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Factory Operator (Powder Coating Support) FOPC0925

Job Description

Applicate Date: 21st November 2025

Join Our Team at McAuley Engineering!

We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our Powder Coating team in a support role. You will help produce high-quality products for a diverse range of clients. This role offers excellent career advancement prospects, with responsibilities including various workshop tasks such as painting, drilling, sanding, preparing products for painting, and handling products on production lines.

Main Duties:

  • Preparing parts for the powder coating process, including shot blasting and orbital sanding.
  • Loading cages with parts for dipping and priming.
  • Emptying cages after dipping and hanging parts on the powder coating line.
  • Removing parts after powder coating, conducting visual quality checks, and passing them to dispatch for final quality checks and packing.
  • Packing parts on stillages and assisting with dispatch.

 

Person Specification:

  • Experience with hand tools, abrasive wheels, drills, etc.
  • Awareness of health, safety, and environmental concerns in a manufacturing setting.
  • Basic maths skills, with the ability to understand engineering drawings and use measuring equipment accurately.
  • Good communication skills, a positive attitude, and a willingness to tackle a varied and physically demanding workload.

This position is based at our Vow Road Powder Coating plant and requires availability for rotational shifts typically 6 weeks on days 7am-5pm Monday to Thursday; followed by 3 weeks on nights 4.45pm – 2.45am Monday to Thursday.

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To apply for this job you can either:

• Download and fill in the Application Form and Monitoring Form and then email it as an attachment to work@mcauleyengineering.co.uk
• Or complete the online version of the 2 forms below. Please ensure you complete both the separate Application and Monitoring forms:

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Equality of Opportunity

N.B. - This form is regarded as part of your application and failure to complete and return it will result in disqualification.

We are an Equal Opportunities Employer. We do not discriminate on grounds of age, perceived religious or political affiliation, sex, marital status, disability, colour, sexual orientation, race or ethnic origin. We practice equality of opportunity in employment and select the best person for the job. To demonstrate our commitment to equality of opportunity in employment we need to monitor the community of our employees, and applicants, as required by the Fair Employment (N.I.) Order 1998. We are therefore asking you to give us extra information which will be treated in the strictest confidence and used for monitoring purposes only. This extra form will not be filed with other details, as given on your application form. If you do not complete this questionnaire, we are encouraged to use the ‘residuary’ method, which means that we can make a determination on the basis of personal information on file / application form. Whether or not you are from Northern Ireland, you should answer the question below by indicating which community or religious background you might be perceived to come from. Even if you no longer practice any religion, the aforementioned legislation still obliges us to classify your perceived community background/religious affiliation, in order to monitor the effectiveness of our policy on equality of opportunity. We are therefore asking you to indicate your community background by ticking the appropriate box.





N.B. - It is a criminal offence under the legislation for a person to ‘give false information in connection with the preparation of the monitoring return.