A JOB TO SMILE ABOUT AT PRIMA DENTAL GROUP

The company’s advanced manufacturing headquarters based in Quedgeley, Gloucester designs, engineers, and produces top-quality precision dental instruments. Prima Dental Group has always been committed to its team –with a strong ethos of ensuring all of its employees have a great place to work.

This philosophy has supported the organisation’s continued growth, which, over the last decade has seen the company develop subsidiaries and joint ventures in Brazil, China, Hong Kong and India. The company is also one of Gloucestershire’s largest exporters with distributors in 93 countries.

Investing In Its People

As part of its people first ethos, Prima Dental Group has heavily invested in its workforce. The company’s mission – the pursuit of better – drives all that it does, and a high-performance, inclusive culture programme supports this. All colleagues are encouraged to provide feedback and suggest new ideas as part of the ‘pursuit of better’ philosophy. The result is a real sense of teamwork and a great sense of community and testament to this positive culture is the impressive tally of Prima Dental Group’s long serving colleagues.

The focus is around ensuring an engaged, multi-skilled workforce with defined career progression for all. A robust internal and external training programme is available; over the last two years this has seen more than 20,000 hours of coaching undertaken and 40 colleagues promoted.

Giving Back

Prima Dental Group has a strong sense of the communities in which it works. Supporting, nurturing and recruiting local talent is a priority and the business works with local schools to help pupils prepare for the workplace. The team also take an active role at local job fairs supporting its recruitment drive.

The company’s vibrant charity committee works closely with causes on di erent initiatives. This year the business is supporting two Gloucestershire charities; Charlies, a cancer support and therapy centre which provides friendship, support, holistic therapies, activities and events to help local people live with cancer and the Spring Centre which provides care and support to children and young people with disabilities and their families from across the region.

Alongside a plan of fundraising, such as the Prima Dental summer open fun day, the company’s quiz night, and an around the world bake o type event, the team also support the charities with a volunteering programme. This enables colleagues to get involved directly with the charities during their normal working hours, and has already seen several team members helping to paint and garden at Charlies and the Spring Centre premises.

Strong Credentials

Prima Dental Group’s achievements have been recognised with two Queen’s Awards for Export. Last year the company was awarded a SMART grant award from Innovate UK to develop a game changing new dental product – demonstrating the company’s commitment to innovation. While this year it has been allowed patents in the UK and US for its unique milling tools used for dental restorations.

Growth and success can be partly attributed to the organisation’s commitment to investment, ensuring it retains a forward thinking, market leading position. In the last six years, more than £25m has been invested in new plant and equipment in the UK and a further £7m is ear-marked for 2023.

Sustained investment goes hand in hand with Prima Dental Group’s passion for innovation, and the company boasts its own dedicated research and innovations department. Here, the team continually explore new product ranges, driving the vision for success, alongside actionable change for dentists around the world.

Range Of Benefits

The Waterwells Business Park in Quedgeley is home to Prima Dental Group. A mix of manufacturing space and o ce units means the Park o ers a modern and clean environment that’s easily accessible from the M5 or Gloucester.

Employees have a range of benefits including private healthcare, wellbeing support, discounted shopping vouchers, free tea and co ee and fresh fruit. Each employee has the opportunity for professional development sponsorship, access to a proactive, education-based occupational health provision, and a discretionary bonus scheme.

COME JOIN THE TEAM!

Over the last two years Prima Dental Group has recruited more than 100 people and this growth is set to continue.

If you’d like to join this ambitious, innovative, successful organisation there are currently a variety of roles available within the manufacturing and support functions (with the opportunity for hybrid working and flexitime where appropriate). Current available roles range from setters to engineers and product managers.