CONCRETE PLANT SUPERVISOR - NORTH WEST LONDON
"Fantastic career development opportunity for a Plant Supervisor to join a ready-mixed concrete plant, with responsibility for the overall day-to-day operations and maintenance of the plant, and the supervision of a team."
Location: London, NW10
Commutable from Wembley, Park Royal, Ealing, Hounslow, Richmond, Staines, Kingston on Thames, Harrow, Uxbridge, West Drayton, Hendon, Feltham, Isleworth, Hayes, Greenford, Perrivale, Brent Cross, Camden Town, Hammersmith, Harrow, Neasden, Cricklewood, Kilburn
Salary: £30-34000 Benefits including Bonus
Our client is the UK's leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business. Their innovative products and solutions not only deliver the infrastructure needed to grow the UK economy today but also help to create a more sustainable built environment for the country's long-term future
The Role:
Our client is currently looking for a Concrete Plant Supervisor to join their team at a ready-mixed Concrete Plant in North West London.
As Concrete Plant Supervisor, you will report directly to the Concrete Plant Production Manager and will be responsible for the overall day-to-day operations and maintenance of the site. Our client is looking for a proactive and dynamic supervisor who will play a key part in their plant's concrete production, keeping their site running effectively to meet the standards and needs of their customers.
You will also:
· Ensure that concrete orders are taken and dispatched to meet customer requirements - creating and batching concrete on a daily basis
· Operate loading shovels to re-stock storage bins and stockpile aggregate deliveries
· Manage and control truck mixer/tipper/cement tanker drivers operating in the plant
· Ensure the site is kept within very high Health and Safety protocols, carrying out daily checks of all safety critical equipment in line with company standards
· Take responsibility for supervising a team and ensuring all the team operate within and contribute to a positive Health and Safety culture
· Supervise plant operatives to ensure they are aware of, and comply with, all company policies and procedures and meet performance levels
· Ensure your team undertake training as required in order to improve their productivity
· Oversee quality and drive change and continuous improvement initiatives to the company product
· Maintain disciplined stock management processes - manage all material stocks and reorder as required from various suppliers
· Assist the both the maintenance fitters and business partners in actively identifying and implementing site manufacturing improvements
· Liaise regularly with distribution teams and hauliers to ensure the site's logistics are kept to the best standards to meet customer requirements
· Support community relations to focus on maintaining good environmental standards
· Conduct administration tasks, including using IT systems, in order to operate the site
· Produce regular operational reports to present to the Concrete Plant Production Manager
The Ideal Candidate:
· Previous Plant Supervisor experience, with good understanding of general plant maintenance
· Experience in the ready-mix concrete sector, or a similar environment such as asphalt, aggregates, cement, quarrying, or mining
· General mechanical/electrical understanding of machinery equipment within a concrete plant or similar
· Good knowledge of Health and Safety procedures and protocols within a concrete plant or similar
· Experience of managing a team
· Excellent communication and organisational skills
· Ability to work under pressure and problem-solve
· HNC/HND in Engineering discipline (desirable)
· Minimum IOSHH Working Safely Certificate (essential)
· NVQ Wheeled Loading Shovel license
· First Aid qualifications
Mechanical Design Engineer - Structural Glazing Systems
c£40-£50000 (DOE) + Benefits
Location: Suffolk
We have been retained by this client, part of a European group that manufactures and assembles high quality architectural and structural glazing products. Their products are used in major construction projects large and small in the UK and overseas including shopping centres, airports, supermarkets, railway stations, hospitals, schools, offices, factories, swimming pools, public buildings etc. The product range consists of both standard items and also architect specified bespoke designs.
Working closely with European design colleagues, the Design Engineer will design bespoke glazing products from design briefs.
The Role:
Your Background
To apply without delay please email your CV in word format, quoting reference LX 1686060
Specification Sales Manager - Structural Glazing Systems
"Amazing opportunity for structural glazing systems specialist with a track record of sales to Architects & Specifiers in London/South East."
C£65000 + Car Allowance + Bonus + Benefits
Location: London/South East/M25 - Field/Home Based
Commutable locations: Greater London, Home Counties, Middlesex, Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Surrey, Berkshire, Oxfordshire, Sussex, Kent, Hampshire
Our client is a European market leader in the manufacture and supply of structural glazing systems to the industrial, educational and commercial sector including hotels, airports, shopping centres, schools, rail/underground, and commercial developments. This role will focus specifically on specification sales to Architects and Specifiers in London and the South East.
This is a newly created position to support our client's growth plans for its unique and marketing leading range of structural glazing products and solutions in the UK industrial and commercial specification sales market. They would like to increase their coverage and brand recognition with the appointment of a London/SE based Specification Sales Manager with a network of partnerships with Architects and Specifiers.
You will cover a territory spanning the South/South East around the M25, Greater London and surrounding Home Counties such as Essex, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Buckinghamshire. The successful candidate will therefore be field based in the Southern region around the M25, M27, M1, M3, M4.
The Specification Sales Management role will be very much focused on new business development, key account and project management selling our client's full range of structural glazing solutions to architects and specifiers predominantly in relation to yearly and multiyear design and construction development projects. Therefore, you must have experience of specification sales, building relationships with architects including technical discussions about the installation of products and management of the quotation bank within the territory. Most importantly you will have a strong established network of contacts within the structured glazing systems, specialist glass, windows, doors, skylights, curtain walling, facades systems, drylining, insulation, roofing, or other similar specialist construction or architectural components for commercial and industrial builds.
The Role:
* Based from a home office, and under the direction of and reporting to the UK Managing Director, you will foster and promote the sale of structural glazing systems within the Southern/South East, Greater London region.
* Call on current and prospective customers or specifiers (architect or specifying engineer) to explain the advantages of our client's products and their capabilities, and assist in defining project requirements, influencing the preparation of specifications or matching products with existing specifications. Communicate our client's value proposition in comparison with other similar competitor products in the marketplace.
* Analyse major construction job requirements for special or unique applications and provide technical input to arrive at an engineered solution. Use sketches, drawings and calculations (as required) to focus on requirements, and provide customer with best options. Work as a liaison between the customer and our client's Head Office to expedite or resolve final design requirements as necessary.
* Maintain tracking system, and follow up all calls and enquiries to ensure that the order is closed. Analyse any problems presented by the customer, develop appropriate solutions, and assist customer in resolving the concern.
* Work closely with Head Office, including the design and technical team to develop strategic pricing for major contracts and partnering agreements when required.
* Maintain an effective, ongoing relationship with repeat and key account customers.
* Maintain appropriate contact with the Head Office. Provide specified reports to the Managing Director on a timely basis.
* Monitor competitor activity and market trends within the territory, and make appropriate recommendations regarding them.
* Participate in identifying new markets or new needs for existing products, and new market needs for new products. Participate in the development of specific sales strategies to increase sales of individual products / product lines. As requested, undertake projects relating to business and sales development within defined territories.
* Make PowerPoint or other types of presentations at CPD roadshow events, seminars, or conferences to communicate the advantages of our client's products.
* Perform other related duties as assigned or warranted by conditions.
The Ideal Candidate:
* University degree/graduate calibre/A Level education.
* Currently undertaking a similar Specification Sales, new business development, sales hunter and consultative selling role within the structural glazing systems, specialised glass, windows, doors, skylights, curtain walling, facades or other similar specialist construction or architectural components for commercial and industrial builds. Candidates with experience of other architectural products for large scale industrial/commercial projects will also be considered.
* Will possess an established network of specification sales contacts from the commercial and industrial build/construction sector such as Architects and Specifiers.
* This must include experience of specifications, building relationships with architects and including CPD presentations, technical discussions about the installation of products and the quotation process.
* Articulate, with good written and verbal communication skills.
* Ability to see projects through from enquiry to quotation to order, maintaining contact and confidently handling objections at every stage.
* Detail oriented and familiar with CRM systems.
* Experience / knowledge of the industrial and commercial construction industry in the South East/London.
* Familiar with construction site visits to undertake inspections, with strict adherence to health and safety requirements.
* Computer literate including Excel, Powerpoint and CRM systems.
* Currently undertaking a similar field based role in the London/South East area.
To apply, without delay, please email your CV, quoting reference LX 1686058
SENIOR PROJECTS ENGINEER – CAPEX & MAINTENANCE PROJECTS
"Fantastic career development opportunity for experienced Project Engineer to join flagship Scottish heavy industrial processing plant".
£Very Competitive (Dependent on Experience) + Bonus + Benefits + Relocation Assistance
Location: East Lothian, Scotland
Commutable from Edinburgh, Berwick upon Tweed, Dunbar, North Berwick, Haddington, East Linton, Musselburgh, South Queensferry, Livingston, Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg, Bathgate, Relocation assistance may be available.
This is an exciting career development opportunity for a degree educated and ambitious Senior Project Engineer to further enhance their existing project engineering experience by joining the well-established project engineering team of a UK market leader, at one of their major industrial processing plants in Scotland. If you view change as an opportunity to develop and contribute to the business this could be the role for you. Especially if you like partnering with business stakeholders are all levels, presenting new ideas and excellent project management.
The site is a 365/24/7 heavy process engineering operation, so managing the project works around the continuous production cycle will challenge your project management and communication skills. An appreciation of a wide variety of engineering disciplines i.e., electrical, mechanical, chemical, process control and optimisation will be critical to success and credibility in this role.
The Role:
Reporting to the Engineering Projects Manager, you will be responsible for:
The Ideal Applicant: