• Career advancement opportunities
• Flexible working hours
• Healthcare scheme
• Annual bonus 

Are you looking for an opportunity to impact a manufacturing business? If you want to be a Supply Chain & Logistics Manager in a positive and rewarding environment, where you’ll be given autonomy to use your expertise in supply chain. The role will grow with you, keeping you engaged and challenged. If this sounds like something for you, click apply!

They are a leading designer and manufacturer of electromechanical products, used in growing markets globally. With a long-standing history and a great brand reputation, they can offer you a role where you can put your stamp on it and help drive a business forward. You’ll be joining a company of less than 50 people, so your team will be a manageable size, there isn’t so many people that you’ll forget everyone’s name, and most importantly, you will be able to make a huge impact as part of the leadership team.

As Supply Chain & Inventory Manager, they want your help with improving the on-time delivery of incoming goods, and there is a big opportunity to improve quality too. You will manage the supply chain, ensuring materials are available to support business growth. This includes strategic sourcing, demand planning, logistics and managing supplier relationships. You will also be responsible for the following:

• Manage daily supply chain activities: identify material needs, negotiate prices and delivery and work closely with the purchasing team to support them with the order process.
• Develop and implement sourcing strategies to support business growth.
• Build and maintain relationships with suppliers to meet quality, cost, and delivery goals.
• Evaluate, monitor, and report on supplier performance, addressing issues as needed.
• Support inventory control during stock counts and resolve discrepancies.

The Candidate: Supply Chain & Inventory Manager 

• Proven supply chain/purchasing management experience in a manufacturing environment. 
• Hands-on and proactive approach 
• Able to implement supplier development processes.
• Strong analytical and change management skills.
• A clear communicator, confident in challenging assumptions, detail-oriented, energetic, and results-driven.

• Home based position with occasional trips to the office in the South
• Exciting international travel opportunities - covering EMEA
• Annual Bonus
• Company Car
• Generous annual leave, pension & life assurance

Are you looking for an opportunity to work with complex equipment used in critical and lifesaving fields, such as cancer diagnostics? At the forefront of their industry, they need a permanent Field Service Engineer to support their customers across the EMEA region. You will be working with a close-knit, down-to-earth team that truly look after their people.

You will be responsible for the installation and set-up of their lab equipment in locations across the UK and Europe. They have systems installed in over 30 countries globally, covering almost every continent. The travel involved will be roughly 150 days per year (mostly Europe), and when not travelling, you will be based at home. As a Field Service Engineer, the role will also involve: 

• Installation and calibration of scientific equipment.
• Providing training to customers across the EMEA region.
• Conducting validation, quality control, and troubleshooting activities on systems.
• Managing your diary and travel, along with creating and maintaining all relevant documentation.

The Candidate: Field Service Engineer
The ideal candidate will be willing to travel internationally, and will also: 

• Have previous experience in a field service position.
• Have worked with complex electro-mechanical or laboratory equipment.
• Be flexible, self-confident and happy to work alone on occasion. 
• Be organised and disciplined, ensuring no shortcuts are taken to ensure product integrity.
• Excellent communication skills.

Based from home, you can live anywhere in the South of England.
 

• Flexitime hours
• Bonus and Pension
• Healthcare cash back scheme
• Share incentive scheme
• Lunchtime finish Friday

My Client is looking for an Assembly technician to help with the growing production levels. They have been operating for many years, working on the development and building of a wide range of products that are supplied to multiple industries. This wide range of products, shipped worldwide, means that no two days are the same. This provides a varying and challenging day to day work load while the company themselves do everything to help make the work environment great for all of its employees.

Responsibilities of the Assembly Technician

• Manufacture of products from drawings
• Use of tools and power tools
• Use of initiative and experience
• Use of assembly skills (vary between Mechanical and Electrical)
• Understanding of wide product ranges

You will have the following traits and skills;

• At least 2 years’ experience in an assembly position – mechanical or electrical
• Mechanical assembly and electrical wiring capabilities
• Reliable and honest
• Able to use own initiative in their assembly work

• Development opportunity 
• Performance-based bonus circa £6,000
• Hybrid working
• Annual bonus
• Health Insurance & Life Assurance

Are you looking for a company that can help you develop and progress? This is a pathway to become a Key Account Manager in the next 12 months, as part of a growing engineering business. You will initially be given smaller accounts to manage, working with a team of experienced KAMs to help you develop your account management skills, with a development plan to progress to Key Account Manager. You will then begin to manage larger, more complex accounts with business units worldwide. 

They are an SME with an amazing culture: a genuinely happy team that believes in their values and the business's vision. The products are technical, used in life sciences, so you need to be comfortable working with technical products. 

A typical day will be varied: researching and mapping out accounts, developing relationships with key stakeholders, putting prices together, working with technical support, and that’s just some of the responsibilities! You will also travel occasionally to visit customers and attend trade shows, but no more than 20% of the time initially. The rest of the time, you will be in the office, collaborating across the business, and learning from the experienced people around you.

If you have some experience in sales but want something that you can really get your teeth into, please get in touch!

The Candidate: Account Manager
The successful candidate will be positive and confident in their ability, and will have most of the following skills and experience:
•    Some experience in sales within a technical or scientific industry.
•    Comfortable in an SME environment, where processes and systems are being developed.  
•    Willing to travel throughout the UK and internationally for customer visits and occasional scientific conferences.

• Performance-based bonus circa £8,000
• Hybrid working and flexible hours
• Annual bonus
• Health Insurance & Life Assurance

Are you looking for an opportunity to use your account management skills in a progressive and growing business? This is an opportunity to become a central part of a business, giving you excellent career prospects and the opportunity to develop. They are an SME with an amazing culture: a genuinely happy team that believe in their values and the vision of the business. The products are technical, used in research around the world, so you need to be comfortable working with technical products. Though there is no need to be an expert in their field!

With many of the accounts based in Europe and the US, you will be travelling around 25% of the time to visit customers and attend trade shows. The rest of the time, you will be in the office collaborating across the business or working from home.

You will be responsible for many different things, but most importantly you will be networking across your accounts and building relationships from top to bottom. If you have some experience in account management, but want something that you can really get your teeth into, please get in touch!

The Candidate: Key Account Manager
The successful candidate will have at least 3 years of experience in a sales position, and will have most of the following skills and experience:
•    Experience in managing and growing accounts, with a good commercial mindset.
•    Experience in a technical or scientific industry.
•    Comfortable in an SME environment, where processes and systems are being developed.  
•    Willing to travel throughout the UK and internationally for customer visits and occasional scientific conferences, on average 30% of the time
 

• Career building opportunity
• Pension and life assurance scheme
• Flexible hours: Monday - Friday

Are you looking for a position where you can use your strong administrative skills within a growing business? This role is ideal for someone wanting to develop their skills and advance their career. You would be working as part of a friendly and collaborative business that has created a great working environment where people feel trusted. They want to hear and implement your ideas if you see a better way of doing something: you will be an important part of the team.

There will be full training on the systems and processes: they will give you everything you need to be successful in your role. If you are looking for career development, they will work with you to help you develop you skills, creating a pathway ahead of you. We need someone who is motivated to learn and develop their skillset!

You will be responsible for the following:

• Placing purchase orders.
• Updating and maintaining all purchasing records and data within the ERP.
• Liaising with suppliers to ensure on-time deliveries to meet the production schedule.
• Working closely with other members of the department, including production planning and the wider supply chain team.

The Candidate: Procurement Administrator

• Experience in an administrative role and comfortable handling lots of information.
• Strong multi-tasking, organisational and filing skills.
• A want to improve the way things are done for efficiency.
• Great communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office.

• 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, you'll have freedom and be trusted to follow your instinct and make decisions.

You’ll have access to all a fantastic online training platform, which means you’ll learn more, become even better at your job, and open doors to internal moves or promotions in the future. We support our team with external training and qualifications too.

The role will involve purchasing a wide range of fabricated parts and electronic components, from PCBAs up to 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 wider team as needed.

The Candidate: Technical Buyer

The ideal candidate will have been in a similar position, involved in electronic component or fabricated part 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 fabricated parts procurement
• ERP/MRP experience – it doesn’t matter which one

• Commission Scheme
• Annual Bonus
• Healthcare plan
• Pension

Are you looking for a role where you can use your technical knowledge to help customers with their R&D?  This role offers full training, long-term stability, and a chance to excel, as part of a company that designs and manufactures R&D equipment. This is a fantastic opportunity for a driven graduate looking to kick-start their career. This is about personality over product knowledge, so you must be able to build rapport with both new and existing customers. 

You will be based in the office, introducing specialist products into universities, laboratories, pharmaceutical labs, and R&D establishments across the UK and Europe. You will be responsible for many things, including customer liaison, product marketing, market research, and after-sales support. With full training, in time you will travel to meet customers across the UK and Europe. If you have recently completed your degree or find yourself in a similar role involved in engineering, but want something you can get your teeth into, please get in touch!
Reporting to the Sales Director, you will also be responsible for the following: 

• Selling to new and existing customers throughout the UK and Europe
• Networking with end users across your territory  
• Providing technical support & training to customers on the full range of products
• Getting involved in relevant exhibitions and conferences 

The Candidate: Area Sales Manager 

We are open to applications from graduates through to candidates with industry experience! 
The successful candidate will be positive and confident in their ability, enjoy speaking to people, and will have most of the following skills and experience:

• Degree in Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Food Technology or an associated technical discipline.
• Great communication skills with a love of building relationships with people.
• Willing to travel within the UK and Europe for customer visits and occasional trade shows.
• A full UK Driving License is essential

• Stability and growth in an exciting and successful SME
• Progression opportunity in an evolving business

Are you looking for a production planner role but in a more progressive industry? They have a fantastic working environment, friendly and supportive, where team dynamics and the wellbeing of their people are more important than profit margins. They promote from within and encourage personal development, and this role will be no different! They have been going from strength to strength over the last few years and have built a fantastic brand in the industry.

If this sounds like somewhere you’d like to be, then please click apply!

The role responsibilities will include:

• Create, modify and maintain the production plan using the MRP system
• Agree on schedule requirements with Sales, Purchasing and Production, helping to develop the site, processes, and procedures.
• Maintain accurate planning of all parts and BOMs.
• 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, or Scheduler.

• Additional benefits include pension, healthcare plan, and employee assistance programme
• Flexible hours, with an early finish on Fridays
• West Sussex based

Are you looking for an opportunity to use your test engineering capability in a role focused products used to keep people safe? The role will be varied, focused on final testing of products and supporting other departments and customers with technical issues. You will have strong electronic fault-finding skills and be comfortable working with computers.

As part of an SME, your role will be flexible, and you will work closely with various departments. Focused on both hardware and software, you’ll also get to build conceptual test equipment and prototypes for development testing purposes.

As Test Engineer, you will also be responsible for the following:

• Conducting product servicing and repair on faulty units
• Maintain product assembly and test procedures, and be involved in the creation of new and improved processes
• Providing technical support to customers
• Developing product performance specification

The Candidate

The successful Test Engineer will have:

• 2+ years of experience in electrical testing, inspection, assembly, or service engineering.
• An aptitude for troubleshooting, fault finding and diagnosis.
• IT Literate
• Willingness to get hands-on in all areas to solve problems and ensure a high standard of product quality.

• Excellent bonus scheme
• Board-level position
• Additional benefits

I am partnered with a company offering you the opportunity to be an instrumental part of their next stage of growth. An SME that designs and manufactures high-precision equipment used for cutting-edge research globally, that want someone who can help drive continuous improvement across operations and the wider business. They are looking for someone to lead their manufacturing operation and be an active part of the leadership team, taking them to the next level.

They have a fantastic working environment and a genuinely collaborative leadership team. They encourage driving continuous improvement, taking accountability and team development. They have an operations department that is running very well, but there are plenty of opportunities to make improvements. This will be an opportunity where you can really influence the future of the business and reap the rewards.

The Role – Operations Director:
You will be responsible for production, procurement, planning, stock control & shipping, and after-sales. Your role will include:

• Managing a team of 15-20 people, providing leadership and coaching to increase the team’s capability and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
• Be a key part of the Senior Leadership Team, developing the company’s strategy alongside the MD.
• Ensuring all orders are delivered on time, to cost & quality requirements.
• Performance management of the team, including regular 1-to-1s to review performance and develop objectives. 
• Using your experience and knowledge to help the business deliver its strategic growth goals.

These are just some of the responsibilities: it will be a varied and impactful role with opportunities to implement new procedures and drive operational excellence! If this sounds like it could be for you, please get in touch to discuss the details in confidence.
 

The Candidate – Operations Director:

• Previous experience within the manufacturing of electro-mechanical products.
• Strong leadership capability with management experience. 
• Lean Six Sigma qualified
• A change agent with an operational excellence mindset.
• Self-motivated, approachable and empathetic.
• Strong business acumen and a high level of integrity.
• Not afraid to be hands-on and lead by example. 
• Proven experience of line and task management of operations teams with up to 30 people

• Monday-Friday with an early finish on a Friday!
• Benefits package includes pension, bonus, life assurance

Are you looking for a company that values their employees, where you manage your own projects from concept right through to production? You would be working for a manufacturing business specialising in the design and manufacture of metal components used in various critical industries, such as oil & gas, medical and aerospace. They have been around for over many years, with a huge focus on investing into their team and their facilities.

They are looking to add a Mechanical Design Engineer to the team. Here you’ll be using SolidWorks, though experience of any 3D CAD package is fine, and you’ll be creating 3D models, detailed component drawings, as well as assembly drawings. If this sounds interesting, please click apply!

The Candidate: Mechanical Design Engineer

The ideal candidate will be a proactive Engineer who looks for solutions to problems, and will have most of the following skills and experience:

• 3+ years’ experience in mechanical design in a role such as Design Engineer, CAD Engineer, Mechanical Engineer
• Experience using Solidworks, Inventor, Solid Edge, Creo or a similar 3D CAD package.
• Ability to think of your feet.
• Experience working with metal and designing components
• Confident in voicing your opinions and ideas, both within the team and to other departments

• Exciting travel opportunities
• Excellent benefits package including pension, healthcare scheme and shares scheme

Are you looking to work with interesting products, working 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. 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 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.

You will consider yourself to have good diagnostic ability with excellent time management skills. You will also have:

• 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.

• Excellent benefits package including pension, healthcare scheme and shares scheme
• Flexible Hours: Monday - Friday
• Travel opportunities across Europe, Asia and South America

Do you enjoy figuring out why something isn't working and fixing it? In this position, you will be the primary point of contact for technical issues, working with a diverse range of electromechanical equipment used in R&D settings worldwide. The role will be varied, focused on final testing of products and supporting other departments and customers with technical issues. You will have strong electronic fault-finding skills and be comfortable working with computers.

You will have the opportunity to perform equipment installations and repairs globally, spending around 20% of your time at customer sites. If this sounds like it’s up your street and you have 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.
• Use your problem-solving ability to generate ideas for better ways of working.
• Travelling to customer sites to perform installations and repairs (circa 20%-25% travel).

The ideal candidate will consider themselves to have good diagnostic ability with excellent time management skills. They will also have:

• An electronic engineering background.
• An aptitude for troubleshooting, fault-finding and diagnosis.
• IT literate.
• Fantastic communication skills.
• An inquisitive mind and happy to work independently.
• Willing to travel nationally and internationally.
• A driving license is essential.

• Providing final testing and installation for complex electro-mechanical equipment
• Exciting international travel opportunities
• Benefits package includes travel uplift, pension, healthcare scheme and shares scheme
• Office-based, with roughly 25%-40% travel

Are you looking to work with interesting products and have the opportunity to travel to some exciting places? With this position, you will receive excellent training and get to work with a diverse range of lab equipment. You can really hone your engineering skills and take your career up a notch.  

The role will be varied, performing 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 less travel: 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 
• Fantastic communication skills.
• An inquisitive mind and able to work independently.
• Willing to travel nationally and internationally with some overnight stays.