Multi Skilled Operative in Wellingborough

FM Conway is currently seeking a Multi Skilled Operative to join our Aggregate and Asphalt division to play a key role in supporting operations at our asphalt manufacturing sites. As a Multi Skilled Operative, you will perform a varied role that includes operating the asphalt plant, mobile plant machinery, and coordinating weighbridge functions to ensure smooth and efficient site performance. This is a full time, permanent role based at our Wellingborough site.

With over 15 years’ experience producing high-quality asphalt, FM Conway operates seven successful asphalt plants across the South of England and is now expanding into the Midlands with our eighth site in Wellingborough. The successful Multi Skilled Operative will join a brand‑new team and will be crucial to setting up the new plant, helping to establish engineering standards, site performance and operational success from the very beginning. Joining ahead of the plant opening in 2027, you will initially work across our existing Southeast sites, receiving full training and structured induction support to understand our operations, systems and engineering standards. By the time the new plant opens, you will be fully prepared to lead from day one and play a major role in establishing a successful new production site.

The duties of the Multi Skilled Operative role will include:

• Operating the asphalt plant efficiently to ensure optimum use of company resources
• Carrying out all weighbridge functions, including using the company order system and managing delivery schedules
• Operating loading shovels safely and efficiently
• Operating other mobile plant such as telehandlers and skidsteers as required
• Carrying out daily checks and basic maintenance on plant and equipment, reporting defects accurately and promptly
• Maintaining accurate records for weighbridge, production, and mobile plant operations
• Completing daily housekeeping duties to maintain a safe and efficient working environment

What skills and experience do you need? To be considered for this role it is essential that you are a team player, with good communication skills and a full UK driving licence. You will be flexible, computer literate and health and safety conscious. Previous experience within a similar role would be desirable.

What benefits will you receive? As our Multi Skilled Operative, we offer a range of benefits including career and professional development, 23 days holiday plus bank holidays, life assurance, enhanced maternity pay, opportunities for internal and external training, and access to a wide range of shopping discounts through our Rewarding Great People platform. We also provide a range of health and wellbeing benefits including 24‑hour advice lines and support from our in‑house mental health first aiders.

FM Conway is an award‑winning equal opportunities employer. We recognise that our workforce should reflect our diverse communities and we are proudly committed to creating an inclusive culture in which we celebrate and value individuals from all walks of life. At our heart we are a business that recognises and embraces individuality, so if you are excited about this role but you are unsure if you meet all of the criteria, we encourage you to apply anyway as you may still be the right candidate for this or another role we are recruiting for. We believe in people, not algorithms. That’s why every application is personally reviewed by a member of our Recruitment Team – never by AI. We look forward to receiving your application!