A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Field Based Technical Sales Executive to join the UK arm of a global manufacturer who serve the logistics, warehousing and industrial sectors. 

The company have been trading for 50+ years and count household names amongst their bustling client roster. They are looking for a dynamic, technically minded individual to follow up leads and close deals which their strategic partners will deliver for the customer.

The Technical Sales Executive position will suit a technically minded person, with a background in electrical or mechanical engineering, who is looking to move into sales. The Technical Sales Executive role will also suit an experienced salesperson who has electrical/mechanical solutions.

The Technical Sales Executive will receive the following benefits:

• Salary of £26,000
• Uncapped Commission (Y1 OTE £35K+)
• Company Car
• Pension
• Healthcare (after qualifying period)
• Extensive training
• Progression opportunities 

The Technical Sales Executive will be responsible for the following: 

• Following up leads for new sales opportunities
• Demonstrating the benefits of the products and solutions
• Closing opportunities 
• Meeting and exceeding targets
• Travelling to customer sites across the UK

Candidates for the Techncial Sales Executive position will have the following experience and attributes:

• Background in electrical or mechanical engineering 
• And/Or several years sales experience in an industrial setting
• Self-starter and motivated

This is a field based sales role. Candidates will also travel to the company’s HQ in Europe for full training.

Commutable from Birmingham, Nottingham, Northampton, Milton Keynes, Worcester, Cheltenham, Stoke-on-Trent, Derby, Leicester, Telford, Kettering, Peterborough

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Sales Engineering Recruitment Support since 1994

An exceptional opportunity has arisen within a busy, incredibly stable company for a Technical Applications Engineer.  A role of Technical Applications Engineer has become available to support further growth.

They enjoy a vast product range, and due to the uniqueness of their products, are an extremely busy, stable organisation to be part of.  And their staff retention is phenomenal, ensuing you, as the Technical Applications Engineer a long, and enjoyable career. They supply into UK and Europe and are looking to continue to expand their customer base.

This role is commutable from Birmingham, Halesowen, Wolverhampton, Aldridge, Walsall, Tyseley, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth, Worcester, and Dudley

Benefits of a Technical Applications Engineer

• £35,000
• Company Car
• Company Phone
• Excellent Pension scheme
• You will be joining a very friendly and super stable organisation
• Out of this world staff retention

Duties of a Technical Applications Engineer

• Supporting Manufacturing and Sales / Marketing Teams
• Support the expansion of the Business
• Office based
• Building strong customer relationships
• Advising customers of machine capabilities, cycle times and application of the machines in the best environment
• Supporting new business development activities
• Providing expert advice

Requirement of a Technical Applications Engineer

• You will be able to demonstrate a high technical expertise with CNC Machines
• This could be milling or / and turning
• To have gained your experience within a manufacturing environment
• A good commercial awareness
• Ideally you will have customer facing experience
• Strong interpersonal skills
• A strong self- starter and an excellent team player
• Flexibility for the occasional overnight stay

This would suit an experienced CNC Engineer, who enjoys customer exposure and who is looking to enjoy a long and fruitful career.

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

Are you a Quality Manager, looking to be part of a well-established, growing team in the Birmingham area as this is a wonderful opportunity to be part of a successful business, who next year, look to be set to increase their already high volumes as demand for their products soars.

As their Quality Manager, you will be given the responsibility to maintain and improve the existing quality standards. You will also be the primary contact for all customer concerns.

This role would suit either an experienced Quality Manager, or a Senior Quality Engineer, who is looking for that chance to move into a Quality management role.

The role is commutable from Walsall, Wolverhampton, Sutton Coldfield, Redditch, Solihull, Hall Green, Tyseley, Dudley, Tamworth, Birmingham, Brownhills, Worcester, Cannock and Aldridge 

BENEFITS for QUALITY MANAGER

• £45,000 (flex)
• Busy, stable customer base
• Long established organisation
• Huge potential for growth within this role
• Excellent Pension and holidays
• A genuine chance to make an impact

DUTIES OF QUALITY MANAGER 

• Resolution of customer concerns
• Day to day control of Quality department
• Lead, manage and be the main point of Quality on site
• Maintain and develop existing Quality systems
• Champion Continuous Improvements in Quality
• Root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions
• Mentor your team and identification of training needs
• Supplier Development
• Internal audits
• Manage absenteeism and holidays

REQUIREMENTS OF QUALITY MANAGER

• You are either currently a Quality Manager or a Senior Quality Engineer looking to move into a Quality Manager role
• Essential that you have experience of working in a manufacturing environment
• Customer and Supplier exposure
• This is a busy, challenging role and would suit an energetic, ambitious, highly motivated Quality professional

Are you up for the challenge?  Waste no time and send your CV ASAP!

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

A global manufacturing company, very much at the very forefront of new technology have a requirement for a Senior Sourcing Buyer.  With nearly 100 years of experience behind them, supplying into120 countries worldwide, they are the market leader in their field.  A role for a Senior Sourcing Buyer is now available.  We are looking for a skilled and experienced individual with excellent procurement experience, coupled with strategic thinking and the ability to multi -task, and manage day to day site sourcing issues.

This is an exception opportunity to join a World Class manufacturing company.

This role is commutable from Redditch, Alcester, Worcester, Bromsgrove, Alvechurch, Leamington Spa, Banbury, Evesham and Tewksbury

Benefits of Senior Sourcing Buyer

• £45,000
• Day’s role
• Large, long established successful Business
• Free Parking
• Genuine long-term career prospects available
• Modern management approach
• Excellent work / life balance 

Duties of Senior Sourcing Buyer

• Working closely with the Purchasing Manger on the rollout of global sourcing strategies for commodities, and show an understanding of current and future demands
• Supplier improvement and cost reduction opportunities
• Ensure supply of purchased material
• Identify supply chain risks
• Supplier relationship management activities
• Identify cost improvement opportunities
• Manage supplier contracts and lead contract negotiation
• Conduct supplier analysis

Requirement of Senior Sourcing Buyer

• Degree level or equivalent experience in Procurement and Sourcing
• You will have previous buying experience gained from within a manufacturing environment
• Strategic and tactical procurement experience 
• Contract management and an understanding of contractual law
• A curious, creative problem solver
• Strong negotiator
• Excel, Word and Powerpoint knowledge
• A strong self-starter

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Purchasing Recruitment Support since 1994

A leading organisation are now seeking an experienced Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety (QEHS) Manager to lead with all Quality, Environmental, and H&S processes, policies, legislation and legal obligations across all site operations within an expanding, global business.

QEHS MANAGER ROLE BENEFITS:

• Competitive salary of up to £40,000 dependent on skills and experience
• Annual bonus
• Excellent Company pension
• Private Healthcare and life assurance
• Opportunity to work from home up to 2 days per week

DUTIES OF THE QEHS MANAGER:

• Lead the development of Quality, Environmental, and H&S objectives/targets and implementation of best practices. 
• Prioritise QEHS actions/initiatives and successfully transfer these to operational plans relevant to the level of risk.
• Ensure QEHS systems and policies are applied across all departments.
• Maintain current quality system and quality manual and manage Internal and external quality Audits.
• Lead the completion of H&S incident investigations and Learning Reviews.
• Set up systems to obtain and maintain ISO 18001
• Ensure Environmental compliance across the business and set up systems to obtain and maintain ISO 14001.
• This role will require occasional overseas travel.

REQUIREMENTS OF THE QEHS MANAGER

• Diploma in Occupational Safety and Health and/or Environmental
• Associate level certification to IEMA and/or general certification in NEBOSH
• Minimum 5 year’s, experience in QEHS Management gained within a manufacturing environment.
• Experience in dealing with regulatory agencies (HSE, Environment Agency, Councils)
• Understanding and experience of Safety / Environmental Management Systems inc ISO 40001 and ISO 18001
• A superb communicator (written and verbal)
• Proactive, hands-on approach

The QEHS Manager role is commutable from Evesham, Alcester, Worcester, Cheltenham, Stratford upon Avon, Droitwich, Tewkesbury, Bromsgrove and surrounding areas.

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

An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a Production Planner so are you a Production Planner looking for a long-term career move, within a busy, friendly, and well-established manufacturing company?

As their Production Planner, you will be responsible for providing manufacturing with production plans in line with customer requirements.

This is a unique manufacturing environment, supplying a huge, varied product range.

The role is commutable from Solihull, Redditch, Coventry, Alcester, Worcester, Bidford on Avon, Stratford Upon Avon, Banbury, and Birmingham

Benefits of a Production Planner:

• £30,000 - £35,000
• Excellent Pension 
• Busy manufacturing organisation
• Friendly team
• Super supportive Management

Duties of a Production Planner:

• Provide manufacturing with production plans in line with customer requirements
• Review and agree opportunities to improve productivity
• Review demand forecast
• Identify variances from previous forecast
• Create Production plan considering material and manufacturing capacity
• Chair weekly production plan reviews
• Ensure Production plan adherence
• Maintain relevant data

Requirement of Production Planner:

• You will have previous experience of Production Planning
• Ideally, you will have gained your experience from within manufacturing
• MRP experience 
• Competent with MS Office and operating ERP systems
• To have the ability to form and maintain strong and effective relationships

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

We have an opportunity for a Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer to join this successful manufacturer based in Worcestershire. This is a “hands on” role where you will be joining a medium sized maintenance team to undertake planned and reactive maintenance tasks on plant machinery.
 
Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer Role Benefits:

• Up to £39,500 salary (depending on shift pattern)
• Generous 25 days holiday
• Company contributory pension scheme and life cover
• Gym membership
• Share option scheme
• Commitment to assist with professional development.

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer Role Description:

• You will be joining a team of Engineers to undertake both Electrical and Mechanical planned and reactive maintenance tasks to plant machinery across the facility. 
• This is a “hands on” multi skilled role and you will be supporting presses, ABB and Kawasaki robots, hydraulics and pneumatics, and PLC run plant machinery in a production environment. 
• We have opportunities to work on either alternating 6am – 2pm / 2pm – 10pm Mon – Fri, or permanent Night shift Sun – Thurs, 10pm – 6 am.

Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer Skills and Qualifications

• You will ideally be Apprentice trained and/or hold a relevant Engineering qualification such as City & Guilds or ONC/HNC.
• Successful candidates will be able to read and understand electrical, hydraulic, and pneumatic drawings, and will also hold fault finding abilities with PLC controls.
• It is integral that you can demonstrate experience of working within a previous Maintenance role supporting plant and equipment within a manufacturing environment. 

In return you will be joining an Organisation that can offer career progression and professional development, a generous salary, and excellent benefits. 

This Multi Skilled Maintenance Engineer position is commutable from: Worcester, Redditch, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove, Stourbridge, Birmingham and surrounding areas.

An outstanding opportunity has arisen for a CHEMICAL ENGINEER. to join a well-established, stable manufacturing organisation, who supply into a multitude of different industry sectors. As the CHEMICAL ENGINEER, you will be given responsibility for development of new processes.

If you are a CHEMICAL ENGINEER, looking to join a stable, reputable organisation, look no further.   

Benefits of a Chemical Engineer 

• £35,000 - £40,000 - Dependant on experience
• Working directly with the Senior Management team
• Excellent Pension and 25 Days holidays + Stats
• Busy, friendly manufacturing organisation
• A genuine chance to make an impact
• Life Assurance
• 36.25 hour working week

Duties of the Chemical Engineer

• Initiation, design, implementation and commissioning of Plant Modification Proposals in order to modify existing plant
• Hazard Assessments and HAZOPS
• Develop new processes and improving existing ones
• Decide the scope and extent of hazard assessment relevant to process
• Carry out calculations and advise on testing programmes
• Liaison with Project Engineering to develop the plant design, layout, costing and proposals
• Provide technical expertise
• Act as a Project Lead with specified projects with responsibility for budget expenditure, overall design and completion to agreed targets
• Initiate, design, implementation and commissioning of Plant Modification Proposals, to modify existing plant, including all relevant hazard assessments and HAZOPs

Requirements of the Chemical Engineer

• You will have a Degree in Chemistry
• Relevant industrial experience 
• Experience of development of new processes and improving existing ones
• On-Plant experience in commissioning and practical trouble shooting
• Experience of DSEAR methodology
• SIL and LOPA assessments

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

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

We have a fantastic opportunity to join a New Product Development Team in the Central Midlands and be responsible for the design and integration of hardware and embedded technologies, especially around Battery and Power Pack systems.

The role will be part of the larger NPD team that also consists of mechanical and industrial design engineers that will be mainly involved in the design of the products from a structural and plastic injection moulding point.

The company have a strong track record for creating Award Winning products for the consumer market sector and are continually focusing on New Product Innovation exercises to keep their international recognition for being the best in field.

Benefits:

• £45,000
• £37.5 Hours 
• 33 Days Holidays (Inc Bank Holidays) 
• Pension
• Healthcare
• Early Finish Fridays 

The Electronic Engineer position will report to the Head of Engineering and will be the sole electronic biased engineer within a team of Product Design and Prototype Engineers. 

Duties of an Electronic Engineer will include:

• The creation and development of battery management systems 
• Ensuring battery management systems meet regulatory and company requirements for safety 
• Charger design and writing detailed charger specifications 
• Power Converter Design. 
• Ensuring designs can comply with relevant EMC/EMI standards and modifying design where needed to ensure this is the case. 
• Thermal management design of power electronics systems 
• Design of battery powered electronics to meet global requirements. 
• Research into new technology and investigating ways of incorporating this technology into future products. 
• Use of simulation and PCB design software to create prototypes.

Electronic Engineer Requirements:

• Minimum BEng/MEng degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering or other relevant discipline 
• Experience in the design of Battery Management Systems especially for Lithium-Ion technology. 
• Experience in motor inverter design and motor control, particularly brushless DC motors, servo or stepper motors desirable. 
• General knowledge of power electronic devices, including silicon based IGBTs, MOSFETs and wide bandgap technologies 
• Understanding of device characteristics and issues with switching behaviour in real circuits, as well as power switch driver design 
• Design of power electronics for both low voltage and mains voltage systems 
• Excellent knowledge of analogue signal conditioning (e.g., op-amp circuit design) and ideally digital signal processing approaches 
• Schematic capture using Altium Designer, Mentor Graphics or other mainstream tools 
• Use of SPICE based simulation tools such as Simetrix and LTspice 
• Design calculation tools such as Mathcad, Matlab, Excel. 
• Circuit simulation and tolerance analysis 
• Robust design including FMEA techniques 
• Design for high volume manufacture 
• PCB layout – size/cost minimisation while achieving layouts for inherently good EMC compliance and thermal design.

The Electronic Engineer opportunity will be part of the full product life cycle of a project and will require visits to overseas suppliers and manufactures, to ensure the integrity of designs are maintained. This will allow complete project ownership from concept through to final release to retail.

Commutable from: Birmingham, Oxford, Cheltenham, Worcester, Dudley, Redditch, Coventry, Wolverhampton.

We are looking for a HEAD OF PRODUCTION to jpoin a family-owned manufacturing organisation, who have been established for over 100 years.

This is a large, highly reputable organisation, and as HEAD OF PRODUCTION, you will be given complete accountability, and full responsibility to manage all their Process plants.

Head of Production Benefits:

• £60,000
• Company Car
• Long established and well- known organisation
• Generous Pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Stable Company
• Fantastic Long-term prospects

Duties of Head of Production

• Management and accountability for all process manufacturing plants
• Managing direct reports
• Oversee all process improvement activities, waste elimination and carbon net zero
• Control budget and Capex expenditure
• Ensure compliance with all SHE policies, procedures and HSE/EA intervention plans

Requirement of Head of Production

• It is essential that you have a Degree, preferably in Chemistry or Chemical Engineering
• Experience of SHE requirements and process safety management
• Significant man-management experience 
• Strong leadership skills
• To be able to show excellent commercial awareness, having managed budgets and costs
• Chemical synthesis experience
• Ambitious and motivated

The role is commutable from Walsall, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham, Aldridge, Lichfield, Tamworth, Tyseley, Redditch, Telford, Kidderminster, Smethwick, West Bromwich, Worcester, Tamworth and Halesowen

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

This is an opportunity for you to join a highly successful Manufacturing business based in Droitwich as a Production Buyer within a fast paced manufacturing environment. 

In exchange for their expertise the Production Buyer will receive:

• A competitive salary of £35,000 depending on skills and experience.
• Working Days Mon – Fri, early Friday finish
• Busy and friendly manufacturing organisation

Key Roles & Responsibilities for the Production Buyer:

• Develop and implement the commodity strategy to ensure achieving cost reductions without compromising the sustainable supply chain within rubber, fastener + metal pressing.
• Co-ordinate work efficiently to ensure time bound targets are met for New Projects.
• Make detailed comparisons between suppliers.
• Identify areas of non compliance and closely monitor design changes 

Negotiate with customers / suppliers and maintain relationships with existing supplier base.

Skills & experience required for the Production Buyer:

• Successful candidates will ideally hold a Business or Engineering Degree
• To have gained your experience in a fast- paced production/manufacturing environment, ideally within Automotive Industry.
• Excellent hands on negotiation skills and experience of supplier audit and quotation analysis.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing practice would also be advantageous.

The role is commutable from Droitwich, Worcester, Stourport, Bromsgrove, Redditch, Stourbridge, and surrounding areas.

Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Purchasing Recruitment Support since 1994

This is an opportunity for you to join a highly successful Manufacturing business based in Droitwich as a Quality Engineer. Working Days, Monday to Friday within a well established company.

If you are an ambitious, energetic QUALITY ENGINEER, who is looking for a dynamic, busy, fast paced environment, with genuine prospects, then we  would love to hear from you!

In exchange for their expertise Quality Engineer will receive:

• A competitive salary of £30,000 - £35,000 depending on skills and experience.
• Working Days Mon – Fri, early Friday finish
• Busy and friendly manufacturing organisation
• Opportunity to develop skills and make an impact.

Key Roles & Responsibilities for the Quality Engineer:

• Visit customer / supplier plants
• Ensure corrective actions are implemented
• Arrange sorting of stock for Quality flow outs
• Monitor customer/supplier returns
• Investigate company supplier problems related to quality
• Root cause analysis

Skills & experience required for the Quality Engineer:

• Good knowledge of auditing as well as risk- based thinking
• To have gained your experience in a fast- paced manufacturing environment
• Excellent knowledge of Controls Plans and SPC
• Energetic and passionate about Quality
• This would suit a Quality Engineer who is looking for long-term prospects and commitment

The role is commutable from Droitwich, Worcester, Stourport, Bromsgrove, Redditch, Stourbridge, and surrounding areas.

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