Bekina Compounds
Machine operator 2-teams of fixed night shift
As an operator at Bekina Compounds, you are a key link in our production process. You produce high-quality rubber compounds, monitor quality and ensure that our customers can count on reliable deliveries. Thanks to the variety of tasks and workstations, your job remains challenging. You’ll be joining a local family-run business with an international reach. From its base in Kluisbergen, Bekina Compounds manufactures rubber compounds for various applications and international customers.
- Experience: Experience in a production environment as an operator, setting up machines, solving minor technical problems,...
- Languages required: Dutch-speaking, basic English is an advantage
- We will provide you with thorough in-house training to become a quality-conscious machine operator
Job description
In this position as an operator, you will be multi-deployable on various machines within the production of Compounds.
Mixer:
- Weighing out powders
- Adding correct quantities into the machine
- Visualisation and mixer control
- Troubleshooting using procedures (computer-controlled settings)
- Technical understanding (machine operates via suction and blowing systems, vacuum pumps)
Follow-up roller:
- After mixing, rubber ends up in the tracking roller
- Follow instructions on sheet
- Remove from rubber and cool
- Additional mixing if not according to required quality (quality control)
- Physical handling: trimming, stripping
Logistics:
- Supply and remove raw materials with forklift truck
- Experience certainly required (certificate can be obtained or renewed internally)
- Transport with pallet truck
- Preparing pallets and attachments
- Feeding Big Bags into the silos
Extrusion:
- Setting the right parameters
- Conversion to the correct configuration (placing screens and correct moulds)
- Quality control (monitoring correct dimensions during production process)
- Packaging of finished products
What we expect from you
- You have experience in a production environment
- You have experience as an operator, setting up machines, solving minor technical problems
- Notions, interest in rubber compounding or rubber in general is a plus
- You are quality-oriented and work meticulously (weighing must be done correctly)
- You can work well in a small team, switch quickly if a colleague is absent, work on different machines
- You are Dutch-speaking, basic English is an advantage
- You can handle physical work (lifting loads), standing work
What we offer you
- We are looking for full-time operators for a 2-shift system (5:00a.m.–1:05p.m. and 1:00p.m. – 9:05p.m.) and for a fixed night shift (Sunday night through Thursday night, 9:00 p.m. – 5:05 a.m.)
Shift premium: 11.43%; fixed night shift: 25% - Flexible leave system
- Solid internal training to become a quality-conscious machine operator
- Attractive salary, meal vouchers 9 euro, chemistry pension contribution
- Hospitalisation insurance (free for the whole family) and bicycle lease with permanent contract
- Job security in a growing, innovative company
- Development opportunities for motivated operators