DISTRIBUTION CENTRE OPERATIONS MANAGER - FMCG RETAIL & EFULFILMENT

"Amazing career development opportunity for experienced FMCG Retail/ERetail Warehouse Operations Professional to join High Street Retailing Brand in high profile leadership role."

C£48000 (Dependent On Experience) Excellent Blue Chip Benefits

Bedfordshire

Commutable from Luton, Bedford, Leighton Buzzard, Dunstable, Milton Keynes, Hitchin, Ampthill, Harpenden, Letchworth, Hemel Hempstead, Houghton Regis, Harpenden, St Albans

Our client is a well-known High-Street Retailer, part of a multinational group. It is consistently recognised as an Employer of Choice and a Top-rated UK Workplace.

This is an amazing career development opportunity to join this multinational group and to take the lead as Distribution Centre Operations Manager for warehousing operations for one of its rapidly expanding High Street and online Retail brands.

Reporting to the Head of Logistics, as Distribution Centre Operations Manager, you will strengthen operations, projects, change management and continuous improvement capabilities. The site is an extremely fast-moving environment, especially as the operation heads to the peak trading period and you will work closely with Transport colleagues as they plan store and online retail/efulfilment deliveries via carriers, working to stringent customer service and operational KPI's.

The Role:

* Your leadership and planning skills will ensure that you are able to coach and develop your distribution centre/warehouse operations team to deliver results - ensuring all stock is managed and moved efficiently.

* You will lead a large team by setting direction, monitoring, and motivating individuals to exceed objectives whilst ensuring that security, inventory management and safety standards are maintained.

* We are looking for strategic individuals who can drive continuous improvement in productivity, operating costs, and customer satisfaction.

* The ideal candidates will be experienced leaders and people managers with the ability to motivate and drive performance.

* You will also possess extensive knowledge of retail logistics and warehousing operations, online retail and efulfilment, transport and distribution.

* The primary objective of this is to ensure accurate order assembly and despatch to retail stores and to online retail customers in a timely, cost effective and efficient manner.

* The operation is very seasonal but also with lots of promotions and new product launches and you will be adept at building excellent relationships across the supply chain and commercial teams promoting "retail excellence".

* It is essential that you also have some collaborative planning exposure with the ability to work cross functionally across this retail business.

* So, the key emphasis of this role will be to surpass internal and external customer expectations, people development and leadership and proactive continuous improvement of safety, quality and operational productivity and performance.

* Accuracy of stock holding, excellent cost control and budgetary management will be critical to success so you must already be very familiar with compiling and managing budgets and forecasts.

The Ideal Candidate:

* To succeed in this role, you will be of graduate calibre with previous experience of managing a distribution centre/warehouse operations team including significant experience of managing first line managers/supervisors/team leaders, within a FMCG retail warehousing and distribution sector. This could be in house or within a third-party contract logistics company.

* This must include proven people management skills including team development, maximising performance, improving motivation and productivity.

* Proven experience of forecasting and capacity planning in line with budgetary constraints and within a highly seasonal and promotions led environment.

* You will be mature, credible, and comfortable interacting with senior internal and external contacts. Excellent analytical skills, able to resolve complex problems through the identification of long-term solutions covering IT/process change.

* An influential change agent with the capability to facilitate and drive continuous improvement projects cross functionally.

To apply without delay, please send your CV, quoting reference LX 852738

Project/Programme Manager - Precision Engineering & Tooling

"Great opportunity for high performing Project/Programme Manager to take the lead on complex tooling design and development contract for global oil service exploration multinational."

C£55000 Bonus Excellent Benefits

Surrey

Our client is long-established company with a world leading reputation for precision subcontract machining in sectors as diverse as oil and gas / nuclear / automotive / semiconductor and subsea telecommunications. They have a world leading reputation for the design, development and build of deep hole drilling machines, cutting tools and as a provider of precision subcontract machining. As part of their continued growth, they have an exceptional opportunity for a high-performing Engineering Project/Programme Manager.

Working within the company's Subcontract division, as Project/Programme Manager, the successful candidate will be working within a dynamic engineering team taking the lead in managing projects/programmes for the development and manufacturing of very complex oil exploration tools for one of the world's largest oil service companies.

This is an outstanding opportunity to become part of a growing division with opportunity for personal growth and responsibility, ultimately becoming the key account holder for over half of our client's subcontract division's output.

This role will require occasional travel to customer sites in North America and Europe to further build and nurture relationships.

This is an excellent opportunity for an Engineering professional who can multitask and lead multiple programmes to launch high quality precision engineered drilling and tooling solutions for the oil service from concept and design through to order fulfilment, continually building upon our client's industry standard leading reputation It has well established programme management, new product design and development, product testing and advanced engineering and R & D. Everything is custom manufactured to its customers' product specifications.

The Role:

* As Project/ Programme Manager you will assume full account management ownership for a major oil service exploration sector customer.

* You will take the lead in decisions of design and manufacture, creating processes, production paperwork, spreadsheets and CAD drawings ensuring that manufacturing processes are safe, lean and efficient.

* You will also get involved in 2d and 3d design of fixturing and tooling as well as creating Bills of Materials and working with MRPs.

* Furthermore, you will be responsible for ordering materials to the correct specification and liaising with shipping facilitators ensure that orders are expedited and correctly certificated before shipping.

* You will also be responsible for planning, product realisation, cross functional influencing both internally and externally, transition into production and budget management, as well as key account relationship management and growth, and cost management.

* You will manage several key projects, focusing a high performing, multi-disciplinary programme management teams of partners and engineering colleagues from across the organisation, to launch new products, improving performance, and achieving total customer satisfaction.

* The successful Project/Programme Manager will be able to "see the wood for the trees", multitask, prioritise resources and work closely with program team members to ensure that project goals are met, assisting with decision making, advising on process improvement and adjustment, whilst mitigating project issues that could impact the end goal.

The Ideal Candidate:

· Strong analytical, problem solving, project management, customer service, written and verbal communication skills together with a focus on quality, will be critical to success.

· A Bachelor's degree in Engineering plus at least 5 years programme leadership experience including recent experience of managing project engineers and cross functional programme colleagues.

· Capability to manage multiple projects within budgetary and time constraints.

· Proven success in coaching and developing high performing project/program teams.

· Experience gained within precision engineered tooling sector - experience of drilling, boring, cutting or similar metal/CNC machined tooling would be highly advantageous.

· Advanced project management skills such as APQP or similar principles, methodologies and techniques will be essential.

· Experience working in a TS16949 / ISO9001 / ISO14001 environment advantageous

Knowledge of SolidWorks, FEA and Process Engineering.

· Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to successfully partner with cross functional colleagues and clients internally and externally.

A strategic thinker with excellent planning and results delivery.

· Excellent organizational and multitasking skills.

· Positive can-do attitude.

· Attention to detail and disciplined.

· Ability to work under strict deadlines.

· Excellent communication skills.

In return our client offers a competitive salary package plus bonus and benefits.

GRADUATE TRAINEE SALES ROLES - JUNIOR COMMERCIAL FINANCE BROKERS

"Kick-start your career with one of the UK's leading asset finance companies and develop your skills and experience through their structured training programme."

Salary £25000 Benefits (OTE £60-80000 on completion of graduate training scheme)

Northamptonshire, East Midlands, UK

Are you a recent graduate in a business studies or humanities discipline? Having graduated with a minimum 2:1 classification, you may have fallen into your current role and are enjoying the world of work.

But is it fulfilling? Can you see a clear route through to a senior level in your current business? Is your current company supporting your career development with a highly structured training programme?

That's what you'll receive from our client in one of their graduate trainee positions. You'll work alongside the Commercial Director and Sales Director, who will mentor you through your initial 12-16-week training programme.

During that time, you'll learn about commercial asset finance, the financial products our client offers, how to nurture sales opportunities from a lead through to a closed deal, then manage that client account for the long-term.

As such, your training will focus heavily on warm-calling existing previous or current clients to develop your confidence and ability in creating sales. However, this isn't a telesales type of role where you have a product to push onto a prospective customer. Instead, it's a consultative sale where you have to understand how the prospect's business operates then select the most appropriate financial solutions.

Having developed that initial enquiry, you'll then pass ownership of the deal to an account manager but work closely with them to learn the process of completing the sale.

Our client's ambition for you is to complete your training then start creating and managing your own deals where you will then earn a generous commission on top of your base salary.

Given the nature of the role, you'll need outstanding verbal and written communication skills along with a desire to work in a sales-based role and the ambition to succeed. You'll also need a UK driving licence as there will be occasional travel to clients' premises.

So, if you're looking to step up to the next level in your career, send your CV quoting reference LX 876683

Junior Commercial Finance Brokers - Graduate Trainee Sales Role

"Kick-start your career with one of the UK's leading asset finance companies and develop your skills and experience through their structured training programme."

Salary £25000 Benefits (OTE £60-80000 on completion of graduate training scheme)

Northamptonshire, East Midlands, UK

Are you a recent graduate in a business studies or humanities discipline? Having graduated with a minimum 2:1 classification, you may have fallen into your current role and are enjoying the world of work.

But is it fulfilling? Can you see a clear route through to a senior level in your current business? Is your current company supporting your career development with a highly structured training programme?

That's what you'll receive from our client in one of their graduate trainee positions. You'll work alongside the Commercial Director and Sales Director, who will mentor you through your initial 12-16-week training programme.

During that time, you'll learn about commercial asset finance, the financial products our client offers, how to nurture sales opportunities from a lead through to a closed deal, then manage that client account for the long-term.

As such, your training will focus heavily on warm-calling existing previous or current clients to develop your confidence and ability in creating sales. However, this isn't a telesales type of role where you have a product to push onto a prospective customer. Instead, it's a consultative sale where you have to understand how the prospect's business operates then select the most appropriate financial solutions.

Having developed that initial enquiry, you'll then pass ownership of the deal to an account manager but work closely with them to learn the process of completing the sale.

Our client's ambition for you is to complete your training then start creating and managing your own deals where you will then earn a generous commission on top of your base salary.

Given the nature of the role, you'll need outstanding verbal and written communication skills along with a desire to work in a sales-based role and the ambition to succeed. You'll also need a UK driving licence as there will be occasional travel to clients' premises.

So, if you're looking to step up to the next level in your career, send your CV quoting reference LX 876683

CHEMICAL PROCESS ENGINEER

£40-55000 (Dependent on Experience) Bonus Benefits Relocation Assistance

"Fantastic career development opportunity for degree educated Chemical Engineer"

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 Chemical Engineer to join the plant optimisation team of a UK market leader.

Working closely with production, maintenance, project and environmental management colleagues, you will focus on plant performance to enable the plant to achieve its Health Safety Environment and Quality (HSEQ) and performance objectives. The main elements of the role are to:

• Maintain high safety standards and effectively coach and challenge others to work safely.
• Monitor key process parameters, identify actions and define instructions to deal with deviations from targets.
• Conduct day to day and longer term investigations to improve performance and optimise plant operations.
• Implement systems, tools and procedures to optimise the production process.
• Support, and where appropriate lead, multidisciplinary teams, projects, Plant Improvement Plans (PIP) and other initiatives to meet business targets.
• Build and maintain positive relations with other teams to achieve the plant's goals

The Ideal Applicant:

• Degree or equivalent in Chemical Engineering or related subject

· IOSH qualification or willing to work towards.

· IChemE associated - working towards or willing to attain chartered engineer status

· At least 2-3 years minimum proven experience in chemical process engineering and plant performance improvement. Cement production industry experience would be highly advantageous.

· Strong IT skills, proficient in the use of Pi and MS office packages

· Environmental awareness in relation to developing a positive impact on the business.

· Strong knowledge of the physico-chemical products.

· Good knowledge of process control methods and statistical methods for troubleshooting.

· Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.

· Competent to assist the development of production operators to enhance the effectiveness of the process.

· High safety standards and a wide knowledge of Health and Safety management techniques (e.g. Risk Assessments).

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

· Persuasion and influencing skills

Our client offers excellent development and the opportunity to make a real difference in a business that really values its people. Relocation assistance will also be considered.

To apply without delay, please email your CV for quoting reference LX 865409

MECHANICAL ENGINEER - PLANT IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS

"Excellent career development opportunity for experienced Mechanical Engineer to take the lead on plant and maintenance improvement projects."

£35-55000 (Dependent On Experience) Bonus Excellent 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.

Working within a plant maintenance team, you'll already know that there's a constant dilemma between maintaining the plant and improving it.

As a Mechanical Engineer, you'll probably identify opportunities for plant improvement all the time, but you never have the chance to carry any of those projects out.

It can be frustrating, mainly when you know those improvement projects could make a massive difference in the production plant's process efficiency, yield, or downtime.

If that's the case, you could be the person our client needs for their company. They're a highly respected household name with operations spanning the globe, and they need a graduate-level mechanical engineer to help them improve their plant operations.

The role reports to the Maintenance Manager but sits aside from the day-to-day maintenance activities to allow you to focus on these medium to long-term improvement projects entirely.

Using your mechanical engineering knowledge and experience of 365/24/7 heavy processing machinery, you'll research known issues and create plans for resolving them with robust, long-term solutions. Our client isn't interested in "sticking plaster" fixes, as they are focused on increasing uptime and plant reliability for the future and the present.

There'll be plenty of opportunities to use your project management skills as you'll oversee the implementation of your improvement projects, liaising with all the other relevant departments and managing sub-contractors as required.

As our client's plant runs continuously, you'll need some flexibility to work shifts, but, in return, our client will invest in you by fully supporting your career development and progress through their business. They also offer relocation assistance if you live outside of their commutable area.

Given the nature of this role, our client expects you will have a degree in a mechanical engineering related discipline and will have worked in a continuous heavy industry such as chemicals, glass, steel, or construction materials.

PROCESS OPTIMISATION ENGINEER -CEMENT

"Fantastic career development opportunity for degree educated Chemical Engineer"

£40-55000 (Dependent on Experience) Bonus Excellent 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.

What do you know about cement?

If your answer is along the lines of "I once mixed some with my dad to fix the garage floor", then you're probably not the person we're looking for in this role. Sorry. Life isn't always fair.

However, if your answer includes words like Alite, Belite, Tricalcium aluminate, and Brownmillerite (without Googling "what is cement?"), then we're talking the same language.

As an experienced chemical process engineer, you'll know your way around a cement plant. You'll understand the various processes involved in producing cement in a 365/24/7 operation.

Our client knows as much about cement as anyone. They should do, as they've been producing it for many, many years.

But they do need someone to work with them to improve their processes at this particular plant. And those continuous improvement processes will be a core focus of your role.

Like all heavy engineering plants, they use significant amounts of power and are keen to continually develop company-wide power reduction projects to drive down their power consumption. Alongside that, they want to optimise their fuel consumption and increase the use of Waste Derived Fuels and Alternative Raw Materials to reduce their fuel spend even further.

So, those are examples of the large-scale and long-term projects you'll be working on alongside your day-to-day analysis of the process data to optimise machine performance and utilisation.

Due to the nature of this role, our client expects you to have a degree in chemical engineering and either hold or be willing to work towards an IOSH qualification and Chartership, which they will fully support.

They are also happy to provide relocation assistance to move you to their local area if you live further away.

There's much more detail to discuss so please indicate your interest by emailing your CV quoting reference LX 855060.

ENGINEERING PROJECTS MANAGER - CAPEX PROJECTS

"Provide best in class engineering and project management services to our client's flagship Scottish manufacturing facility."

£50-55000 (Dependent on Experience) Bonus Excellent Benefits

Location: East Lothian, Scotland (Relocation Assistance Available)

Commutable from Edinburgh, Berwick upon Tweed, Dunbar, North Berwick, Haddington, East Linton, Musselburgh, South Queensferry, Livingston, Dalkeith, Bonnyrigg, Bathgate, Relocation assistance may be available.

Are you a Project Manager with experience in leading complex, heavy engineering projects?

If so, our client needs your skills as they have several major CapEx projects to carry out on their manufacturing site.

As the Project Manager, you'll follow the projects from inception to completion, working on the initial specification of the project's requirements then coordinating all the subsequent activities.

Our client is a well-known, global manufacturer and has significant resources and expertise from their central capital projects team to bring into your projects as required. While you may be involved in some process plant projects, your focus will be on the site infrastructure. As such, your background should include managing complex civil and construction projects.

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.

Our client envisages you having a degree in engineering (civil, mechanical, electrical), ideally hold a project management qualification, and be fully conversant with the CDM regulations (again, a CDM qualification is preferred).

You'll hold complete budgetary control of the projects and need to demonstrate managing project budgets of £10m in your previous employment.

You will demonstrate a consistent track record of Capital Projects programme management including contractor selection and appointment, gained within a heavy industrial, multi-site, matrix organisational environment.

Demonstrable track record of project leadership via internal project and site engineering teams and external contractors/sub-contractors within a high safety critical, culture.

In-depth understanding of planned preventative maintenance, continuous improvement and energy consumption.

Excellent financial management experience including capital investment budget proposals and approval process in line with strategic capital forecasts.

Excellent people management experience familiar with managing direct and indirect team; good persuasion and influencing capabilities, with the ability to challenge, question and collaboratively develop logical solutions.

Current or recent Capital Projects Engineering Management experience gained within a very high safety culture, multi-site, heavy industrial processing sector such as steel, chemicals, cement, construction materials, energy/power or similar environment.

In return, our client is offering a generous salary and can provide relocation assistance for the perfect candidate.

There are many more details to discuss on this role, so please indicate your interest by emailing your CV to quoting reference LX 855059

SENIOR PROJECT ENGINEER - SPECIALIST (EPC) ENGINEERING & PROJECTS - HIGH HAZARD/HIGH INTEGRITY ENVIRONMENT

C£58-68000/€68-79500 (DOE) Bonus Excellent Benefits

North West UK or Netherlands or North West Germany

Our client is a global player with the high hazard and high integrity energy and power generation sector. Its portfolio of projects ranges from €50 million to in excess of €500 million. Its Engineering and Projects division supports Group project services across sites in the UK and mainland Europe.

The Role:

The role of Senior Project Engineer - Specialist Projects forms part of Group Projects and the Project Engineering team. The Senior Project Engineer - Specialist Projects will manage all of the requirements and technical activities for a given specialist project or project scope (relating to Cascade Design & Install, Plant Control Systems, Core Equipment Specialist knowledge or delivery of bespoke R&D projects) aiming at assuring project accuracy, quality and cost control from conception to completion.

The Senior Project Engineer - Specialist (EPC) Project will build and maintain strong client and stakeholder relationships. As Senior Project Engineer - Specialist Projects, your remit will span supplier selection and evaluation, to direct delivery of engineering/design scope for specialist projects.

Therefore, this role will be ideal for a Senior Project Engineer with a solid generalist understanding of a wide range of engineering disciplines, alongside specialist knowledge relating to Cascade Design & Install, Plant Control Systems, Core Equipment specialist knowledge or delivery of bespoke R & D projects enabling the role to deliver integrated design solutions and to oversee engineering at a project level of high complexity.

The role would report to the Manager of the Project Engineering function, and you would be responsible for indirect management of contractors at multiple locations and for budgetary responsibility for engineering contracts up to c€40 million.

The role of Senior Project Engineer - Specialist (EPC) Projects has multiple stakeholders, internal and external customers, interfacing across the whole group and this on occasion may require travel to mainland Europe to assist with projects.

As Senior Project Engineer- Specialist Projects you may be assigned to one project or several packages of work that form part of a large project of strategic importance.

The Ideal Candidate:

* University degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Project Management, Construction or similar.

* At least five years' experience in a fully accountable technical project engineering role within EPC projects.

* Specialist knowledge in either Cascade design & install, Plant Control Systems, Core Process delivery, bespoke R & D project delivery are a prerequisite for success in this role.

* Full design project lifecycle project engineering experience from concept development, initiation through to closeout/handover.

* Skilled in implementing and delivering engineering/design strategy against project objectives with minimal supervision.

* Proven leadership experience and the ability to work with minimum supervision.

* Demonstrable experience in developing and implementing cost predictability aligning multicultural team members around clear common goals to successfully achieve project objectives ranging from oversight to management by influencing to deliver.

* Demonstrable project engineering experience supporting complex, multi contract, multi discipline EPC project(s).

* Experience of successfully managing contractual relationships with suppliers including provision of free issue materials, technology, or IP.

* Proven track record of contract delivery protecting our client's contractual position whilst preventing the likelihood of claims.

* Skilled in setting standards for documentation, knowledge management and administration ensuring that suppliers meet contractual obligations.

* Strong competence and capability working with teams of high performing professionals accountable for the delivery of projects.

* Additional professional qualifications such as CEng or EUR ING. CDM Principal Designer Representative experience very useful.

* A project management qualification such as APM or PMI or Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) would be highly advantageous.

* Awareness of contracting methodologies such as NEC3, NEC4 etc

* On site construction experience.

Please note that this role is subject to security clearance so if you have security clearance for the UK, Netherlands or Germany please state this clearly on your application.

PROJECT ENGINEER - (EPC) ENGINEERING & PROJECTS - HIGH HAZARD/HIGH INTEGRITY ENVIRONMENT

C£40-50000/€47-58500 (DOE) Bonus Excellent Benefits

North West UK or Netherlands or North West Germany

Our client is a global player with the high hazard and high integrity energy and power generation sector. Its portfolio of projects ranges from £50 million to in excess of £500 million. Its Engineering and Projects division supports Group project services across sites in the UK and mainland Europe.

The Role:

The Project Engineer (EPC) will ensure that project requirements are completed accurately, on time, within budget and to the required quality standard, whilst building and maintaining strong client and stakeholder relationships. As Project Engineer your remit will span supplier selection and evaluation, to direct delivery of engineering/design scope for selected projects from conception to completion.

Therefore, this role will be ideal for a Project Engineer with a solid generalist understanding of a wide range of engineering disciplines, enabling the role to deliver integrated design solutions and to oversee engineering at project level with varying degrees of complexity.

The role would report to a Project Engineering Manager, and you would be responsible for indirect management of contractors at multiple locations and for budgetary responsibility for engineering contracts up to c€5 million.

The role of Project Engineer (EPC) has multiple stakeholders, internal and external customers, interfacing across the whole group and this on occasion may require travel to mainland Europe to assist with projects.

As Project Engineer you may be assigned to one project or several packages of work that form part of a large project of strategic importance.

The Ideal Candidate:

* University degree (or equivalent) in Engineering, Project Management, Construction or similar.

* At least three years' experience in a fully accountable technical project engineering role within EPC projects.

* Full design project lifecycle project engineering experience from concept development, initiation through to closeout/handover.

* Skilled in implementing engineering/design strategy against project objectives with minimal supervision.

* Proven leadership experience and the ability to work with minimum supervision.

* Demonstrable experience in developing and implementing cost predictability aligning multicultural team members around clear common goals to successfully achieve project objectives ranging from oversight to management by influencing to deliver.

* Demonstrable project engineering experience supporting complex, multi contract, multi discipline EPC project(s).

* Experience of successfully managing contractual relationships with suppliers including provision of free issue materials, technology, or IP.

* Proven track record of contract delivery protecting our client's contractual position whilst preventing the likelihood of claims.

* Strong competence and capability working with teams of high performing professionals accountable for the delivery of projects.

* Additional professional qualifications such as CEng or EUR ING. CDM Principal Designer Representative experience very useful.

* A project management qualification such as APM or PMI or Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) would be highly advantageous.

* Awareness of contracting methodologies such as NEC3, NEC4 etc

* On site construction experience.

Please note that this role is subject to security clearance so if you have security clearance for the UK, Netherlands or Germany please state this clearly on your application.

PROJECT ENGINEERING MANAGERS - (EPC) ENGINEERING & PROJECTS - HIGH HAZARD/HIGH INTEGRITY ENVIRONMENT

C£60-68000/€70-79500 (DOE) Bonus Excellent Benefits

North West UK or Netherlands or North West Germany

Our client is a global player with the high hazard and high integrity energy and power generation sector. Its portfolio of projects ranges from €50 million to in excess of €500 million. Its Engineering and Projects division supports Group project services across sites in the UK and mainland Europe.

The Roles:

The role of Project Engineering Manager (EPC) forms part of Group Projects and Project Engineering. Project Engineering Managers will plan and direct all design and technical resources working on specific projects. They will manage the development, implementation and evaluation of complex designs. This will include overseeing product construction and testing to ensure efficient and effective completion of projects.

The Project Engineering Managers (EPC) will ensure that engineering resource and capability assigned to deliver projects are technically fit for purpose and meet statutory requirements. Your remit will stretch from project engineering and design strategies through to supplier selection and evaluation, to direct delivery of engineering/design scope for selected projects from conception to completion.

Therefore, these roles will be ideal for Project Engineering Managers with solid generalist understanding of a wide range of engineering disciplines, ensuring the management of multiple engineering disciplines to deliver integrated design solutions of a moderate ot high degree of complexity.

Project Engineering Managers will be assigned a portfolio of projects varying in size and complexity, each of strategic significance. Direct reports will range from 1-10 typically degree educated with relevant accreditation with some PhD level educated. In addition, you will be responsible for c10-40 indirect reports from contractors based at multiple UK and pan European locations.

Project specific engineering budgetary responsibility would be in the range €5-50 million.

Project Engineering Managers will have multiple stakeholders, internal and external customers, and will interface across the whole group and this will require travel to mainland Europe to assist with the delivery of multiple projects.

The Ideal Candidates:

* University degree (or equivalent) in Engineering within demonstrable success in engineering management.

* At least five years' experience in a fully accountable technical project engineering leadership role within EPC projects.

* Full design project lifecycle project engineering management experience from concept development, initiation through to closeout/handover.

* Ability to analyse project requirements and critical success factors, translating these into bespoke engineering/design strategies.

* Demonstrable ability to convey the strategy and build a team accountable for delivery of the project.

* Demonstrable experience in developing and implementing cost predictability aligning multicultural team members around clear common goals to successfully achieve project objectives ranging from oversight to management by influencing to deliver.

* Skilled in managing ambiguity and confident to take accountability for creating governance models, resource plans and delivery to meet project requirements.

* Experience of successfully managing contractual relationships with suppliers including provision of free issue materials, technology, or IP.

* Proven track record of contract delivery protecting our client's contractual position whilst preventing the likelihood of claims.

* Skilled in setting standards for documentation, knowledge management and administration ensuring that suppliers meet contractual obligations.

* Demonstrable project engineering management experience supporting complex, multi contract, multi discipline EPC project(s).

* Strong competence and capability working with teams of high performing professionals accountable for the delivery of projects.

* Additional professional qualifications such as CEng or EUR ING. CDM Principal Designer Representative experience very useful.

* A project management qualification such as APM or PMI or Chartered Project Professional (ChPP) would be highly advantageous.

* Awareness of contracting methodologies such as NEC3, NEC4 etc

* On site construction experience.

Please note that this role is subject to security clearance so if you have security clearance for the UK, Netherlands or Germany please state this clearly on your application.

GRADUATE TRAINEE SALES ROLES - JUNIOR COMMERCIAL FINANCE BROKERS

"Kick-start your career with one of the UK's leading asset finance companies and develop your skills and experience through their structured training programme."

Salary £25000 Benefits (OTE £60-80000 on completion of graduate training scheme)

Northamptonshire, East Midlands, UK

Are you a recent graduate in a business studies or humanities discipline? Having graduated with a minimum 2:1 classification, you may have fallen into your current role and are enjoying the world of work.

But is it fulfilling? Can you see a clear route through to a senior level in your current business? Is your current company supporting your career development with a highly structured training programme?

That's what you'll receive from our client in one of their graduate trainee positions. You'll work alongside the Commercial Director and Sales Director, who will mentor you through your initial 12-16-week training programme.

During that time, you'll learn about commercial asset finance, the financial products our client offers, how to nurture sales opportunities from a lead through to a closed deal, then manage that client account for the long-term.

As such, your training will focus heavily on warm-calling existing previous or current clients to develop your confidence and ability in creating sales. However, this isn't a telesales type of role where you have a product to push onto a prospective customer. Instead, it's a consultative sale where you have to understand how the prospect's business operates then select the most appropriate financial solutions.

Having developed that initial enquiry, you'll then pass ownership of the deal to an account manager but work closely with them to learn the process of completing the sale.

Our client's ambition for you is to complete your training then start creating and managing your own deals where you will then earn a generous commission on top of your base salary.

Given the nature of the role, you'll need outstanding verbal and written communication skills along with a desire to work in a sales-based role and the ambition to succeed. You'll also need a UK driving licence as there will be occasional travel to clients' premises.

So, if you're looking to step up to the next level in your career, send your CV quoting reference LX 876683