Manufacturing & Production

Our Manufacturing Division consists of experienced consultants who have over ten years experience in recruiting Technical staff within the Manufacturing and Production sectors.

Manufacturing is the transformation of raw materials into finished goods, or intermediate processes involving the production or finishing of semi-manufactures, with such a large process involved, we are specialised to recruit for the whole spectrum. Therefore candidates such as Operatives, Toolmakers, Weld Engineers, Production Engineers, Commodity and Raw Materials Purchasing, Team Leaders, Operations Manager, Manufacturing Directors are finding employment through Probe on a daily basis.

  • Continuous Improvements
  • Six Sigma
  • Lean Manufacturing
  • JIT
  • CNC
  • Health & Safety
  • Cost Reduction
  • Waste Management
  • Toolmaking
  • Production Control

If you would like a confidential discussion surrounding strategic hiring for your organisation or your own career path we would be delighted to hear from you to determine how our services can assist you in finding the right solution so please call us on  0121 321 4311

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An exceptional opportunity has arisen for an Experienced Maintenance Engineer. 

This is an opportunity to Join a leading organisation that have sites throughout the UK and continue to grow. An opportunity to join a Friendly & busy site where you will join an already established team.  
  
Benefits the Maintenance Engineer will receive: 

  • £47,000   
  • Progression opportunities 
  • Up to 10% Pension Contribution 
  • Private Healthcare 
  • 25+8days holiday
  • Cycle to work scheme. 
  • Assistants Program / Health Advice 
  • Overtime  

Shift: Monday to Thursday – 7:30pm till 5:30am / Friday 4pm till 2am.  47.5 hours 

Key Responsibilities the Maintenance Engineer:   

  • To work as part of the Maintenance team as a mechanically focused technician with some multi-skilled experience. The position will be responsible for providing mechanical expertise, carrying out repairs on plant equipment in a timely and efficient manner and ensuring equipment is safe and fit for purpose. The position holder will be responsible for safety permits where required and to provide first line supervision for all contactor activity. 
  • To provide mechanical support to the maintenance department in order to carry out repairs on all plant equipment. 
  • Ensure all machinery and equipment on site is both mechanically and electrically safe. 
  • Carry out other support maintenance work when required. 
  • Carrying out repairs on the following Kit: Pumps / Conveyor systems / Gearboxes / Hydraulics & Pneumatics.
  • Ideally holding experience within Chemical or Heavy engineering. 
  • We are looking for an Apprentice trained Maintenance engineer. 
  • Holding a formal qualification in Mechanical engineering. 
  • Flexibility is key – a Motivated individual who is keen to take on over time.

The Maintenance engineer’s role is commutable from the following locations:  Harrogate, York, Middlesbrough, Ripon, Kilburn, Lower Dunsforth 

 

We are a well-established and highly regarded business that specialises in design and manufacture of products for all engineering industries. We operate through subsidiary companies and marketing organisations, each of which are directed to specific market sectors.

This is a superb opportunity for a Maintenance Electrician to join a medium size team. This is hands-on role, working both independently and within the site Maintenance Team. Work will involve overhead cranes, welding equipment, AC motors, including Variable speed drives - PLC controls, thermocouples, and process controllers.

Benefits

  • Base salary of £35,000 
  • 33 Days Holiday
  • Company Pension
  • Hours are Monday to Friday Mornings 6am to 1:30pm and Monday to Friday Afters 11:00 to 19:30 (Friday 10.00 to17.30). 
  • Currently two weeks of mornings one week of afternoons. Flexibility is required on working hours to ensure the smooth running of the plant, including overtime and weekend work when required. 
  • £25 per week on mornings, £50 per week on afternoons. Overtime rates are £20.20 during the week, £21.20 Saturdays, and £22.20 Sundays

Key Duties

As a Maintenance Electrician, your key responsibilities will include: 

  • Respond immediately to breakdowns, carry out fault diagnosis and repairs in a safe and timely manner.
  • Complete a daily written report on work carried out, spares stock levels, PPMs etc.
  • Monitor spares, identify when stock levels are low.
  • Carry out preventive maintenance tasks and HSE checks

Requirements of a Maintenance Electrician 

To excel in this role, you must meet the following criteria: 

  • Demonstrate sound general knowledge of and comply with the Health and Safety at Work Act and other legislation.
  • Have completed an Electrical Engineering Apprenticeship.
  • Qualified to NVQ level 3 in Electrical / Maintenance Engineering. 
  • Have at least 3 years previous experience as a Maintenance technician within an industrial environment.
  • Be proficient in using their own initiative to identify electrical faults and carry out repairs on complex electrical systems.
  • Be proficient in reading electrical drawings and documents.
  • Be proficient in panel building and wiring including control circuits and motor starters.

If you are a skilled and motivated Maintenance Electrician seeking a rewarding career in a technically diverse business, we invite you to apply.

This role is commutable from Chesterfield, Mansfield, Worksop and Bakewell.

 

The best opportunity of the year has arrived, if you are a skilled Machinist, who is looking for that special next role.

This is a superb facility, where your opportunities, are genuinely second to none.  The working environment, is spectacular, giving you the most fabulous workplace.  We are looking for people with passion and pride, who can work independently, or as part of a highly motivated team.

As a Skilled Machinist, you will operate and maintain a group of machines, within a complex manufacturing system, ensuring productivity and quality targets are achieved.

Commutable from Birmingham, Coventry, Henley-in-Arden, Sutton Coldfield, Solihull, Tamworth, Wednesbury, Moseley, Stratford-upon-Avon, Lichfield, Atherstone, Nuneaton, Walsall, Aldridge and Cannock 

Benefits available to Skilled Machinists

  • Salary: £45,000 - Â£50,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Bonus
  • 25 Days holiday (Bank Holidays on top), 
  • Healthcare
  • Extremely generous Company contributory pension
  • Highly prestigious brand, products and customers
  • Pristine and modern working environment
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted.
  • Unlimited Career progression
  • And much more…

Responsibilities of Machinists

  • Operate and maintain a group of machines within a complex manufacturing system.
  • Working to tight tolerances
  • CNC Turning and milling.
  • Own Quality inspection – measuring own parts.
  • Utilising grinding and polishing machines
  • Gear cutting and heat treatment. 
  • Working on automated systems
  • Set and Operate – No programming.
  • Working a 3-shift system – nights is 4 nights, Mon - Thurs

Requirements for Machinists

  • Apprentice trained to Level 3, or other engineering qualifications considered.
  • To have worked in a fast paced, automated environment
  • CNC turning knowledge, but CNC Milling experience also readily considered.
  • Strong machining skills
  • This would suit ambitious, energetic, initiative-taking individuals, who are looking for an incredibly special long-term career.

 If you would like to be part of a growing success story, where there are unrivalled career prospects for you with genuinely exciting products, send your CV NOW!

 

Are you a Production and Warehouse Manager, who has the ability to lead, develop and manage within a manufacturing and distribution environment?

We are a well-established organisation, with unique product line, supplying into a broad range of customers. This is a pristine environment, purpose build facility, well laid out modern manufacturing environment. 

Commutable from: Birmingham,Tamworth, Stafford, Burton Upon Trent, Lichfield, Telford, Atherstone, Barton-Under-Needwood, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Aldridge, Sutton Coldfield, Burntwood and Cheslyn Hay

Production Operations Manager Benefits:

  • Salary: £65,000 - £75,000 (neg) and dependant on experience
  • Free parking on site
  • Employee discount 
  • Varied, autonomous role, challenging but highly rewarding
  • 25 Days Holiday (Bank Holidays on top)
  • Early Friday finish
  • Health care
  • Life assurance and critical illness cover
  • Modern well laid out purpose built facility
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted

Duties for Production Operations Manager

  • Lead, manage and develop the manufacture and dispatch of products
  • Lead transformation of production and warehouse operations with increased level of automation
  • Create management strategy
  • Regular staff reviews and support progress 
  • Identification of training needs and implementation of skills training
  • Monitor costs against budgets, prepare annual budgets
  • Proposals for capital and operational expenditure
  • Develop a lean management and continuous improvement culture and NPI

Requirements for a Production Operations Manager

  • Significant previous Production and Warehouse Operations Management experience
  • High volume environment, preferably FMCG, Will consider other areas, such as packaging, food, beverage and automotive 
  • To have managed where there is a high level of automation
  • To have previously managed culture change
  • Degree level education or equivalent 
  • Previous experience of budget control and management 

This will suit a strong Leader, who is initiative-taking, with a modern management approach, enthusiastic, and goal orientated.

 

We are one of the most respected employers regionally who produce over 2 million products a year. 

We are seeking to recruit a proven Maintenance Technician who has experience of supporting plant and equipment within a fast paced, automated manufacturing environment. 

Benefits of a Maintenance Technician:

  • Base Salary of £50,000 
  • Exceptional Company Pension
  • Regular Paid Overtime
  • Annual Bonus
  • Company Car Option 
  • Various Shift Working Options
  • Early Friday Finish 
  • GENUINE Ongoing Training & Career Development

If you have hesitated about moving over the past few years, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity for a Maintenance Technician to join an organisation that have enviable reputation for producing world leading products.

Duties of a Maintenance Technician:

  • Working within a team of likeminded professionals, you will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance tasks.

Requirements of a Maintenance Technician:

  • You must hold a documented apprenticeship and qualified to a minimum of City & Guilds / NVQ 3 within an Electrical discipline and have exposure to undertaking planned and reactive maintenance to plant and equipment within a fast paced environment which ideally includes both Robots and Plc Controls.

This role is commutable from Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth, Coleshill, Atherstone and Coventry

 

A fantastic opportunity has arisen within an organisation who has been established for over 50 years, they are a leading organisation based within the Northwest. 

They are currently looking for a Maintenance Electrician who holds previous experience within a Blow moulding / Plastics Environment.  This is an opportunity to join an already Established maintenance team where you will receive training and Support. 

Shift: Double Days – 6am till 2pm – 2pm till 10pm 

Benefits the Maintenance Electrician will receive: 

  • £37,000 - £42,000 
  • 25 + 8 days holiday
  • Standard Pension  

Maintenance Electrician Duties and Responsibilities: 

  • Maintain and install all electrical machinery. 
  • Carry out planned preventative maintenance. 
  • Complete maintenance work orders, use of CMMS systems 
  • Be able to communicate at all levels throughout the business. 
  • The individual has to be flexible as there is a call out every other weekend. 

Maintenance Electrician Requirements: 

  • Ideally the individual will hold relevant experience within a Plastics / Blow moulding environment. 
  • Previous experience within a Maintenance Electrician role 
  • To hold abilities with Siemens and Mitsubishi PLC’s - Fault finding abilities 
  • To have worked with both Hydraulics & Pneumatics
  • AC / DC Motors / Drives experience 
  • Looking for a highly motivated, Driven individual 
  • 17th / 18thedition 
  • HNC Qualified – Electrical Engineering 
  • Previous Experience within Blow moulding / Plastics is Essential to this role. 
  • Apprentice trained. 

The Maintenance Electrician role is commutable from: Preston / Burnley / Bolton / Blackburn