Are you a Mechanical biased maintenance Engineer seeking a new opportunity? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity to join a Friendly & Busy Organisation based in the Oldham Area. 

We are currently assisting a Leading organisation in their Search for a Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to join their already established Maintenance team on site.  

This Mechanical Maintenance Engineers role is commutable from the following locations: Oldham / Huddersfield / Halifax / Rochdale / Ashton-Under-Lyne / Bury and Bolton. 

Benefits the Mechanical Maintenance engineer will receive: 

• Salary: £31,000
• 33Days Holiday / Life Assurance X2 / Health care / Pension 
• Days only: Monday to Thursday 07:30am till 4:30pm 

Experience the Mechanical Maintenance engineer will hold: 

• Carry out routine servicing and inspection on all production machinery and mechanical systems and equipment.
• Use the preventative maintenance system to reduce breakdowns and unplanned maintenance.
• Carry out essential legislative testing of mechanical equipment and systems.
• To work safely within the company’s Health and Safety Procedures.
• To identify and keep essential stock items at necessary working levels.
• To assist the General Manager in identifying process improvements through elimination of downtime and other continuous improvement initiatives (CIP Process).
• To assist the Group Engineering Manager with projects and developments.
• Liaise, when necessary, with external contractors.
• To have a flexible approach towards overtime, shutdown working as required.
• Welding and fabrication experience
• To work as part of a team to optimise company performance and achieve targets.
• To co-operate with the organisation in respect of training needs and job development to meet production demands.
• Previous experience of manufacturing machinery, preferably textiles.
• Ideally, they will be Apprentice trained holding a Formal Qualification in Mechanical Engineering.

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

We are currently assisting a Leading organisation based in the Rochdale Area in their Search for a Hands on Maintenance Supervisor to join their already established Maintenance team on site.  

This Maintenance Supervisory role is commutable from the following locations: Huddersfield / Halifax / Rochdale / Ashton-Under-Lyne / Bury and Bolton. 

Benefits the Maintenance Supervisor will receive: 

• Salary: £38,000
• 33 Days Holiday
• Life Assurance X2
• Health Care
• Pension 
• Days only: Monday to Thursday 07:30am till 4:40pm / Friday 07:30am till 4pm 

Experience the Maintenance Supervisor will hold: 

• They will be responsible for a Team of 8 Maintenance Engineers – a Mixture of Mechanical and Electrical. 
• Assist the Engineering Manager with Projects and Developments on Site 
• Assist the General Manager with Improvements to Eliminate downtimes / Deal with other Continuous improvements. 
• Keep Essentials Stock items at necessary working Level’s 
• To comply and work to the Companies Health and Safety Procedures. 
• To Assist with Servicing and Inspections on all Production machinery and Mechanical Systems & Equipment 
• Work with Preventative Maintenance Systems to reduce any breakdowns and unplanned Maintenance. 

Experience the Maintenance Supervisor will hold: 

• Previous experience within a Maintenance Supervisory Role 
• Ideally this individual will be Mechanically Biased. 
• Previous experience in a Manufacturing / Textiles industry 
• Previous experience with Manufacturing and Textiles machinery
• Have a Flexible and hands-on approach where needed throughout the site. 
• Experience with: Milling and Turning / Welding and Fabrication. 
• Apprentice trained holding a formal qualifications in Mechanical Engineering.

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

My client sis looking to recruit a Sales Engineer. This is an excellent opportunity either for someone from a Sales background who has a passion for Engineer or an engineering postgraduate who is interested in the sales industry.

Sales Engineer Benefits:

• Starting Salary - £28,000 - £30,000 – DOE
• Discretionary company bonus each year 
• Company subsidised pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance 
• 23 Days Annual holiday plus Bank Holidays 

As an Internal Sales Engineer you will be providing support for the field and house account teams and   working as part of a division who are responsible for delivering a wide array of solutions and technologies into a varied customer base. In your role as a sales engineer, you will be tasked with providing customers information on automation technology, water treatment, chemical systems plants and electronic sensors. 

Sales Engineer Duties:

• Play a pivotal role in supporting the field sales team and the house account team
• Contacting existing customers and new prospects to assess business potential
• Using a variety of sources, initially assess and prepare a prospect, with some company research, before making a telephone call to further qualify the prospect
• Identify new opportunities
• Responsibility for entering all activities and assessments into the CRM system
• Find new sales opportunities

Sales Engineer Requirements:

• Able to make outbound telephone calls and engage with people in a professional and commercial conversation
• Skilled in opening and maintaining a conversation to build rapport
• The ability to demonstrate an interest in automation and manufacturing, with some technical bias in your academic or working life
• A background in either sales or engineering 
• Able to work independently at times 
• Good computer skills
• Effective communication skills

This is an exciting role and suitable for someone who has previously worked as an Internal Sales Engineer, Sales Engineer, Technical Sales Engineer, Account manager or Business development manager in engineering or the automation sector.

This role is commutable from: Manchester, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Droylsden

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Sales Engineering Recruitment Support since 1994

This is an excellent opportunity either for an industrial Technical Sales Engineer or Sales Engineer from a manufacturing background who has knowledge of the Factory Automation Division. 

• Starting Salary - £28,000 - £30,000 - DOE
• Company subsidised pension scheme
• Private Medical Insurance 
• 23 Days Annual holiday plus Bank Holidays 

As a Technical Sales Engineer you will be working as part of a division who is responsible for delivering a wide array of solutions and technologies into a varied customer base. These customers are typically working with automation technology and need to know everything from data about a single sensor through to help with full systems. 

Technical Sales Engineer Duties:

• Provide technical support to UK customers & sales colleagues for all company product types responding to technical queries received from all sources (email, phone, www, etc)
• Providing solutions for customer problems using company products
• Participate in trade shows and Exhibitions and assist with marketing activities as required
• External sales projects as required. May be product or industry specific
• Updating and maintaining the Company CRM System with respect to customer accounts, customer contact details, visit reports and customer appointments etc

Technical Sales Engineer Requirements:

• An HNC/HND or Higher technical qualifications in either electrical/ Electro-Mechanical/ Electronic Engineering 
• Technical qualifications in Electrical, Electronics or IT is preferable but not essential
• Understanding Engineering data sheets and technical documents
• An understanding of Electrical schematics or Industrial systems
• Understanding of industrial automation. Understanding IT system topology 

This is an exciting role and suitable for someone who has previously worked as an Internal Sales Engineer, Sales Engineer, Technical Sales Engineer, Account manager or Business development manager in the manufacturing or automation sector.

This role is commutable from: Manchester, Ashton-Under-Lyne, Stockport, Oldham, Rochdale, Bury, Droylsden

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Sales Engineering Recruitment Support since 1994

I am currently recruiting for Manufacturing Operatives to join a well-established company based in the Greater Manchester area.

Package Available:

• Permanent role paying £20,681 per annum (paid monthly)
• 28 Days holiday including bank holidays
• Contributory pension
• Free parking
• All PPE provided

Hours and salary for this manufacturing operative’s role:

• Week 1 – Monday to Friday – 6am to 2pm
• Week 2 – Monday to Thursday – 2pm to 10:30pm and Friday – 1pm to 5:30pm

This manufacturing operative’s role will involve but not be limited to:

• To dispense materials and operate process equipment in Granulation, Blending, Compression and Coating sections whilst adhering to Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP).
• To adhere to company policies and practices as laid down and trained and maintain a high standard of cleanliness whilst carrying out procedures.
• Compression suite: To run all types of compression machines in use in manufacturing department and their specific processes.
• Granulation suite: To granulate from all suites contained in manufacturing department and their specific processes
• Dispensary suite: To dispense batch ingredients and facilitate its specific processes
• Cleaning suite: To clean intermediate bulk containers (IBC) and complete daily sanitization routine of purified water outlets.
• Coating suite: To coat tablets to specification and specific processes

Essential experience required for this manufacturing operative’s role role:

• Previous employment experience in the pharmaceutical manufacturing or food production industry.
• Ability and initiative to work independently and as part of a team.
• Good standard of Maths, minimum GCSE Level 3
• Good standard of English, Minimum GCSE Level 3, both written and verbal, as accurate record keeping, completion of documentation and communication with other department personnell is essential.
• Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)

Personal Attributes for this manufacturing operatives role:

• Good communication skills
• Flexible ‘can-do’ attitude
• Ability to adapt to new working practises

This role is commutable from Bolton, Wigan, Rochdale and Manchester

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

A role has become available for a Buyer, within a well-known, house-hold brand Manufacturing Company.

Their product range is huge, with a multitude of different products.  This is a fast-paced environment and the role of Buyer, would suit an energetic, 

This Buyer role is commutable from Manchester, Rochdale, Bury, Bolton, Halifax, Oldham and Blackburn

Benefits on Offer:

• £30,000 
• Excellent Pension and holidays
• Busy, friendly manufacturing organisation
• Long established manufacturing Business
• Well respected and well known
• A genuine chance to make an impact

Duties of Buyer:

• Purchase ordering
• Scheduling using SAP data
• Supplier evaluation
• Contract price negotiation
• You will gain an understanding of their products
• Selection of suppliers

Requirement for Buyer:

• To have experience of MRP systems
• You will have gained your experience from within a fast- paced manufacturing environment
• Experience of Purchase Ordering and scheduling
• To have an understanding of forecast changes and amendments
• Supplier evaluation and selection exposure
• To keep cool under pressure
• Resilient and reliable
• Ideally, you will be Apprentice trained
• Happy to work Nights
• We are looking for significant experience in Toolmaking, on new or existing tooling
• Plenty of experience of using standard Toolroom equipment
• Improving experience would be highly advantageous

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

We are currently recruiting for an Electrical biased Maintenance engineer to join a leading organisation based in the Greater Manchester Area. 

Are you Seeking an exciting new opportunity & looking to join a Friendly and busy organisation? If so, this might just be the role for you!!! 

This role is commutable from the following locations: Bolton / Rochdale / Manchester / Bury

Benefits the Electrical Maintenance Engineer will receive:

• Salary: £40,000
• Pension 12%
• 29 days holiday / increasing to 33days after 5 years
• Health care 
• Overtime

Shift the Electrical Maintenance Engineer will be required to work: Days Monday to Thursday 07:45am till 4:15pm / Early finish on Friday. 

We are looking for the Electrical Maintenance engineer to hold the following experience: 

• Reactive Electrical and PLC Support on Bespoke machinery 
• Installation of new equipment / machinery 
• Planned maintenance to support TPM Structures 
• Repair and improve all aspects of electrical needs 
• Ideally holding Programming and Fault-finding abilities on Siemens / Modicon PLC’s 
• Experience with AC & DC Motors, Drives, Inverters. 
• HMI Programming experience - Citect ideally 
• PAT Testing experience 
• Electrical maintenance of the building i.e., Light fitting / plug sockets / emergency Lights. 

Ideally, we are looking for an Apprentice trained Electrical Maintenance engineer:- 

• Holding a NVQ Level 3 Qualification – Electrical Engineering 
• 18th Edition to be held 
• Previous experience within a Manufacturing environment 
• Full UK Driving licence / Flexible and local / able to commit to the call out rota.

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

We have received not 1, not 2 but 4 opportunities from a Manufacturing organisation based in the greater Manchester area. We are looking to appoint X4 Maintenance Electricians & will look at electrical or mechanically biased maintenance engineers.

Ideally, we are looking for the multi-skilled engineers to hold a 60/40 split. 

This Maintenance Electrician role is commutable from the following locations: Rochdale / bury / Oldham and Bolton. 

The Maintenance Electricians will be working a brand-new shift: 12-hour shift 6am till 6pm and 6pm till 6am – working a 4on-3off-3on-1off-3on-3off-4on-7off system. 

Benefits the maintenance electrician will receive: 

• Salary guideline: £38,000 
• Pension 
• Generous holiday 
• Overtime 

Main duties and requirements:  

• We are looking for Maintenance Electrician – preferably holding a 60/40 Split 
• Previous and proven experience within a Similar position – maintenance electrician / multi-Skilled. 
• Fault finding abilities with allen bradley & siemens plc’s – experience – inputs and outputs / modifications. 
• Fault finding abilities on Hydraulics & Pneumatics. 
• Additional: conveyor systems / ac & dc motors and drives / inverters / gearboxes. 
• The diagnosis, location, and rectification of all mechanical and electrical faults on site, including, pneumatic, hydraulic and steam systems.
• Ensure all papermaking machinery and ancillary equipment is maintained in a satisfactory working order.
• Reporting of work done 
• Responding to emergency situations in a timely and effective manner.
• To plan out work and display initiative and common sense.
• Adhere to current Safe Systems of work, lock off and permit to work procedures.
• Carry out all tasks in accordance with company Quality systems, hygiene standards and safe working practices.
• Maintain high standards of housekeeping in his or her working area and throughout the mill.

Qualification: 

• GCSE or equivalent
• NVQ 3 in electrical engineering
• NVQ in mechanical engineering#
• HNC in mechanical or electrical engineering

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

We are pleased to be exclusively representing an established manufacturer of capital equipment who are currently seeking an Area Sales Manager.

The company are a European based manufacturer with operations in 10+ countries including the UK with annual turnover in excess of €35m. Their products are used in many different settings including by Civil Engineering Contractors, Construction Contractors, Demolition Contractors, Local Authorities/Municipal, Industrial Cleaning Contractors and more. The product range is highly engineered with equipment ranging in value from £5,000 - £250,000. They are well known in the industries they serve for having high-end products and a highly respected approach to service and maintenance. Due to the nature of the products a highly consultative, solution-led approach is taken to sales, which include capital sales and hire. 

The Area Sales Manager will be rewarded with the following package:

• Salary of up to £50,000
• Company Car
• Extensive on the job training both in the UK and at the client HQ in Europe
• Funded further education (if you want it)
• Phone
• Laptop
• Home office
• 30 days holiday + 8 bank holidays

The Area Sales Manager’s responsibilities will include:

• The sale and hire of capital equipment
• Driving growth by winning new business within target sectors
• Providing a consultative, solution-led approach to selling
• Managing the commercial activity of the branch/showroom which serves the North West 

Area Sales Manager – Required Experience:

• 5+ years in a business development focused role
• Strong business development/hunter mindset
• Record of achieving or exceeding targets
• Practical/mechanical mindset – you don’t have to be an Engineer but being practical, even just with a hobby, will be a massive advantage in this role 

Area Sales Manager – Beneficial Experience:

• Experience selling capital equipment 
• Experience of either working or selling into any of the following industries: Industrial Cleaning, Anti-Corrosion, Demolition, Civil Engineering, Local Authority/Municipal, Concrete Renovation, Abrasive Blasting, Facilities Management 

The Area Sales Manager role will be based out of the client site in the North West of Manchester and candidates will ideally be based within 30 miles, or be willing to relocate. 

Commutable from Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington, Knutsford, Congleton, Buxton, Rochdale, Oldham, Blackburn, Preston, Crewe, Wigan, Leyland, Bolton, Bury

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Sales Engineering Recruitment Support since 1994