MECHANICAL DESIGN ENGINEER

The business is an SME, with 150 employees and 60 years of manufacturing heritage. They have a global supply chain and export over 30% of their product to a world-wide network of customers. The operation consists of a fabrication facility, assembly area, large yard, logistics area and finished goods stores with the majority of product designed and manufactured by the company at their UK site. 

This is a company and role that offers realistic opportunities for career progression and development, being at the forefront of their industry and market leaders within it.

Mechanical Design Engineer Salary and Benefits

• £30,000 - £35,000
• Monday to Thursday 7:30am 3:30pm, 12:30pm on Friday’s
• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Death in service benefit

Commutable From: Sheffield, Rotherham, Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Worksop, Newark on Trent

The Role

The Mechanical Design Engineer will be responsible to the Mechanical Engineering Manager. You will join an established mechanical engineering design department, who are looking for a self-motivated, enthusiastic person, who is looking for a permanent role in a busy engineering design environment.

Mechanical Design Engineer Person Specification

• Mechanical Engineering degree or similar
• Mechanical design engineering background
• Strong Background in calculations and FE analysis
• 3D experience – desirable

Key Responsibilities

• Produce engineering drawings for the manufacture of client’s range of bespoke and new products and their derivatives. Liaising with Production and Installation departments to ensure best practices are implemented.
• Compile bills of materials (BOMs) via SAP for existing and newly designed products.
• Produce calculations as required during the preparation of designs and drawings.
• Modify and update drawings, calculations and BOMs to suit revised designs as required.
• Make site surveys and attend site meetings as and when necessary and produce reports as required.
• Issue drawings and maintain records in accordance with the Quality Assurance Scheme.

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

DESIGN ENGINEER

This is a family business where changing people’s lives through the products that they design, manufacture and install is a daily occurrence. With 35 years’ experience under their belt, they are a leading provider in the UK, a market leader in Europe and have a presence in many other countries worldwide. 

Based at their ISO9001 accredited, purpose-built manufacturing facility in Derbyshire, they believe the future success and growth of their business is inextricably linked to the introduction of innovative, high-quality solutions.

Design Engineer Salary, Hours and Benefits

• £28,000 (possibly negotiable)
• 37.5 hours per week, with some flexibility
• 31 days holiday, increasing with service
• Life insurance
• Profit related pay

Commutable From: Derby, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Nottingham, Mansfield, Worksop, Newark

Design Engineer Role Overview

Our client is looking for an additional Design Engineer to assist in delivering even more life changing products to their customers. 

You will be joining a family-owned business which is expanding rapidly in the UK and internationally. There is a positive, friendly and encouraging family culture across the business.

Person Specification

• The Design Engineer will need a strong mechanical bias, ideally coming from an automotive background (but not essential).
• Able to apply your fabrication skills to the bespoke design of various products.
• You must fulfill the demanding requirement of delivering both customer functionality and manufacturing repeatability, whilst providing on-site fitters with a solution which can readily be installed on site, with the minimum of inconvenience.
• The design journey must be documented to a high standard, with the information provided enabling other stakeholders within the business to prepare the engineers’ design for market. As such, the candidate should be proficient in the basic Microsoft packages, and ideally have an aptitude for CAD style drawing packages or similar.
• Optimal customer service is a pre-requisite for client and as such, the candidate should be comfortable in dealing with their customers on a one-to-one basis as the situation may occasionally dictate.
• Underpinning all of the above they are looking for a confident, self-motivated individual who enjoys the challenge of solving problems yet is able to deliver a high standard of work within a challenging timeframe.
• A clean driving license is essential for this role.

Design Engineer Key Responsibilities

• A key member of the team, reporting into the Design Team Leader, you will design specific products focusing upon customer functionality, ease of on-site installation, and manufacturing repeatability throughout the design process. The procedure needs to deliver source material for additional stakeholders within the business targeting the prompt and efficient delivery of new products to the market.

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

NPI PROJECT MANAGER

This is a family business where changing people’s lives through the products that they design, manufacture and install is a daily occurrence. With 35 years’ experience under their belt, they are a leading provider in the UK, a market leader in Europe and have a presence in many other countries worldwide. 

Based at their ISO9001 accredited, purpose-built manufacturing facility in Derbyshire, they believe the future success and growth of their business is inextricably linked to the introduction of innovative, high-quality solutions.

NPI Project Manager Salary, Hours and Benefits

• £37.000 - £43,000
• 37.5 hours per week, with some flexibility
• 31 days holiday, increasing with service
• Life insurance
• Profit related pay

Commutable From: Derby, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Nottingham, Mansfield, Worksop, Newark

Role Overview

This NPI Project Manager role is perfect for a hands-on self-starter who would like to work as part of a driven and supportive team. As NPI Project Manager the role will be primarily focused upon helping to introduce new products using clients in-house new product introduction methodology.

The role would ideally suit a NPI Project Manager who enjoys working across the full product lifecycle, leading multidisciplinary teams from product concept through to customer delivery, organising and leading periodic stage gate reviews. 

NPI Project Manager Person Specification

• You will be Degree qualified (or equivalent) with 5 years project management experience in manufacturing environments
• Have proven experience of successfully managing the introduction of new product projects
• Project management qualifications would be advantageous
• The ability to lead cross-disciplinary teams
• A good planner, action seeking, - delivery of results, finisher, well organised, methodical, and assertive
• A hands-on approach to resolving problems
• Have a practiced understanding of manufacturing organisational structure and methodologies, used within manufacturing businesses

Key Responsibilities

• Managing new product introductions from product concept through to launch
• Leading a cross-functional team including product design, manufacturing, quality, purchasing, sales, marketing and finance
• Ensuring projects keep to fiscal timing, product specification and other metrics
• Organising and presenting at Stage Gate meetings
• Identifying and resolving project roadblocks
• Presenting information at all levels
• Managing the product improvement system, the New Product Introduction process and the product portfolio – introduction and obsolescence

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

This is an opportunity for an experienced Injection Moulding Quality Technician to join an ever-expanding business. They have a history that goes back many, many years and they now have multiple sites, with workloads increasing across all of them 

Reporting to the Quality & Compliance Manager, the Quality Technician will take responsibility for all quality issues pertaining to the designated Customer base by providing the working specifications, equipment, and other information necessary to enable the Operational Team Leaders, Operators and Quality Facilitators to efficiently control the manufacturing product quality. 

The Quality Technician will relentlessly drive through continuous improvement, in all activities. To carry out GMP audits, internal audits, product testing, complaints management, document control and other relevant tasks to support the upkeep of the business quality management systems.  

Salary and Hours

• £25,000 - £28,000 dependant on experience
• 8am – 5pm, Monday – Friday. 40 hours per week

Commutable From: Nottingham, Derby, Chesterfield, Newark

Quality Technician Candidate Requirements

• GMP Training 
• HACCP Training 
• Internal Auditor Training 
• General Product Testing Training
• CMM programming

Quality Technician Key Responsibilities

• To develop new / improved systems, procedures, methods etc. in a continuous drive for departmental improvements.
• Analyse Production / Quality data and provide a summary sometimes in the form of a COA. 
• Product testing requirements review. To maintain a system for filing and retrieval of customer approved samples.
• Random Warehouse audits to verify quality of finished product/packaging.
• GMP Auditing, Internal Auditing.
• To provide a measurement service for dimensional reports, including New Product ISIR’s
• Programming CMM / Quickscope / Lloyds etc for product measurement / test. To ensure that established Inspection procedures are observed at all times.
• Maintain 'control' over Production QC level documents / data. 
• Liaise closely with Production /Sales / Technical personnel regarding internal non-conformities and customer complaints – serving as complaints administrator for customer base
• Control lab equipment calibration 
• Training and induction of temporary agency staff

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Manufacturing, Production & Quality Recruitment Support since 1994

This is an opportunity for an experienced Moulding Technician to join an ever-expanding business. They have a history that goes back many, many years and they now have multiple sites, with workloads increasing across all of them 

Reporting to the Toolroom team Leader, the Moulding Technician will be responsible for the repairing and maintenance of injection mould tools, manufacturing of spare parts for tooling or other equipment, designing and building of prototype tooling.  You will also design and manufacture other fabrications to support the injection moulding department and other departments.

Salary and Hours

• £30,000 - £32,000 dependant on experience
• 8am – 5pm, Monday – Friday. 40 hours per week

Commutable From: Nottingham, Derby, Chesterfield, Newark

Candidate Requirements

• The Moulding Technician will have proven Toolroom experience.
• Minimum 4 - 5 years’ experience.
• Experience and knowledge of injection moulding technology and associated equipment.

Moulding Technician Key Responsibilities

• Manufacture of spare parts for injection mould tools and related processes. 
• Strip down, service and repair of injection mould tools, ISBM tools, fixtures and jigs.
• Use of CAD/CAM facility to design parts & programme CNC machinery.
• Make use of all tool room equipment, including CNC, Lathe, milling, cylindrical grinder, surface grinder, spark eroder and welding equipment.
• To have a good understanding of the injection moulding process to support the Setting Team with moulding validation.
• Understand health and safety requirements, comply with health and safety policies and procedures and to always work in a way to ensure the health and safety of you and your colleagues.

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Manufacturing, Production & Quality Recruitment Support since 1994