ABSTRACT
Trebor Sharp was a family firm, manufacturing sweets and confectionery. When the company decided that a new factory was needed, they wanted to achieve two things: a building that would not be just another factory, but something rather special that would stand the test of time and make a distinctive contribution to the built environment. While the author had experience of working on job design problems, she had never before done this at the factory design stage where the operators concerned do not exist yet and their experience and contribution are not available. The author had misgivings about that kind of orientation, because of the fascination it can engender in people to the exclusion of other things; but the opportunity was unique. At a meeting she worked with the project group to list job design criteria, discussing priorities among them and relating them to production criteria.
