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 offering an exceptional opportunity for a PRODUCTION MANAGER.

This is an exciting Organisation to be part of, you would be joining a prestigious, state of the art manufacturing organisation. Specialising in high quality products, we are very much at the forefront of brand -new technology.

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.

This is a Days role with an early finish on Friday

Commutable from Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Telford, Kidderminster, Halesowen, Dudley, West Bromwich, Walsall,

Cannock, Aldridge, Sutton Coldfield, Erdington and Wednesbury

KEY BENEFITS FOR THE SUCCESFUL PRODUCTION MANAGER

  • Salary: £45,000 - £55,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Unlimited Career progression
  • Extra generous holiday entitlement
  • Lunchtime Friday finish
  • Excellent Pension contributions
  • Very stable, busy manufacturing organisation
  • Friendly, long - standing staff
  • Days position

PRODUCTION MANAGER RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Overseeing Production Processes: Develop production plans and schedules to meet output demand and quality standards. Ensure efficiency and safety throughout the process.
  • Budget Management: Monitor the production budget, forecast expenses, and identify cost-saving opportunities.
  • Resource Management: Maintain adequate material and equipment supplies, minimize downtime, and achieve targets.
  • Health and Safety: Uphold health and safety standards, train employees, and maintain equipment.
  • Quality Control: Monitor product quality and implement procedures to improve efficiency.
  • Team Management and Communication: Support, train, and manage production teams. Collaborate with other departments to align with company goals.
  • Problem-Solving and Efficiency: Identify and resolve issues to maximize quality, safety, and efficiency.

REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PRODUCTION MANAGER

  • Significant senior management experience
  • You will have gained your management experience from within manufacturing – Essential
  • Ideally a high - volume production environment
  • Exposure to working in continuous improvement culture
  • A real “can do” attitude, energetic, adaptable and empathetic
  • Happy to work days

This is a wonderful opportunity to join a World Class manufacturing organisation

 

 
 

 

Introduction to company:

Based in a beautiful location, surrounded by nature. This company is recruiting for its next big role in programming. World renown company, with offices across the globe and a forever expanding future always on the horizon. The leading company in its industry, holding the Queen’s Award for export achievement, awarded twice throughout the companies’ lifetime. Then awarded it recently again for international trade twice again. With a recently established new head office, this site offers employees sports rooms (gym, badminton, tennis) Chill out areas with pool tables and darts and even electric charging points for cars. Once in a lifetime opportunity to work for one of the worlds growing leaders in its industry. 

Salary and benefits:

  • £40,000 - £50,000 (negotiable depending on experience)
  • Eye care (test and contribution to glasses)
  • Occupational Health
  • Onsite free gym membership
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Childcare vouchers
  • Life insurance
  • Electric car charging points on site
  • 32 days holiday
  • Free parking
  • Annual bonus payment
  • Enhanced sickness benefit
  • Pension

Specific Role & Responsibilities for Project Engineer:

  • Using a variety of CAM packages (to make it easy to learn this companies bespoke made CAM packages) to create/implement and maintain programs for use on various manufacturing processes.
  • Using Creao (ProEngineer) to interrogate models to produce programs for complex machined profiles on milling, turning and turn/mill machines for CNC Programming.
  • Ensure routings are easy to understand, accurate and operational. (Training to estimate cost of products to help build this knowledge will be provided) 
  • Assist compiling machine time for quoting new work.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

  • HNC OR APPRENTICESHIP PREFERRED IN INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE (HOWEVER TIME SERVED AS A CNC PROGRAMMER CAN SUBSTITUTE THIS)

Required Skills:

  • Understand machine and process protocols for the likes of Fanuc/Okuma/Mazak/Mitishibishi or similar and have been a CNC Programmer operating these.
  • Ability to validate created and existing software programs and potential modify them for continuous improvement purposes.
  • Demonstrate understanding of processes from primary forming to realisation of end of product.

Preferred Skills for a CNC Programmer:

  • Previously held a similar role.
  • Proven track record in ability to use computers and design software. 
  • Excellent understanding of engineering drawings, geometrical tolerancing and dimensioning.
  • Understanding of engineer tooling required to produce components. 
  • Tools, cutters, inserts and workholding methodology.
  • Material understanding, Stainless steel, Inconel, super duplex and titanium. 

Commutable from: Preston / Burnley / Blackburn / Altham / Padiham / Hapton / Huncoat / Clayton-le-Moors / Great Harwood and Simonstone

 

We are offering an opportunity for a Health and Safety Coordinator on a Fixed Term Contract of minimum 6 months

This is a manufacturing organisation, established for over 25 years, and firmly established as the market leader in their particular field.

Commutable from: Sutton Coldfield, Lichfield, Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Aldridge, Walsall, Moseley, Castle Bromwich, Smethwick, Halesowen, Edgbaston, Hockley and Solihull

Benefits:

  • £40,000 (pro rata)
  • Early finish Friday
  • Fixed Term contract 6 months with possibility of longer
  • Free parking on site
  • Immediate start available
  • Great opportunity to make an impact
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted
  • Unique manufacturing product
  • Wide customer base
  • Friendly, pleasant working environment

Health and Safety Coordinator Responsibilities:

  • Provide assistance with the update of the Health and Safety systems
  • Implementing and maintaining effective Health and Safety protocols
  • Develop and update updated Health and Safety policies
  • Ensure all Health and Safety records and documentation are uptodate and accurate
  • Provide Health and Safety guidance
  • Regular inspections and audits to ensure compliance
  • Conduct Health and Safety training sessions for employees
  • Keep abreast of legislation and industry standards

Health and Safety Coordinator Requirements:

  • Proven experience of Health and Safety management from within a manufacturing or engineering industry
  • Strong knowledge of Health and Safety regulations
  • NEBOSH or similar certification in Health and Safety
  • Strong attention to detail, with the ability to interact with employees at all levels
     
 

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a CHEMIST

This is an exciting Organisation to be part of, you would be joining a unique Queens Award Winning manufacturing organisation. We are very much at the forefront of brand -new technology.

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: Manchester, Blackburn, Standish, Ramsbottom, Skelmersdale, St Helen’s, Warrington, Bolton, Ormskirk, Chorley.

Benefits:

  • £12.50 per hour 
  • Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 4.30pm
  • Salary: 8.5 hrs per day x 5 = 42.5 days per week (40 hour contract)
  • 8hrs x 5 days = 40 hours - £12.50 per hour x 40 x 52 = £26,000 The 2.5 hours additional will be at the overtime rate. £18.75 x 2.5 p/w = £46.88 x 52 = £243
  • Free parking on site
  • Queens Award Winning manufacturer
  • Private Healthcare
  • 33 Days holidays (inc Stats)
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted
  • Unique manufacturing product
  • Wide customer base
  • Unlimited Career progression

Chemist Responsibilities:

  • Day to day batch manufacture 
  • Conduct experimental work
  • Preparation of lab samples
  • Test raw materials
  • Test and evaluate competitors products
  • Calibration of equipment
  • Prepare samples for dispatch
  • Happy to work days

Chemist Requirements:

  • BTEC / HNC Chemistry or equivalent
  • To have the ability to follow chemistry testing techniques
  • Ideally, you will have worked in a busy lab previously
  • Good knowledge of sampling and product testing
  • Strond understanding of chemical processes

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!

 

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for an ENVIRONMENTAL SPECIALIST

This is an exciting Organisation to be part of, you would be joining a unique Queens Award Winning manufacturing organisation. We are very much at the forefront of brand -new technology.

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: Manchester, Blackburn, Standish, Ramsbottom, Skelmersdale, St Helen’s, Warrington, Bolton, Ormskirk, Chorley

Benefits:

  • Salary: £40,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Queens Award Winning manufacturer
  • Private Healthcare
  • 33 Days holidays (inc Stats)
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted
  • Unique manufacturing product
  • Wide customer base
  • Unlimited Career progression

Environmental Specialist Responsibilities:

  • Identify new opportunities to improve the environmental management system
  • Provide guidance and support on environmental legislation
  • Manage environmental management program and the environmental management system
  • Minimise waste
  • Responsibility for ISO 14001 Environmental Management system and surveillance audits
  • Lead Auditor for 45001 and 9001
  • Development of the environmental strategy and environmental performance
  • Champion environmental improvements
  • Manage on-site environment permit

Environmental Specialist Requirements:

  • A Degree in Environmental management  / Chemical engineering 
  • Working knowledge of key environmental legislation
  • Auditing knowledge
  • Exposure to ISO14001 
  • Any knowledge of ISO 5001 would be desirable but not essential
  • Highly beneficial that you have experience within manufacturing, ideally oil, gas or / and chemicals

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!

 

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a Health and Safety Manager.

This is an exciting Organisation to be part of, you would be joining a unique Queens Award Winning manufacturing organisation. We are very much at the forefront of brand -new technology.

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 Manchester, Blackburn, Standish, Ramsbottom, Skelmersdale, St Helen’s, Warrington, Bolton, Ormskirk, Chorley.

Benefits:

  • Salary: £48,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Queens Award Winning manufacturer
  • Private Healthcare
  • 33 Days holidays (inc Stats)
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted
  • Unique manufacturing product
  • Wide customer base
  • Unlimited Career progression

Health & Safety Manager Responsibilties:

  • Accident and incident investigation
  • Resolve non-conformance.
  • Keep uptodate with legislation and industry best practice.
  • Organise all required H & S training. 
  • Develop, implement, and manage regulations under the Health and Safety at work Act 1974 safety programs (Confined space entry, LOTO, Safe Isolation of Plant, Hazard communication, Emergency response and Fall protection
  • Assist the safety teams in process hazard assessments, including HAZID, HAZOP and LOPA, as required under COMAH.
  • Act as Fire Officer on site.
  • Mange the sites COSHH Assessment

Health & Safety Manager Requirements:

  • NEBOSH 
  • IOSH
  • Lead Auditor 45001, 14001 and 9001
  • Experience of a COMAH site would be advantageous.
  • Knowledge of 45001
  • Experience at Senior level Health and Safety within manufacturing or chemicals
  • To have led Audits

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!