Recruitment Consultant – Sutton Coldfield

Are you an experienced Recruiter or Salesperson, who perhaps loves what you do, but not where you do it?  Does specialist and niche interest you more than big and generalist?  Would you be inspired by, working with highly knowledgeable colleagues who could make you better at your job? If this has piqued your interest, please read on, as our two current vacancies may be of interest.

A common question I receive is, do I need experience?  There’s no doubt that it can be an advantage, particularly at first, but it’s your attitude to sales, and how you would build a successful long-term business, coupled with an openness to develop which is more important than experience.  If you possess these attributes, then you would do well here, just as others have, in some cases for 20 years.

With Probe, it’s not so much what you do, but how you do it that’s important.  Our Consultants are relationship builders rather than archetypal Salespeople.  They work with clients to help resolve a problem, rather than see a client as an opportunity to make a quick buck.  They understand that if they do the right things by their clients, those relationships should look after them in the future.

But this is of course a sales role, and there would be targets, but you would be supported to achieve those targets, and you would enjoy all of the normal trappings of working within an established recruitment consultancy of nearly 30 years, such as an outstanding commission scheme, a structured career pathway, incentives, and working with an amazing team.

If you have some recruitment or sales experience, ideally within a technical field, and would like to find out whether we could be a good fit for you, then please contact Andy Davies directly – andy.davies@probejobs.co.uk / 0121 321 4311.

An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a CUSTOMER SERVICES MANAGER working for a large, family owned, well established manufacturing organisation.  The company has been established for over 100 years and the products they supply are unique, making them the market leader in their field.

As their CUSTOMER SERVIES MANAGER, you will lead and manage their customer services department to provide world class service to their customers.
 
BENEFITS

• £33,000 - £36,000 - Dependant on experience
• Working directly with the Senior Management team
• Excellent Pension
• 33 Days Holidays
• Very generous sick scheme should you need it
• Life Assurance
• A genuine chance to make an impact

DUTIES OF THE CUSTOMER SERVICES MANAGER

• Champion improvement activities
• Regular contact with customers and agents, covering all aspects of customer service
• Lead and manage the Customer Service Department
• Negotiate and deal with major International Customers, freight companies, Government agencies and auditors
• Ensure all legal duties relating to supply and transport of dangerous goods, drug, and chemical weapons
• Travel to visit customers, agents and exhibitions when required
• Monitor customer order patterns

REQUIREMENT OF THE CUSTOMER SERVICES MANAGER

• You will have a strong understanding of the exportation of goods across borders, duty, and incoterms in the post-BREXIT age
• A level 5 (or higher) qualification in Business related discipline
• IATA and IMDG certified
• DBS checked
• Significant experience in a Customer Services Management role
• Must have shipping export knowledge, and highly preferable for you to have experience with dangerous goods
• Microsoft proficient
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills

The role is commutable from Walsall, Wolverhampton, Sutton Coldfield, Worcester, Birmingham, Dudley, Solihull

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Technical Engineering Recruitment Support since 1994

An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a SENIOR QUALITY ENGINEER

Do you have experience as a SENIOR QUALITY ENGINEER?  Would you like to be part of a busy, friendly, manufacturing organisation, where as their SENIOR QUALITY ENGINEER, you will be given the opportunity to provide customer, supplier and support on a daily basis regarding concerns and planning.

If you are a SENIOR QUALITY ENGINEER looking for stability, and long- term stability, this is just the opportunity for you.  This would suit an ambitious and passionate SENIOR QUALITY ENGINEER

BENEFITS

• £40,000 - £50,000 - Dependant on experience
• Working directly with the Senior Management team
• Excellent Pension and holidays
• Busy, friendly manufacturing organisation
• A genuine chance to make an impact

DUTIES OF THE SENIOR QUALITY ENGINEER

• On a day- to- day basis, manage/organise the Quality Engineer/s 
• Ensure that all Quality Engineers are trained and ensuring that they work together as a team.
• Co-ordinate the receipt, response and monitoring reports from the customer ensuring containment action is taken
• Root cause analysis
• Provide technical / quality support to manufacturing in order for them to be able to produce efficiently and to the correct quality requirements. 
• Ensure Quality process audits are carried out/monitored against schedule and corrective/preventative actions are implemented. 
• QS9000, APQP, PPAP, FMEA and other Quality Reporting Systems. 
• Ensure that all quality related documentation is completed accurately
• Liaise with the Quality Manager in order to identify, recommend and source new equipment. 
• Ensuring quality standards are maintained. 
• Communicate and co-ordinate Quality data/results/findings and 8D’s quality information amongst all internal departments in order to ensure compliance. 
• Provide support in the preparation and maintenance of documentation and systems in order to comply with IATF/ISO9001. 
• Co-ordinate, maintain and interpret statistical information supplied by customers, internal sources, suppliers and contractors 
• Ensure that product inspection procedures, reports and documentation are accurately completed 
• Ensure FMEA and Control Plan are regularly reviewed 
• Review on a regular basis when 8D’s, APQP or any other product or process changes/concerns occur. 

REQUIREMENT OF THE SENIOR QUALITY ENGINEER

• It is essential that you can demonstrate significant Senior Quality Engineering experience
• You will have gained your experience from within a high- volume manufacturing environment
• Fully experienced with the use of Quality tools, such as APQP, SPC, Control Plans and Root cause analysis
• 8D problem solving 
• A proactive problem solver
• This role would suit a dynamic Senior Quality Professional, who thrives on challenges.

The role is commutable from Walsall, Wolverhampton, Sutton Coldfield, Worcester, Telford, Birmingham and Aldridge 

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

A wonderful opportunity has arisen for a PRODUCTION MATERIAL SCHEDULING ASSISTANT so do you have experience as a PRODUCTION MATERIAL SCHEDULING ASSISTANT within a MANUFACTURING environment?

Would you like to be part of a busy, friendly, manufacturing organisation, where as their PRODUCTION MATERIAL SCHEDULING ASSISTANT, you will be given responsibility for production and material scheduling, whilst providing support to purchasing and supplier liaison.

BENEFITS

• £30,000 
• A busy, very friendly organisation
• Long-term stability and progression prospects 
• Working directly with the Senior Management team
• Excellent Pension and holidays

DUTIES OF THE PRODUCTION MATERIAL SCHEDULING ASSISTANT

• Production and material scheduling
• Provide support to purchasing and supplier liaison
• Provide support to the Production Planner
• Schedule production activities and raw materials and components
• Identification for areas of improvement
• Chasing production 
• Liaising with Sales teams and suppliers
• Purchasing activities
• Maintaining information in SAP ERP system
• Costing of special products

REQUIREMENT OF THE PRODUCTION MATERIAL SHCEDULING ASSISTANT
 

• Relevant experience gained from within manufacturing
• Excellent Production scheduling knowledge
• Purchasing experience
• CIPS would be beneficial but not essential
• Solid commercial awareness
• Excellent IT knowledge EDI and MRP systems
• SAP would be advantageous

This would suit an energetic, sociable and progressive individual

The role is commutable from Walsall, Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth, Birmingham and Aldridge, Barton Under Needwood, and Ashby De La Zouch

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

My client is one of the most respected employers regionally, who produce over 2 million products a year. 

Benefits:

Opportunities like this don’t come around every day, this is a career changing opportunity to join to join an organisation that have enviable reputation for producing world leading products, where you will be given the opportunity to continue to grow as a manager with a genuine career path and progression. 

• Starting salary in the region of £45,000 - £50,000
• Tax Efficient Car Options
• Annual Bonus
• BUPA
• Exceptional Company Pension
• Above Average Holiday Entitlement
• Free Gym Membership. 

Duties of a Maintenance Manager:  

As Maintenance Manager you will lead a multi-disciplined team to ensure the companies state of the art production facility operates to its optimum and that downtime is kept to a minimum. 

As part of your role you will also be tasked with driving improvement within the skills base of your team, allied to the performance of the plant and equipment on site. You will also be responsible for both Capex and Continuous Improvement Projects across the facility. 

Requirements of a Maintenance Manager:

You must be qualified to either an HND or Degree level and have a proven background in leading a maintenance team within a highly technical manufacturing environment, where you have had direct responsibility for plant performance, achieving targets, process development, mentoring staff, setting and monitoring KPI’s and managing plant critical projects. 

The role also requires you to hold strong IT competences and be comfortable in presenting technical reports at board level. 

If you have hesitated about moving over the past few years, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity to join an organisation that have enviable reputation for producing world leading products.

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

An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a QUALITY SYSTEMS ENINGEER within a busy, friendly, manufacturing organisation, where as their QUALITY SYSTEMS ENGINEER, you will be given the opportunity to provide advice and guidance to the management team relating to IATF16949 & CCC accreditation.

Quality Systems Engineer Benefits:

• £30,000 - £35,000 - Dependant on experience
• Bonus
• Enhanced Insurance Schemes
• Excellent Pension and holidays
• Busy, extremely friendly manufacturing organisation
• A genuine chance to make an impact

Dutie of Quality Systems Engineer:

• Provide advice and guidance to the management team relating to ISTF16949 and CCC accreditation
• Looking for ways to improve business systems best practice by development of policies and procedures
• Control of documentation
• Ensure compliance to standard Operating procedures in all aspects of Quality Management
• Ensuring compliance to IATF 16949
• Provide assistance with the ISO14001:2015 environmental audits and OHSAS Health and Safety audits
• PPAP submissions and APQP

Requirements of Quality Systems Engineer:

• Working knowledge of APQP and PPAPS
• TS16949 internal auditing / 
• Lead Auditor
• CCC Accreditation
• Internal Auditing experience
• Good experience of working with Suppliers
• It would be beneficial that you have gained your experience from within a manufacturing environment

The Quality Systems Engineer's role is commutable from: Walsall, Sutton Coldfield, Telford, Birmingham, Tamworth, Derby and Stafford and Ashby-De-La-Zouch

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

As the Sales Administrator / Sales Support  - you will be working for a very well-established manufacturing business who have been established for over 30 years and are leaders in their field!  They are an incredibly stable, expanding business who have remained extremely busy all through the Covid Pandemic!  They have a great team comradery within the business where every employee makes a difference and is valued.

Benefits for this Sales Administrator / Sales Support role:

• £22,000
• Summer & Christmas Bonus (Based on Company performance)
• Pension
• 28 days holiday
• This is a fabulous opportunity if you are looking for a well-established, stable organisation and if you are looking to being part of a great team!

As the Sales Administrator / Sales Support, your duties will include:

• Making outbound sales calls (NO COLD CALLING)
• Taking inbound sales enquiry calls
• Support 2  external technical sales engineers with all sales administration
• Putting quotes together for the external Sales Reps
• Processing Orders on the CRM system
• Liaise with the service and sales hub and other departments including production, operations, warehousing, technical support and finance
• Administration and secretarial duties including diary management for sales engineers

I would be very excited to speak with you if you have:

• Previous experience as a Sales Administrator or Sales support or Telesales executive, or similar
• Preparation of proposals and quotations would be a huge advantage
• General office administration 
• Previous experience with CRM systems advantageous
• Excellent IT skills, including all Microsoft applications
• Excellent communication skills are essential
• You need to be incredibly organised, have good time management and structured in your daily tasks
• Confidence is key for this role; you will be communicating with customers – internal and external

This role is commutable from: Tamworth, Lichfield, Burntwood, Brownhills and Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Back Office Recruitment Support since 1994

A phenomenal opportunity has arisen for a Technical Director to work in a busy manufacturing company with a wide range of customers and products are in the enviable position of being exceptionally busy. 

Established for over 25 years, they are the worlds most advanced supplier of their products. They have the edge over their competitors as they can develop bespoke solutions that can enhance their production, making them more efficient and flexible.

This is a very much a people focused role, managing, and gaining the most from your staff is of premium importance so if you are a natural Leader and motivator of your team then as their Technical Director, you will be given a superb opportunity to manage and inspire.
 
Technical Director Benefits:

• £70,000 
• Company Car
• Health Insurance
• Pension
• A busy, well known, friend Enviroment
• An opportunity to showcase your skills & continue to develop your career

Technical Director Duties:

• Contribute as a board director to the development and implementation of the company’s corporate strategy
• Work alongside CTO to maintain and develop relationships with suppliers 
• Direct all Technical, Engineering and Service staff
• Manage and lead staff
• Oversee working practices and ensure suitable staff are recruited
• Allocate responsibilities
• Attend and present at Board meetings
• Liaising with CTO keep all products and processes under review and suggest the introduction of new technology as appropriate to ensure continuous improvement and to identify potential new products and processed for customers.
• Develop and control budgets and carry out all necessary financial analysis to ensure that costs are controlled, and services maintained to the required standards

Technical Director Requirements:

• A recognised formal engineering qualification or demonstrable significant experience in relevant fields.
• Significant managerial experience of engineering and technical teams gained from within manufacturing, preferably plastics
• Experience of technical innovation 
• Understanding of production processes would be an advantage
• Budget and time management skills
• Outstanding interpersonal and negotiation skills

This is a unique and exciting opportunity for an experienced Technical Director to be part of a growing, friendly organisation.

The role is commutable from Walsall, Derby, Sutton Coldfield, Solihull, Coventry, Birmingham

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

An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a PURCHASING MANAGER within a busy Manufacturing orgaisation.

As their PURCHASING MANAGER, you will be given the opportunity to provide a seamless Raw Material delivery programme to the various production units while contributing significantly to the overall profitability of the company.

BENEFITS

• Competitive Salary - Dependant on Experience
• Working directly with the Senior Management team
• Excellent Pension and holidays
• Busy, friendly manufacturing organisation
• A genuine chance to make an impact

DUTIES OF THE PURCHASING MANAGER

• Negotiate with major raw material producers and suppliers gaining best prices and availability
• Prepare and placing orders for the site with suppliers across a range of systems including EDI & MRP where a good knowledge, particularly with MRP
• Build improvement-relationships with our major suppliers
• Work with the Commercial and Planning Managers to closely control stocks of both Raw Materials and Packaging products
• Work with our Technical team in the development of new products; sourcing of raw materials 
• Responsibility for many site services 
• Update and maintain databases, spreadsheets and general records as currently required by the business. 

REQUIREMENT OF THE PURCHASING MANAGER

• CIPS desirable but not essential
• To have had previous Purchasing Management experience
• You will have gained your experience from within a manufacturing environment
• Excellent commercial awareness
• Good knowledge of IT systems including EDI and MRP systems

The role is commutable from Walsall, Wolverhampton, Sutton Coldfield, Worcester, Telford, Birmingham and Aldridge 

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

We are a well-respected employer within the Food Processing sector and are seeking to recruit a number of proven Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineersto join our established maintenance team. 

Benefits: 

• Salary of up to £36,000 (dependent on your chosen shift pattern)
• Company Pension
• Excellent Holiday Entitlement
• Stable And Secure Working Environment.  

Duties of a Maintenance Engineer

As a Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer you will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance across our plant, which will require you to have experience of supporting plant and equipment within either a food processing or packaging facility. 

Requirements of a Maintenance Engineer

Ideally you will be apprentice trained but must be qualified either Electrically or Mechanically and be multi skilled in your abilities. Having gained your Maintenance experience from supporting plant and equipment within a fast-paced FMCG environment where you have supported an array of sector specific equipment such as ovens, check weighers, metal detectors, flow wrappers and high speed conveyors.  

This is a great opportunity to move your career into a stable market sector, where you will not only gain an incredible benefits package and ongoing training and development, but also be secure in the knowledge that you will be in a stable working environment and classified as an Essential Key Worker . 

The Maintenance Engineer role is commutable from Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Stratford upon Avon, Sutton Coldfield, Worcester & Tamworth 

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

An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a TOOLING ENGINEER / TOOLMAKER to work on progression tooling ranging between 80 to to 400 Ton

Do you have experience as a TOOLING ENGINEER / TOOLMAKER within pressings?  Would you like to be part of a small, busy, manufacturing organisation, where as their TOOLING ENGINEER / TOOLMAKER, you will be given the opportunity to make a genuine impact?

This role would ideally suit a TOOLMAKER, who is looking to make their next move upwards in your engineering career. 

BENEFITS

• £35,000 (Dependant on experience)
• Choice of either morning or afternoon shift  - 37.5hrs 6am to 2pm and 2pm to 10pm Monday to Friday.
• Working directly with the Toolroom Manager on a daily basis
• Excellent Pension and holidays
• Small, friendly manufacturing organisation
• A genuine chance to make an impact
• Superb opportunity to “spread your wings” to move your career forward

DUTIES OF THE TOOLING ENGINEER / TOOLMAKER

• Working directly with the Toolroom Manager
• Supporting Press Setters with trouble shooting issues
• Working with Progressions Tooling ranging from 80 Ton to 400 Ton
• Carry out Tool Change over and small repairs, that can be done in the press
• Conduct regrinds and repairs
• Conduct TPM checks
• Responsibility for Spares

REQUIREMENT OF THE TOOLING ENGINEER / TOOLMAKER

• Ideally Apprentice trained in Toolmaking
• A fork- lift truck licence would be helpful
• Experience of Pressings / progression tooling
• Power Press Regulations would be advantageous
• Happy to work either mornings or afternoons

The role is commutable from Walsall, Wolverhampton, Sutton Coldfield, Worcester, Telford, Birmingham and Aldridge

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

We are a well-respected employer within the FMCG sector and are seeking to recruit proven Multi Skilled Maintenance Technician, to join our established maintenance team. 

Benefits: 

• £36,000
• Company Pension
• Excellent Holiday Entitlement
• Working on our Bespoke Day Shift Pattern

Duties of a Maintenance Technician    

Working Bespoke Day Shifts and as a proven Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer you will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance across our plant, which will require you to have experience of supporting plant and equipment within either a food processing or packaging facility. 

Requirements of a Maintenance Technician    

Ideally you will be apprentice trained but must be qualified either Electrically or Mechanically and have some understanding of Plc Controls but must be multi skilled in your abilities. Having gained your Maintenance experience from supporting plant and equipment within a fast paced FMCG environment where you have supported an array of sector specific equipment such as check weighers, metal detectors, flow wrappers and high speed conveyors.  

This is a great opportunity to move your career into a stable market sector, where you will not only gain an incredible benefits package and ongoing training and development, but also be secure in the knowledge that you will be in a stable working environment and classified as an Essential Key Worker . 

The Maintenance Technician role is commutable from Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth, Coleshill, Erdington and Birmingham

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