Weekend Night Shift Manufacturing Assistant/Associate

Company: Colonial Group
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Location: Cirencester
Job Description:

Shift Pattern: Friday, Saturday & Sunday, 5:30pm to 6:30am

Salary: From £24,900 + 40% shift allowance + bonus!

Please note, interviews will be taking place from November

Corin is a global orthopaedics company based in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, manufacturing innovative hip and knee implants that help improve patient outcomes worldwide. With over 500 employees across seven sites, we’re committed to quality, precision and innovation.

We’re launching an exciting new shift and are looking for motivated individuals to join our growing team. This is a permanent role that offers an excellent work-life balance, with Monday to Thursday free every week!

As a Manufacturing Assistant/Associate, you will:

  • Set, operate, inspect, load, check and deburr orthopaedic implants using various tools and CNC machines
  • Operate and support processes including assembly, laser marking, shot blasting, the rumble, in process cleaning and intermediate cleaning operations
  • Work as part of the Manufacturing shift team, collaborating closely with Quality and Engineering
  • Liaise with alternate shifts during handovers to ensure smooth machine operation and optimised production flow

The ideal Manufacturing Assistant/Associate will have / be:

  • A good standard of general secondary education ideally Maths and English GCSE’s or equivalent
  • Accountable, quick learner, approachable and demonstrates strong collaboration skills
  • Basic knowledge of reading technical or engineering drawings would be advantageous
  • A strong eye for detail and / or previous experience of using measuring equipment
  • Good dexterity – desire to learn manual manufacturing processes and techniques

To support your onboarding, you’ll complete an initial Monday to Friday training programme before moving to the weekend shift. Training shifts can be tailored to suit your circumstances, and the duration of training weeks will be adjusted based on your learning pace and previous experience – expect this to last anywhere between 2 to 12 weeks. You can chose from:

  • Earlies: 5:15am to 1:45pm Mon-Thu, 5:15am to 10:45am Fri
  • Lates: 2:00pm to 10:30pm Mon-Thu, 11:00am to 4:30pm Fri
  • Double Days: rotating earlies and lates
  • Days: 8:30am to 5:00pm Mon-Thu, 8:30am to 4:30pm Fri
  • Nights: 10:00pm to 5:45am Mon-Thu, 4:00pm to 8:50pm Fri

We offer great benefits to our Manufacturing Assistants/Associates which include;

  • Salary starting from £24,900 plus 40% shift allowance and bonus!
  • Weekend-only working pattern
  • A free canteen!
  • Structured onboarding programme
  • 15 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
  • Pension contributions of up to 9.7%
  • Private healthcare with BUPA
  • Life assurance (6x salary)
  • Employee referral bonus from £1,000

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Posted: October 12th, 2026