Composite Senior Laminator

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Laminator to lead and oversee complex lamination projects. You will be responsible for supervising production, troubleshooting technical challenges, and ensuring compliance with the highest industry standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Oversee all aspects of composite lamination, including advanced pre-preg, resin infusion, and out-of-autoclave techniques.
• Lead and train a team of laminators, ensuring work quality, efficiency, and safety.
• Work closely with engineers to refine manufacturing techniques and improve productivity.
• Troubleshoot complex defects and production challenges.
• Ensure compliance with ISO 9001, AS9100, and industry-specific quality standards.
• Manage production schedules and allocate resources effectively.
• Serve as the go-to expert for technical inquiries and process improvement.
• Comeptently load and run the autoclave and assited machinery, with the technical ability to train junior members of the team to competently perform these tasks, adhereing to strict Health and Safety protocal.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in composite manufacturing.
• Extensive experience in aerospace, automotive, or marine composites.
• Strong leadership and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to optimize production processes and reduce waste.

BAMD Mission Value Statement:

We strive to be the leading composites solution provider in the country - not just a supplier. Our focus is on delivering high-quality products, on time, as trusted project partners, where the final needs of the product, assembly or component always takes the upmost priority.

BAMD Principal Values:

• Care and Quality – Embrace reality, Approach situations objectively, gather data, and make fact-based decisions to drive meaningful improvements.
• Communication – Prioritize direct conversations, starting with a call or face to face discussion to address issues, find solutions and align. Follow up with an email to document the decision and ensure accountability within the wider team.
• Solutions, not problems – Identify challenges and face them head-on. View painful problems as opportunities for improvement rather than obstacles. Don’t mistake symptoms for root causes—solve the real problem, not just its effects.
• The team works – Encourage constructive feedback and prioritize truth over ego. Mistakes happen, and that’s okay—just make sure they don’t happen twice. Growth comes from learning, not protecting egos.
• Consistency in everything – Set SMART Goals, proactively identify and diagnose problems, design effective working solutions, and take decisive action. Success comes from discipline, clarity and follow-through.

Declaration

The company reserves the right to modify, amend, or update this job description as necessary to reflect changes in duties, responsibilities, or business needs, provided such changes remain reasonable and within the general scope of the role.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: £26,500.00-£42,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension
• On-site parking
• Profit sharing
• Referral programme

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Upper Heyford OX25 5HD: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Application question(s):

• Do you require visa sponsorship?

Work authorisation:

• United Kingdom (required)

Work Location: In person