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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We are seeking to recruit a number of multi skilled maintenance contractors to support our plant with a key project.  

You will be required to undertake both planned and reactive maintenance tasks to our wide range of production machinery that will require you to hold good multi skilled abilities.

linked to your multi skilled abilities you must also hold some exposure to supporting Plc controls and robotic applications. 

Ideally you will be apprentice trained but must hold formal qualifications electrically or mechanically to a City & Guilds or NVQ standard, having gained your maintenance experience within a fast moving manufacturing or production environment. 
 
 *Please note that as this project falls inside IR35, we will have to pay you via a FCSA accredited Umbrella.

 

Join our dynamic team as a Material Buyer / Planner. Reporting to the Production Manager, you will play a crucial role in planning, coordinating, monitoring, and expediting Engineered To Order customer orders from engineering release to delivery. You will create and manage resource plans to maximize efficiency and optimize customer satisfaction. This full-time role involves collaboration with various departments, regular performance analysis, and adherence to company policies. If you have over 5 years of experience in a project-based heavy engineering environment, strong communication skills, and a knack for effective time management, we want to hear from you.

Salary and Benefits:

  • Competitive Salary
  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • Pension
  • Westfield health care
  • Life assurance
  • Cycle to work scheme

Role Responsibilities for a Material Buyer / Planner:

  • Collaborate with the BU Operations team to create Annual Operating Plans (AOPs) and Rough Cut Capacity Plans (RCCPs) based on sales plans and forecasts.
  • Review RCCPs at least quarterly, analysing performance and forecasting labour and material needs.
  • Coordinate with Engineering and Contracts to develop supply, manufacture, assembly, and test plans that meet customer deadlines, following the Company’s Stage Gate procedures.
  • As a Production/Project align material supply with project timelines in collaboration with Purchasing, considering inventory value and cash-flow targets.
  • Coordinate material availability with Production, including third-party subcontractors.
  • Set weekly and daily production targets with Package Build and Test to optimize resources and meet customer deadlines.
  • Organize weekly project review meetings with stakeholders, and prepare and manage project plans, action registers, and progress actions.
  • Prepare and manage Works Orders for kitting, assembly, and test operations.
  • Distribute monthly performance data and KPIs on project milestones, resource and capacity availability, materials availability, and inventory values and ratios.
  • Adhere to the Company Health and Safety Policy in all work practices.

Material Buyer / Planner Skills & Experience Required:

  • Professional business qualification or equivalent experience in Project Planning, Production, Materials Control, or Supply Chain Management
  • Over 5 years’ experience in a project-based heavy engineering environment
  • Strong computer skills, proficient in MS Office, and ERP systems in manufacturing
  • Knowledge of planning processes, theories, and practices
  • As a Production Planner have the ability to work within defined budgets and company policies
  • Highly effective verbal and written communication skills, strong teamwork focus
  • Highly organized, attention to detail, excellent follow-up and follow-through
  • Effective time management, able to handle multiple tasks and priorities
  • Strong relationship-building skills with management, colleagues, suppliers, and customers
  • Strong analytical, conceptual, and negotiation skills
  • Accountable for results, with a sense of urgency

Commutable from: Stroud / Cheltenham / Tetbury / Cirencester / Great Malvern / Chipping Sodbury / Fairford / Evesham / Chepstow / Castle Combe / Hereford / Worcester / Mangotsfield / Chippenham / Kingswood

 

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a Safety, Health, Environmental and Quality Officer

This is an exciting Organisation to be part of growing organisation, you would be joining a prestigious, state of the Art manufacturing organisation. Huge recent investment into new equipment and machinery, shows how committed to a long-term future. 

We have been providing pioneering technologies and products to our customers worldwide for a number of years now, our teams are accomplished teams of experts, highly specialised in the development, industrialisation and production.

Commutable from Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Walsall, Wolverhampton, Telford, Lichfield, Tamworth, Aldridge, Burntwood, Minworth and Stone

KEY BENEFITS

  • Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Employee discount (reward gateway)
  • Generous Pension contributions
  • Pool car available
  • Recent Huge capitol investment
  • Pristine and modern working environment
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted
  • Unlimited Career progression

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Support the implementation and compliance of Safety, Health, Chemical, Environmental and Quality policies
  • Provide accurate product classifications
  • Provide guidance on all areas of SHREQ 
  • Communicate regulatory and legislative changes, to internal and external stakeholders
  • Ensure ISO 14001, ISO 9001 and safety legislation are established and implemented
  • Maintain Compliance
  • Classify product formulations and maintain raw material classifications
  • Register products with authorities
  • Conduct site audits
  • Resolve non-conformance
  • Conduct drills and evacuations
  • Ensure risk assessment are prepared and reviewed
  • Ensure HSE is informed about reportable accidents and dangerous occurrences
  • New employee inductions

REQUIREMENTS 

  • NEBOSH QUALIFICATION
  • IEMA, IOSH and or CQI MembershipRelevant Health and Safety knowledge, gained from within a manufacturing industry sector
  • Knowledge of Dangerous Goods Safety requirements 
  • Previous ISO auditing experience
  • Knowledge of business management system procedures
  • Self motivated with the ability to use own initiative
  • Positive and enthusiastic

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

 

I have a fantastic opportunity for a maintenance team leader to join a well-known company based near Telford. As a maintenance team leader, you will be in charge of a small team of engineers to achieve department targets.    

My client is looking for a maintenance team leader to join their continental shift rota. The right person will be a multi-skilled engineer with strong electrical abilities. As well as a good salary and benefits package my client offers career development opportunities for those who seek it. 

Maintenance Leader Role Benefits:

  • Salary £56,026 
  • 8% employer pension contribution. 
  • Health cash plans. 
  • Company sick pay. 
  • Life assurance x4 salary. 
  • 22 days holiday. 
  • Subsidised café. 
  • On site parking. 

Maintenance Leader Duties include:

  • Continental days and nights rota (Average 39.12 hours per week). 
  • Manage team to meet departments KPI’s. 
  • Prioritise and resolve maintenance requests. 
  • Update CMMS. 
  • Manage installations. 
  • Completion of works orders. 
  • Control critical spares and stocks. 
  • Actively contribute to company continuous improvement activities. 

As a Maintenance Team Leader Requirements: 

  • Recognised electrical qualifications. (NVQ Level 3 or HNC Electrical). 
  • 18th edition. 
  • Previous supervisory experience. 
  • PLC and Robotic knowledge. 
  • Understanding of continuous improvement techniques (Kaizen, 5S). 
  • Good communication skills. 
  • Good knowledge of health and safety. 
  • Hydraulic and Pneumatic experience. 
  • Manufacturing experience. 

Please apply find out more about this role. 

This Maintenance Team Leader position is commutable from: Wolverhampton, Dudley, Telford, Walsall, Bilston, Featherstone, Cannock, and surrounding areas. 

 

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT

A busy manufacturing organisation, have a requirement for a Training and Development Assistant.  

Working as part of the Training and Development team, you will be supporting the department in order to enable training activities to meet business requirements.

This is a fast paced, dynamic working environment, no 2 days will ever be the same!

No doubt, this is a challenging role, but one that is highly rewarding, and where there are genuine long-term prospects.

Commutable from Birmingham, Moseley, Sutton Coldfield, Tamworth, Lichfield, Walsall, Aldridge, Tyseley, Aston, Smethwick, Willenhall, Solihull, Coventry, Shirley and Minworth

KEY BENEFITS

  • Salary: £30,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Discounted gym membership
  • 25 Days holiday (Stats on top)
  • Lunchtime finish Fridays
  • Loyalty days
  • Employee recognition schemes
  • Challenging, but highly rewarding environment
  • Unlimited Career progression

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Support coordination of training needs, collaborating with suppliers, employees and Manager’s across the group
  • Attract and retain the best early career talent and enhance pipeline of home-grown talented individuals
  • Support employee engagement, retention and career progression
  • Support in the design, implementation and management of key projects and activities relating to people development cycle
  • Support business with provision of wider training needs
  • Reinforce all aspects of early year talent lifecycle including development, retention and candidate attraction
  • To be point of contact for educational bodies 
  • Point of contact for early career employees in relation to academic, pastoral and safeguarding needs
  • Help support future talent pipelines

REQUIREMENTS

  • A background in Human Resources / Learning and Development 
  • Early career talent development knowledge
  • An understanding of the recruitment process and safeguarding
  • Microsoft office packages
  • Full driving licence is essential
  • This would suit a well organised, supportive individual
  • The ability to juggle more than one task at a time

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!

 

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a Toolmaker / Bench Hand.

A Kings Award organisation, we are proud of our heritage, spanning many years of manufacturing.  This is a super opportunity to be part of a close-knit team, providing support within the Toolroom.

A unique organisation that invests in its own people and products.  Long-term standing staff, with a training budget offered on an annual basis to all.

Commutable from Birmingham, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, West Bromwich, Halesowen, Walsall, Aldridge, Willenhall, Moseley, Castle Bromwich, Aston, Dudley and Cannock

Benefits:

  • Salary: £32,000 - £37,500
  • Paid Overtime
  • Monday to Thursday
  • Hours 3.30pm – 1.30am
  • Flexible options can be considered.
  • Parking
  • Outside the Clean Air Zone
  • Highly prestigious brand, products and customers
  • Pristine and modern working environment
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted
  • Unlimited Career progression
  • Friendly close-knit team

Toolmaker Responsibilities:

  • Repair and maintain tooling
  • Working on press tools from single blank tools to complex multi-stage progressions all to fine tolerances. 
  • Support Setters
  • Managing the try-out process
  • Problem solving on tooling problems
  • Strip and rebuild tools for maintenance and re-grind
  • Promoting 5S

Toolmaker Requirements:

  • Ideally Apprentice trained.
  • To have previous experience of presstools, such as single blank to progression tooling
  • Ideally, you will have gained your experience within a high volume environment
  • Excellent problem solving skills
  • The ability to read engineering drawings
  • Happy to work perm late shift – 3.30pm – 1.30am
  • A friendly, sociable personality would fit in with the rest of the team

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!.