Assembly Technician

Job Title: Assembly Technician
Location: WMFTS - USA - Supply - Devens, MA
Location Type: On-Site
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When you join Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, a part of the Spirax Group, you will be integrated into a cooperative and encouraging team, participate in challenging yet critical work, and experience ongoing growth opportunities to help you achieve your full potential. Visit our website to learn more.

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Who we are
Watson-Marlow is an industry-leading technology organisation dedicated to engineering fluid management solutions for the life science and process industries. We help our customers to supply critical products and services that range from fresh drinking water and therapeutic medicines to food products and paper. Through our solutions we help companies to be more efficient, sustainable and profitable.


Role Summary
As Assembly Operator you will be responsible for working on the assembly line within our cleanrooms to combine parts and components to create our fluid management technology. You will be required to follow and comply with all relevant procedures to ensure only products that meet the required specifications move on to the next manufacturing stage.

What you'll be doing

• You will build products on the assembly line according to customer specific technical drawings, instructions, or schematics.
• You will be competent in making all required assemblies in the range including those that are complex and are comprised of multiple types of components (training will be provided).
• You will be capable of working with a complex range of products with hundreds of SKUs (and growing).
• You will understand the special importance of product quality, safety and performance for their application within biopharmaceutical manufacturing processes.
• You will follow established manufacturing and safety procedures, to ensure we are complying with clean room requirements.
• You will inspect the assembled products for any faults or defects and report any issues immediately to the Team Leader in the area.
• You will report incidents, faulty operations, or product imperfections on the assembly line to your Team Leader for further exploration.
• You will move materials and components between workstations, safely handling waste materials and finished products to maintain a tidy and organised cleanroom.
• You will assist with the daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning operations within the cleanroom environment to ensure we are complying with BS EN ISO 14644 clean room requirements.
• You will ensure compliance with all company health and safety rules and regulations at all times, including contributing to any company health and safety initiatives and activities.
• You will ensure you are complying with the ISO 14001 Environmental Standards.
• Other duties as assigned.

This is what you'll need to be successful in this role

• You will have experience of working on an assembly line and following manual assembly techniques, ideally for single use solutions of 1-3 years.
• You will have excellent attention to detail to ensure accurate assembly and strict adherence to specifications.
• You will have the ability to work in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, ensuring that assembly line output is aligned to cycle times.
• You will work effectively as part of an assembly team and develop strong working relationships with all key stakeholders.
• Work hours will be Monday-Friday 7:30AM till 3:30PM

This position offers a salary range of (USD 36,000.00 - 49,000.00 Salaried). Final salary offers are determined by multiple factors, including education, experience, internal equity, geographic location, and the candidate's expertise, and therefore may vary from the range listed. For roles based outside Massachusetts, the applicable salary range may be lower.

At Watson-Marlow, we believe in taking care of our colleagues. We offer a generous benefits package, including:

• Robust Retirement Plan: Benefit from a 5% employer 401K contribution, plus a 50% match on up to 3% of your contributions for added financial security, empowering your financial security.
• Comprehensive and Supportive Parental Leave: Experience our inclusive, gender-neutral parental leave policy, offering 16 weeks at 100% pay. Upon your return, enjoy a gradual transition with a unique 80% work schedule while still receiving 100% of your pay for the first 6 months, ensuring a balanced reintegration into the workplace.
• Generous Time Off: Enjoy ample time off to recharge and attend to life's circumstances with generous vacation and well-being day, 9 observed holidays, 1 floating holiday day, up to 15 caregiver days, and 80 hours of annual sick leave.
• Community Engagement Opportunities: Make a difference with 3 paid volunteer days each year, encouraging you to give back to the community and causes you care about.
• And Many More Benefits: Such as an offering of 3 healthcare plans with HSA contributions along with other benefits designed to support your well-being and professional growth. We invite you to explore all the ways we strive to create a fulfilling and rewarding work environment.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone's contribution is valued across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. Learn more at Our Inclusion Commitments.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other protected characteristics as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

Company Overview

At Watson-Marlow Fluid Technology Solutions, we are driven by innovation and are dedicated to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone is empowered to make a difference. As a world leader in manufacturing peristaltic pumps and associated fluid path technologies for the life sciences and process industries, we offer a wide range of products, including tubing, specialised filling systems and products for single-use applications.

Watson-Marlow is part of Spirax Group, a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our inclusive culture and values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.