- Performance-based bonus scheme
- Additional benefits package
- Monday to Friday - flexible hours
- Hybrid
Are you looking for a technical business development role as part of a company with an excellent reputation for service, quality, and lead times? If you like being on the road, meeting with customers, working with engineers, and enjoy opening new markets and revenue streams, this could be a brilliant fit for you!
I’m working with a business that has been steadily growing, and they have created this role to continue that growth. Historically, they have been very successful with business coming from word of mouth and incoming enquiries, so the opportunity to develop new business is huge. We are looking for a solution focused technical salesperson, as your customer will know the issue they are trying to solve, but not necessarily the best solution to solve it – that’s where your expertise will come in.
You will be selling their technical services across many industries, such as aerospace, medical, and automotive. You're encouraged to be out and about meeting with customers, with the rest of your time liaising internally with the technical teams to ensure your solutions are brought to life.
The Candidate: Business Development Manager
The ideal candidate will come from a technical engineering background, with exceptional communication skills and a customer-first mindset. We are also looking for someone with:
- A proven track record of generating new business.
- The ability to read and understand engineering drawings.
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills, with the ability to turn leads into profitable opportunities.
- Great organisational skills
- A proactive and results-driven approach, able to work independently and as part of a team.
- Flexible working hours, with a half day on Friday
- Pension, shares scheme, and life insurance.
- Healthcare scheme
Are you looking for a challenge as part of an evolving manufacturing business? We are looking for a Purchasing Manager to lead a small purchasing team and focus on improving the supply chain. You will report to the Operations Director, with the opportunity to bring your ideas and make changes to improve the supply chain function.
The role will involve purchasing subcontract services as well as electrical and electronic componentry, with daily use of the MRP system. The role will also involve:
- Raising purchase orders, and coordinating materials and services for production, basing selection on engineering and specifications, considering obsolescence, engineering changes and part revisions.
- Driving continuous improvement regarding price, quality, service, delivery performance, and lead times.
- Measure supplier performance, taking steps to ensure improvement, including reducing defective or unacceptable goods or services.
The Candidate: Purchasing Manager
The ideal candidate will have been in a similar position in an engineering environment, and will have most of the following skills and experience:
- Strong negotiation skills and a great communicator.
- A good understanding of the suppliers in electro-mechanical procurement.
- Ability to manage supplier relationships and performance.
- ERP/MRP experience.
- Exciting travel opportunities across Europe, Asia and the US
- Benefits package includes pension, healthcare scheme and shares scheme
- Office-based, with roughly 35% travel
Are you looking to work with interesting products, alongside a friendly and dedicated team? With this position, you will receive excellent training and an opportunity to work with a complex range of equipment used in laboratories worldwide. You can really hone your engineering skills and take your career up a notch.
The role will be extremely varied, with the opportunity to do some interesting work and become trained to perform equipment installations globally. A lot of the travel will be in Europe, so if that’s somewhere you’d like to explore, this could be a great fit! Or you may be looking for a role that means you’re not on the road all of the time: this will be around 35% travelling.
If this sounds like it’s up your street, and you’ve got an electro-mechanical engineering background, then please click apply!
This is the kind of work you'll be doing:
- Responding to customers who are having technical issues.
- Providing support when it comes to spare parts and components.
- Conducting testing and repairs in-house.
- Travel both nationally and internationally to conduct installations, service and repair work.
- Using your problem-solving ability to generate ideas for better ways of working.
The ideal candidate will have good diagnostic ability with excellent time management skills. We are also looking for:
- An electronic engineering background.
- An aptitude for troubleshooting, fault finding, and diagnosis.
- IT literate – able to install software/drivers etc.
- Fantastic communication skills.
- An inquisitive mind and happy to work independently.
- Willing to travel nationally and internationally with some overnight stays: a driving license is essential.
- Additional benefits include healthcare scheme, pension & life assurance
- Flexible hours with early finish on a Friday
- Development opportunities to progress your career
Are you looking to work with more interesting and complex products? This is an electromechanical assembly role that can offer you flexible hours and stability, as part of a small, close-knit engineering team.
You will have ownership for your builds from start to finish, so you’ll always know where you’re upto, keeping the quality of the build high. It can take between 2-4 weeks to fully complete a machine before passing it to the test department, so this role won’t be repetitive! It’s mechanical and electrical assembly work, using tools such as soldering irons, wire strippers, drills and screwdrivers.
After building it, you’ll also do functional testing, diagnosing issues if it doesn’t work using instruments such as multimeters and oscilloscopes, to make sure it works as expected. Full on-the-job training will be provided, and you’ll have support from the wider production and test team, should you need help with anything.
The Candidate: Production Technician
You will have most of the following skills and experience:
- Production assembly or maintenance background – a mix of mechanical and electrical experience.
- High attention to detail and ability to follow instructions and read engineering drawings.
- Ability to fault find and diagnose issues.
- Comfortable using a range of hand tools.
- Great communication skills.
- Flexible working hours, with a half day on Friday
- Pension, shares scheme, and life insurance.
- Healthcare scheme
Do you want to work in an enjoyable working environment that’s fast-paced and will make the days fly by? As part of a friendly team who are all pulling in the same direction. And freedom to get on with your job because you know what you’re doing and you’re good at it.
The role will involve purchasing a wide range of electronic components from PCBAs up to the console assembly level, with daily use of the MRP system. You will also get involved in managing supplier relationships, looking for new ones or improving the relationship with existing suppliers. You will also monitor supplier performance, with support from the Head of Supply Chain, as needed.
You’ll be part of a small purchasing team, and you will be focused on the electronics side of the purchasing. Your voice will be heard, and you’ll be able to bring your ideas to improve the department.
The Candidate: Technical Buyer
The ideal candidate will have been in a similar position, involved in electronic and electrical component purchasing, and will have most of the following skills and experience:
- Strong negotiation skills and a great communicator
- A good understanding of the suppliers in electronic and electrical procurement
- ERP/MRP experience – it doesn’t matter which one
- Stability and growth in an exciting and successful SME growing year on year
- Progression opportunity in an evolving business
- Half day Friday
Are you looking for a production planner role but in a more progressive industry? I can almost guarantee you have been somewhere where these products are used, unless you live in a cave…Their products have been seen at some of the most exciting venues and well-known events around the world.
It’s a really cool industry to be in with an awesome range of products, what’s not to love? They have a fantastic working environment, friendly and supportive, where team dynamics and the well-being of their people are more important than profit margins. They regularly promote from within and encourage personal development, and this role will be no different! They have been growing for the last 4 years and are about to move into new premises with 3 times to space to keep the momentum going.
If this sounds like somewhere you’d like to be, then please click apply!
Reporting to an experienced Operations Manager, you will have expertise and support around you daily. Their vision for the role involves scope to progress as you grow with the business, growth they have been experiencing for the last 3 years.
The role responsibilities will include:
- Helping to develop the site, processes, and procedures.
- Managing and updating the company ERP system (SAP).
- Using Excel to assist with planning.
- Releasing and completing work orders in production
- Maintaining work schedules
Production Planner Candidate:
- Experience in a small to medium-sized manufacturing company
- Strong Excel skills
- Understanding of the MRP process and how to effectively use MRP
- Experience in a similar position, such as Planner, Materials Controller, Scheduler
- Exciting international travel opportunities
- Benefits package includes travel uplift, pension, healthcare scheme and shares scheme
- Office-based, with roughly 30%-40% travel
Are you looking to work with interesting products, with the opportunity to travel to some exciting places? With this position, you will receive excellent training and get to work with a complex range of lab equipment. You can really hone your engineering skills and take your career up a notch.
The role will be extremely varied, getting involved in product testing, technical support and installations. Most of the travel will be in Europe, so if that’s somewhere you’d like to explore, this could be a great fit! Or you may be looking for a role that means you’re not always on the road: here you'd be based in the factory performing final testing, with travel expected to fluctuate between 25%-40%.
If this sounds like it’s up your street, and you’ve got an electro-mechanical engineering background, then please click apply!
This is the kind of work you'll be doing:
- Responding to customers who are having technical issues.
- Providing support when it comes to spare parts and components.
- Conducting testing and repairs in-house.
- Travel both nationally and internationally to conduct installations, service and repair work.
- Using your problem-solving ability to generate ideas for better ways of working.
The ideal candidate will have good fault-finding skills. We are also looking for:
- An electro-mechanical engineering background.
- An aptitude for troubleshooting, fault finding and diagnosis.
- IT literate – able to install software/drivers etc.
- Fantastic communication skills.
- An inquisitive mind and happy to work independently.
- Willing to travel nationally and internationally with some overnight stays.
- Life Assurance & Pension
- Annual bonus scheme
- Flexible hours
- Multiple wellness benefits
Do you enjoy interacting with people and learning about different testing requirements in the geotechnical engineering field? In this role, you'd be working closely with customers, developing ideas with them and creating solutions to their testing requirements.
With an ever-expanding customer base, they are looking for a solution-oriented Geologist or Geotechnical Engineer who wants to use their technical skills to help research facilities, universities, and laboratories all over the world. The business is expanding, and it’s an exciting time to join! We need your help to strengthen their international presence, supporting an established customer base. You'll get the opportunity to travel too, not only within Europe but further afield, to attend trade shows and exhibitions around the world.
The Role: Technical Consultant
- Build and maintain excellent relationships both with customers and agents
- Work with customers to develop solutions to their testing requirements
- Provide technical support to customers via email and phone.
- Participate in trade seminars, conferences, exhibitions, etc.
- Provide feedback to the company’s product development department on customer equipment requirements
The Candidate – Geotechnical Consultant
- Degree qualified in geotechnical engineering, geology, civil engineering, or an associated discipline.
- Willing to travel once every 2 months to international locations.
- Willing to learn new products as part of an in-depth training programme.
- Comfortable discussing product applications and able to work to tight deadlines.
- Highly motivated, confident, friendly, and adaptable levels of communication.
- Helping scientists perform tests in the lab with specialist equipment
- Travel across Europe including Spain, Germany, France and Italy
- Extensive training that will allow you to succeed in providing an excellent customer experience
Are you one of those people who loves to understand how things work? Taking things apart to put them back together again, or figuring out how different devices and instruments do what they are supposed to? This is a rare opportunity where you can combine your scientific mindset, and help people understand how these specialist instruments can help their research.
You will work closely with the Commercial Director, and become a central part of the business, giving you excellent career prospects and the opportunity to develop. They are looking for an energetic person to introduce their specialist instruments to universities and laboratories across the UK and Europe.
You will be responsible for many things, including customer liaison, product marketing, market research, and after-sales support. If you have recently completed your Masters or PhD, or find yourself in a similar role involved in physical sciences, but want something you can get your teeth into, please get in touch!
The Candidate: Scientific Product Specialist
We are open to applications from graduates through to candidates with industry experience!
The ideal candidate will be positive and confident in their ability, enjoy speaking to people, and will have most of the following skills and experience:
- Degree or Masters in Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science or an associated discipline.
- Great communication skills and an enjoyment of interacting with people.
- Willing to travel within the UK and Europe for customer visits and scientific conferences.
- A full UK Driving License is essential
You will be based in the office, supporting customers in the UK and Europe, with opportunities to travel to some beautiful countries!