Job Description – Apprentice Trug Maker
Cuckmere Trug Company, Berwick
Court Farm, Alfriston Road, Berwick, East Sussex, BN26 5QS.
Job Description: Apprentice
Trug Maker
Department: Royal
Sussex Workshop/South Down Workshop
The Company’s Apprenticeship
Scheme lasts for three years and is aimed at the apprentice becoming a skilled
Craftsman Trug Maker after that period of training. Applicants should, therefore, be prepared to undertake the
scheme enthusiastically for the full term of the apprenticeship.
1.
PURPOSE AND DUTIES
A.
PURPOSE
a) To
manufacture Sussex Trug Baskets and other craft related products.
b) To
work conscientiously as a member of a team based operation within own work area
and spanning all Workshops.
c) To
ensure that the Company’s production and despatch targets are achieved for
designated Workshop.
d) To
learn how all of the Company’s products are made.
B.
DUTIES
a) To
produce good quality products that the Company can offer for sale to its
customers with pride.
b) To
work with the Master Trug Maker in charge of own designated Workshop and other
staff therein to meet the Company’s Production Targets.
c)
To ensure that all
customers’ orders are despatched on time.
d)
To accept individual
responsibility for advising Master Trug Maker of immediate and future raw
material requirements, when identified.
e)
To accept individual
responsibility for the implementation and observance of Health & Safety and
other statutory regulations.
f)
To ensure a clean and
safe working environment for self and colleagues.
g)
To accept individual
responsibility for advising the Master Trug Maker of any dangerous or suspect
machinery or procedures and for advising him/her of any accident, dangerous
occurrence, condition or procedure.
h)
To carry out own work in
a cheerful, friendly and helpful manner as part of a closely knit Team.
i)
To take pride in
producing a first class, craftsman made crafts products.
j)
To attend shows for the
purpose of demonstrating and selling the company’s products. Shows may be in Great Britain or
elsewhere in Europe as required.
This will involve weekend work away from home during the show season.
2.
RESPONSIBILITIES
To learn and master the
various techniques involved in making the Royal Sussex Traditional Trug and the
South Down Contemporary Trug. This
will involve mostly hand tool work but, after the age of 18 will also include
some use of wood working machinery, such as rip saw, band saws and sanders. It
is anticipated that the successful applicant will also be involved in creating
crafts other than Trugs.
3. RELATIONSHIPS
Accountable directly to the
Master Trug Maker responsible for your designated Workshop but working with,
and learning from the other Trug Makers in the two workshops.
4. PHYSICAL
CONDITIONS
The position involves purely
manual work. The jobholder
is expected to learn all aspects of the Company’s production within the Royal
Sussex and South Down Trug Workshops and become proficient in their
implementation. This
position includes varied work as directed by the Proprietor and some heavy
lifting on occasions.
5. SOCIAL
CONDITIONS
The
job holder will enjoy a close working relationship with the Proprietor, Master
Trug Maker and other members of staff and daily contact with members of the
public and trade customers.
6. ECONOMIC
CONDITIONS
Hours: 0830
– 1300 and 1400 – 1700 on days designated within Contract of Employment.
Overtime
is compulsory if required.
Staff are expected to finish the work that has been set for them, and
assist their colleages to finish, before quitting for the day.
Wages: £2.75
per hour at age 17 – 19 and £4.98 per hour at age 20 and over, paid one week in
arrears.
Annual Leave: Statutory
Annual Holidays, plus public holidays as recognised by the Company, or time off
in lieu. Holidays will be taken
in arrears. One annual
holiday week to be taken at Christmas/New Year break.
7.
PERSONAL
CONDITIONS
a)
The preferred age range
is 17 - 21 years, depending upon the candidate.
b)
Must be fit and willing
to work hard, doing long hours when needed to get the job finished on
time for our customers.
c) Employee must be able to
commit himself/herself to the Company and to making good quality products
within a closely-knit Team environment.
d)
MUST have reliable transport or be able to travel in on time on public
transport. Times can be varied to
allow for public transport schedules.
8.
FUTURE
EMPOLYMENT
Following the
successful completion of the apprenticeship period the company would anticipate
engaging the applicant as a Craftsman Trug Maker. Following graduation it is expected that the new Craftsman
would also be willing to attend courses in other craft products in order to
bring enrichment to the company for the future.
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