Scott's Monthly Pick Of The Bunch - Manufacture

Company

This is a fantastic opportunity with a global company that continues to grow, both in size and revenue. They consider themselves to be agile and highly innovative, embracing the technology associated within the industry. The business has a strong family culture which provides a positive working environment where employees feel valued and trusted.

If you are looking for an established career with a global leader in a period of real exciting growth, a business who are big advocates of organic growth and development of their staff, then this will be ideal for you!

Manufacturing Engineer Role Overview

The Manufacturing Engineer will define, develop & implement equipment, processes and standards of working for application within the production environment.

Forming part of the company global operations and reporting into the Manufacturing Engineering Manager, the Manufacturing Engineer will work cross functionally with Product Design and Testing, Supply Chain, Production Engineering, Plant Maintenance and Quality functions and be instrumental in ensuring robust design and development of manufacturing and production systems and processes in a planned and intentional manner, working ahead of business operational requirements strategically.

Salary, Hours and Benefits

• £35,000 - £40,000
• 7:30am – 4:00pm Monday – Thursday, 1:00pm finish on Friday’s 
• The chance to join a very successful hypergrowth business
• Excellent company pension
• Company bonus
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Cash health plan

Commutable From: Dudley, Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Walsall, Kidderminster  

Candidate Requirements

• HND or equivalent qualification in Mechanical / Manufacturing Engineering or similar qualification.
• Working experience in a high speed, high pressure electro-mechanical manufacturing and production environment within a Manufacturing Engineering function would be highly advantageous.
• Hands on experience in use and application of PFMEA, Control Plan and Process Flow tools.
• Strong track record in continuous improvement and project management.
• Experience of Industrial design and Engineering (Factory layout, assembly process development).
• Proven aptitude for detail, process control and documentation.
• Demonstrate ability to work with commercial acumen and consideration within manufacturing design and development.

About you

• The Manufacturing Engineer will be a process led, proactive and pragmatic engineer with a good eye for detail.
• Good background skills in project, task and prioritisation management and communication.
• Able to demonstrate experience in an electro-mechanical environment at a practical level.
• You will have a background in process design and development that includes a strong understanding of whole-of-factory level impact and commercial considerations with regard to large change projects as well as continuous improvement initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Planning, managing and delivering manufacturing programmes for process, equipment, tooling and factory layout improvements, as well step-change ground-up projects
• Engineering solutions for manufacturing and production that deliver benefits in efficiency, quality and accuracy both today and for the future state
• Managing and planning product changes (quality cost and time justification for and against within manufacturing, supporting NPI as part of a cross functional business wide team)
• Future design and development of factory layout scenarios and process flow design in line with operational strategy
• Supporting production engineering with longer term continuous improvement projects
• Development of manufacturing standards, processes and measures in line with the business performance that can be translated globally across Operations

Desirable Experience

Any of the below would be useful but aren’t essential:
Experience in using AutoCAD or similar plant layout design CAD software, Working knowledge of production lean methodologies and associated tools i.e. OEE, TPM, 5S, Experience of working with quality management systems within manufacturing and production, Practical application of industry standard problem-solving tools i.e. 8D, 5Y, Team and project leadership experience in similar environment or role, Background and experience in automation solutions for production in similar industry or environment, Experience in jig and tool design, Ability to read and produce engineering drawings

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading business who are in a period of exciting growth. They are a leading provider in the UK, a market leader in Europe and have a presence in many other countries worldwide. They continue to expand rapidly in the UK and internationally, a business that has doubled in size these last few years.

They are proud of their fast-paced and dynamic manufacturing environment, where customer satisfaction and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything that they do.

Manufacturing Supervisor Pay, Hours and Benefits

• £36,000 - £40,000 
• 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday, 7:00am – 3:00pm (with some flexibility)
• 23 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Life insurance cover
• Employee Assistance Programme

The Manufacturing Supervisor role is commutable from the following areas: Derby, Nottingham, Sutton in Ashfield, Mansfield, Chesterfield.

Role Overview

The Manufacturing Supervisor will be responsible for managing the Fabrication, Welding, Machine shop and Paint shop teams to ensure the efficient manufacturing of quality products, playing a crucial role in driving performance improvements and ensuring targets are met. Championing continuous improvement in all activities and areas of responsibilities.

Manufacturing Supervisor Candidate Requirements

• A minimum of HND in Engineering (ideally)
• 4+ years of relevant manufacturing experience
• Experience in a technical manufacturing environment
• IOSH/NEBOSH Certificate
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and train teams
• Ability to prioritize tasks and meet targets
• Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Strong understanding of ISO 9001
• Knowledge of 5S an Lean manufacturing principles
• Driving License

Manufacturing Supervisor Key Responsibilities (but not limited to)

• Oversee daily operations to ensure production targets and quality standards are met.
• Lead, motivate, and manage a team of production employees to ensure efficient and high-quality manufacturing processes.
• Monitor production performance and identify opportunities for process improvements.
• Ensure compliance with health, safety and environmental standards at all times.
• Ensure all products meet quality standards and compliance requirements
• Train and develop team members to enhance skills and efficiency
• Coordinate with other departments (quality control, maintenance, etc.) to ensure smooth operations.
• Conduct regular team meetings to discuss performance, safety updates, and key objectives.
• Monitor production processes and implement continuous improvement initiatives
• Address any operational issues promptly and work towards effective resolutions.
• Ensure that production targets are met on time, while maintaining high standards of quality and safety.
• Support and drive lean manufacturing initiatives and continuous improvement projects.

Company

This is a fantastic opportunity with a global company that continues to grow, both in size and revenue. They consider themselves to be agile and highly innovative, embracing the technology associated within the industry. The business has a strong family culture which provides a positive working environment where employees feel valued and trusted.

If you are looking for an established career with a global leader in a period of real exciting growth, a business who are big advocates of organic growth and development of their staff, then this will be ideal for you!

Segment Product Manager Salary and Excellent Benefits

• £60,000 - £70,000 dependant on experience
• Hybrid working
• Excellent company pension
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Company bonus
• Dental and health benefits
• Life insurance
• Annual group shares
• Fantastic work environment
• Your chance to work for a global company who going through exponential growth

Commutable From: Birmingham, Walsall, Dudley, Kidderminster, Wolverhampton, Telford

Role Overview

The Product Manager is responsible for leading growth strategy, profitability, and optimisation across your assigned segment and regional product portfolio.  

The successful candidate will have strong technical aptitude and a strategic mindset.  You will be instrumental in leading the growth of a key strategic segment. This is an excellent role for a product management, sales, or technical professional in the industrial controls or electrical safety industries.

Segment Product Manager Essential Candidate Requirements

• Engineering or technical degree is highly preferred.
• 5-8 years of experience in Product Management, Technical, or Sales function within a technical B2B environment.
• Experience with industrial access controls, smart device products or electrical safety products would be hugely advantageous. 
• Knowledge of the Food & Beverage market preferred.
• Strong technical aptitude with ability to develop working knowledge of industry standards.
• Experience working with distribution channel and multiple paths to market.
• Ability to create strong relationships and collaborate across the global organization.
• Understanding of product development and demonstrated execution from Voice of Customer to NPD launch.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, ability to simplify complex concepts.

Segment Product Manager About You

• Straightforward to deal with and have no interest in politics.
• Curious and believe in customer and market led innovation.
• Fiercely collaborative.
• Need to be able to be a strategic thinker AND deliver results.

Segment Product Manager Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation of Segment strategy to achieve significant profitable growth.
• Establish deep understanding of Segment applications and technical standard requirements. Maintain global Segment Application Map, ensuring PM team and other key stakeholders are actively aware of updates.
• Manage the existing regional product portfolio, including pricing, revenue, profitability, and appropriate product line optimization.
• Support development of global product roadmap, providing insight and direction for products in assigned region.
• Develop deep customer and market knowledge through market, competitor, and VOC research to inform and enhance the segment’s growth strategy.
• Create detailed, market driven product definition and supporting business cases to feed NPD pipeline. In partnership with cross-functional teams, define ‘Go to Market’ strategy to ensure NPD projects are delivered on time and effectively meet the needs of the market.
• Drive channel partner and customer engagement through webinars, tradeshows, onsite visits, and other training programs in support of Segment growth targets. 
• Communicate strategy, industry trends, wins/ best practices, and competitive intelligence across all functional groups and regions, including Sales, Engineering, Marketing, and Operations.

Company

This is a fantastic opportunity with a global company that continues to grow, both in size and revenue. They consider themselves to be agile and highly innovative, embracing the technology associated within the industry. The business has a strong family culture which provides a positive working environment where employees feel valued and trusted.

If you are looking for an established career with a global leader in a period of real exciting growth, a business who are big advocates of organic growth and development of their staff, then this will be ideal for you!

Electronics Engineer Salary and Excellent Benefits

• £45,000 - £53,000 dependant on experience
• Hybrid working
• Excellent company pension
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Company bonus
• Dental and health benefits
• Life insurance
• Annual group shares
• Fantastic work environment
• Your chance to work for a global company who going through exponential growth

Commutable From: Birmingham, Walsall, Dudley, Kidderminster, Wolverhampton, Telford

Role Overview

This highly successful, hypergrowth business is looking to recruit an Electronics Engineer to support the continuing growth of their design department. The Electronics Engineer is responsible for designs, tests and implements hardware and embedded software to extend the company product range. The role will involve working as part of the engineering and wider project teams to ensure products meet the requirements of the customer and product standards.

Electronics Engineer Essential Candidate Requirements

• Electronics Engineer degree or similar. 
• Proven experience in embedded firmware design, development, and testing.  
• You will have demonstrable experience in new product development and product development processes.
• Experience in electronics hardware design, development, and testing; including PCB schematic design and layout.

Other Required Experience

• EMC design and test.
• Creation of supporting design documentation, development reports, BoM, build packs.
• Architecture design and architecture design tools.
• Firmware unit, integration, and system testing. 
• Design validation processes – FMEA, DFM.  

Electronics Engineer Key Responsibilities

• Design and maintenance of hardware and embedded software for use within new and existing products.
• Observe existing processes and identify areas of improvement. 
• Assessment and documentation of products against specifications and standards.
• Running effective testing and diagnostics that validate product requirements.
• Coordinate with and assist other departments.
• Liaising with other departments to ensure projects are completed to specifications.
• Writing specifications, instructions, reports, and handling other required administrative duties.
• Provide high level technical support for company products. 
• Showing initiative and keeping up with advancements in Electronics.

Company

This is a fantastic opportunity with a global company that continues to grow, both in size and revenue. They consider themselves to be agile and highly innovative, embracing the technology associated within the industry. The business has a strong family culture which provides a positive working environment where employees feel valued and trusted.

If you are looking for an established career with a global leader in a period of real exciting growth, a business who are big advocates of organic growth and development of their staff, then this will be ideal for you!

Software Engineer Salary and Excellent Benefits

• £45,000 - £53,000 dependant on experience
• Hybrid working
• Excellent company pension
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Company bonus
• Dental and health benefits
• Life insurance
• Annual group shares
• Fantastic work environment
• Your chance to work for a global company who going through exponential growth

Commutable From: Birmingham, Walsall, Dudley, Kidderminster, Wolverhampton, Telford

Role Overview

Due to continued exciting growth, our global client requires an additional Software Engineer to join their growing software team. The role involves working on a variety of applications including tools used during the selection, sales and manufacture of their products, their own industrial access control solution, along with some exciting new projects intended to enhance the growth of the business

Software Engineer Essential Candidate Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related discipline.
• Proven / demonstrable experience and knowledge of C#, Winforms and ASP.NET Core.
• Knowledge of SQL server databases.
• A broad range of software development skills, ideally including some mobile application development.

Software Engineer Desirable Requirements

• Awareness of Scrum, Azure DevOps
• Experience of version control (Git / Team Foundation Version Control)

Software Engineer Key Responsibilities

• Design, development, testing and release of new software applications.
• Maintenance, support and enhancements of existing software applications.
• Assisting the technical support team with customer queries.

Company

This is a fantastic opportunity with a global company that continues to grow, both in size and revenue. They consider themselves to be agile and highly innovative, embracing the technology associated within the industry. The business has a strong family culture which provides a positive working environment where employees feel valued and trusted.

If you are looking for an established career with a global leader in a period of real exciting growth, a business who are big advocates of organic growth and development of their staff, then this will be ideal for you!

Junior Design Engineer Salary and Excellent Benefits

• Up to £27,000 - £30,000
• Hybrid Working
• Excellent company pension
• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Company bonus
• Dental and health benefits
• Life insurance
• Annual group shares
• Fantastic work environment
• Your chance to work for a global company who going through exponential growth

Commutable From: Birmingham, Walsall, Dudley, Kidderminster, Wolverhampton, Telford

Role Overview

At the heart of this businesses continued success and growth, is its ability to take its successful and proven product range and work closely with our customers to adapt it and solve problems.  They are recruiting for a Junior Design Engineer to join a small team that works with the customer requirements to create and maintain a wide variety of customer products and configurations.

The role includes designing and documenting the products, in their drawing and ERP systems as well as working closely with the new Products, Manufacturing and Production teams to ensure quality and efficiency throughout manufacturing.

The role offers great development for junior engineers who want to use their knowledge and gain broad experience in a successful manufacturing company.  With a tremendous track record of growth and part of a highly successful group, the business provides an unrivalled combination of broad engineering experience and opportunities for future development.

Junior Design Engineer Candidate Requirements and Experience

• Degree or a similar qualification in Mechanical Design Engineering or comparable subject.
• Experience in 3D CAD software CREO and Windchill would be highly advantageous (other similar CAD software will be considered).
• Ability to accurately read, layout and create 2D Engineering drawings.
• Understanding of geometric tolerances and other similar Engineering principles.
• Experience or understanding of ERP software(s) (Microsoft Navision preferred).

Junior Design Engineer Desirable Requirements

• Understanding of basic Electronics and Mechatronic principles to aid in creation of wiring diagrams and drawings.
• Experience of hands-on approach to product testing.

Junior Design Engineer Key Responsibilities

• Create bespoke product designs and configurations for customers including creation of dimensional product drawings and wiring diagrams for product installation and use.
• Create wiring diagrams and assembly drawings or instructions for the company’s manufacturing team. 
• Create and maintain product BOMs and Routings within the ERP system.
• Carry out small product design and development projects, assisting NPD and Manufacturing Engineering teams.
• Assist the Technical Support team with customer queries.