Introduction:

Are you an experienced Estimator looking for a new challenge within a highly reputable, technical organisation??

Do you have an exceptional eye for detail??

Are you thorough in your costings??

Enjoy a Challenge????

Enjoy Customer Liaison?

This is the position for you!

Company:

A long-standing, family founded organisation who are continually growing and investing in their business. They pride themselves in their engineering abilities are a family, friendly business seeking the right candidate to join them in their continual growth within the Estimation Department.

Duties:

The Estimator will be responsible for estimating, formulating quotations via computer automated designs and drawings as well as:

• Create estimations from such designs and drawings for each component
• Estimate to what tonnage each press will need to go to
• Quote which materials are required for each press
• How long each will take to and how the product will be delivered
• Work closely with departments and suppliers to provide accurate costings

Skills & Experience:

The successful Estimator will have:

• A strong background in pressings, welding, fabrication
• Experience costing, timing and delivery estimating
• Formula experience based on CAD drawings
• Knowledge of how to formulate a press

I would be keen to speak with candidates who have experience as a Costing Engineer, Estimator or Estimation Engineer   

Benefits for an Estimator:

• 25 days Holidays + Bank holidays
• Pension  
• Training
• Career Progression

This role is commutable from Dudley, West Bromwich, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Stourbridge, Cannock, Brownhills, Burntwood 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.

Company:

This is an opportunity for an experienced MIG Welder/Plater/Fabricator to join a growing organisation. You will be welding, plating and fabricating on large heavy fabrications and operating overhead cranes at this successful manufacturer in Droitwich.

Duties:

• This is a days based role working Monday to Friday and the duties for MIG Welder/Fabricator will include:
• Reading and interpreting Engineering drawings.
• Complete weld set-ups and welding using MIG and Stick on a range of heavy fabrications up to 50mm.
• Plating and fabricating ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

Requirements:

• To be successful in this MIG Welder/Fabricator role you will ideally be time served with MIG welding experience on heavy fabrications. 
• You will need to be experienced in MIG/Stick welding up to 50mm with the ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and have an understanding of distortion.
• You must also hold experience in overhead crane operation.

Benefits:

• In return for your skills, the MIG Welder/Fabricator position offers a salary from £24,000 - £28,000 depending on skills and experience.

Position: Maintenance Manager

Shift: Days 8am till 5pm

Salary: £44,000

Benefits: Pension, 25 + 8 Days Vouchers, Life Assurance

Location: High-Peak

Industry: Extrusion / Injection Moulding

We are currently recruiting for a Maintenance Manager holding a 50/50 Split holding both Electrical and mechanical abilities.  

The right Maintenance Manager will hold:

• Previous experience within a Maintenance Manager / Senior position
• Experience within Injection moulding / Extrusion
• Report on KPI’s
• Promote TPM
• Development of site electrical and maintenance Policies
• To hold great communication skills / able to communicate at all levels
• Assist in Installation / Commissioning
• Responsible for training and development of new and existing members of staff
• Also to be responsible for all contractors and appointing new contractors
• Deal with Component suppliers
• Deal with Health and Safety throughout the site

Requirements:

• Ideally we are looking for a Apprentice trained
• HNC / HND in Engineering / Electrical or Mechanical
• Previous experience within a maintenance managers role is essential

For additional information into this role please send your CV ASAP.

Introduction:

As a Maintenance Electrician you will be joining a Maintenance Engineering Team at a leading Manufacturing company based just outside of Horsham. You will be undertaking breakdown and preventative maintenance on plant machinery in this fast paced production facility on a Days 4on/4off shift pattern.

This is an excellent opportunity for a qualified Maintenance Electrician who is looking to join a company where they can further develop their skills. In this role you will be responsible for maintaining and improving all aspects of the equipment and plant on site in a modern fast paced heavy manufacturing environment at a major manufacturing site. Working in a team you will be covering a Continental DAYS shift pattern of Days 12 hour shifts 6am – 6pm on a 4on / 4off shift rota.

Requirements:

• To be successful in the role of Maintenance Electrician you will need to hold a recognised Electrical Engineering Qualification and will ideally be Apprentice trained.
• You will also need to have previous experience of supporting machinery in a manufacturing or production environment, have a good knowledge of AC motors, inverters + drives, three phase motors/sensors and hold fault finding abilities on Siemens S7 PLC controls.
• I would be keen to hear from Electrical Engineers, Maintenance Engineers or Maintenance Technicians who have experience of supporting plant machinery and have strong Electrical skills.

Benefits:

• In return, you will be joining a leading company in its field and will be paid on a weekly basis.
• The excellent salary package including shift allowance starts from £35,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.

This position is commutable from Horsham, Dorking, Crawley, Guildford and surrounding areas.

If you are interested in knowing more please send your CV ASAP.

Introduction:

Probe Technical recruitment is recruiting for a Maintenance Engineer to join a process environment within the heavy industry. The role holder will be responsible for driving plant availability through ensuring all PPM’s, reactive maintenance, engineering and process improvements are carried out and implemented in a timely manner. You must have experience within environments which include chemical processing, oil refineries, quarrying, recycling, power generation, steel works or within a heavy plant overhaul support organisation.

Requirements for Maintenance Engineer will include: 

• Mechanical engineering qualification NVQ Level 3 minimum
• Mechanical engineering qualification desirable
• Process minded with experience within an industrial maintenance role

Duties:

• General duties will include responding to reactive breakdowns in a timely manner to minimise downtime and ensuring shift handovers and reports are completed effectively and communicated daily.

Benefits:

• The company operate a continental shift pattern of 4 on 4 off days and nights, a competitive salary of £34,000 along with good holiday and pension.

This role is commutable from Peterborough, Boston, Bourne and Grantham.

The Company:

The business is an SME, with 150 employees and 60 years of manufacturing heritage. They have a global supply chain and export over 30% of their product to a world-wide network of customers. The operation consists of a fabrication facility, assembly area, large yard, logistics area and finished goods stores with the majority of product designed and manufactured by the company at their UK site.

The Role:

• Minimum 8 years’ experience working in industrial structural engineering with experience of either;
  • Mast or column structures
  • Fabricated steel components
  • Large scale bespoke structures

• Ideally Chartered or working towards Chartered status with relevant engineering organisation e.g. IStructE
• Understanding of relevant British and European design codes and their application to structural design
• Experience overseeing product development, custom structural design, executing design calculations and design validation
• Understanding of foundation design based on site conditions and structural requirements
• Appreciation of dynamics and wind loading requirements when applied to structures in situ        
• Ability to complete failure mode analysis and site-investigations into ageing structures and structural integrity, advising on structural maintenance and reviewing structural maintenance reports

Salary:

• £45,000 - £60,000 - negotiable dependant on level of experience (the business is considering Senior, Principal and Manager level)

Commutable from Sheffield, Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Worksop, Newark on Trent

The Company:

Client is a global manufacturer of heavy engineering products and services that deliver lifecycle solutions to maximise customer return on investment. They deliver lifecycle solutions to a broad range of industries, including construction, infrastructure, manufacturing, shipping, transportation, refining, energy, utility, quarrying and mining. 

As a Design Engineer, reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for a wide variety of engineering tasks.

Key Reasons to Join This Business:

• UK and Global travel opportunities
• Opportunities to progress through the design structure
• Exposure to customers & all areas of the business including manufacture
• Working for a global leader
• Exciting projects & opportunities to innovate including patent designs

Key Responsibilities:

• Investigate and resolve problems quickly and effectively, implementing engineering changes where required
• Provide engineered solutions for the development of New Products and the continual improvement of the existing Product Range.
• Provide customers with the required support and service that they require
• Produce a full design package for manufacturing including Detailed Drawings, Exploded drawings, Engineering BOMs etc.

Person Specification:

• Degree educated or equivalent in Engineering
• Design experience heavy equipment design would be highly advantageous
• Competent user of 3D Solid Modelling CAD, ideally Pro-Engineer / Creo Parametric and familiarity with Product Data Management (PDM) systems
• Good technical expertise in mechanical and hydraulic systems
• A good understanding of the various applications that the equipment can operate in along with an appreciation for the expected performance of the machines.
• Creativity and innovative thinking
• Experience with Oracle TMS a plus
• Good English communication skill, both written and spoken;
• Good Presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Candidates should have a “can do” attitude and be able to work as part of a team to meet the deadlines required

Salary:

• £27,000 - £32,000 (negotiable)

Commutable from Leicester, Derby, Nottingham, Loughborough, Burton upon Trent, Hinckley, Nuneaton

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced Executive Assistant to work for a global brand in its offices in Sutton Coldfield. The Executive Assistant will provide high-level administrative support to company executives by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, handling information requests and performing clerical functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls and scheduling meetings for executives.

Duties include:

• Read and analyse incoming memos, submissions and reports to determine their significance and plan their distribution.
• Maintain executive management calendars/diary, arrange meetings and appointments and send invitations/reminders, as appropriate
• Type reports, memos, letters and other documents using word relevant computer software.
• Answer phone calls and direct calls to appropriate parties or take messages.
• Record, type and distribute meeting minutes.
• Greet visitors and determine whether they should be given access to specific individuals.
• Perform general office duties such as ordering supplies and maintaining records management database systems.
• File and retrieve corporate documents, records and reports.
• Open, sort and distribute incoming correspondence, including faxes and email.
• Make travel arrangements for executives.
• Monitor office supplies and facility costs
• Manage office equipment/maintenance contracts for the local facility
• Manage postage machine contracts for all facilities
• Review all expense reports and submit to final approval
• Plan events and meetings, as needed

Competencies:

• Proven experience as an Executive Assistant
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize daily workload and possess exemplary planning and time management skills
• Possess strong organizational and communication skills
• Technical Capacity (proficient in MS Office Suite including word, excel, Powerpoint etc. )
• Full comprehension of office management systems and procedures
• Ability to maintain composure under stressful situations
• Ability to maintain confidential information in the strictest of confidence

MANUAL MACHINIST

BLACKBURN

PERMANENT

£30K + OVERTIME + FLEXI HOURS + DAYS ROLE + PENSION + HOLIDAYS + PARKING

MANUFACTURING

Company:

Looking for a new challenge and enjoy working in a fast-paced manufacturing environment?

One of our best clients in Lancashire are looking to bring on an experienced Manual Machinist to help supplement the growth of the business due to continued growth.

The role offers flexible working hours so whether you have  family commitments or anything else, this role will work around you, the reason the for the role is internal promotion which also demonstrates the companies commitment to employees so there is plenty of room to progress and receive training.

Duties:

• In the role you will set up and operate CNC machines
• You will be required to machine components to tight tolerances
• As a Manual Machinist you will use Inspection/Measuring equipment to ensure components manufactured are compliant with drawings and tolerances.
• You will be responsible for keeping a tidy work area
• In this role you will read and interpret engineering drawings

Requirements:

• You will need previous experience within a Plastics/injection moulding environment
• As CNC Machinist will have experience with Milling, Turning and Grinding
• Experience of working independently to tight tolerances is essential
• Ability to program CNC Machinery would be preferred

Benefits:

• Competitive Salary – Up to £30k
• Overtime available
• Up to 33 days holiday after 3 years’ service
• Pension
• Flexi hours
• Free Parking
• Exceptionally clean Environment
• Job Security and Stability

Please feel free to have a confidential chat on the details below. What are you waiting for?

The Role:

This is an exciting opportunity for a Sales Engineer to join a well-established company, with over 50 years of experience.

The business is a growing, local company and a genuine opportunity for the right candidate to have and develop a successful career.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable previous bulk material handling equipment experience.

Role Overview:

This new opportunity is within the businesses Mild/Stainless Steel Division.

The candidate will ensure core mild steel or stainless-steel sales order processing systems & procedures are utilised to support the business to achieve budgeted business objectives regarding:

• Request for Quotations (RFQ’s)
• Quotations
• Orders
• Sales
• Gross Margin
• OTIF
• Warranty

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide high levels of customer service in line with customer requirements. When required, Support the Area Sales Managers by visiting customer sites to discuss and understand technical & application engineering issues and develop customer relationships.
• Assist other team members in following up of enquiries and quotations. Ensure all telephone & email enquiries from customers and internal departments are dealt with effectively and efficiently
• Ensure the RFQ, quotation & order processes are utilised consistently across the team to achieve business objectives. Work with Sales & Marketing Manager, Internal Sales Manager and Area Sales Managers to make & maintain contact with key existing customers to encourage further sales, and to highlight any issues
• Be a Lean Manufacturing champion. Embrace, promote and encourage Lean activities throughout the company as tools to continuously develop and improve company manufacturing and operating efficiency, contribute to LEAN activities; including 5S in the sales office
• Co-operate with other departments by maintaining good lines of communication and recognition of over-lapping problems
• Effective and efficient utilisation of individual time. Ensure company records maintained in a safe and redeemable fashion to prevent loss or deterioration.
• Assist in the identification of team & own individual future training needs. Ensure that own performance, bad debts and other sales KPIs are within agreed target levels
• Maintain company records in a safe and redeemable fashion to prevent loss or deterioration. Ensure that all procedures and systems are maintained in line with Business Management Systems requirements.

Package and Benefits:

• Salary £42,000
• Hours 8:30am – 5:00pm, 4pm finish on Friday’s (flexi-hours are available)
• 30 days holiday, increasing to 33 days with service
• 4x salary – Death in service

** The business will consider an element of home/office split, if the incumbent lives a distance away **

Commutable from Boston, Peterborough, Stamford, Bourne, Wisbech, Grantham, Melton Mowbray

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.