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Role Overview

The Project Manager will have experience of managing multiple complex steel structures / structural steelwork projects to completion. You will lead projects through every stage of the project life cycle, from planning to delivery. If you thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment and have the ability to maintain focus under pressure, you may be exactly what the business is looking for.

As a Project Manager, you’ll be a key member of the team, responsible for establishing and maintaining a strong rapport with clients, contractors, and other stakeholders. The ideal candidate will have excellent communication and time management skills, along with strong attention to detail.

This is a role that will be 90% office based. A pool vehicle will be supplied for any customer meetings or surveys.

Salary and Hours

  • Salary £40,000 - £50,000 dependant on experience
  • 8:00am - 4.30pm, Monday to Friday

Commutable From: Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Burton upon Trent, Tamworth, Lichfield

Candidate Requirements

  • The Project Manager will have proven experience within steel structures / structural steelwork
  • A project management degree or similar would be ideal, but is not essential
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrable expertise in project management through all phases of a project life cycle
  • Working knowledge of Microsoft operating systems and programs including Access, Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook
  • Expertise with project management software (e.g. Microsoft Project, Primavera)
  • Advanced negotiation and conflict resolution skills
  • Highly organized with excellent attention to detail, with strong management, leadership, and interpersonal skills

Key Responsibilities

  • The Project Manager will be involved in project planning sessions to set project goals and objectives, determine timelines, define tasks, and outline resources necessary to successfully complete the project
  • Select and manage a team from among internal and external sub-contractors 
  • Monitor the progress of projects, including addressing issues that may arise and ensuring project deliverables are completed on time
  • Use an appropriate tracking tool to coordinate different elements of the project
  • Follow standard processes as defined by the Association for Project Management (APM) or Project 
  • Management Institute (PMI)
  • Organize regular status and review meetings as necessary, including generating and distributing meeting minutes
  • Gather resources, identify potential constraints based on activities and timeframes, and define solutions to manage any constraints
  • Design a risk management plan to minimize foreseeable disruptions to the project
 

Company and Role Overview

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Engineering & Design Lead, to work with a leading manufacturer of advanced process technology, who have a rich, well-established background. They have sites here in the UK and overseas

The company's strength lies in its process expertise, engineering excellence and the ability to fully support customers worldwide. The service is complete - from design through installation and commissioning to lifetime support.

The purpose of the Mechanical Design Team Leader is to manage a team of mechanical design engineers of a specific product sector. This requires hands-on technical design leadership, in addition to managing the team workload, communication, quality, and long-term professional development of the team.

Pay, Hours and Benefits

  • £55,000
  • Monday to Thursday, 8:30am – 5pm, 1:30pm Finish on Friday’s
  • 30 days holiday (inc statutory) plus an additional three days at Christmas
  • Life Assurance
  • Healthy Pension
  • Company and Private Healthcare Scheme

Commutable From: Corby, Wisbech, Spalding, Stamford, Peterborough

Engineering & Design Lead Candidate Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience in 3D design, analysis and testing of mechanical systems
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to develop innovative solutions
  • Ability to manage multiple projects and prioritise accordingly
  • Experience leading and developing other engineers
  • Commercially aware
  • A level of flexibility is required, as some UK and Global Travel is included

Engineering & Design Lead Key Responsibilities (but not limited to)

Technical

  • Provide technical direction to the team, producing sound engineering solutions to engineering problems, backed up with design analysis where appropriate.
  • Develop and implement innovative solutions to problems incorporating the latest materials, manufacturing processes and technology to drive the product range forward.
  • Manage product developments, ensuring changes are controlled and implemented across the product range to maintain a standard equipment offering
  • Take overall design responsibility for projects assigned to the team and manage them from project launch to completion ensuring all project deliverables are met.
  • Ensure all required design standards and legislation are met and that supporting documentation is produced and approved.
  • Take responsibility for equipment quality, resolving any design problems found during manufacturing or commissioning. 
  • Coordinate technical support to sales to help produce accurate project proposals and to manage project risk.

Team Management

  • Direct day-to-day management of team members.
  • Recruitment and training plans for direct reports as well as mentoring of junior engineers.
  • Management of project cost, schedule and quality.
  • Review and provide feedback on prospects incl schedule, design hours and project risk.
  • Deputise for the Engineering Manager or other Lead Sector Engineers when needed.
  • Drive and be a role model for the company values & behaviours.
  • To be aware of and follow all company Health & Safety policies and procedures, in respect of self and others.
 

Are you a Production and Warehouse Manager, who has the ability to lead, develop and manage within a manufacturing and distribution environment?

We are a well-established organisation, with unique product line, supplying into a broad range of customers. This is a pristine environment, purpose build facility, well laid out modern manufacturing environment. 

Commutable from: Birmingham,Tamworth, Stafford, Burton Upon Trent, Lichfield, Telford, Atherstone, Barton-Under-Needwood, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Aldridge, Sutton Coldfield, Burntwood and Cheslyn Hay

Production Operations Manager Benefits:

  • Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 (neg) and dependant on experience
  • Free parking on site
  • Employee discount 
  • Varied, autonomous role, challenging but highly rewarding
  • 25 Days Holiday (Bank Holidays on top)
  • Early Friday finish
  • Health care
  • Life assurance and critical illness cover
  • Modern well laid out purpose built facility
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted

Duties for Production Operations Manager

  • Lead, manage and develop the manufacture and dispatch of products
  • Lead transformation of production and warehouse operations with increased level of automation
  • Create management strategy
  • Regular staff reviews and support progress 
  • Identification of training needs and implementation of skills training
  • Monitor costs against budgets, prepare annual budgets
  • Proposals for capital and operational expenditure
  • Develop a lean management and continuous improvement culture and NPI

Requirements for a Production Operations Manager

  • Significant previous Production and Warehouse Operations Management experience
  • High volume environment, preferably FMCG, Will consider other areas, such as packaging, food, beverage and automotive 
  • To have managed where there is a high level of automation
  • To have previously managed culture change
  • Degree level education or equivalent 
  • Previous experience of budget control and management 

This will suit a strong Leader, who is initiative-taking, with a modern management approach, enthusiastic, and goal orientated.

 

I am recruiting for an Indirect strategic Buyer for a global manufacturing organisation. As the indirect strategic Buyer, you will be tasked with developing and improving indirect purchase of goods and services.
Negotiation of costs is also key to this role, as indirect strategic Buyer.

You will be joining a large, multi-site, well known manufacturing organisation, where your long-term prospects would be assured.

Commutable from Wolverhampton, Telford, Ironbridge, Shrewsbury, Church Stretton, Whitchurch, Cannock, Stafford, Stone, Market Drayton, Oswestry, Dudley and Bridgenorth 

Key Benefits available for Indirect Buyer

  • Salary: £38,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Employee discount
  • 12 noon Friday finish 
  • Company contributory pension
  • Highly prestigious brand, products and customers
  • Pristine and modern working environment
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted
  • Unlimited Career progression

Responsibilities for Indirect Buyer

  • Develop and improve purchasing of indirect goods and services
  • Negotiating the lowest costs for indirect goods and services
  • Identification of new suppliers for new / existing requirements
  • Removal of under-performing suppliers
  • Monitor commodity market trends
  • Identify cost reduction opportunities
  • Agree standards and KPI’s with suppliers
  • Requirements for Indirect Buyer
  • Experience of working in a busy purchasing department
  • To have gained your experience ideally within manufacturing
  • Knowledge of MRP systems
  • Cost and supplier negotiation skills
  • Thrive under pressure, the ability to work to strict deadlines
 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Junior Design Engineer to join an engineering business in Lichfield that manufacture world renown engineer solutions

Salary and Benefits

  • Up to £25,000 DOE
  • 30 days holiday, including bank holidays.
  • Healthcare Scheme
  • Early finish Friday
  • Company bonus
  • Immediate Start 

You will be gaining hands on experience within an established manufacturing company applying AutoCAD design experience delivering complex hydraulic and pneumatic equipment. 

Part of a small team as Junior Design Engineer you will get exposure to all parts of the manufacturing process from initial concept of customer specification to prototyping and final build. 

Candidate Requirements 

  • Qualified to HND / Degree level in an engineering discipline or equivalent.  
  • Minium 1 year experience with a manufacturing environment
  • Experienced with design using AutoCAD, Solidworks or Inventor.

The ideal Junior Design Engineer will have some hands-on engineering experience post-graduation and is looking to join a stable, established business to progress their career.  

Please note this is a permanent role, not fixed term contract and does not offer sponsorship.  

If you are interested in this Junior Design Engineer role, please apply today for more information and be sure to leave your contact details.

Commutable from: Lichfield, Burntwood, Cannock, Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth, Rugeley and Burton.

 

This is an exciting role with a global leader in the design and manufacture of specialist machinery. They are part of an established group who have 70+ years experience behind them, and who continue to grow, with the introduction and launch of new products.

Role Function

The Electrical Design Engineer will lead Electrical Design and Project based activities in support of New Model Programmes and Current Engineering activities within the design engineering centre.

Salary, Hours, and Benefits

  • £55,000 - £62,000 dependant on experience 
  • 8:30am – 5pm, Monday to Thursday, 2:00pm finish on Friday’s
  • Life Assurance, x2 of salary
  • Employee rewards portal
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Modern working environment

Commutable From: Birmingham, Leicester, Rugby, Leamington Spa, Tamworth

Electrical Design Engineer Candidate Requirements

  • HND or suitable electrical engineering design experience. A Degree would be useful but isn’t essential.
  • Have a minimum of 2 years experience working in a senior electrical design role.
  • Proven Electrical CAD experience.
  • Ability to create detailed Schematic and harness drawings.
  • You will have hands-on / practical experience, not only theoretical, with the ability to fault find. 
  • A person who is product centric, with an appreciation for product development and product launch.
  • Quality, Cost and Delivery (QCD) focussed. 

Electrical Design Engineer Key Responsibilities (but not limited to)

  • The Electrical Design Engineer will have a Quality, Cost and Delivery (QCD) focussed approach to product development.
  • Responsible for generation and delivery of concept and manufacturing design definitions, based on technical specifications, requirements, relevant standards, and other constraints.
  • Responsible for the conceptual development of new product solutions in the scoping phase of programmes.
  • Participate in developing and maintaining relevant engineering processes and procedures.
  • Problem solving on existing products and product improvement.
  • Responsible for evaluating technical issues in order to develop proposals for investigations and/or solutions.
  • Planning, controlling and delivering assigned projects, ensuring requirements are delivered to plan, budget and costs.