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

An opportunity for a Wiring 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 continuously develops complex products, made up of multiple sub-assemblies. Operating in a low-volume, high-complexity environment where it will typically take 2-3 weeks to build 1 full system, keeping your days varied and interesting. 

The Wiring Technician will be part of a small team of skilled production technicians. You will be responsible for the following: 

• Building assemblies, sub-assemblies and complete systems to engineering drawings.
• 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.

• Exciting travel opportunities across the UK, Europe and Asia 
• Benefits package includes travel uplift, pension, healthcare scheme and shares scheme
• Office-based, with roughly 35% 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.

• Building and testing scientific equipment
• Flexible hours
• Development opportunities to progress your career
• Benefits include life assurance, pension and shares scheme

 
Are you looking for an opportunity to work with more interesting and complex products? As part of a company of around 50 people, you’ll be part of a close-knit production team. They are responsible for the assembly and final test of countertop scientific products. The team enjoy the environment. Many have been there for years! But due to continued growth, they are looking to bring in someone new and there will be plenty of opportunities for you to develop there too.

You will be responsible for mechanical and electronic assembly work, using tools such as soldering irons and wire strippers. The products are varied and there is a huge product range, keeping the days varied and interesting. They will fly by!

The Role: Assembly Technician

• Responsible for full product build including final inspection and testing upon completion.
• Repairing products
• Testing and calibration of the finished product.
• Reading and interpreting engineering drawings.
• Using hand and power tools.

 
The Candidate: Assembly Technician

• You will have most of the following skills and experience:
• Electro-mechanical assembly background;
• High attention to detail and ability to follow circuit diagrams;
• Previously used equipment includes multimeters, micrometers, and vernier gauges.
• Dexterous: comfortable with intricate hand work.
• Great communication skills.

• Full list of benefits below
• The chance to be part of a rapidly growing company and the next success story
• Training that will allow you to succeed in providing an excellent customer experience 

Are you passionate about STEM? Do you have a technical mind, an inquisitive nature, and a love of social interaction? In this role, you can use your technical knowledge and have a big impact on teaching the next generation of scientists and engineers!

We make equipment and apparatus used in universities and research centres all over the world, helping to teach the next generation of STEM professionals, and we have been for over 50 years. You will have the opportunity to work with outstanding professors, engineers and scientists in this vital field across the Heartland and Texas. We have been trading in the US for over 30 years, and with a team of Territory Sales Manager based in the US, there is plenty of opportunity for collaboration and camaraderie.

We need you to help strengthen our presence in the US, assisting our established customer base within Universities and Laboratories throughout the territory. With over 4,000 universities and colleges in the country, the market is rich with opportunity. You will be given extensive training and access to free online courses to keep building on your skillset. With this comes an exciting career path, keeping the momentum going. 

If you have a bachelor's in the sciences or engineering and enjoy building relationships with people, then please click apply! 

Additional Benefits:

• Attractive commission structure – earning circa $30,000 per annum
• Health Insurance, Life Insurance
• Retirement 401k plan with company match
• Paid sick leave, paid vacation & personal time plus paid public holidays

• Annual bonus
• Flexible hours
• Pension, healthcare, and life assurance scheme

Are you looking for an opportunity to be number one in finance within a manufacturing business? This is a growing company that make complex and varied products, and they’re looking for someone who can become part of their senior leadership team and hold responsibility for all financial aspects of the strategy. They have been steadily growing and are investing to support that growth, and they need your commercial insight to help make this happen.

You will be investigating, summarising, reporting on, and recommending how to improve what they are doing. You will lead the finance team and provide a high-quality service to all stakeholders. 
This would be a great role for an experienced Head of Finance looking for a challenge: there is a lot of improvement work to be done and many challenges to overcome. 

You will report to the MD and be responsible for: 

• Ensuring company financial systems are robust and compliant, as well as supporting future business growth.
• Strategising, analysing and managing, ensuring finance are involved in key business decisions as part of the senior leadership team.
• Managing the company’s accounting function, including the creation of financial reporting packs with analysis, statutory accounts, and presenting annual accounts to the Board.
• Leading financial forecasting processes.
• Providing commercial finance support to the wider management teams, including things such as margin analysis, pricing strategy, and reviewing stock provisioning policies. 

The Candidate: Finance Director

The ideal candidate will be an experienced accountant who likes to take a hands-on approach to all company finance matters and will also have the following:

• Experienced in financial management within a manufacturing environment.
• Fully Qualified ACCA / CIMA / ACA;
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence at all levels;
• A self-motivated, strategic thinker.
• Passionate about continuous improvement and digitisation.

• Performance based bonus
• Fantastic career path
• Hybrid

Are you looking for an opportunity to join an engineering business with huge growth potential that can offer you career development and a key role in their growth moving forward? This is an opportunity to become a central part of a business, working closely with the MD, giving you excellent career prospects and development opportunities. They are looking for a motivated engineer to work closely with customers, many of whom have been customers for years!

They are one of the only companies in the country making these products. Their order book is huge, and without anyone actively trying to secure sales, the opportunity to grow is massive. You will be the first person in a new department, giving you the chance to grow with the business. The products they manufacture are used for high-end technical applications, so a solid mechanical engineering grounding is key. 

You will be responsible for many things, including design, customer liaison, account management, interpreting customer specifications, and signing off on designs for production. If you have experience of producing engineering drawings or find yourself in a similar role involved in mechanical design, but want to take your career to the next level, please click apply!

The Candidate: Technical Sales Engineer
The successful candidate will be positive and confident in their ability, self-motivated, and will have most of the following skills and experience:

• Qualification in Mechanical Engineering.
• Experience using 3D Design software, e.g. SolidWorks or Inventor.
• Comfortable in a customer-facing role.
• Inquisitive, with excellent attention to detail.

• Flexible hours and 4 day week option
• Healthcare cashback plan and pension scheme
• Share Incentive plan 
• Path to Directorship 

I am partnered with a company offering you the opportunity to be an instrumental part of their next stage of growth. An SME who designs and manufactures high-precision equipment used for cutting-edge research globally. With Year-on-Year growth and additional headcount, they are looking for someone who can be their next Operations Director, to support the MD and lead the operations team, taking them to the next level.

They have a fantastic working environment and a flat management structure, they are friendly and supportive where team dynamics and the wellbeing of their people is the most important element. They encourage personal development, and this will be an opportunity where you can really influence the future shape of the business, and reap the rewards.

The Role – Operations Manager:
You will be responsible for production, procurement, production engineering, stock control & shipping, and facilities. Your role will include:

• Managing a team of 10-15 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 to time, cost & quality requirements.
• Performance management of the team, including regular 1-to-1’s to review performance and develop objectives. 
• Utilising your experience and knowledge to help the business through their pain points

These are just some of the responsibilities: it will be a varied and exciting role with opportunities to implement new procedures, and make a big impact! If this sounds like it could be for you, please get in touch with Ashlea Harland to discuss the details in confidence.

The Candidate – Operations Manager:

• Previous experience within manufacturing of electro-mechanical products.
• Experience implementing lean manufacturing/continuous improvement techniques.
• Strong leadership capability with management experience. 
• Approachable and empathetic, with the ability to influence others.
• Strong business acumen and a high level of integrity.
• Not afraid to be hands on and lead by example. 

• 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 and providing a high-quality service to the wider management team. 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!

• The chance to travel to interesting places in countries like Spain, Germany, France and Italy
• Extensive training that will allow you to succeed in providing an excellent customer experience 

Do you love 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 inquisitive nature and technical 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 a proactive 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: 
We are open to applications from recent graduates through to candidates with significant 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 or Masters in Physics, Mechanical Engineering, Material Science or an associated discipline.
• Great communication skills with a love of interacting with people.
• Willing to travel within the UK and Europe for customer visits and occasional 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! 

• Physics • Instrumentation • Material Science •

• 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

• 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 the Head of Supply Chain in a positive and rewarding environment, where you’ll be given autonomy to use your expertise, 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 aren'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.