This is a great opportunity within a leading company’s centre of excellence, which is privately owned and with operations in 20 countries. In the UK, they develop and manufacture bespoke products, with over 90% being exported.

They currently have a number of patents, world firsts and are committed to continuous product development on a concurrent engineering basis. 

Product Development Engineer Package and Benefits

• £35,000 - £38,000 dependant on experience
• £4,000 company performance bonus
• Free life Assurance
• Joint contributory pension scheme, 
• Private medical insurance (after a qualifying period)
• 37.5 hours per week – with flexible hours
• Early finish on Friday’s

This Product Development Engineer's role is Commutable From: Milton Keynes, Leicester, Peterborough, Rugby, Kettering, Corby, Wellingborough, Banbury, Market Harborough, St Neots

The Role

A vacancy has arisen for an experienced Product Development Engineer within the Research and Development Department providing life-cycle support of existing products across clients range of products. 

This position would suit someone who is currently in a Product Development Engineer role, a Product Engineer, Design Engineer or possibly even a Draughtsman.

Product Development Engineer Key Responsibilities (but not limited to):

• The Product Development Engineer will be evaluating and implementing design change requests related to the full range of products. 
• Preparing, maintaining and revision control of 3D CAD models, drawings and BOM’s using SolidWorks and Keytech PLM software, including the updating and correcting of CAD modelling errors in legacy SolidWorks Drawings, Parts and Assemblies.
• Re-drawing legacy AutoCAD designs in SolidWorks and providing CAD draughting support to Research and Development Engineers.
• Working closely with and supporting other departments (Production, Production Engineering, Purchasing, Quality) and suppliers to improve existing designs with respect to design for manufacture and assembly.
• Provide assistance to other departments and suppliers to help solve technical problems during manufacture and assembly.
• Oversee validation testing required during the design change process and summarise results in a technical report.
• Provide input to new product development based on experience of existing products. Performance of other tasks as detailed by the Product Development Manager and/or the R&D Manager.

Product Development Engineer Key Skills Required:

• HNC, HND or Degree in Mechanical and / or Production Engineering (ideally).
• A minimum of 5 years practical experience in 3D CAD is essential, preferably using SolidWorks.
• Experience in PLM Systems and document revision control.
• Familiar with the principles of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing (GD&T).
• Experience in a product development and product manufacturing environment.
• Knowledge of special materials such as austenitic and Duplex stainless steels, hastelloy, titanium, tantalum etc. would be an advantage.
• Ideally knowledge of permanent joining methods such as welding, brazing, adhesive bonding etc and knowledge of manufacturing processes such as casting, injection moulding, machining, fabrication, forming etc.

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Design, R&D & Projects Engineering Recruitment Support since 1994

A long-established engineering firm are currently looking to hire a Technical Sales Manager to spearhead their UK sales operation. The company have been trading for a number of years and have clients ranging from local SME’s right through to multinationals. 

The Technical Sales Manager will have responsibility for all sales in the UK and will be one of the key drivers of growth for the business. They are keen to reward those who help them achieve their long-term goals.

The company specialise in niche, low volume engineering projects and they manufacture bespoke steel-related products which are sold across the globe. They have ambitious growth plans and are keen to find a motivated technical salesperson to take on the Technical Sales Manager role. Based in the heart of The Midlands, the company are well placed to serve their client base across the UK and beyond.

This role would suit a technical salesperson with a background in engineering or steel, who is capable of having technical discussions and reading drawings, whilst also possessing business development and commercial skills.

The Technical Sales Manager will be primarily home based but must be able to travel to the Birmingham area once or twice per week. The rest of the time you will be carrying out sales activities including customer meetings. 

BENEFITS:

• A competitive salary of up to £45,000
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Training 
• Healthcare cash plan
• Remote working

DUTIES:

The Technical Sales Manager will be responsible for:

• Identifying new opportunities for the business, mainly in the UK but worldwide at times, in line with their capabilities 
• Maintaining the enquiry pipeline
• Converting and closing enquires
• Technical meetings/presentations with customers
• Meeting business objectives and revenue targets
• Growing the customer base

REQUIREMENTS:

If you have the following experience and skills, we would love to hear from you:

• A background in engineering, ideally the related to steel
• Several years’ sales experience, both new business and account management, within the engineering sector
• Experience of low volume manufacturing
• Ability to read technical drawings and hold technical conversations 
• Strong commercial acumen

This role is home based and would suit someone based in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury, Leicester, Worcester, Coventry, Milton Keynes, Northampton, Stoke-on-Trent, Derby or the surrounding areas.
 

We are seeking to recruit a proven Maintenance Electrician to support a medium size Maintenance team within a Heavy Industry Environment.

Our client is well established and is a successful and expanding business manufacturing high integrity and high-volume products for a worldwide customer base.

Benefits for Maintenance Electrician:

The salary for the role of Maintenance Electrician is £28,000 depending on experience plus OT, pension etc. The shift pattern of the role is double days with hours of work being 6-2/1-9.

Requirements for Maintenance Electrician:

Ideally the ideal Maintenance Electrician will have experience supporting kit from a Heavy Environment including, Cranes, Overhead Cranes, Pumps, Motors, Drives, Control Panels, Furnaces and Hydraulics/ Pneumatics. The candidate must hold:

• 18th Edition City & Guilds desirable (17th is a must)
• Electrical Bias
• Apprenticeship or equivalent in Electrical Engineering – HNC/ ONC/ Degree/ NVQ

This Maintenance Electrician role is commutable from: Alfreton, Nottingham, Derby, Loughborough and Newark-on-Trent.

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Maintenance, Reliability & Service Recruitment Support since 1994

This Mechanical Maintenance Engineer role offers a great salary and benefits: Annual Bonus of up to 4% of salary! Super holiday entitlement! Company Pension – up to 5% contribution!  Stable career opportunity with a winning team! 

As the Mechanical Maintenance Engineer, you will be working for a leading Manufacturer within the construction industry.  The company have been established for several decades and are going from strength to strength! They are recognised throughout their field for their outstanding quality product.  They have remained busy throughout the pandemic; you would be joining an incredibly stable organisation.

Benefits for the Mechanical Maintenance Engineer:

• Excellent Salary
• 23 days holiday – increasing with service
• Bonus Scheme paid annually (up to 4% of salary)
• Company pension Scheme - 5%

As the Mechanical TMaintenance Engineer, your duties will include:

• To undertake both planned and reactive maintenance across the plant, which will require you to have experience of supporting a wide range of equipment/machinery
• To liaise with other departments to ensure suitable parts/ equipment are correct to deliver the mechanical maintenance plan, completing relevant documentation.
• To ensure you deliver on reliability targets.
• Investigate stops of plant equipment and report back to your supervisor, advising on course of action required
• Carryout preventative maintenance inspections and procedures to prevent unplanned stoppages.

I would be very interested in speaking with you if you are / have:

• Previous Experience as a Mechanical Technician / Mechanical Maintenance Engineer
• Previous experience in the Construction Sector is preferable
• Ideally hold a recognised qualification in Mechanical engineering 
• You will need to have had experience with Heavy Machinery

The Mechanical Maintenance Engineer role is commutable from: Coventry, Rugby, Hinkley, Daventry, Leicester, Nuneaton, Kettering and Solihull

Probe Technical Recruitment, a Maintenance, Reliability & Service Recruitment Specialists since 1994

This is your opportunity to join a UK leading business, who are very long-standing, well respected and continuing to lead the way in their industry.

From their Midlands HQ, they support clients across a multitude of industries, including Engineering, Rail, Construction, Energy and Material Handling.

Estimator benefits include: good salary - negotiable dependant on experience, life insurance and free parking.

Key Responsibilities

• The Estimator will have the ability to read technical tender drawings, extracting and pricing materials including labour pricing for fabrication.  
• Generate quotation documents, liaising with customers and clients. 
• Building up a consistent system of market pricing and various activities and updating pricing systems accordingly. 
• Building relationships to achieve new business opportunities with the Sales Engineers (ideally if they have existing contacts to bring with them all the better).

Candidate Specification

• Proven Estimator experience.
• Good knowledge/experience of the steel fabrication sector and the industries that feed into it.
• Strong time management and planning skills, meticulous attention to detail, good IT skills. 
• Excellent financial and numerical skills and sound commercial awareness.

Salary and Hours 

• £30,000 - £35,000 negotiable, dependant on experience
• Monday – Thursday, 7:45am to 4:45pm, 2:15pm finish on Fridays

Commutable From: Leicester, Loughborough, Derby, Burton upon Trent, Nottingham, Tamworth, Hinckley

Probe Technical Recruitment, a Manufacturing, Production & Quality Recruitment Specialists since 1994

This is your opportunity to join a UK leading business, who are very long-standing, well respected and continuing to lead the way in their industry.

From their Midlands HQ, they support clients across a multitude of industries, including Engineering, Rail, Construction, Energy and Material Handling.

Benefits Include:

• £35,000 - £45,000 negotiable, dependant on experience
• Monday – Thursday, 7:45am to 4:45pm, 2:15pm finish on Fridays
• Life Insurance
• Free Parking

Role Function

Reporting to the Head of Commercial, the function of this role is to assist in controlling, monitoring, recording and analysing costs and resources relating to company contracts and enhancing the value of contracts through effective financial control.

Key Responsibilities

• Carry out contract reviews, conduct valuations and the pricing of variations
• In conjunction with the Contracts Manager prepare and monitor client accounts, along with conducting measurements and surveying duties on site
• Carry out cost value reconciliation’s (profit and loss), preparation of contract documents. Check job costings against quoted figures, chase agreement on prices
• Development of knowledge relevant to contract conditions
• Chase instructions and ensure we have received written instruction from Project Manager (authority signature). File manual site instructions and keep electronic filing folders
• Meet with Client (QS) on weekly/fortnightly/monthly basis as project requires
• Ensure applications are completed on time with Contracts Manager and are issued to commercial. Agree final account with Contracts Manager
• Liaise with other subcontractors employed by the Company and negotiate with the client and members of the professional team. Calculate accounts and actively negotiate final accounts and payments

Candidate Specification

• Good knowledge and understanding of construction & steelwork activity
• Excellent financial and numerical skills and sound commercial awareness
• Excellent IT skills
• Good communication and negotiating skills
• Understanding of building law and regulations, contract law and health and safety law
• Quantity Surveying qualification

Salary and Hours 

• £35,000 - £45,000 negotiable, dependant on experience
• Monday – Thursday, 7:45am to 4:45pm, 2:15pm finish on Fridays

Commutable From: Leicester, Loughborough, Derby, Burton upon Trent, Nottingham, Tamworth, Hinckley

I am recruiting for an exciting opportunity for a Night Shift Maintenance Engineer to join a company within the heavy Industry on a Monday-Friday 20.00pm-05.00am. You will drive the engineering team in line with Engineering Manager & Supervisor and pursue daily engineering issues that affect production and plant availability.

Benefits:

Not only do the company offer a competitive salary of £37,000, but they also offer a great pension scheme, life cover, holiday / travel discount and free parking on site. 

There is a successful team on site, who are always expanding. The role of Maintenance Engineer offers opportunity for career progression and a great training programme when you start.

Some of the duties are as follows:

• Take responsibility for day-to-day engineering functions
• Plan and execute site PPM’s in line with priorities and operational requirements
• Plan activities in line with Engineering Manager & Supervisor to pre-empt spares and labour requirements to minimise operational disruptions
• Respond to reactive breakdowns in a timely manner to minimise downtime
• Ensure shift handovers and reports are completed effectively and communicated daily to the Management team.
• Manage engineering documents (PPM’s, excel stock ordering, etc)

Ideally hold a Mechanical engineering qualification NVQ Level 3 minimum for the role of Maintenance Engineer. Be process minded with experience within an industrial maintenance role utilising CMMS. Previous experience particularly with heavy plant and conveyors.

Probe Technical Recruitment, Maintenance, Reliability & Service Recruitment Specialists since 1994

Probe Technical Recruitment is recruiting an exciting opportunity for a Maintenance Engineer to join a busy process company on a double day shift with early Friday finish.  As a Maintenance Engineer within a team you will be required to provide effective Maintenance, repair and servicing of plant building and equipment. 

Along with a salary of £29,000 the company offer 22+8 days holiday with an increase to 25 with service, a company pension with Aviva after 2 years with the company and free parking.

The company require an ONC/ City & Guilds/ NVQ or Apprenticeship in either Mechanical or Electrical Engineer with Multi-Skilled ability.

Duties for Maintenance Engineer:

• To attend all Mechanical, Electrical, Plant and Building problems
• To carry out reasonable requests made by management 
• To undertake a programme of planned preventative maintenance ensuring optimum use and minimum downtime 
• To keep accurate records where required 

The role of Maintenance Engineer is commutable from Coventry, Nuneaton, and Leicester. 

Probe Technical Recruitment, Maintenance Recruitment Specialists since 1994

This opportunity is for an experienced toolmaker, who is time served or apprentice trained, that is looking for a new challenge in a highly successful company that manufacture plastic injection moulded products that are supplied into the food and building industry; industries that remain successful during this challenging time. 

This highly successful toolmaker will be joining the currently successful toolroom team where they will be reporting into the toolroom supervisor. 

Applications are welcomed from those who are currently or have previously worked as a toolmaker, who are familiar with toolroom machinery and are wiling to work an afternoon shift. 

In exchange for their skills, the toolmaker will receive:

• A Competitive package
• 33 days holiday 
• Free on-site parking

Key Roles & Responsibilities for the toolmaker:

• Maintain and repair mould machine tools
• Prove tooling
• Run fault diagnostics
• Work alongside other staff to understand tooling issues
• Tool making
• Work on hot runners
• To work with a right first-time approach

Skills Required for the Toolmaker:

• Sufficient self-starter with an ability to problem solve
• Plastic injection mould toolmaking background
• Ideally apprentice trained or a time served toolmaker
• Experienced with toolroom machinery such as lathes and grinders
• Able to read engineers drawings
• Understanding of pneumatics and hydraulics
• Experience with CNC Machining centre would be beneficial (not essential)

If you are hardworking, reliable, and able to work under minimal supervision please apply today.

Commutable from Oakham, Stamford, Melton Mowbray, Grantham.

Probe Technical Recruitment, Manufacturing & Production Recruitment Specialists since 1994

Due to growth, a reputable, Leicestershire based Manufacturer who supplies into Utilities, Medical & Automotive Industries, requires an experienced machinist skilled with EDM – Setting, Operating and Programming to join the team to help fulfil a continued and growing workbook. Having remained open and successful throughout COVID-19, this opportunity is not to be missed.

If you are an experienced EDM Setter Operator or machinist experienced with EDM who is looking to use their varied skillset and progress as toolmaker, then apply today.

Offering the successful EDM Setter / Operator / Programmer:

• Early Friday Finish
• Parking on site
• Overtime opportunities
• Progression
• A variety in projects
• A healthy, pleasant working environment

Skills Required of the EDM Setter / Operator / Programmer:

• Experienced machinist with EDM
• Ability to use CNC die Sink and CNC milling machine
• Capable of using wire EDM, setting and operating and programming with fanuc
• Ability to use hand and bench tools
• Ability to read Engineers drawings
• Quality Inspection skills (Vernier callipers, gauges, micrometers)

Roles and responsibilities of the EDM Setter / Operator / Programmer:

• Setting and operating machinery
• Occasional use of manual machinery 
• Polishing
• Assembling of tools
• QI of own works

Commutable from Leicester, Hinckley, Wigston, Lutterworth.

Probe is a leading Technical Engineering Recruitment Consultancy specialising in all aspects of the engineering sector since 1994

Celebrating 26 Years of Engineering Recruitment Excellence

A rare opportunity for an experienced Press Toolmaker has become available at an outstanding Engineering company, who have been running successfully for more than 70 years. With a strong customer base supplying into Aerospace, Medical and Structural Steel Industries and having stayed open during COVID-19, still thriving in the current climate, this is an opportunity not to be missed. 

Benefits for the Press Toolmaker:

• Free Parking and canteen on site
• A friendly and welcoming environment
• Opportunities for overtime
• Opportunities to learn new skills 
• Exciting and varying projects

Roles and responsibilities of the Press Toolmaker;

• Repairs and refurb of press tooling
• Use of all standard machinery
• Liaise with customers and suppliers 
• Interpret Engineer drawings
• On-time delivery of tools
• Ensure department standards are maintained

Skills required for the Press Toolmaker

• Must be experienced with the manufacture of Press Tools
• Toolmaking > 5 years
• Flexibility
• Ability to take responsibility and ownership of tasks

Do not miss out on this rare opportunity