The Company:

This consulting business is a well-established multi-disciplinary firm, with a diverse workload of schemes, ranging from 1 million – 15 million. They have a vacancy for a project delivery role delivering Structural Engineering designs and managing the production of information for their clients.

Work would be undertaken under the direction of a Structural Director and depending on your level of experience, management of junior engineers may be required. They seek a candidate with experience of design in all materials; concrete, timber and steel, to take a positive lead in delivering a wide range of interesting, varied regional projects.

The role would suit an experienced technical engineer (ideally 3-8 years’ experience) with ambitions to progress your career to an Associate level. Full support will be provided to achieve your potential within a supportive and friendly environment.

Experience of undertaking structural surveys would be an advantage.

A part-time role would be considered for the right candidate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Providing detailed technical input and ensuring quality of work output on projects requiring Detailed Structural Engineering Design.
• Report writing.
• To be involved in business development with a focus on the quality and interest of new business.
• Managing projects autonomously.
• To liaise with the client to agree the project specification, the timescale, the fee and the terms of engagement.
• To ensure that the project is undertaken to the specified budget and that all project-related fees and disbursements are accurately recorded and expediently recovered.

Person Specification (you will possess most of these skills):

• Expertise in a range of relevant analytical software packages.
• Recent experience of detailed design for a variety of Structural Projects, with the ability to manage time and work to strict deadlines.
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written English communication skills.
• Ability to supervise the work of more junior staff and sub-consultants, prepare fee proposals and project manage a commission from start to finish, liaise directly with client and with other consultants/suppliers, to market the company’s expertise and extend the client base.
• Ability to work collaboratively and to lead project-related discussions, use experience from other projects.
• Commitment to producing high quality work and to promoting the reputation of the company.
• Commitment to continuous professional development.
• In possession of, or working towards Chartership of the Institution of Structural Engineers.

Package:

• A wide variety of project work, and an interesting workload.
• Significant opportunities within a growing company.
• A competitive salary
• Pension contributions
• High quality mentoring from experienced colleagues, and assistance in delivering workload from able, conscientious junior staff.

Commutable from Coventry, Warwick, Solihull, Rugby, Daventry, Banbury

A leading manufacturing business in Leamington Spa has an exciting permanent opportunity for a Receptionist/Plant Administrator

Hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 hours including 30 minute lunch break, Friday: 5 hours

The Role:

• To be a front of house and represent the Company with internal and external customers.

• To provide reception duties in the plant and support administrative functions to the management team.

• Work on own initiative by planning and organising workload in order to meet deadlines.

• Establish and maintain effective communication systems with internal and external customers.

Main Responsibilities:

Reception duties:

Management of visitors

Ensure visitor procedures followed

Maintain visitor register and access passes

Distribute PPE to all visitors

Answering calls and forwarding to appropriate department/person

Receive post and other deliveries and distribute as appropriate

Frank and prepare outgoing mail

Arrange courier as required

Travel Booking as per the Company Procedure:

Book hotels, travel and car hire

Meetings management:

Book internal meeting rooms

Provide refreshments (tea, coffee, water etc.) as required

Book and maintain cleanliness of pool cars

Administration:

Maintain stationery and reorder supplies as required

Maintain PPE and reorder as required

Maintain uniform and reorder as required

Provide administration support to the plant manager and other departments as required, e.g. Minutes taking at plant meetings like Red Table, H&S, Deviation Meeting, Rounds

Prepare and reconcile Purchase Orders and invoices

Complete data entry input of daily scrap sheets

Other:

Conduct supplementary projects/tasks as directed.

Maintain coffee machine including cleanliness and buying supplies

Stand in for other members of the department as directed.

Remain flexible and reactive to changing operational requirements.

Essential Qualification and Experience:

Experience in a similar role

Good customer service skills

Computer literate on Microsoft Office

LOGISTICS ANALYST
PERMANENT
MANUFACTURING
LEAMINGTON SPA
£37,00 - £31,000

Company:

An immediate requirement has arisen for a Logistics Analyst to join a busy manufacturing organisation.

This is a global Company, with multiple sites worldwide, they are a busy, modern manufacturing company.

Duties:

• Material planning
• Utilising SAP based MRP for materials as directed
• You will be the point of contact for customers
• Warehouse, deliveries and incoming material control
• Demand management
• External logistics support coordination
• Invoice reconciliation – raw materials only
• Raising supplier non-conformance reports
• Maintain stock accuracy

Requirements:

• It is essential that you have knowledge of MRP / SAP systems, however a good level of experience with similar software is considered
• Logistics and inventory control experience is essential
• You will have gained your experience with a manufacturing environment
• Computer literacy
• You will have previous experience of dealing with demanding customers in a high-pressure environment

Are you ready for your next challenge?

You will be joining an established manufacturing organisation, and you will be supported by a strong management team.

This is a wonderful opportunity to join continue your successful career. Send your CV ASAP.

An exciting opportunity has become available for an Area Sales Manager to join an expanding adhesives manufacturer. This is a home-based role with 1 planning day per week in Warwick and some travel to clients involved during the week. This role has huge potential earnings offered for hitting target plus uncapped commission. The ideal candidate will be located in the South East: Derby / Nottingham / Lincoln / Oxford  /Surrey or West Sussex.

Requirements of an Area Sales Manager:

• Ideally hold a science-based degree.
• Experience of selling formulated chemical systems.
• Experience building business relationships in new and existing markets.

Duties:

• As an Area Sales Manager you will be growing business throughout the South East of England
• Direct customer trials and demonstrations.
• Must be self-motivated and results driven.
• Able to increase export sales through new outlets and maintaining current relationships.

Full training in Polyurethane chemistry will be included along with a generous remuneration package.

We are interested to hear from Sales Managers or BD Managers with experience in selling formulated chemical systems.

For more information please send your CV ASAP.

Introduction:

Firmware Engineer (New Product Development)

A fast paced and innovation driven R&D Team in the Coventry area are seeking a new team member to join their Electronic Hardware department. The company have seen fantastic growth over the last 10 years which has been mainly down to research and development and pushing the boundaries of their product ranges to meet the demands of an ever-growing customer base.

Their products are related to safety critical devices that incorporate plastics, hardware electronics and software applications and are marketed and sold within the consumer electronic market sectors.

As a company they are focused to invent and create innovative solutions that consumers want to purchase and to also keep pushing their product development process to maintain a strong reputation and benefits for their customers to keep upgrading their purchases with the latest technology.

The position will be part of a small team reporting to the New Product Development and Technical Directors and will be responsible for the Firmware creation part of the NPD process.

The Firmware Engineer duties will involve and require the following experiences:

• Design and development for the companies Safety Technology range of safety products and systems
• Pre-validation of new designs and product changes prior to release to the validation team
• Working closely with engineers from other disciplines to develop state of the art products

Requirements:

• At least 5 years’ experience of real-time embedded system development in‘C’
• Experience of Software / Firmware design on Microchip PIC and ARM M0/M0+ or similar devices
• Software / Firmware verification
• Understanding of embedded electronics
• Liaising with Hardware Engineers to implement optimal design
• Ideally from a safety critical development background
• MISRA C and the LDRA toolchain
• Micrium OS RTOS and Stacks
• Python and C
• Agile development (JIRA, GitHub)
• Application development for Windows and/or Linux.
• NXP chipsets
• SiLabs chipsets

This would be a great opportunity for an engineer who is either looking for their 2nd career position or for an applicant who is just craving to get into a faster paced innovative working environment.

For more information please send your latest CV ASAP.

My client, a small, friendly manufacturing company based in the Coventry area has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Horizontal Borer to join their sociable team, following a period of company growth. No two days will be the same as this organisation manufacture various parts for multiple industries, keeping the role fresh and interesting.

My client is offering an attractive salary and benefits package to the successful Horizontal Borer:

• £13p/h
• Paid overtime up to 6 hours paid at time and a third then 6 hours+ paid at time and a half.
• 32 days Holiday
• Excellent 6% Pension
• Mon-Fri days 7:30-4:30pm shifts

As the successful Horizontal Borer you will have the following skills:

• You will be apprentice trained/time served.
• Experience working within a busy tool room
• Flexibility to work extra hours when necessary
• Experience using a Devlieg Boring machine is ideal however training can be provided.

The role:

As a Horizontal Borer you will be manufacturing low volume batches of jigs/fixtures/press tools/gauges/facets as part of a friendly team. The company are looking for versatile candidates who can adapt and cover many aspects within the tool room.

If you think this is the role for you and are currently a time-served Horizontal Borer contact Heidi Lucas.

My client, a small, friendly manufacturing company based in the Coventry area has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Quality Inspector to join their sociable team following a period of recent company growth. No two days will be the same as this organisation manufacture various parts for multiple industries, keeping the role fresh and interesting.

My client is offering an attractive salary and benefits package to the successful Quality Inspector:

 - £13p/h

 - Paid overtime up to 6hours paid at time and a third then 6hours+ paid at time and a half.

 - 32 days Holiday

 - Excellent 6% Pension

 - Mon-Fri days 7:30 - 4:30pm Shifts 

As the successful Quality Inspector you will have the following skills:You will be apprentice trained/time served.

 - Flexibility to work extra hours when necessary.

 - Experience working to ISO9001.

 - Calibration skills for various hand inspection tools.

 - Experience using a Trimos Vertical Height Gauge would be great however training can be provided.

The role:

As a Quality Inspector you will be inspecting low volume batches of jigs/fixtures/press tools/gauges/facets as part of a friendly team.

If you think this is the role for you and are currently a time-served Quality Inspector contact Heidi Lucas.

My client, a small, friendly manufacturing company based in the Coventry area has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Universal Miller to join their sociable team following a period of company growth. No two days will be the same as this organisation manufacture various parts for multiple industries, keeping the role fresh and interesting.

My client is offering an attractive salary and benefits package to the successful Universal Miller:

• £13p/hr
• Paid overtime up to 6 hours paid at time and a third then 6 hours+ paid at time and a half.
• 32 days Holiday
• Excellent 6% Pension
• Mon-Fri days 7:30 - 4:30pm shifts

As the successful Universal Miller you will have the following skills:

• You will be apprentice trained/time served.
• Experience working within a busy tool room
• Flexibility to work extra hours when necessary

The role:

As a universal Miller you will be manufacturing low volume batches of jigs/fixtures/press tools/gauges/facets as part of a friendly team. The company are looking for versatile candidates who are able to adapt and cover many aspects within the tool room.

If you think this is the role for you and are currently a time-served Universal Miller contact Heidi Lucas.

Mechanical Design Manager (Plastic Components)

We have a great opportunity for either a proven Design Manager or an experienced Senior Design Engineer who has had responsibility for mentoring junior team members and managing design projects.

The opportunity is to work for an established Product Design biased organisation that produce a range of innovative products that are in-turn manufactured and produced overseas.

Their product range offers its customers modern state of the art technology that incorporates plastic injection mouldings and electronic safety critical components.

Based within the R&D Team the role will manage projects and programmes in liaison with the internal design, electronic and software development teams, along with suppliers and partners that will assist in the smooth transition from concept through to new product introduction and production overseas.

Working directly with the Technical Director the position will be part of the creation of the product development process for each project and will manage the team, so that the best effective outcome can be achieved, based on individuals’ abilities and strengths.

This will require good man and project management skills sets and the ability to effectively communicate and present ideas and methods to all relevant parties.

We are seeking an applicant with the following skills, experiences and attributes:

• Good experience of managing projects with man-power involvement
• Good experience post formal design qualification in design, product development, especially in Plastic Injection Moulding.
• Good 3D CAD experience from concept through to design for manufacture.
• Exposure of working with outside suppliers.
• Some exposure of packaging design, especially electro-mechanical would be very desirable.
• Good exposure of designing medium to high volume products.
• Excellent communication skills
• Good knowledge and understanding of tooling, and manufacturing processes.
• Ability to mentor and co-ordinate small teams of engineers
• Ability to create design reviews and update data for all relevant parties.
• A proven background in delivering projects on time and to cost – Essential.

This is a great opportunity to join a successful organisation that will see its designs quickly turn into manufactured products and put into the consumer marketplace with very short lead-times.

For more information please contact Peter Hampshire with your latest CV.

Introduction:

Probe Technical Recruitment is recruiting for an excellent opportunity for a Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join a growing maintenance team to maintain a range of manufacturing plant equipment based in a factory close to Nuneaton, working Mon – Fri alternating AM/PM (8-4 / 4-12).

Requirements / Duties for the Role:

• When reactive job is allocated ensure that the task is personally owned and followed through to completion or when shift handover required the maintenance supervisor is given all the correct information.
• Personally, own any planned preventative tasks issued and liaise with operations to ensure task is completed to a high standard, with minimal operational disruption.
• Ensure personal near miss and hazard reporting is conducted.
• Personal ownership and drive of continuous improvement ideas and projects to ensure time is managed effectively and tasks completed within agreed timescales.
• Ensure all reports contain accurate and relevant information and are completed in a timely manner.
• Individual stores stock allocation and stock checks completed within agreed timescales and stock management process followed when spares used on breakdowns.

The ideal candidate will hold a recognised maintenance trades qualification in either Mechanical or Electrical. Experience of PLC/PC controlled machine tool or process control/production equipment. Ability to interpret technical drawings including PLC, electrical, pneumatic and mechanical drawings.

Benefits:

• The company offers a salary of £36,000 with holiday, pension and overtime and other company benefits.

We would be looking to talk to Maintenance Technicians or Maintenance Electrician’s/ Maintenance Engineers and the role is commutable from Nuneaton, Coventry, Leicester, Hinckley and Rugby.

Introduction:

Senior Design Engineer (Domestic Appliances)

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a global recognised brand and be part of the new concept creation of future generations of modern domestic appliances.

Based within the heart of Product Development this role will play a key part in the future generation of the company’s new product releases that will in turn allow better business growth and market share.

Duties will include:

• The main purpose of the role will be to manage and motivate a team of engineers and associated staff to deliver New Product Development programmes in a fast, safe and cost-effective manner. This will also involve planning, costing and controlling the budget associated to NPD and new product launch.
• Be a pivotal part of the business design function proposing new and improved systems and business methodologies.
• Be the design lead and point of reference within the PD team capable of designing, analysing, interpreting and implementing solutions for new products, or to ensure resolution of any warranty or value analysis proposal.
• Demonstrate a clear understanding and adherence to business processes and an awareness of ISO9001, ISO14001 and ISO18001.
• Undertake or delegate product designs as necessary to ensure timely release designs, engineering drawings, CAD files, specifications, etc, as appropriate.

The right candidate will have the following skills and experience:

• Minimum qualification is an HNC in an Engineering Discipline with at least 5 years design related experience.
• Excellent communication skills in both the spoken and written form.
• A capable experienced and ‘hands on’ designer fully conversant with Solidworks and an associated PMD system.
• Be fully conversant with Product Development systems, materials, specifications and processes necessary for the generation and introduction of new products and features.
• Ability to effectively contribute to a project team unafraid to challenge the norm.
• Possess good analytical skills to formulate solutions and challenge assumptions
• Self-motivation and the ability to prioritise workload and meet deadlines
• Ability to control, manage and motivate the design office functions and personnel as required.

Benefits:

• Salary : £47,000 - £50,000
• Pension Scheme
• Profit Share Bonus 5%
• Attendance Bonus

For more information please send your latest CV ASAP.

We are a well-respected employer who are seeking to recruit an experienced Maintenance Technician to join our established maintenance team.

Working with a team of Maintenance Technician you will be required to undertake both planned and reactive multi skilled maintenance technician activities across our production plant.

You will ideally be apprentice trained however must hold either formal Electrical Maintenance Technician qualifications, with preference given to candidates who hold qualifications in BOTH disciplines. You really must hold a true multi skilled maintenance technician ability to succeed in the role.

We offer a starting salary £38,000 - £40,000 Plus Paid Overtime at Premium Rates, Excellent Holiday Entitlement, Company Pension & Enhanced Company Sick Pay.

The role is commutable from Allesley, Bedworth, Coventry, Nuneaton, Rugby & Solihull

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