Job Title: Warehouse & Machine Shop Materials Operative
Location:
Leicester, LEC, GB, LE49JD
Business Unit:
Taylor Hobson
Posting Date:
Feb 18, 2026
Job Description:
Key Responsibilities
- All Warehouse Duties, plus absorbing machine shop materials, put away, caching, stock management, Work center management, material cycle counts.
- Ensure accurate and timely movement of materials to support production
- Maintain a clean, organised, and safe working environment
- Work collaboratively with production and warehouse teams
What Taylor Hobson offers you:
- A fun, relaxed and supportive working environment.
- 1pm Friday finish.
- Competitive salary and 25 days holiday including Christmas.
- Fantastic and supportive onboarding to ensure joiners are well integrated and comfortable at Taylor Hobson.
- Generous matched pension scheme.
- Life assurance.
- Option to join private health plan.
- Enhanced maternity pay.
- We are invested in developing your skills and will promote and encourage progression through the business.
- Mentoring and guidance for accreditation.
- Opportunity to get involved with charity and fundraising, which we are passionate about.
- Sports and Social Club – fun events and activities throughout the year including Christmas party.
- Perkbox – our rewards app offering discounts from a multitude of retailers, a GP service and a 24-hour Employee Assistance Program to ensure the health and wellbeing of our employees.
- On-site mental health first aiders
- Employee referral scheme of £1000
- Cycle to work scheme.
- An inclusive workforce.
- Free onsite parking, electric charging points and easy access to the city centre.
Business Unit
- Established in 1886, Taylor Hobson is the world leader in surface and form metrology and developed the first Roundness and Surface Finish measuring instruments.
- We provide contact and non-contact measurement solutions for the most demanding applications on a global basis, with a worldwide infrastructure to support our clients; we are a truly global ultra-precision metrology company.
- We are pioneers, continually developing our products to meet the ever-increasing demands of next generation technologies, particularly in Optics, Bearings, Space, Defence, Aerospace, Automotive, Medical and Renewable Energy technologies.
- Taylor Hobson's world leading brands include: Talyrond®, Form Talysurf® PGI, Form Talysurf® i-Series, Surtronic®, LUPHOScan, Formalysurf® PGI Optics, Talyvel®, Autocollimators, Micro-Alignment Telescope and AMECare.
- Taylor Hobson is part of the Ultra Precision Technologies Division of AMETEK, Inc. which is a leading global manufacturer of electronic instruments and electromechanical devices.
- Website: www.taylor-hobson.com