The Role
The Laboratory and Conversion department is a key element within the customer service proposition. This work provides a critical factor within the supply chain and the attainment of the company's strategic goals globally.
You will play a key role in making sure that the customer gets the correct product, to the correct specification, at the right time. Working in an efficient and effective manner, you will deal with a range of product requests, ensuring that they reach the customer in great condition.
Working as part of the workshop team you will use your engineering skills and knowledge to manufacture items that meet customer requirements using conventional machine shop equipment and support the wider team with your knowledge.
Ideally you will have machine shop experience and or qualifications and would be willing to learn additional skills within the department.
Key Responsibilities
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Keeping the work environment safe and tidy
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Ensuring that all tasks are performed to the required standard and quality to meet both internal and external customer requirements.
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Updating stock quantities via internal stock management systems
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Confirming and checking order details
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Maintaining and storing stock to a safe and accurate standard
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Flexibility within the team is a key requirement. Must be prepared to work where requested to meet the needs of the customer.
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Document processes and procedures for new or newly revised product designs.
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Identify and communicate opportunities to improve processes in support of efforts to increase standardisation, reduce costs, reduce cycle times and improve safety
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Set up and operate equipment to produce products that meet customer specifications. • Test and inspect parts against requirements.
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Provide training to new and existing staff as needed.
Specific Workshop
- Ensure Safety within work area by completing safety checks, following SWPs
- Select correct material from stock for finished item
- Safely use workshop equipment to produce items for customer orders
- Produce finished item to production sheet specifications, minimising wastage to meet customer expectations, using workshop equipment safely
- Ability to understand engineering drawings
- Inspection of finished items
- Accurate completion of documentation and systems for each completed job
- Ensure timely turnaround of orders
- Additional tasks as required
Key Requirements
- Ability to use general workshop equipment such as bandsaw, lathe, vertical mill and guillotines
- Engineering / machine shop experience or qualification
- Ability to follow verbal and/or written technical instructions.
- Ability to read, understand and follow safety procedures and general instructions
- Attention to detail and quality
- Methodical approach to tasks
- Care and patience towards dealing with fragile and delicate materials • Experience of using computer systems
- Proactive and positive attitude
- Willingness to take on new ways of working and prepared to be open to flexibility and training into all areas within the production environment.
- Strong communication and team working skills
- Ability to retrieve field information, such as dimensions and angles, without supervision.
- Ability to interpret and follow sketches and patterns for cutting and fabricating.
- Basic knowledge of metals, materials, polymers or ceramics is an advantage
Salary & Benefits
Salary for this role is £36050.00
The full Goodfellow benefits package applies:
- 22 days Annual Leave, rising to 25
- Company-funded private healthcare
- Company pension — 5% employer contribution
- Critical Illness and Life Assurance cover
- Company Sick Pay scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
- Flexible working arrangements where applicable
- Onsite car parking and complimentary refreshments
- Programme of social events throughout the year
About the Goodfellow Group
Founded in London in 1946, Goodfellow is a global leader in advanced materials, enabling innovation globally across high-tech sectors including aerospace, medical research, electronics, and green energy. With a portfolio of more than 170,000 specialist products, we support scientists, engineers, and manufacturers worldwide in transforming ideas into real world solutions.
Today, the Goodfellow Group combines global reach with deep materials expertise. Operating from key hubs across Europe, the United States, and China, we provide advanced materials, precision engineering, and world-class testing capabilities to organisations at the forefront of research and technology. Backed by Battery Ventures, we continue to invest in growth through international expansion and strategic acquisitions.
Our operations are centred around three key manufacturing and scientific hubs:
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire (UK) – Our headquarters and Advanced Materials Centre, where more than 170,000 advanced materials and reference standards are stocked, processed, and distributed to customers worldwide.
Columbia, USA – Our Precision Engineering Centre, an advanced laser microfabrication and manufacturing facility delivering highly specialised engineering solutions.
Switzerland – Our Swiss Competence Centre, providing world-leading materials testing, characterisation, and analytical capabilities.
In addition, we maintain sales offices in Pittsburgh (USA) and Shanghai (China), ensuring close support for customers in key global markets.
Across the Goodfellow Group, we are united by a commitment to technical excellence, collaboration, and sustainable innovation. Whether your passion lies in science, engineering, technology, or business, you’ll find opportunities here to develop your career while helping shape the future of advanced materials.
Our Values
All employees are required to live by the company values:
Continuous Improvement:
- Acknowledge the shortcoming and limitations within yourself and your team and take action to mitigate these.
- Seek ways to improve and enhance Goodfellow working practices.
- Be receptive to new ideas and practices to improve the results within your team.
- Implement solutions and changes positively and encourage the same within your team.
- Encourage your team to provide solutions not problems.
- Be receptive to feedback for your own and team’s performance.
- Go above and beyond.
- Actively seek feedback from your teams’ customers to ensure their needs and expectations are met.
Responsibility:
- Knowledge of managing the commercial impact of a team.
- Ability to meet both personal and departmental KPIs.
One Team:
- Regularly communicate the progress of the department/teams’ efforts based against the operational plan and business objectives.
- Build a positive and healthy working relationship with all colleagues in your team and company.
- Communicate with all colleagues in a professional, calm and assertive manner.
- Be flexible to the needs and requirements of other teams.
Customer Centric:
- A mindset that puts the customer at the centre of everything we do.
- Flexibility and a positive attitude towards opportunity.
- Exhibit a positive approach and treat all colleagues, clients etc with dignity and respect.