Recruitment Drive In St Helens

Glass Futures has started a recruitment drive for management positions for their Global Centre of Excellence in St Helens.

The company has hired twelve people so far, and the second phase of hiring is due to begin. Currently the new hires are working remotely, but there is a plan to try to open a temporary head office in St Helens.

The Global Centre will be capable of producing 30 tonnes of sustainable glass a day for products such as jars, bottles, windows and doors.

Glass Futures general manager Aston Fuller said: “We hope to be recruiting a further five full-time members of staff to join us early in 2021 and these will be a variety of key roles around Industry 4.0, project engineering business development, media and marketing.

“The team are all working extremely well together at the moment, albeit remotely, and there is real excitement and a team spirit already apparent as we take rapid steps towards establishing the Glass Futures’ Centre of Excellence.”

A major increase in staff numbers, such as GEAB is planning, can cause unforeseen problems for staff performing HR, admin and accounts job roles if the company’s method of recording time worked has not been updated.

For example, it is very easy for staff to fill in paper timesheets incorrectly. Sometimes this can be deliberate time fraud, but sometimes it is just new staff getting confused, or people forgetting to fill in their timesheets until a week later, by which time they’ve forgotten their exact shift details and are likely to just fudge it.

Even if the details are all correct, most paper timesheets must then be manually transferred to a database (usually an Excel spreadsheet) before being sent to payroll software.

There are many opportunities for human error to kick in during this time-consuming process – e.g. making an unrecognised typo in entering, or misreading employee’s handwriting (1 or 7? O or 0 or D?).

Incorrect data can also foul up HR tasks too, making it much more difficult to spot issues like adherence to the Working Time Directive or someone taking three 30 minute breaks plus lunch.

At Time and Attendance North West, we offer specialised attendance management software which can work either with smartcards or with biometrics.

Our smartcards are about the size of a credit card and fit nicely into most wallets. The Radio Frequency technology means that you don’t need to physically swipe the cards, just hold them up near the reader terminal. This reduces wear and tear. We also sell Long-Range smartcards, which can be read from several metres away.

For the ultimate deterrent against time theft, we can provide a fingerprint reader and/or a facial recognition unit. Smartcards can be lost, or swapped with colleagues to input fake times. This isn’t the case with body parts!

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