This Management Accountant role is a Full Time permanent position, offering an excellent salary, 28 days holiday, Contributory Pension and Free Parking. You will be working for a leading manufacturer / supplier of a bespoke product on a national basis.

As the Management Accountant - you will be working for a very well-established business who have a national presence and are a leader in their field!  They are a growing / expanding business who have an outstanding reputation for Excellence and Quality in their product and customer service.

As the Management Accountant, your duties will include:

• Extensive experience of working as a Management Accountant or similar
• Preparation of period management accounts. 
• Processing prepayments and accruals.
• Actioning Bank and nominal reconciliations.
• Analysing and reporting of period end cost centre reports.
• Liaising with key Senior Management team throughout the Group, agreeing cost allocations
• Administering fixed asset accounting. 
• Deal with ad hoc queries from operational sites.
• Liaise with the auditors, bank and any other key Finance authorities as required
• Conduct regular site visits within the Group across England and Scotland.
• Management of migration of existing accounting systems to Sage 200 for various sites as required
• Support team with any other financial task as required and within your skill set.

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

• Previous experience as a Management Accountant or similar
• You must possess an AAT, CIMA, ACCA qualification or equivalent.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to communicate at all levels and areas within the business.
• Experience of working in a manufacturing environment
• Experience in a multi-site business would be an advantage.
• Flexibility to travel to other sites within the UK
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office programmes especially Excel spreadsheets.
• Be familiar with finance packages, knowledge of SAGE 200 would be an advantage.

Benefits package for the Project Team Administrator contract role:

• Excellent Salary
• 28 days Holiday
• Contributory Pension
• Free Parking

To find out more about this fabulous opportunity, please send your CV ASAP.

SHIFT PLANT MANAGER

PERMANENT

BIRMINGHAM

£30,000 + LARGE FRIENDLY ORGANISATION + STABILITY

MANUFACTURING

Company:

A manufacturing facility in the Birmingham area, are now looking to hire a Shift Plant Manager.

This is a well-established company, who have grown steadily over the years.  They manufacture unique products supplied into a wide variety of different suppliers.

Duties:

• You will be given a specific area of production to be responsible for
• On shift, you will be responsible for ensuring that targets for production and quality are met
• Provision of technical advice
• You will take an active involvement in maintaining plant operating efficiency
• Ensure safety and environmental standards are met
• Staff allocation
• Identification of training needs
• Training and discipline
• Happy to work 10- hour day shifts, on a rotating 4 on / 4 off pattern

Requirements:

• Ideally, you will be educated to Degree standard, but equivalent relevant experience is readily considered
• It would be highly beneficial for you to have gained your experience from within a process manufacturing environment
• A good solid understanding of quality and environmental management systems
• Knowledge of COSHH
• Happy to work a rotating day shift pattern
• To have previously managed a small team
• Happy to work a 4 on / 4 off day shift pattern - days only
• A practical problem-solving approach

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.

Introduction:

Are you an experienced Manufacturing Manager with a strong Automotive background looking for a new challenge within a fast-paced, high-pressured environment??

Enjoy a Challenge????

Experienced with production and despatch environments??

This is the position for you!!!

Company:

This is a fantastic opportunity for the Manufacturing Manager to hit the ground running in an exciting fast-paced organisation who have invested heavily into this particular site with new state of the art technology.  

Duties:

The Manufacturing Manager will have strong site process experience and man-management skills as well as:

• Provide direction for the area, inspiring and fostering a culture of continuous improvement
• Lead by example and measure organisational health, creating strong, mature, fair and independent culture environment
• Lead and ensure manufacturing activities are carried out according to legislation and standards
• Develop short, medium and long-term plans to ensure high level goals are achieved
• Develop monitoring systems to ensure compliance with internal and external quality standards
• Develop agreed plans to improve customer performance and satisfaction
• Develop plans to ensure annual spend budget is achieved and communicated effectively
• Develop and monitor cash control and cost reduction measures

Skills & Experience:

The successful Manufacturing Manager will have:

• Ideally a degree within an engineering / manufacturing / production discipline
• Significant experience of operating within a similar role
• Automotive background or OEM is preferred
• Experience managing manufacturing processes effectively and familiar with the lean methodologies
• Natural leadership skills with the ability to motivate the team to achieve and exceed targets

I would be keen to speak with candidates who have experience as a Manufacturing Manager, Engineering Manager, Plant Manager, Operations Manager, Value Stream Manager or similar positions 

Benefits:

• Holiday
• Pension  
• Onsite Parking
• Private Healthcare
• Annual Bonus Scheme
• Company Car
• Annual Pay Review

The culture of the business is important and they certainly pride themselves in their investment to their employees and aid continuous growth and improvement throughout the organisation.

This role is commutable from Telford, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Cannock, Dudley, Birmingham and surrounding areas.

For an informal chat or to apply for this position or to discuss any further please send your CV complete with a cover letter ASAP.

We are a well-respected employer within the process engineering sector and are seeking to recruit a proven Maintenance Engineer, to join our shift maintenance team.

As a proven Maintenance Engineer will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance across our process plant, which will require you to have experience of supporting plant and equipment within either a manufacturing, process or production environment.

You must hold formal Mechanical Maintenance Engineer qualifications and ideally be apprentice trained mechanically too.  

It is a great opportunity, to join established, well respected business, far away from the highs & lows of the Automotive manufacturing sector.

The Maintenance Engineer role is commutable from Birmingham, Dudley,  Smethwick, Wednesbury, West Bromwich & Oldbury

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This Export and Shipping Coordinator, offers a good basic salary plus a great benefits package incl;  33 days holiday (incl 8 Bank hols), Contributory Pension Scheme, Cash Healthcare Plan, Free Parking! 

As the Export and Shipping Coordinator,  you will be working for a Global Manufacturing Company, a Market Leader, who have an outstanding reputation for its exemplary Customer Service and whose product has an outstanding reputation for its quality.  They have maintained this reputation for over 100 years!

As the Export and Shipping Coordinator, your duties will include:

• To Provide a Very High Level of Customer Service to International Customers
• All aspects of shipping and export administration and coordination
• Taking orders via Phone and Email from International Customers
• Entering, Processing and Coordinating Customer Orders
• Working to ISO 9001
• You will be responsible for reviewing customer contracts
• Responsible for order entry and preparation of shipping documentation
• You will attend meetings to discuss orders placed with the production team in order that you can keep customers updated
• Preparing and calculating quotations and dealing with customer queries
• General Administration
• Filing and scanning documentation

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

• Previous experience as an Export and Shipping Coordinator
• Experience in the Shipping and Export industry is essential
• Experience in Freight Forwarding is essential
• Experience in the Manufacturing sector is most advantageous
• GCSE (Grade C or above) or equivalent in Maths and English
• Experience using Sage
• You must be IT Literate and confident in Word and Excel
• Effective and confident communicator
• You must have high attention to detail
• Strong numeracy skills
• Accurate Data Entry Skills
• You must be highly organised
• Hardworking
• Adaptable and Flexible

Benefits package for the Part Time HR Administrator:

• 33 days holiday (incl 8 Bank hols)
• Stakeholder Pension Scheme
• Free Life Assurance Cover
• Cash Healthcare Plan
• Free Parking

To find out more about this fabulous opportunity, please send your CV ASAP.

Introduction:

Are you an experienced Sales Estimator with a strong engineering background looking for a new challenge within a fast-paced, high-pressured environment??

Enjoy a Challenge????

Experienced with Customer and Supplier facing???

This is the position for you!!!

Company:

This is a fantastic opportunity for the Sales Estimator to hit the ground running in an exciting fast-paced organisation who are going through a period of growth and looking to expand the Sales and Estimating team. They have a host of extraordinary amount of equipment with a committed, long-standing workforce. They promote within and offer a career to their employees to allow natural progression.

Duties:

The Sales Estimator will have strong communication skills to help develop their ever-expanding client base as well as:

• Have experience with converting prospective customers into key clients to continue the development of the client base
• Negotiate tenders to win work whilst liaising with Sales, Production, Accounts and Senior Management
• Chase and contact warm leads and present the business’ capacity either by phone or face-face
• Chase quotations and attain feedback
• Manage multiple enquiries and work under the pressure of a sales environment

Skills & Experience:

The successful Sales Estimator will have:

• Experience in a similar role within an engineering / manufacturing environment
• Experience of CAD/CAM software would be advantageous
• Industry experience would be advantageous

I would be keen to speak with candidates who have experience as a Quality Technician, Quality Engineer, Customer Quality Engineer, APQP Engineer, Supplier Quality Engineer

Benefits:

• Holiday
• Pension  
• Onsite Parking
• Flexible working hours
• Work from home opportunities
• Life insurance

The culture of the business is important and they certainly pride themselves in their investment to their employees and aid continuous growth and improvement throughout the organisation.

This role is commutable from Telford, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Cannock, Dudley, Birmingham and surrounding areas.

For an informal chat or to apply for this position or to discuss any further please send your CV complete with a cover letter ASAP.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CHEMIST

MANUFACTURING

£22,000 (FLEX) + PENSION + GENEROUS HOLIDAY ENTITLEMENT + LONG ESTABLISHED ORGANISATION

BIRMINGHAM

PERMANENT

Company:

A long established organisation, who enjoy a reputation for excellent quality and service, have a requirement for Research and Development Chemist.  They are one of the UK’s largest speciality manufacturer, providing a wide range of products and technical services. 

You may be a recent Graduate, looking for your first industrial experience?  You may already be a Chemist, looking to improve your career prospects.  This role of chemist is a fantastic opportunity to join such a well-respected organisation.

Duties:

• “Hands-on” organic synthesis at bench scale
• Evaluate customer enquiries
• Cost customer enquiries
• Develop a robust process suitable for scale-up
• Produce small scale samples for internal and external evaluation

Requirements:

• You may be a recent Chemistry Graduate?
• You might be a newly qualified PhD looking for your first industrial experience
• Or already a Chemist looking for a better opportunity
• Committed and reliable

This is a lovely opportunity.  If you are looking for a well- established organisation, where you long-term prospects would be assured, look no further.

Send your CV ASAP.

PLANT SHIFT MANAGER

MANUFACTURING

£30,000 (FLEX) + PENSION + GENEROUS HOLIDAY ENTITLEMENT + LONG ESTABLISHED ORGANISATION

BIRMINGHAM

PERMANENT

Company:

A long established organisation, who enjoy a reputation for excellent quality and service, have a requirement for  Plant Shift Manager.  They are one of the UK’s largest speciality manufacturer, providing a wide range of products and technical services.  As the Plant Shift Manager, you will be controlling production within a specific area.

Duties:

• This is a day shift position - 4 on / 4 off Days
• Reporting into the Cell Manager
• You will be responsible for production within a specific manufacturing area
• Ensure that production and quality targets are met
• To be responsible for making sure that processes are running to budget
• Provision of production advice
• Ensure plant operating efficiencies
• Staff allocation, training and discipline

Requirements:

• Ideally, you will be educated to Degree standard, within a Chemistry or Engineering
• Knowledge of quality and environmental systems
• Strong planning and communication skills
• This would suit a “people person”, who is looking for a career in Management
• A practical approach to problem solving
• Happy to work 4 on – 4 off Days
• IT literate
• You will enjoy plenty of support and development and the prospects of a long-term career

What are you waiting for??

Send your CV ASAP.

Introduction:

Are you an experienced Quality Engineer looking for a new challenge within a fast-paced, high-pressured assembly environment??

Enjoy a Challenge????

Experienced with Customer and Supplier facing???

This is the position for you!!!

Company:

This is a fantastic opportunity for the Quality Engineer hit the ground running in an exciting fast-paced organisation who pride themselves with their technical excellence and outstanding customer service.  This company is committed and are growing from strength to strength.  They are in need of a strong, Quality Engineer to work with customer and supplier issues, generate documentation for sample submission to customers and all problem-solving activities.  

Duties:

The Quality Engineer will be liaising with customers on a regular basis and make visits as and when required as well as:

• Ensure problem resolution activities, including costs for materials, labour, and time relating to customer issues via PPS / 8D process and documentation is completed
• Deal with supplier concern in liaison with the STA
• Carry out PSW, system and process audit trackers
• Attend APQP meetings on new projects and engineering changes
• Be a part of PFMEA teams
• Uphold IATF

Skills & Experience:

The successful Quality Engineer will have:

• A qualification in an engineering discipline
• Excellent problem solving skills
• A good understanding of ISO / IATF
• Working knowledge of SPC and its implementation
• Good understanding of APQP

I would be keen to speak with candidates who have experience as a Quality Technician, Quality Engineer, Customer Quality Engineer, APQP Engineer, Supplier Quality Engineer

Benefits:

• Holiday
• Pension  
• Onsite Parking

The culture of the business is important and they certainly pride themselves in their investment to their employees.

This role is commutable from Telford, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Shropshire, Walsall, Cannock, Dudley, Birmingham and surrounding areas.

For an informal chat or to apply for this position or to discuss any further please send your CV complete with a cover letter ASAP.

An urgent requirement has arisen for an ambitious Account Management Support individual to join a market leading business an a temp to perm basis

Key duties:

Support to the Account Management team

• Monitor the Account Management email inbox and action and resolve as many of the requests and issues as possible liaising with the Account Managers and internal teams where necessary.
• Develop and manage relationships with existing customers that do not have an allocated Account Manager. Provide a single point of access through regular telephone contact (minimum quarterly per customer) and if required face-to-face meetings.
• Undertake monthly business administration tasks to support the team such as order processing, billing calculations and contract adjustments.
• Determine bespoke development and service delivery quotes for customers / on behalf of the Account Managers from our internal Operations teams.
• Fully maintain designated customer records listed on the customer database. Keeping the system up to date with details of all contacts and activities.
• Organise Customer Forum activity with the team - producing agendas, invitations and information packs for the events and organising venues and delegates.
• Perform system and work administrative tasks and follow up activity to support Account Managers out in the field.

Generate sales

• Generate new sales with designated customers through Account Management activity. KPI targets to be agreed.
• Help co-ordinate and execute sales campaigns with marketing to existing customers and potential new customers.
• Undertake systematic telephone follow-up to sales campaigns and other promotional events/activities.
• Make initial contact with new enquires to determine their requirements and refer them to the relevant sales representative to progress the opportunity.
• Deliver virtual telephone demonstrations when appropriate to customers on new system functionality, products and services consistent with the overall company approach.

Contribute as required to sales & marketing activities, events / exhibitions

• Attend promotional activity, sales events & exhibitions as and when required, (particularly where designated customers are present).
• Undertake ad-hoc customer research and sales / marketing projects from time-to-time.
• Help promote and expand good Account Management skills within the business.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE

Essential

• Good understanding of Account Management skills in order to create, maintain and enhance customer relationships.
• Excellent communication skills written, analytical and verbal, maintaining accurate / accessible and organised documentation in line with the company’s record keeping procedures and systems.
• Excellent telephone and email client facing skills (listening but also questioning to minimise workloads).
• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to spot up selling opportunities.
• Strong IT skills with the ability to understand software applications

Introduction:

Are you an experienced Warehouse Supervisor looking for a new challenge within a fast-paced, high-pressured assembly environment??

Enjoy a Challenge????

Thrive in motivating a team??

Self-driven & Target Orientated???

This is the position for you!!!

Company:

This is a fantastic opportunity for the Warehouse Supervisor hit the ground running in an exciting fast-paced organisation who pride themselves with their technical excellence and outstanding customer service.  This company is committed and are growing from strength to strength.  They are in need of a strong, Warehouse Supervisor to help steer customer fulfilment and effective management of employees, materials, quality and other resources. Support the Manufacturing process in the ‘world class’ production of components within a Just-In-Time manufacturing process.

Duties:

The Warehouse Supervisor will be responsible for the management and co-ordination of goods in to support production and Just-In-Time principles to ensure customer fulfilment, as well as:

• Allocation of workloads and relocation of duties and employees as required, in order to maximise efficiency within the teams and areas of responsibility
• Supervise goods in, stores, despatch and all FLT requirements on the shop floor
• Ensure all employees are adequately trained, maintain and update training matrix to include all employees, temporary and permanent and ensure that adequate job rotation and multi-skilling of operatives is maintained
• Responsible for TPMs
• Maintain safe working practices in compliance with Health & Safety regulations
• Liaise with analysts for all stocks needs (both incoming and outgoing)
• Promote Continuous Improvement
• Ensure compliance with IATF 16949 and ISO 14001

Skills & Experience:

The successful Warehouse Supervisor will have:

• Experience of SAP is essential
• Minimum of 2years’ experience within a supervisory, manufacturing role
• Experience of JIT Manufacturing principles
• Experience of Teri 1 Supply to major OEMs

I would be keen to speak with candidates who have experience as a Warehouse Supervisors, Warehouse Managers, Warehouse Team Leaders or similar positions.   

Benefits:

• Holiday
• Pension  
• Onsite Parking

The culture of the business is important and they certainly pride themselves in their investment to their employees.

This role is commutable from Telford, Wolverhampton, Stafford, Shropshire, Walsall, Cannock, Dudley, Birmingham and surrounding areas.

For an informal chat or to apply for this position or to discuss any further please send your CV complete with a cover letter ASAP.

Introduction:

We are seeking to recruit a multi skilled Maintenance Technician to join our existing team.

Duties:

• As a Maintenance Technician you will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance tasks to our wide range of plant & equipment that will require you to hold good multi skilled abilities.

Requirements:

• Ideally you will be an apprentice trained Maintenance Technician but must hold formal electrical qualifications to a City & Guilds or NVQ standard, (and have copies of your certs), having gained your maintenance experience within a fast moving manufacturing or production environment.

Benefits:

• In return for your Maintenance Technician skills and experience we offer an excellent  base salary, regular paid overtime at premium rates, company pension and above average holiday entitlement.

The role is commutable from Birmingham, Minworth & Sutton Coldfield.

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