QUALITY ENGINEER

PERMANENT

STAFFORDSHIRE - TAMWORTH

£30,000 - £38,000 + PENSION + BUSY FRIENDLY WORKING ENVIRONMENT

HIGH VOLUME MANUFACTURING

Company:

We are looking for an ambitious QUALITY ENGINEER.  This is a busy, dynamic working environment and would suit a Quality Engineer, passionate about Quality and keen to work in a progressive, busy, stable working environment.

You will be given day to day responsibility for quality assurance activities on site, for all manufactured, assembled and supplied product.

Requirements:

• Essential - relevant Quality Engineering experience
• Experience gained from within high volume manufacturing
• HNC in Engineering or equivalent experience
• Working knowledge of ISO 9001 and IATF 16949 would be highly beneficial
• Core Quality Engineer tools, such as SPC, FMEA, APQP and Control Plans
• Audit experience
• To have the ability to influence others
• Friendly and self-motivated

Duties:

• Day to day responsibility for control of quality assurance activities
• Lead and facilitate 8D process
• Manage customer complaints
• Implement containment activities
• Supplier liaison
• Full use of quality tools, such as Control Plans and SPC
• Lead assembly dimensional analysis
• Support APQP activities

This is a great opportunity, they will enable you to thrive in a busy, dynamic and friendly working environment. 

Interested?

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.

Maintenance Electrician (Shift Work)

We are actively seeking a Maintenance electrician within the Manchester location to join a leading organisation

Requirements:

• Carry out Preventive maintenance tasks.
• Responsible for breakdown a repairs of the plant equipment
• Dealing with PPM Systems / updating as and when required
• Responsible for Electrical / Mechanical and welding / fabrication
• Ideally, we are looking for this individual to hold previous experience with Siemens / Allen Bradley PLC’s as well as Hydraulics & Pneumatics.
• To hold a good understanding of FMEA
• Complete any other responsibilities given.
• Apprentice trained holding a ONC/HNC in Electrical Engineering
• Flexibility is key to this role - you will be required to work a 3 Shift systems.

Benefits:

• Salary: £32,080 
• Shift: Rotating Shift Morning / Afternoon / Nights 
• Pension
• 25 + 8 Days Holiday
• Canteen
• Parking
• Location: Manchester

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

The Role:

This is an excellent opportunity and your chance to join a talented, vibrant and creative design team. Client is a recognised market leading supplier, who design, develop and manufacture everything in the UK under one roof, from initial concept and manufacture through to delivery and installation. 

They pride themselves on taking their client’s brief and ‘digging deeper’ to uncover their true needs and requirements. Using their talent for innovation and creativity they develop a bespoke solution that really delivers.

This role sits within the design engineering team and specialises in taking sketches and concepts and get them ready to produce. They look into costings and production efficiencies - making the products come alive.

Key Responsibilities:

• Study concepts and sketches, interpret and convert them into a manufacturable product
• Analyse designs and spot opportunities for efficiencies and savings
• Work with Sales and Design team to ensure that detailed designs and costing meet client requirements
• Produce technical drawings to production level
• Define the costs of the product for quote and contract. Ensure maximum efficiencies and performance for their customers and ease of production
• Liaise with suppliers to gain best price options for product
• Assist in all aspects of in-house manufacturing from prototypes through to mass production and installation and work closely with various departments within the business to ensure the production process runs smoothly  

Person Specification:

• Ideally you will have a minimum of 2-3 years design experience, with the ability to multitask and cope with wide variety of projects

• You will have excellent Solidworks skills
• Ability to sketch to help you convey your thoughts and to create technical drawings suitable for production and supporting technical documentation (instruction diagrams etc)
• Ability to use or willingness to learn Illustrator/Photoshop to support projects, with a good understanding of manufacturing process i.e. material requirements, structural limitations and construction methodologies
• Commercial understanding and in-depth knowledge of costing, pricing and operational delivery
• Experience of working with materials (wood, panel components, structural metal fabrication and sheet metal) and working with plastics
• You are hands on, happy to build and learn from your own creations, with excellent problem-solving abilities

  Package and Benefits:

• Salary £25,000 with a host of employee benefits

Multi-Skilled Maintenance Engineer (Electrical / Mechanical Abilities)

Introduction:

An exceptional opportunity has arisen for Shift Engineer (Electrically Biased) to join a leading organisation within the Wigan Area.

The Person:

• Minimum qualifications - ONC or equivalent in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering
• Good electrical experience including effective isolation / testing / fault finding / working safely to 17th edition Wiring Regulations standards
• Good operational knowledge of PLC and Inverter programming.
• Able to work alone and within a small team
• Experience in an automated process environment including packaging machinery, conveyors, wrapping machines, tray erectors and heat tunnels.
• Flexible approach to working hours at short notice to meet customer requirements.
• Possess good communication skills to facilitate effective reporting and the training of the Technicians.
• PC literate as all spares ordering is in e-format.
• Apprentice trained holding a formal qualification in Engineering

Benefits:

• Salary: £32, 000
• Shift: Rotating shift work 6am till 2pm / 2pm till 10pm / 10pm till 6am
• Pension
• Childcare Vouchers
• Life Assurance
• 25 + 8 Days Holiday
• Industry: Distribution
• Location: Wigan

If you are interested in this position please send your CV ASAP.

The Role:

This is a fantastic opportunity with a world leading business in their field, with over 30 experience researching, manufacturing, developing and designing innovative, sustainable, cost effective solutions.

Due to an internal promotion, they have a requirement for an experienced Electrical Project / Process Engineer.

This position would suit someone with a continuous process / continuous loop type background, i.e., paper, pulp or similar.

Key Responsibilities:

• To provide team leadership and technical support for client operations and R&D unit for electric and electrical design/control systems of key equipment, and processes.  
• Through best practice leadership, providing the electrical team with technical advice, assistance and on site/external support on all areas of electrical engineering.

Person Specification:

• You will be a proven ‘Hands-On’ Engineer, with technical expertise
• The incumbent must possess good analytical and communicative skills and be able to work independently with little supervision.
• Ability to engineer, write, and execute Industrial programming of various controls including PLC, Motor Controls, HMI, etc
• Strong mechanical aptitude and electronic/electrical skills
• Electrical AutoCAD ability
• Capital Project management experience
• Procedures to be followed – design of equipment and projects to BS EN 60204-1, UL, IEE Wiring Regulations, HASAW, Environmental Acts, Standards, Insurance Requirements, OSHA, NEC and NESC code and other relative legislation

Qualifications:

• Either educated to degree level or a Technician Engineer, apprentice trained and educated to a minimum HNC standard in an electrical and electronic engineering discipline.

Salary:

• £47,000 plus employee benefits

Commutable from Preston, Bolton, Burnley, Bury, Rochdale, Wigan

This Sales Executive position offers an excellent basic salary and superb benefits!  33 Days holiday per year!  Bonus Scheme - Based on company performance!  Group Pension scheme!  Life Assurance!  Child Care Vouchers!  Cycle to Work Scheme!

As the Sales Executive - you will be working for an international organisation with more than 50 offices across the globe!  They manufacture a very technical product for the Aerospace, Automotive and Technical Health markets.  They have been established for over 35 years and are a leader in their field with an unrivalled reputation for Excellence.  

Purpose of the role:

You will contribute to the profitable sales growth of the business within the global market.  Cultivation of potential business opportunities and gaining additional, long term business with key accounts and their suppliers will be a crucial element of this role.

The ability to initiate and develop effective relationships with key influencers, decision makers and colleagues will be crucial. 

Seeking out, developing and converting new business will be key and some of this business will take time to come to fruition: the successful candidate will therefore be self-motivating and tenacious.

As the Sales Executive, your duties will include:

• Develop, agree and implement an account and sales development plan to ensure sales value and profitability targets are achieved
• Opportunity creation and management: Identify, pursue and convert opportunities for the business, utilizing dedicated CRM tools
• Sales lead development, customer/engineering quotes, enquires, actioning and management of the quotation process
• Negotiation of contracts and orders
• Tender management
• Account management and maintenance
• Market and competitor profiling, reacting to competitor activity
• Liaise with Technical, Ops, Marketing and other internal departments in order to help deliver the sales plan
• Analysis and interpretation of marketing statistics and internal business systems to proactively target customer activity: CRM `Hot-lists`, Lost opportunity resurrection, Exhibition follow-up
• KPI Performance reporting

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

• Previous experience as a Sales Executive - essential
• Commercial experience within Engineering is essential
• Experience in the following sectors:  Aviation, Defence, Automotive, Industrial – Medical or Nuclear
• Commercial experience within Engineering
• Account management/sales/business development
• Experienced at selling in international engineering markets
• Excellent CRM User
• Excellent Negotiating skills
• Relationship building: ability to relate to people
• Strong presentation skills
• Sound decision making skills based upon financial appraisals and analysis
• Production and analysis of data
• Strong Report writing ability
• Ability to develop a technical knowledge of products and applications.
• Tenacious, resilient and persuasive
• Self-motivated
• Presentable
• Willing to travel

Benefits package for the Sales Executive includes:

• 33 Days holiday per year (incl BH’s)
• Bonus Scheme - Based on company performance
• Group Pension scheme
• Life Assurance
• Child Care Vouchers
• Cycle to Work Scheme

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

This is an excellent opportunity to work for a UK market leader. Working within the Design team, the role holder will lead on structural design elements on projects as required, in a client facing engineering role.

Key Responsibilities:

• Adherence to the Integrated Management System 
• Undertaking concept designs and planning projects at concept stage on a wide variety of buildings 
• Responsibility for the production of structural engineering calculations, steel frames and associated hot rolled members and composite floor slabs
• Delivering excellent project work within agreed deadlines and budgets, interacting and cultivating relations with clients and other project members
• Keep management informed of important and relevant design decisions to make sure that the objectives of the company and client are achieved 
• Representing client at meetings with clients and suppliers 
• Assisting and mentoring of graduate engineers 

Person Specification:

• Proven Structural Engineer experience
• Ability to demonstrate a thorough knowledge of current codes of practice
• Experience of steel design is preferred but not essential as full on the job training will be provided 
• Comfortable undertaking hand calculations and using spreadsheets as standard, but able to demonstrate ability to use 3D modelling software.  Working knowledge of Trimble design software (Tekla Structural Designer) would be beneficial 
• Bachelor's degree BEng / BSc or Masters degree MEng / MSc that meets the engineering academic requirements for Chartership
• Working towards Chartership, CSCS card holder and you will hold a full clean UK driving licence 

Package and Benefits:

• Competitive salary, dependent on experience
• 25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays and an additional day for your birthday
• Company pension scheme, matching up to 5%
• Company life assurance - three times your annual salary 
• Workplace nursery scheme, Cycle to work scheme 
• Mobile and technology loans, Travel season ticket loan 
• Access to Perkbox - an online discount platform 
• Free eye tests for VDU users 
• Friendly, modern working environment

Commutable from Leeds, Bradford, Burnley, Halifax, Huddersfield

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER – EUROPE

MANCHESTER

PERMANENT

£60,000 + LIFE ASSURANCE + COMPANY BONUS + CYCLE SCHEME+ PENSION + HOLIDAY

MANUFACTURING

Company:

Are you looking for an exciting and new challenge? An opportunity that can really reward you and will allow you to travel while you do it? Or maybe it’s just time for a change… Then this could be a great opportunity for you!

We are currently recruiting for a Business Development Manager who has a Manufacturing/Technical Background to join a business how are going from strength to strength.

Duties:

• As Business Development Manager you will lead all sales and business development activity across central Europe.
• Build and effective pipeline of business through the use of the CRM
• You will be responsible for implementing new preferred supplier agreement with large OEM’s

Requirements:

• For this role you will need previous experience within a Business Development Management role
• As Business Development Manager you will need previous experience selling a technical solution or product
• It would be highly beneficial if you have EMEA/International knowledge
• Proven account management and new business experience
• The desire and ability to travel abroad to Clients regularly
• This role includes 70% travel to Europe

Benefits:

• Up to £60,000
• 25 Days Holiday + BH + option to buy further days
• Company Bonus
• Good pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Sick pay
• Cycle and nursery scheme
• Working for an exciting and Growing Business
• Job Stability
• Great opportunity to travel

Introduction:

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

Duties:

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

Requirements:

• You must hold formal electrical qualifications (and ideally be apprentice trained too), with proven experience as a Maintenance Technician of supporting plant and equipment within a manufacturing or production environment.

Benefits:

• For an experienced Maintenance Technician, we offer a negotiable starting Salary, with the company also offering Paid Overtime at Premium rates, Excellent Holiday Entitlement and Company Pension.

The role is commutable from Aston, Erdington, Solihull & Stechford

1999 - 2019 Celebrating 20 Years of Maintenance Technician Recruitment Excellence

Introduction:

As a Maintenance Electrician you will be joining a Maintenance Engineering Team at a leading Manufacturing company in Sittingbourne, Kent. You will be undertaking breakdown and preventative maintenance on plant machinery in this fast paced production facility.

Duties:

• In the role of Maintenance Electrician 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 12 hours 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 is up to £40,000 per annum, depending on skills and experience.

This position is commutable from Maidstone, Canterbury, Gillingham and surrounding areas.

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

We are seeking to recruit a Service Engineer to join our team who support our systems across the region.

You must currently hold either a Service Engineering or Plant Maintenance position where you have undertaken planned and reactive maintenance tasks to a range of plastic moulding plant and equipment; however it is imperative that you hold a multi skilled electrically biased ability that extends to holding some experience of supporting Automated or Plc controlled equipment.

Allied to your Service Engineer experience you will ideally be apprentice trained and qualified to NVQ 3 electrically (or equivalent).

Candidates who in addition have plc or robot training are at an advantage and a relatively clean driving license is also required.

In return for your skills and experience we offer a negotiable starting salary, Company Car, Paid Overtime, Enhanced Company Pension & 33 Days Holiday & BUPA

1999 - 2019 Celebrating 20 Years of Service Engineer Recruitment Excellence