• Autonomy to improve systems, controls, and commercial insights
• Leading the finance function for a growing SME
• A key part of the leadership team

Are you looking for an opportunity to take ownership of your own finance function within a business? This is an exciting and growing service business, and they’re looking for someone who can become part of their senior leadership teams and hold responsibility for all financial aspects of the company strategy. They need your commercial insight to help them continue to grow.

You will be investigating, summarising, reporting on, and making recommendations on how to improve the business: leading the finance function, providing a high-quality service to all stakeholders. This is an opportunity to get under the hood and into the inner workings of a business, with freedom to develop a suite of dashboards to help management understand the numbers and the why behind them.

This would be a great step forward for an experienced accountant who wants to help shape the future strategy of a business.

The Role:

• Oversee day-to-day finance operations, including payroll, VAT, and pensions
• Prepare monthly financial reports, forecasts, and budgets
• Provide commercial finance support, including sales & margin analysis
• Ensure compliance with IFRS and oversee external audits
• Manage and develop financial systems to support business growth

The Candidate: Finance Manager

The ideal person will like to take a hands-on approach to all company finance matters, and will also have the following:

• Fully qualified accountant (ACA/ACCA/CIMA)
• Experience in financial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting
• Strong influencing skills
• Hands-on approach with a commercial mindset
• Knowledge of accounting systems

If you're looking for a leadership role with real autonomy, apply today!

• Flexible working hours
• Annual bonus
• Benefits include access to healthcare support and pension

Are you looking for an opportunity to impact a manufacturing business? If you want to be Head of Supply Chain in a positive and rewarding environment, where you’ll be given autonomy to use your expertise in supply chain, then this could be the role for you.

They are a leading designer and manufacturer of electro-mechanical 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 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 Head of Supply Chain, they want your help with improving on-time delivery of goods coming in, 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 supplier relationships 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: Head of Supply Chain 

• Proven supply chain/purchasing management experience in a manufacturing environment. 
• 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.

• Hybrid working
• Bonus up to 20%
• Health Insurance & Life Assurance

Are you looking for an opportunity to use your people skills in an interesting 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 who believe in their values and the vision of the business. Together they achieved a record-breaking year last year and they want to continue growing. 

The products are technical, used in research around the world, so you need to be comfortable speaking about the science with like-minded people. There has been huge growth in automated testing – everyone wants to go faster with high throughput, and these products work perfectly alongside! You’ll be working closely with customers and the technical team, developing a concept product and managing the project through to successful delivery of a prototype. You will be bringing the voice of the customer back to the office to help bring the project to life.  

With many customers across the world, there will be some travel involved to visit customers and attend conferences and shows: roughly a trip every 6-8 weeks. The rest of the time you will be in the office, collaborating across the business, or working from home.

If you enjoy speaking to people and have great communication skills, with a background in life sciences, then we would love to hear from you!

The Candidate: Scientific Sales Manager
The successful candidate will be positive and confident in their ability, and will have most of the following skills and experience:

• Experience in life sciences, whether that be from academia or industry
• Some industry experience in a role interacting with customers
• Comfortable in a smaller business, 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

• An autonomous role where you can see your designs right the way through
• Interesting and varied electro-mechanical products
• Flexible hours
• Good benefits package: 6% pension, healthcare, bonus, life assurance

Bespoke equipment used in process equipment around the world, this is a chance to take a lead role in bringing tailored customer requirements to life and leading projects from start to finish. You’ll be working with very high-spec hardware, and each one is custom-made per order. As part of a multi-discipline team, and with everything manufactured in house you can see your designs right through to the end-product.

Here you’ll be using SolidWorks, though experience of any 3D CAD package is fine, and you’ll be creating 3D models, detail components drawings as well as assembly drawings.

The Candidate: SNR Mechanical Design Engineer

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

• 5+ years’ experience in mechanical design in a role such as Design Engineer, CAD Engineer, Mechanical Engineer
• Chemical engineering or pharmaceutical processing experience would be an advantage
• A liquid movement or processing background
• Experience using SolidWorks, Inventor, Solid Edge, Creo or a similar package.
• Ability to think of your feet.
• Experience with fluid dynamics or designing pressure vessels.
• Confident in voicing your opinions and ideas, both within the team and to other departments

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

Are you looking for an opportunity to impact a manufacturing business? They can offer you great learning support and a visible career development opportunity. You will be instrumental in helping to set up the MRP system, analysing the data and looking for opportunities to automate and improve processes. 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 a cutting-edge range of 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 drive a business forward. 

As a Supply Chain & Inventory Manager, you will oversee the supply chain, ensuring materials are available to support business growth. This includes strategic sourcing, inventory control, demand planning 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 admin team to support them with the order process.
•    Develop and implement sourcing strategies to support business growth.
•    Establish best practices for inventory forecasting, purchasing, and material control.
•    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, and familiarity with supplier development processes.
•    Previous experience in MRP implementation
•    Strong analytical and change management skills.
•    A clear communicator, confident in challenging assumptions, detail-oriented, energetic, and results-driven.

An opportunity for a mechanical Assembly Technician has arisen with a brilliant company – if you are looking for a stable role in a great environment, where you can get on with the work you enjoy with varied responsibilities, then this is worth applying for!

Well known for product quality, the business is renowned for their high precision equipment and they have a global customer base. The products are complex, made up of multiple sub-assemblies, so you won’t be doing the same task day-in and day-out, keep it varied and interesting.

The Assembly Technician will be part of a small team of skilled people. You will be responsible for the following:

• Building assemblies, sub-assemblies and complete systems to engineering drawings.
• Operating in a low-volume, high-value environment 
• Mechanical assembly of frames, and cabinets as well as some more intricate assembly work.
• Pre-testing some assemblies before sending complete products through to the test department.

The Candidate: Mechanical Production Technician

The successful candidate will consider themselves to have experience in an assembly environment, and will also:

• Have experience with mechanical equipment build.
• Good mechanical assembly experience, from intricate work up to large-scale frame build.
• Be organised and disciplined, ensuring no shortcuts are taken to ensure product quality.
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• Exciting travel opportunities across the UK, Europe and Asia 
• 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. 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%-50%. 

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 and excellent time management 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.

• Flexible hours Monday – Friday 
• Life assurance and pension scheme
• Healthcare cashback plan

An opportunity for an Electro-mechanical Assembly Technician has arisen with a brilliant company – if you are looking for a stable role in a great environment, where you can get on with the work you enjoy with varied responsibilities, then this is worth applying for!
At the forefront of their industry, the business is renowned for continuously developing new high-technology equipment and they have a global customer base. The products are complex, made up of multiple sub-assemblies, so you won’t be doing the same task day-in and day-out, keep it varied and interesting.

The Assembly Technician will be part of a small team of skilled people. You will be responsible for the following: 
•    Building assemblies, sub-assemblies and complete systems to engineering drawings.
•    Operating in a low-volume, high-value environment where it will typically take 2-3 weeks to build 1 full system.
•    Electrical wiring on control boxes and racking systems.
•    Mechanical assembly of frames, and cabinets as well as some more intricate assembly work.
•    Pre-testing some assemblies before sending complete products through to the test department.

The Candidate: Electro-mechanical Production Technician
The successful candidate will consider themselves to have experience in an electrical or electro-mechanical manufacturing environment, and will also: 
•    Have experience with electro-mechanical equipment build.
•    Experience with wiring looms and wiring control units.
•    Good mechanical assembly experience, from intricate work up to large-scale frame build.
•    Be organised and disciplined, ensuring no shortcuts are taken to ensure product quality.

• Flexible hours and excellent benefits package
• An opportunity to make your mark and have your voice heard

Are you looking for an opportunity to join a niche engineering business that can offer you long-term stability, even in the current market? They are a leading designer and manufacturer of a pioneering range of equipment, used in research globally. This is a high-precision, low-volume manufacturing environment. Recognised as one of the most innovative and technically advanced manufacturers globally, they are now looking to add to their team with a Manufacturing Engineer. 

Overall, the role is to support production and improve their processes and procedures. You will be working closely with the wider engineering team to learn what they do, how they do it and coming up with continuous improvement initiatives. Responsibilities include:
•    Creating BoMs, SOPs and work instructions.
•    Supporting NPI to make sure layouts are optimised and tooling is correct. 
•    Document control.
•    Identifying opportunities for continuous improvement throughout the manufacturing process.

The Candidate: Manufacturing Engineer

The ideal candidate will be organised, logical and comfortable using ERP/MRP and different computer systems. They will also have previous experience in an electro-mechanical manufacturing environment, understanding DfM and DfA, with strong knowledge of lean manufacturing tools.