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ESTIMATOR

Job Description

Company

This is a long-standing, well-established, successful business who are part of an international group with leading positions in the design, manufacture and supply of products and services to global markets. 

The businesses production works based in Derbyshire is home to their semi-automated steel structures manufacturing plant.

Estimator Role Overview

The business is looking for an experienced Estimator / Steel Estimator / Fabrication Estimator. 

They require a candidate with a proven technical estimating background to join their close-knit team. 

The opportunity will suit candidates from a manufacturing /estimating background looking to develop within an ever-growing business. On offer is a role where you can learn and develop your technical and estimating skills and can further your career within this sector.

This role would ideally suit someone with technical estimating experience from an engineering background and some customer service skills desirable but not essential, training will be given to the right candidate.


Salary, Hours and Benefits

  • £34,000 - £36,000
  • 28 days annual holiday, increasing to 31 days after 5 years continuous service (inc. 8 statutory bank holidays)
  • Company shares scheme (eligible after 6 months continuous service)
  • Private medical care (eligible after 6 months continuous service)
  • Life Insurance (eligible after 6 months continuous service)
  • Access to Rewards Gateway Scheme
  • Access to Employee Assistance Programme

Commutable From: Clay Cross, Sutton in Ashfield, Mansfield, Alfreton, Chesterfield, Matlock


Candidate Requirements

  • The Estimator will ideally have exposure to engineering, steel / fabrication manufacturing.
  • A level of AutoCAD experience / ability to read drawings would be a big advantage.
  • Customer focused with good communication skills.
  • Handling of quotes.
  • Ability to work under pressure to achieve set budgets and goals.
  • Analytical Skills with a positive Focused Approach.
  • Strong Team Player.


Key Responsibilities 

  • The Estimator will establish customer requirements from CAD drawing and documents.
  • Preparing and submitting quotations in detail for the costs of items to be supplied.
  • Getting quotes from third party suppliers.
  • Establishing and maintaining relationships with contractors, authorities etc.
  • Researching costs of materials, transport, Labour.
  • Preparing Contract bids.
  • Using a digital platform, contracts finder based on algorithm / Boolean search
  • Maximising Opportunities

Please Note: Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.

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Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Manufacturing & Production Recruitment Support since 1994

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This is a family business where changing people’s lives through the products that they design, manufacture and install is a daily occurrence. With 40 years’ experience under their belt, they are a leading provider in the UK, a market leader in Europe and have a presence in many other countries worldwide. They continue to expand rapidly in the UK and internationally, a business that has doubled in size these last few years.


Quality Engineer Pay, Hours and Benefits

  • £30,000 - £40,000 (dependant on experience) 
  • 39 hours per week, Monday - Friday
  • 23 days holiday plus bank holidays – holiday allowance increases with service
  • Life insurance cover
  • Profit Related Pay
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Retail discount scheme
  • Full PPE and Training Provided

This role is commutable from the following areas: Derby, Nottingham, Sutton in Ashfield, Mansfield, Chesterfield, 


Quality Engineer Role Overview

The business is seeking a diligent and detail-oriented Quality Engineer to join a well-established manufacturing team.
You will be responsible for ensuring quality control, implementing improvements and maintaining compliance.


Quality Engineer Candidate Requirements

  • Proven experience as a Quality Engineer
  • Able to read and interpret technical drawings, specifications and schematics
  • Can conduct risk assessments and generate safe systems of work documentation
  • Experience of simple project management
  • Proficiency in MS Office
  • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills
  • Hands-on experience with Quality Management Systems and testing methodologies
  • Strong communication and team collaboration skills


Quality Engineer Key Responsibilities

  • Investigate customer returns, establish the root cause and apply learnings
  • Monitor the production cycle and report on malfunctions
  • Inspect procedures for the production cycle and ensure their efficiency and compliance with safety and quality standards
  • Approve or reject raw materials with respect to quality standards, recording supplier performance
  • Maintain records of testing, information and metrics
  • Develop, document and maintain a thorough network of Standard Operating Procedures
  • Ensure standards are maintained to our ISO 90001 system
  • Assess adherence to industry codes
  • Identify and implement continuous improvement opportunities
 

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Project Engineer to join a world leading engineering manufacturer, with over 45 years of experience. You will be working on technically complex products and assemblies for flagship UK projects and programs.

The Project Engineer will be the primary technical lead of designated projects. You will be the point of contact with the customer and will ensure that designated projects are delivered on time, right first time and within cost targets. This will be achieved through strong technical leadership, liaising with all other business functions to ensure manufacturing best practice is embedded throughout the project.


Salary, Hours and Benefits

  • £45,000 - £50,000 (negotiable for the right candidate)
  • 40 hours per week, Monday – Friday. 7:30am – 4:30pm, 2:00pm finish on Friday’s
  • 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
  • Onsite parking
  • Sick pay

This role is commutable from: Derby, Nottingham, Sutton in Ashfield, Alfreton, Ilkeston, Chesterfield 


Project Engineer Candidate Requirements
Please Note: Due to the security level of the projects the business work on, British Nationality is required for this role.

  • Project Engineer experience within a precision engineering business in a regulated industry
  • Qualified to HNC level minimum - someone who is Apprentice Trained would be ideal. 
  • You will have a precision engineering background, exposure to machining - someone with previous hands-on machining experience would be perfect
  • Experience of manufacturing routings
  • Able to understand and interpret complex engineering drawings
  • Good working knowledge of Project Management methodologies
  • Demonstrable experience of defining methods of manufacture for complex products and assemblies.
  • CAD/CAM experience in a relevant software package would be an advantage
  • Competence in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, Word and Project

Candidate Soft Skills

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Capable of working un-supervised and using own initiative
  • Good eye for detail


Project Engineer Key Responsibilities

  • Contract Review
  • Engineering & Planning
  • Deliver project commitments on time
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Ensure full compliance with the Company’s Quality Management System
  • Pro-actively assist the Document Quality Team with creation of Documentation Packs for designated projects
 

This is a long-standing, well-established, successful business who are part of an international group with leading positions in the design, manufacture and supply of products and services to global markets. 

The businesses production works based in Derbyshire is home to their semi-automated steel structures manufacturing plant.


Graduate Estimator Role Overview

The business is looking for a determined individual, who is eager to learn and develop within an ever-growing business by joining their Estimator team.

This opportunity will suit a candidate with an engineering or similar degree background. An interest in estimating would be great, any past exposure to estimating would be perfect, but training and support will be given.

On offer is a role where you can learn and develop your technical and estimating skills and can further your career within this sector.

Salary, Hours and Benefits

  • £25,000 - £26,000
  • 28 days annual holiday, increasing to 31 days after 5 years continuous service (inc. 8 statutory bank holidays)
  • Company shares scheme (eligible after 6 months continuous service)
  • Private medical care (eligible after 6 months continuous service)
  • Life Insurance (eligible after 6 months continuous service)
  • Access to Rewards Gateway Scheme
  • Access to Employee Assistance Programme

Commutable From: Clay Cross, Sutton in Ashfield, Mansfield, Alfreton, Chesterfield, Matlock

Candidate Requirements

  • The Graduate Estimator will have an interest in estimating - any exposure to steel / fabrication would be advantageous.
  • A level of AutoCAD experience / ability to read drawings would be very useful. 
  • Customer focused with good communication skills.
  • Handling of quotes.
  • Ability to work under pressure to achieve set budgets and goals.
  • Analytical Skills with a positive Focused Approach.
  • Strong Team Player.


Key Responsibilities 

  • The Graduate Estimator will establish customer requirements from CAD drawings and documents.
  • Preparing and submitting quotations in detail for the costs of items to be supplied.
  • Getting quotes from third party suppliers.
  • Establishing and maintaining relationships with contractors, authorities etc.
  • Researching costs of materials, transport, Labour.
  • Preparing Contract bids.
  • Using a digital platform, contracts finder based on algorithm / Boolean search.
  • Maximising Opportunities.
 

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!

 

HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIONMENTAL OFFICER

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

This is an exciting Organisation to be part of, you would be joining a prestigious, state of the Art manufacturing organisation. Specialising in either high quality off the shelf modules, to individual new developments.  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, out teams are accomplished teams of experts, highly specialised in the development, industrialisation and production.

As the Health, Safety and Environmental Officer, you will be responsible for creating and maintaining a safe and healthy work environment.

Your role will focus on minimizing risks, ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental regulations, and fostering continuous improvement in EHS practices.

Commutable from Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Kidderminster, Walsall, Cannock, Cradley Heath, Bilston, Willenhall, Stourbridge, Halesowen, Kingswinford, Aldridge, Moseley and Aston

KEY BENEFITS

  • Salary: £40,000 - £45,000
  • Free parking on site
  • Superb training and development opportunities
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Family friendly policies
  • Health cash plan
  • 24/7 access to GP
  • Cycle to work scheme
  • Life Assurance
  • Christmas shutdown
  • Service and recognition awards

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Policy Development & Implementation: 
  • Provide ongoing EHS training and ensure effective communication with employees on health, safety, and environmental matters.
  • Track EHS performance and report 
  • Oversee waste disposal, emissions control, and effluent discharge, ensuring compliance with environmental regulations.
  • Coordinate emergency response plans
  • Stay informed on the latest health, safety, and environmental regulations
  • Promote initiatives to enhance employee health, safety, and overall well-being.
  • Benchmark practices against industry standards and integrate innovative technologies to enhance safety and environmental performance.
  • Collaboration: Work closely with operational teams to promote and improve EHS standards throughout the organization.
  • QMS and EHS System Development: Develop and implement Quality Management Systems (QMS) and EHS management systems, ensuring proper audits and corrective actions.
  • Accreditation & Certification: Ensure the organization maintains and achieves accreditation to relevant standards such as ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, and ISO 50001.
  • Incident Investigation & Reporting: 
  • Risk Assessments & SOP Reviews: Conduct risk assessments, review Standard Work Procedures (SWP), and Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to ensure ongoing compliance.
  • Conduct regular site inspections to ensure adherence 
  • EHS Auditing & Compliance: Monitor and audit production processes to identify unsafe behaviors and ensure compliance with regulations.
  • Liaison with Authorities: Collaborate with law enforcement and investigators in the event of serious accidents or incidents.


REQUIREMENTS

  • In-depth knowledge of EHS legislation and procedures, Experience in creating safety plans and leading EHS improvement initiatives.
  • Familiarity with environmental regulations and best practices for managing waste, emissions, and other environmental impacts.
  • Experience with external audits and maintaining relevant certifications.
  • Good knowledge of 14001 and 45001 standards
  • Strong IT literacy
  • Ideally, you will have gained your experience from with manufacturing / engineering


Join us in creating a safer, healthier, and environmentally responsible workplace. If you're passionate about safety and compliance and want to make a meaningful impact, we encourage you to apply!

 

MANUFACTURING ENGINEER 

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a MANUFACTURING ENGINEER

If you are a Manufacturing Engineer, who is looking for a stable, pleasant working environment with a genuine chance to make a big impact, this could be just the job for you!

We specialise in design and manufacture a wide range of different products, utilizing a wealth of different manufacturing processes, such as CNC and Pressings.  

As our Manufacturing Engineer, you will be responsible for independently managing assigned projects, ensuring their effectiveness beyond completion. These projects will primarily focus on continuous improvement efforts on the shop floor, employing appropriate tools and methodologies to drive impactful results. The role involves close collaboration with design, manufacturing, and quality engineering teams to successfully introduce new products, troubleshoot production issues, and implement effective solutions.

Commutable from Birmingham, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Great Barr, Lichfield, Burntwood, Walsall, Brownhills, Aston, Wednesbury, Minworth, Moseley, Kings Heath, Tyesley, Tamworth, Cannock, Willenhall and  Oldbury

KEY BENEFITS

  • Salary: £41,000 (poss flex)
  • Genuine chance to make a big impact
  • Steady, stable organisation with growth predicted
  • Lunch time finish Friday
  • Plenty of off site parking available
  • Friendly supportive organsiation
  • Variety of different manufacturing  processes on site
  • Long-term standing staff
  • Relaxed culture

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Support New Product Introduction (NPI): Assist in the successful launch of new products, ensuring smooth transitions from design to production.
  • Handle the ordering and monitoring of tooling, ensuring availability and readiness for production.
  • Tool Trials and Approvals
  • Create and maintain flow diagrams for product routes, ensuring accurate documentation of processes.
  • Develop and implement control plans for production parts, ensuring consistent quality.
  • Train operators on new methods, tooling, and fixtures, particularly for the introduction of new products.
  • Obtain and review budgetary quotes for tooling and equipment to ensure cost-effectiveness.
  • Lead and participate in lean manufacturing initiatives, such as SMED, 5S, and other continuous improvement projects.
  • Design for Manufacturing/Assembly (DFM/DFA): Collaborate with the design team to apply best practices for manufacturability and assembly during the design process.
  • Lead or support projects aimed at reducing production costs without compromising quality.
  • Implement changes to methods or tooling as needed to support product improvements or customer requirements.
  • Participate in Six Sigma projects to improve process efficiency and reduce variability.
  • Cost Estimation 


REQUIREMENTS

  • Relevant Manufacturing Engineering experience
  • Evidence of successful implementation of continuous improvement projects
  • Supporting Engineering  Qualifications are welcomed but equivalent experience is happily considered
  • Exposure to tooling, SMED

We can only accept applications from people who have the right to work in the UK

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!

 

Company

With nearly 50 years of experience behind them, this is a global company that continues to grow, having doubled in size over the last five years. 

They consider themselves to be agile and highly innovative, embracing the technology associated within the industry.  The business has a strong family culture which provides a positive working environment where employees feel valued and trusted.

The business are big advocates of personal development, growth and progression, with many success stories of this across the company. 


About You

You will be a process led, diligent CNC Programmer / Engineer, with an eye for quality and detail as well as good background skills in workload management and communication.

Able to demonstrate experience in mechanical engineering, preferably in a similar environment or industry. An ability to work and resolve issues within the production environment, quickly and accurately is a must.


Salary, Hours and Benefits

  • £34,000 - £37,000 (dependant on experience)
  • 7:30am – 4:00pm Monday – Thursday, 1:00pm finish on Friday’s
  • The chance to join a very successful and growing business
  • Up to 10.5% company pension
  • Company bonus
  • 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
  • Cash health plan

Commutable From: Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Walsall, Dudley, Kidderminster  


Candidate Requirements

  • An experienced Machinist with CNC (VMC/Milling) programming ability.
  • Up-to-date knowledge of programming, setting and operating 3 axis CNC cutting machines.
  • Autodesk Fusion 360 programming software experience would be useful.
  • Working experience working within a tool room / plant and equipment maintenance environment.
  • Good knowledge and practical understanding of mechanical engineering applications in product assembly, jigs and fixtures, plant and equipment.
  • Able to read and interpret engineering drawings, machining and finish specifications. PC skills and experience of packages such as Excel and Standard Analyses: Nav, Creo, Windchill, DXF, Cad viewing packages. 
  • Be able to use and operate a wide range of manual machines such as millers, grinders, saws etc.
  • MIG/TIG welding experience in the workplace.
  • Experience of contributing to small group activities to drive improvement ideas. 


Role Overview

  • The CNC Programmer will programme, set and operate a variety of 3 axis CNC Machines for component and fixturing manufacture and assembly.
  • As part of a small in-house team, the CNC Programmer will play an equal part supporting production with modified or bespoke machined components made from a variety of materials from nylon through to stainless steel, as well as working on longer term continuous improvement projects that require machined content (i.e. tooling, fixturing etc).
  • Reporting into the Manufacturing Engineering Manager, the CNC Programmer will work cross functionally with Production Leadership, Planning and Manufacturing Engineering teams to ensure production requirements for short turn-around components are met. 
  • You will work within the Tool room / Plant Maintenance function, in addition supporting the wider production operation in areas such as jigs and fixture repair, equipment maintenance and prototyping.
 

METROLOGY ENGINEER

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a METROLOGY ENGINEER.

This is an exciting Organisation to be part of, you would be joining a prestigious, state of the Art manufacturing organisation. Specialising in either high quality off the shelf modules, to individual new developments.  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, out teams are accomplished teams of experts, highly specialised in the development, industrialisation and production.

You may already be a METROLOGY ENGINEER looking for a fresh challenge, within a highly prestigious organisation

Commutable from Birmingham, Coventry, Henley-in-Arden, Redditch, Studley, Stratford-upon-Avon, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Moseley, Halesowen and Curdworth 

KEY BENEFITS

  • Salary: £40,000 - £42,000 (Neg Dependant on experience)
  • Free parking on site
  • Flexible working hours
  • 11.30am Friday finish
  • Employee discount (reward gateway)
  • Yearly incentive bonus paid out in December 
  • Long service award after 4 years of service 
  • Cycle to work scheme.
  • Access to BEN (charity for automotive workers)
  • Flexible start & finish times
  • Death in service (once passed probationary period)
  • 25 Days Holiday (Bank Holidays on top), increasing to 26 days after 1 calendar year, then increasing to 28 after 5 years
  • Company contributory pension
  • Highly prestigious brand, products and customers
  • Pristine and modern working environment
  • Market leader with more continued growth predicted
  • Unlimited Career progression

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Creating CMM programs, utilising PC-DIMIS
  • Evaluate measurement data
  • Daily planning and scheduling of metrology workloads
  • Conduct and complete set ups, measurements and interpretations for part investigations
  • Creating measurement programs for CMM with or without CAD model
  • Drawing up initial sample test reports as per the VDA and PPAP template
  • Calibration of gauges, maintain measuring equipment
  • Re-qualification inspections
  • SPC

REQUIREMENTS

  • It is essential that you have relevant CMM Programming experience
  • Ideally PC-DMIS
  • Any QUINDOS knowledge would be advantageous, but not essential
  • To have gained your experience from within a manufacturing environment
  • Good working knowledge of PPAP’s and SPC
  • Good level of IT Literacy

This role will suit an energetic, and ambitious  Metrology Engineer

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!

 

METROLOGY ENGINEER

We are offering a role for a METROLOGY ENGINEER to work on a permanent AFTERNOON  position.

An award winning leading Midlands manufacturer are looking to expand their Metrology department and are looking  for a Metrology Engineer.

Commutable from Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield, Moseley, Hall Green, Tyseley, Solihull, Harbourne, Bournville, Handsworth, West Bromwich, and Hollywood

KEY BENEFITS for Metrology Engineer

  • Salary: £33,000
  • Plenty of free parking on site
  • Overtime Paid
  • Early Friday finish
  • Discounted gym membership
  • Annual training budget allocation
  • Permanent afternoon shift
  • 25 Days holiday plus Stats on top
  • Employee recognition scheme
  • Award winning manufacturing business

RESPONSIBILITIES for Metrology Engineer

  • Measure components
  • Working from customer drawings with limited supervision
  • Programming CMM machines
  • Dimensional investigation work
  • Conduct hardness testing

REQUIREMENTS FOR A Metrology Engineer

  • To be able to work from engineering drawings
  • CMM Programming abilities
  • An understanding of GD & T
  • Previous experience of using verniers and micrometers
  • IT literate

This is a super opportunity to be part of an established business, where there are unlimited career opportunities.

 

This is a family business where changing people’s lives through the products that they design, manufacture and install is a daily occurrence. With 40 years’ experience under their belt, they are a leading provider in the UK, a market leader in Europe and have a presence in many other countries worldwide. They continue to expand rapidly in the UK and internationally, a business that has doubled in size these last few years, with this Customer Experience Advisor role being part of that growth.


Pay, Hours and Benefits

  • £23,000 - £25,000 dependent on experience
  • 8:30am – 5:00pm, Monday - Friday
  • 23 days holiday, Life insurance cover, Profit Related Pay, Free on-site car park, Employee Assistance Programme, Full Training provided

This role is commutable from the following areas: Derby, Nottingham, Mansfield, Chesterfield, 


Role Overview

This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Customer Experience Advisor to join a successful Sales and Marketing Team, with a business who operate in a growth market and are the market leaders in their area of expertise.

There is no cold calling required for this position, it is a mix of inbound call handling and outbound call follow-ups - they only contact customers who have contacted them.

Your job is to considerately help customers through the decision-making process. They work with disabled and elderly people and want people who can demonstrate empathy and help people with proper recommendations and great service, not those that smash sales targets at any cost.

In-depth training will give you all the product knowledge you need to excel in this role.


Customer Experience Advisor Candidate Requirements

  • The business is looking for a professional Customer Experience Advisor with effective questioning and listening skills, who can help customers in a positive and friendly manner
  • You will provide excellent customer service, building trust, helping people through the three phases of the decision-making process; enquiry, needs assessment and fitting
  • An empathetic personality / approach
  • Excellent telephone manner with a genuine passion for helping people
  • Confidence using Microsoft Excel, Word, internet & email
  • The ability to work to agreed process & procedures to deliver daily KPI's
  • Consistency and a positive attitude to your working day
  • Call centre, customer service or sales experience is an advantage but more importantly your attitude


Customer Experience Advisor Key Responsibilities

  • Taking inbound enquiries from all sources
  • Advising the customer on products and services that would best suit their needs
  • Maintaining a good relationship with the existing customers as well as developing the existing enquiries and promoting new business
  • Being cross trained across all areas of the sales function
  • Maintaining an excellent level of product knowledge through self-study and supported development
  • Ensuring all customers are advised considerately through the decision-making process
  • Updating the database/CRM with customer records
  • Contacting potential customers to arrange appointments
  • Resolving any sales related issues with customers
  • Providing basic technical assistance to customers calling in with enquiries
 

The Company

The business is a niche company with over 60 years of manufacturing heritage and a worldwide presence. They have a global supply chain and export over 30% of their product to a world-wide network of customers. The majority of their work is product designed and manufactured by the company at their UK site. 


Contracts Manager Salary and Benefits

  • £50,000 - £55,000
  • Plus, car allowance (£500 per month, £6,000 per year)
  • 37.5 hours, Monday to Thursday 7:30am – 4:15pm, 12pm on Friday’s
  • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
  • Early finish Friday’s

Commutable From: Sheffield, Rotherham, Nottingham, Derby, Mansfield, Chesterfield, Worksop, Newark on Trent

Contracts Manager Role Overview

The Contracts Manager will profitably manage and develop the Contracts Department incorporating Installations, Maintenance & Electrical Design within the agreed Business Plan.


Contracts Manager Person Specification

  • Experience of Project Planning, People Management and Motivation, ensuring projects are delivered on time, safely and profitably.
  • A self-motivated Manager who is able to work well within a team of Managers and on their own initiative.
  • Excellent multi-tasker with the ability to manage their time to meet deadlines.
  • An excellent communicator, who is able to communicate effectively across all levels of the business. 
  • A holder of a health and safety qualification, ideally IOSH or NEBOSH.
  • Previous experience in the steel erection / steelwork industry would be an advantage.
  • Possess excellent IT skills and knowledgeable in Microsoft Outlook, Word & Excel.
  • Be prepared to role your sleeves up and get your hands dirty.
  • Visit sites and clients in conjunction with the sales team and engage with clients to demonstrate a proficiency in company operations.


Contracts Manager Key Responsibilities

  • Oversee all activities within the Department including Project Management, QS and estimating ensuring they all deliver on time and in compliance with the customer orders.
  • Monitor and advise on overhead and profit management for projects.
  • Negotiation with Sub-Contractors.
  • To ensure adequate provisions are made to ensure the safe delivery of all activities, including (but not limited to) overseeing RAMS, training and the safe use of plant and equipment.
  • Implement agreed Business Plans to achieve targeted growth and profit levels for the business.