making them run better, is this job.

We want a time-served engineer who treats a breakdown as a personal challenge: two paper machines and everything that feeds them, from pulpers and refiners to pumps, steam, hydraulics and finishing lines.

What you'll do
• Planned and reactive maintenance across the whole mill
• Diagnose breakdowns fast and see the fix through to a running machine
• Mechanical work on pumps, gearboxes, bearings, rolls, hydraulics, pneumatics, steam and condensate
• Play a full part in shutdowns and improvement projects
• Work directly with operators and shift managers. No silos here.

Who we're after
• Time-served, apprenticeship-trained mechanical engineer or fitter
• Solid industrial maintenance experience. Paper or process industry helps, but is not essential.
• Welding and fabrication skills a plus
• Ownership: you stay with a problem until the machine runs

We hire on attitude. If you are skilled, straight-talking and take pride in a plant that runs well, you will fit in here.

Benefits: company pension, cycle to work scheme, on-site parking.

To apply: email your CV and a few lines on why this is your kind of job to hr@peltapapers.com with Maintenance Engineer in the subject line.

Our mill makes medical-grade paper for hospitals and laboratories worldwide, and it runs on motors, drives, control gear and instrumentation. We need a time-served electrical engineer to keep all of it working, and to help us improve it.

This is a small team with a wide remit. You will see, and fix, everything on site.

What you'll do
• Electrical maintenance and fault-finding across the mill: motors, drives, control panels, instrumentation
• Breakdown response on a live plant, diagnosing quickly and safely
• Installations, upgrades and modifications as we invest in the site
• Support shutdown programmes and project work

Who we're after
• Time-served, qualified electrician or electrical engineer (18th Edition)
• Industrial experience with three-phase systems, motors and variable speed drives
• PLC and instrumentation fault-finding a real plus
• Calm and methodical when the plant is down and the pressure is on

We hire on attitude. Safe, thorough, and you own the job until it is done properly.

Benefits: company pension, cycle to work scheme, on-site parking.

To apply: email your CV and a few lines on why this is your kind of job to hr@peltapapers.com with Electrical Engineer in the subject line.

The paper we make ends up in hospitals and laboratories across the world. It has to be right every time, and the people on the machines are the ones who make it right.

No paper experience is needed. We train properly, and we keep training. What we cannot teach is attitude, so that is what we hire on.

What you'll do
• Operate and monitor equipment from stock preparation through the paper machines to finishing
• Carry out quality checks. Our product goes into healthcare, so near enough is not good enough.
• Keep your area clean, organised and safe. Housekeeping here is part of the job, not an afterthought.
• Learn every stage of the process and build a real skill

Who we're after
• Reliable: on time, every shift, someone your team can count on
• Hands-on, practical and physically capable
• Takes pride in doing things properly
• Wants to get on. Our Shift Managers came up through this role, and we promote from the floor.

Benefits: company pension, cycle to work scheme, on-site parking.

To apply: email your CV and a few lines about yourself to hr@peltapapers.com with Production Operative in the subject line.

We are a specialty manufacturer of medical-grade paper, supplying customers across the UK, Europe and beyond. The business is lean, run by a small and highly qualified team, and we give capable people real responsibility from the start.

This is not a scheme with a laminated rotation plan. It is a real job that grows as fast as you do. You will work across production, quality, supply chain, finance and improvement projects, directly alongside senior management, and you will own live work within weeks of arriving.

What you'll do
• Take ownership of real projects across the business
• Analyse problems, form a view and present it to the people who decide
• Learn how a manufacturing business actually works, from fibre in to product out and cash collected
• Build the reports and tools that management runs the business on

Who we're after
• A strong degree (2:1 or above) in a rigorous discipline, with good A Levels behind it
• Numerate, writes clearly, confident with Excel
• Initiative: you notice what needs doing and do it without being asked
• Humble enough to learn from the shop floor, ambitious enough to want to run something

We hire on attitude: sharp, curious and hungry to be given more.

Benefits: company pension, cycle to work scheme, on-site parking.

To apply: email your CV and a short note making your case to hr@peltapapers.com with Graduate Trainee in the subject line.