WAREHOUSE MANAGER - 3PL SHARED USER

"Amazing career development opportunity for experienced Warehouse Operations Professional to join a greenfield contract logistics distribution centre specialising in shared user palletised operations."

C£35000 (Dependent On Experience) Excellent Blue Chip Benefits

Stoke on Trent

Commutable from Stoke on Trent, Stafford, Stone, Barlaston, Silverdale, Keele, Crewe, Kidsgrove, Draycott, Congleton, Bramshall, Holmes Chappel, Rugeley, Cannock, Winsford, Buxton, Northwich, Burntwood, Wilmslow, Macclesfield

Our client is a well-established, rapidly expanding third party contract logistics, offering a range of shared user warehousing and transport solutions to an impressive and growing portfolio of clients across several sectors.

They have recently invested in a brand-new distribution centre in Stoke on Trent and now wish to appoint an experienced Warehouse Operations professional from the 3PL shared/multiuser palletised logistics sector. Experience of operating as part of a pallet network will be very beneficial.

This is an ideal opportunity to take a lead role in defining operational processes and layouts from goods in to put away to picking and outbound despatch ensuring that productivity, health and safety, commercial and customer service targets are met and continuously improved as new clients are introduced to the operation. This will include recruitment of the operations team, training and development. You will be experienced in budgetary management and resource planning. This role will be client facing with your multiuser customer base. You will be familiar with leading edge WMS and inventory systems. Candidates should have a good understanding of transport operations including vehicle loading. A CPC would be useful.

The Role:

· Effective leadership, management, motivation, and development of the warehouse team to ensure that the service provided meets the high levels of performance required by customers.

· Ensure a 'Positive Customer Experience' is embraced by the entire team and is delivered for each customer.

· Manage all aspects of the warehouse operation to include goods in, replenishment, putaway, order picking, palletisation and order despatch in line with agreed SLA's.

· Lead, motivate, train, and develop the Warehouse team creating and maintaining a high-performance culture focused on working together, openness and continuous improvement.

· 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.

· Ensure all health and safety, and operating procedures are adhered to and that colleagues are fully trained and competent.

· Effectively manage resources to maximise productivity and improve cost performance (including recruitment, core and agency resource, equipment uses and pick times

· Delivery against HSSE metrics. Ensure safety standards are always of high priority.

· To be accountable for all commercial/internal KPI's and SLA's, setting stretching goals, driving continuous improvement, and maximising performance

· Effectively communicate operational plans and priorities to colleagues

· Work in partnership with the Transport and Administration teams to maximise productivity, accuracy, efficiency, and the customer experience.

· Manage stock control and inventory checks and be responsible for entire stock flow within the operation.

· Utilise the WMS and Excel ensuring accurate and useful data collection and reports for warehouse activity /productivity.

· Develop warehouse operation systems by determining product handling and storage requirements.

· Developing, implementing, and enforcing policies and procedures such as receiving products, equipment, utilisation, inventory management and shipping.

· 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 have a good standard of education with previous experience of managing a third-party contract logistics distribution centre/warehouse operations team including significant experience of managing first line managers/supervisors/team leaders.

* This must include proven people management skills including recruitment of core and agency staff, training, team development, maximising performance, improving motivation and productivity.

* 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.

* 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.

* Proven experience of forecasting and capacity planning in line with budgetary constraints and within a growing shared/multiuser warehousing and distribution environment.

* You will be mature, credible, and comfortable interacting with senior internal and external stakeholders.

* 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 warehouse operations continuous improvement initiatives.

To apply without delay, please send your CV, quoting reference LX 950584

MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE FITTER/ENGINEERS

Salary: c£25-35,000 Shift Allowance Excellent Benefits

Location: Presteigne, Wales/Herefordshire Borders

Commutable from: Ludlow, Leominster, Kington, Ledbury, Leominster, Knighton, Llandrindod Wells, Newtown, Knighton, Hay on Wye, Craven Arms, Bishops Castle, Stourport on Severn, Bromyard, Kidderminster, Hereford, Worcester, Bridgenorth, Telford, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Stourbridge, Walsall.

How would you like to be a part of one of the UK's leading industrial manufacturing and processing businesses, part of a global plc?

Our client is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Fitter/Engineer to maintain their fixed and mobile plant, machinery and processing equipment at one of their operational sites to ensure the supply of high-quality products to customers in the South West and Wales area are met.

You will be a part of the 24/7 engineering function at the site. You will be reporting to the Mechanical Shift Supervisor where you'll be able to contribute to the preparation and development of safe working methods for repair procedures. You will also have a flexible, proactive, and 'hands-on' approach to responding to plant breakdown, ensuring assets are returned to production in a timely manner and temporary fixes are followed up with a permanent solution.

This role may involve travel to other locations to assist and therefore the job holder must possess a full UK driving licence.

The role of Mechanical Maintenance Fitter would suit an individual who has great communication and problem-solving skills as well as someone who can work confidently and courteously within the team and on their own initiative.

Key tasks and responsibilities

* To maintain and promote Health & Safety rules and regulations, following all company processes and procedures. Including to challenge unsafe conditions and practices, reporting these through company procedures.

* Ability to remove and fit bearings

* Work with risk assessments and method statements

* To undertake emergency breakdown repairs in a timely and efficient way on all production equipment.

* To own small scale projects and to deliver in a pragmatic and proactive manner.

* Coordinate with contractors and suppliers when they are on site

* Participate in root cause analysis so repeat failures can be eliminated

* Fully utilise the computerised maintenance management system and record all work including fault descriptions, spares used, and repairs carried out.

The ideal candidate:

* Educated to recognised apprenticeship in mechanical engineering or relevant engineering. ONC/HNC would be advantageous.

* Strong mechanical background, heavy industry highly advantageous.

* Good knowledge of mechanical systems, drives, motors, belts, pumps, crushers, conveyors, vibratory screens, and gearboxes

* Computer literate

* Able to work at height and confined spaces

* Welding and Fabricating to a good standard

In return our client offers a competitive base salary plus excellent benefits.

MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE FITTER/ENGINEERS

Salary: c£25-35,000 Shift Allowance Excellent Benefits

Location: Presteigne, Wales/Herefordshire Borders

Commutable from: Ludlow, Leominster, Kington, Ledbury, Leominster, Knighton, Llandrindod Wells, Newtown, Knighton, Hay on Wye, Craven Arms, Bishops Castle, Stourport on Severn, Bromyard, Kidderminster, Hereford, Worcester, Bridgenorth, Telford, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Stourbridge, Walsall.

How would you like to be a part of one of the UK's leading industrial manufacturing and processing businesses, part of a global plc?

Our client is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Fitter/Engineer to maintain their fixed and mobile plant, machinery and processing equipment at one of their operational sites to ensure the supply of high-quality products to customers in the South West and Wales area are met.

You will be a part of the 24/7 engineering function at the site. You will be reporting to the Mechanical Shift Supervisor where you'll be able to contribute to the preparation and development of safe working methods for repair procedures. You will also have a flexible, proactive, and 'hands-on' approach to responding to plant breakdown, ensuring assets are returned to production in a timely manner and temporary fixes are followed up with a permanent solution.

This role may involve travel to other locations to assist and therefore the job holder must possess a full UK driving licence.

The role of Mechanical Maintenance Fitter would suit an individual who has great communication and problem-solving skills as well as someone who can work confidently and courteously within the team and on their own initiative.

Key tasks and responsibilities

* To maintain and promote Health & Safety rules and regulations, following all company processes and procedures. Including to challenge unsafe conditions and practices, reporting these through company procedures.

* Ability to remove and fit bearings

* Work with risk assessments and method statements

* To undertake emergency breakdown repairs in a timely and efficient way on all production equipment.

* To own small scale projects and to deliver in a pragmatic and proactive manner.

* Coordinate with contractors and suppliers when they are on site

* Participate in root cause analysis so repeat failures can be eliminated

* Fully utilise the computerised maintenance management system and record all work including fault descriptions, spares used, and repairs carried out.

The ideal candidate:

* Educated to recognised apprenticeship in mechanical engineering or relevant engineering. ONC/HNC would be advantageous.

* Strong mechanical background, heavy industry highly advantageous.

* Good knowledge of mechanical systems, drives, motors, belts, pumps, crushers, conveyors, vibratory screens, and gearboxes

* Computer literate

* Able to work at height and confined spaces

* Welding and Fabricating to a good standard

In return our client offers a competitive base salary plus excellent benefits.

MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE FITTER/ENGINEERS

Salary: c£25 - 35,000 Shift Allowance Excellent Benefits

Location: Presteigne, Wales/Herefordshire Borders

Commutable from: Ludlow, Leominster, Kington, Ledbury, Leominster, Knighton, Llandrindod Wells, Newtown, Knighton, Hay on Wye, Craven Arms, Bishops Castle, Stourport on Severn, Bromyard, Kidderminster, Hereford, Worcester, Bridgenorth, Telford, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Stourbridge, Walsall.

How would you like to be a part of one of the UK's leading industrial manufacturing and processing businesses, part of a global plc?

Our client is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Fitter/Engineer to maintain their fixed and mobile plant, machinery and processing equipment at one of their operational sites to ensure the supply of high-quality products to customers in the South West and Wales area are met.

You will be a part of the 24/7 engineering function at the site. You will be reporting to the Mechanical Shift Supervisor where you'll be able to contribute to the preparation and development of safe working methods for repair procedures. You will also have a flexible, proactive, and 'hands-on' approach to responding to plant breakdown, ensuring assets are returned to production in a timely manner and temporary fixes are followed up with a permanent solution.

This role may involve travel to other locations to assist and therefore the job holder must possess a full UK driving licence.

The role of Mechanical Maintenance Fitter would suit an individual who has great communication and problem-solving skills as well as someone who can work confidently and courteously within the team and on their own initiative.

Key tasks and responsibilities

* To maintain and promote Health & Safety rules and regulations, following all company processes and procedures. Including to challenge unsafe conditions and practices, reporting these through company procedures.

* Ability to remove and fit bearings

* Work with risk assessments and method statements

* To undertake emergency breakdown repairs in a timely and efficient way on all production equipment.

* To own small scale projects and to deliver in a pragmatic and proactive manner.

* Coordinate with contractors and suppliers when they are on site

* Participate in root cause analysis so repeat failures can be eliminated

* Fully utilise the computerised maintenance management system and record all work including fault descriptions, spares used, and repairs carried out.

The ideal candidate:

* Educated to recognised apprenticeship in mechanical engineering or relevant engineering. ONC/HNC would be advantageous.

* Strong mechanical background, heavy industry highly advantageous.

* Good knowledge of mechanical systems, drives, motors, belts, pumps, crushers, conveyors, vibratory screens, and gearboxes

* Computer literate

* Able to work at height and confined spaces

* Welding and Fabricating to a good standard

In return our client offers a competitive base salary plus excellent benefits.

MECHANICAL MAINTENANCE FITTER/ENGINEERS

Salary: c£25-35,000 Shift Allowance Excellent Benefits

Location: Presteigne, Wales/Herefordshire Borders

Commutable from: Ludlow, Leominster, Kington, Ledbury, Leominster, Knighton, Llandrindod Wells, Newtown, Knighton, Hay on Wye, Craven Arms, Bishops Castle, Stourport on Severn, Bromyard, Kidderminster, Hereford, Worcester, Bridgenorth, Telford, Wolverhampton, Dudley, Stourbridge, Walsall.

How would you like to be a part of one of the UK's leading industrial manufacturing and processing businesses, part of a global plc?

Our client is seeking a Mechanical Maintenance Fitter/Engineer to maintain their fixed and mobile plant, machinery and processing equipment at one of their operational sites to ensure the supply of high-quality products to customers in the South West and Wales area are met.

You will be a part of the 24/7 engineering function at the site. You will be reporting to the Mechanical Shift Supervisor where you'll be able to contribute to the preparation and development of safe working methods for repair procedures. You will also have a flexible, proactive, and 'hands-on' approach to responding to plant breakdown, ensuring assets are returned to production in a timely manner and temporary fixes are followed up with a permanent solution.

This role may involve travel to other locations to assist and therefore the job holder must possess a full UK driving licence.

The role of Mechanical Maintenance Fitter would suit an individual who has great communication and problem-solving skills as well as someone who can work confidently and courteously within the team and on their own initiative.

Key tasks and responsibilities

* To maintain and promote Health & Safety rules and regulations, following all company processes and procedures. Including to challenge unsafe conditions and practices, reporting these through company procedures.

* Ability to remove and fit bearings

* Work with risk assessments and method statements

* To undertake emergency breakdown repairs in a timely and efficient way on all production equipment.

* To own small scale projects and to deliver in a pragmatic and proactive manner.

* Coordinate with contractors and suppliers when they are on site

* Participate in root cause analysis so repeat failures can be eliminated

* Fully utilise the computerised maintenance management system and record all work including fault descriptions, spares used, and repairs carried out.

The ideal candidate:

* Educated to recognised apprenticeship in mechanical engineering or relevant engineering. ONC/HNC would be advantageous.

* Strong mechanical background, heavy industry highly advantageous.

* Good knowledge of mechanical systems, drives, motors, belts, pumps, crushers, conveyors, vibratory screens, and gearboxes

* Computer literate

* Able to work at height and confined spaces

* Welding and Fabricating to a good standard

In return our client offers a competitive base salary plus excellent benefits.

HEALTH AND SAFETY CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MANAGER

"Excellent career development opportunity with global multinational, within lean manufacturing and engineering environment, for a graduate calibre, chartered Health & Safety professional to lead and continually improve a best in class health and safety function within one of their rapidly expanding business units"

C £45000 (Dependent On Experience) Benefits

Location: West Midlands

Commutable from Atherstone, Nuneaton, Tamworth, Dordon, Coventry, Bedworth, Leamington Spa, Warwick, Stratford on Avon, Walsall, Sutton Coldfield, Coleshill, Cannock, Rugeley, Burton upon Trent, Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Redditch, Solihull, Nuneaton, Lichfield, Ashby de la Zouche, Leicester, Coventry, Rugby, Lutterworth, Stoke on Trent, Stafford, Wolverhampton

Our client is a major diversified industrial group, part of a global multinational, specialising in the B2B sector. Safety is their first and foremost objective in all its activities. It operates a number of manufacturing and logistics sites throughout the UK and is seeking a Health and Safety Continuous Improvement Officer to take the lead within one of their smaller specialist business units which is experiencing growth both organic and via acquisition.

Our client is seeking a graduate calibre, NEBOSH qualified, chartered IOSH Health and Safety professional with a track gained within a multinational, multi-site, matrix organisation, who will be experienced in working closely with stakeholders at senior executive, including the Group Health & Safety Manager on a regular basis within the business unit, the group and the plc. Ideally this experience will have been gained with a lean continuous improvement environment and you will be adept at ensuring that the approach to health and safety also mirrors and works in parallel with changes and developments within manufacturing and engineering processes.

As Health & Safety Continuous Improvement Manager, you will report to the Group Health & Safety Manager and will take responsibility for health and safety at three manufacturing units located in Warwickshire and Hertfordshire. Each unit specialises in the manufacture and supply of a range of high-quality architectural products produced from stainless steel sheet and extruded aluminium for use in major construction projects large and small in the UK and overseas. Therefore, experience of health and safety within a similar manufacturing environment using processes such as metal welding's, precision CNC fabrication and forming would be useful. As a critical health and safety business partner you will specifically support, challenge, inspire and coach the leadership teams across each manufacturing site and their line management in terms of delivering and continuously improving the health & safety strategy across their facility. The focus will be on the development of a highly effective, best in class health and safety culture, values, behaviours, systems and processes; ensuring zero harm; ongoing legal compliance and excellent organisational and business unit health and safety standards in line with 18001 and transition to 45001 Certification.

The Role:

* To guide, support and lead business unit leadership and their line management in the creation, delivery and continuous improvement of the health and safety strategy and roadmap.

* To guide and support the business unit teams in the compliance, monitoring and continuous improvement of all health and safety standards, policies, procedures and management systems.

* Ensure that safety improvement plans are developed within the business unit implemented and monitored across all sites in compliance with UK legal requirements and corporate health and safety strategy.

* Providing expertise, leadership and specialist advice to your health and safety advisory team and business unit management teams as required.

* Training, guidance and coaching to line managers to enable them to understand and effectively utilise the health and safety management system, in accordance with ISO 18001 certification and the transfer to ISO 45001.

* Support and enable effective critical and high potential incident investigations to be completed by line managers in order to identify the immediate and underlying causes and the appropriate corrective/preventative actions.

* To provide the appropriate level of challenge and help in developing actions to avoid repeat incidents.

* Facilitate the effective communication of health and safety issues and learning points generated by the business unit across the whole group in the UK and with industry bodies.

* To identify themes and help develop, implement and monitor health and safety strategies which will help to continually improve the business unit's health and safety performance year on year.

The Ideal Candidate:

* Of graduate calibre i.e. HNC/HND, BA, BEng, BSc, MSc

* NEBOSH qualified

* Chartered IOSH member

* Consistent career history within health and safety management roles in large, multi-site, corporate environment within manufacturing and logistics. This could be at Health & Safety Coordinator or Health & Safety Advisor or Health & Safety Officer or Health & Safety Manager. Clear understanding and belief in behavioural based safety and visible felt leadership.

* A strong focus on continuous improvement in relation to health and safety within a lean manufacturing and engineering environment would be especially beneficial.

* Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills, experienced in persuading and influencing stakeholders at business unit leadership and operational, group and plc level.

* Up to date knowledge of current UK legislation including OSHAS 18001:2007

* Excellent analytical and strategic influencing skills and track record of continuously and proactively improving health and safety standards.

* Recent experience of managing 2-3 small to medium sized individual manufacturing or processing units.

* Good coaching and mentoring skills.

* Proven experience of health and safety systems development tailored to business operational and strategic needs including risk mitigation and incident investigation.

* Strong health and safety management system auditing experience.

* A highly responsive, supportive and inspirational critical health and safety business partner. A real committed team player.

* Professional, discrete, diplomatic and tactful at all times.

* Experienced in dealing with regulatory bodies.

* Computer literate including Excel and Powerpoint.

RECRUITMENT RESOURCER/RESEARCHER

Nr Pershore, Worcestershire (Hybrid Office/Remote Home Working available)

£Very Competitive Benefits Bonus

If you've worked in recruitment for any length of time, you'll know it's a complex industry. An outsider may think it's simply about posting an advert, sending CVs, billing a fortune, then heading off to the nearest Audi showroom.

But you know there's so much more to being a recruiter. You need to be great at business development, account management, researching and interviewing candidates, positioning suitable candidates to the client, organising interviews, and on it goes.

Having done that for a while, maybe you've realised that one of those elements stands out more for you than the others. For example, possibly you know your strengths lie in researching and selecting candidates rather than the sales-based parts of your role.

If that's the case, you're probably feeling trapped in your current position. Some recruiters view resourcing as a low-level role. A backroom staff position while they are the stars of the show. Your company may consider it the same and frown upon you wanting to 'take a step back'.

At Martin Veasey Talent Solutions, we view it very differently. We know that attracting and assessing appropriate candidates is a crucial part of the recruitment process, and we value our resourcers as highly as anyone else in our team.

As such, we've invested heavily in our researching function with state-of-the-art software and tools to help our resourcers locate the best candidates for our clients. In addition, we work globally, with clients across every continent, so you will be able to grow your skills and experience by working with international candidates.

Our expertise lies in the engineering, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, supply chain, purchasing, logistics, and construction industries, so your experience in any of those sectors will count in your favour. However, we're happy to consider other related backgrounds as well.

As for locations, we're reasonably flexible on you either working purely from our offices in Worcester or a hybrid involving working from home as well.

There are many more details to discuss, so please indicate your interest in this role by emailing your CV to and quoting reference #843224 or call us on 01905 381 320.

SALES MANAGER - PRECAST CONCRETE PRODUCTS

"Showcase your innovative and successful strategic sales and channel to market capabilities in a high-profile role targeting residential, commercial, industrial and specification sales customer segments."

c£65000 (Dependent on Experience) Car Bonus Benefits

Location: National Field Based Role - Hybrid Working available

Having well-established relationships with long-standing customers is the backbone of every successful business. However, there is a danger of relying too much on those customers and not branching out.

As an experienced Sales Manager, you'll have seen businesses fall into that trap, so what if you could create a new niche in an established business and open their products up to a new sector?

That's precisely what our client intends to do, and your employment is the start point for this new venture.

Currently, the company sells precast concrete products such as flooring and stairs to national UK housebuilders and various aligned sectors. And they've created a very well regarded and successful business off the back of these core sector.

But, as someone with extensive knowledge of the precast concrete industry, you know there are many other channels to market they could attack. Possibilities include builders' merchants, regional housebuilders, architects, major contractors, care homes, social and modular housing, schools, hospitals, universities, and student accommodation.

This isn't a traditional sales role, as you'll need an entrepreneurial flair to identify and analyse the potential opportunities for our client. Working with the commercial team, you can carry out market and competitor analysis then work out the best routes to market. Having created your plan, your role then becomes sales-focused to land the contracts.

As for your background, our client envisages you will have significant experience of working in a senior sales role in the precast concrete industry. Understanding the logistics and movement of large precast concrete products will be helpful to ensure commercial success in this role. You will be both a hunter and farmer adept at both winning new business and also strategic account management.

As you can see, there is much more detail to discuss on this role, so please indicate your interest by emailing your CV quoting reference LX 930640 or call us on 01905 381 320.

WAREHOUSE MANAGER

"Distribution of fast-moving components UK and Worldwide"

c£35000 - £45000 Bonus, Healthcare

East Birmingham area

Commutable from Birmingham, Coventry, Coleshill, Solihull, Tamworth, Nuneaton, Bedworth, Atherstone, Hinckley, Kenilworth, Warwick, Leamington, Redditch, Sutton Coldfield.

This is an opportunity for a motivated individual to join our clients' organisation as Warehouse Manager. This role would suit an experienced Warehouse Manager looking for a new challenge or an Assistant Warehouse Manager looking for career advancement.

Our client is a well-established and respected international organisation who operate World-wide manufacturing, procurement and distribution of specialised components and accessories.
This is a hands-on position in a growing business. You will lead a team of 10 and manage an inventory of about 20000 lines and providing same day to 48-hour despatch services. You will be fully supported and resourced to improve existing systems and already high levels of service. You will have overall responsibility for service delivery in a fast-paced distribution centre servicing both UK and export customers.

The Role:
* Lead and empower your team in a growing business.
* Responsibility and accountability for the performance of the warehouse and distribution activity on site.
* Actively pursue cost savings and efficiency programmes.
* Support the business to improve profitability via the distribution channel.
* Design, improve and review processes and systems.
* Fully utilize and enhance the ERP system to optimise procedures.
* Responsibility for overall shift performance, compliance, customer service levels.
* Ensure all KPI targets are achieved per shift allocation.
* Fully responsible for H&S and quality system audits.

The Ideal Applicant:
* Good standard of education GCSE's, A level/Equivalent as a minimum plus evidence of continuous professional development such as in house supervisory/managerial training
* Great communication skills. Must be able to engage with colleagues at all levels.
* Experience and involvement in helping to grow a fast-paced distribution operation.
* International Logistics experience including UK, European and Deep Sea.
* Good standard of PC skills.
* Problem solving and organisational skills.
* Willingness to lead and implement major improvements to systems, procedures and methods of working.
* A hands-on, lead from the front style.

On offer to the successful candidate is a competitive salary, quarterly bonus scheme based on achievement of KPI's, company pension and health insurance.

Sales Director - UK Aftermarket Solutions

Salary £80-100000 (Dependent on Experience) Car Bonus Excellent Benefits

South Manchester National Remit - Hybrid Working

If you're an experienced sales director, the words "low-hanging fruit" will be music to your ears as you know that grabbing some quick wins is always a great way to start a new role.

Usually, there are only a handful of opportunities to take advantage of, but this role is a little different.

Our client is a well-established manufacturer of equipment for the metals industry., They are a primary supplier of speciality machinery to companies worldwide. They have a vast installed customer base and operate as a leading global partner across many industry sectors.

Our client is enjoying excellent global growth and investment adding the latest digital solutions to their equipment to add value to its customers' production performance.

They now wish to further strengthen customer relationships by prioritising their aftermarket sales as a core focus. And they want someone with your skills to lead UK aftermarket solutions across spare parts, services, equipment modernisation and upgrades and digital.

So, as Sales Director, you will take an overarching role across all the group's products, creating, implementing, and leading an aftermarket sales strategy. They have an extensive back catalogue of customers and previously supplied equipment, so you and your team have an immediate prospect list to attack and gain those quick wins.

Our client supplies their equipment to companies of all sizes, from SMEs up to global multinationals, so you'll need to demonstrate experience in engaging with engineering, technical and purchasing stakeholders in relation to contractual pricing and service agreements.

As for your background, our client envisages you will have significant experience in aftermarket sales, including servicing and maintenance contracts and upselling new equipment against old. In addition, you'll have the gravitas and character to lead a 20-strong sales team across the businesses and work with the European technical centres to understand new product developments and new sales angles.

Overall, this role offers an experienced Sales Director the opportunity to take ownership of a strategically important function of the group and stamp their mark on the business.

As you can imagine, there are many other details to discuss, so please indicate your interest by emailing your CV quoting LX 923316 or call us on 01905 381 320.

HEALTH AND SAFETY CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT MANAGER

"Excellent career development opportunity with global multinational, within lean manufacturing and engineering environment, for a graduate calibre, chartered Health & Safety professional to lead and continually improve a best in class health and safety function within one of their rapidly expanding business units"

C £45000 (Dependent On Experience) Benefits

Location: West Midlands

Commutable from Atherstone, Nuneaton, Tamworth, Dordon, Coventry, Bedworth, Leamington Spa, Warwick, Stratford on Avon, Walsall, Sutton Coldfield, Coleshill, Cannock, Rugeley, Burton upon Trent, Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Redditch, Solihull, Nuneaton, Lichfield, Ashby de la Zouche, Leicester, Coventry, Rugby, Lutterworth, Stoke on Trent, Stafford, Wolverhampton

Our client is a major diversified industrial group, part of a global multinational, specialising in the B2B sector. Safety is their first and foremost objective in all its activities. It operates a number of manufacturing and logistics sites throughout the UK and is seeking a Health and Safety Continuous Improvement Officer to take the lead within one of their smaller specialist business units which is experiencing growth both organic and via acquisition.

Our client is seeking a graduate calibre, NEBOSH qualified, chartered IOSH Health and Safety professional with a track gained within a multinational, multi-site, matrix organisation, who will be experienced in working closely with stakeholders at senior executive, including the Group Health & Safety Manager on a regular basis within the business unit, the group and the plc. Ideally this experience will have been gained with a lean continuous improvement environment and you will be adept at ensuring that the approach to health and safety also mirrors and works in parallel with changes and developments within manufacturing and engineering processes.

As Health & Safety Continuous Improvement Manager, you will report to the Group Health & Safety Manager and will take responsibility for health and safety at three manufacturing units located in Warwickshire and Hertfordshire. Each unit specialises in the manufacture and supply of a range of high-quality architectural products produced from stainless steel sheet and extruded aluminium for use in major construction projects large and small in the UK and overseas. Therefore, experience of health and safety within a similar manufacturing environment using processes such as metal welding's, precision CNC fabrication and forming would be useful. As a critical health and safety business partner you will specifically support, challenge, inspire and coach the leadership teams across each manufacturing site and their line management in terms of delivering and continuously improving the health & safety strategy across their facility. The focus will be on the development of a highly effective, best in class health and safety culture, values, behaviours, systems and processes; ensuring zero harm; ongoing legal compliance and excellent organisational and business unit health and safety standards in line with 18001 and transition to 45001 Certification.

The Role:

* To guide, support and lead business unit leadership and their line management in the creation, delivery and continuous improvement of the health and safety strategy and roadmap.

* To guide and support the business unit teams in the compliance, monitoring and continuous improvement of all health and safety standards, policies, procedures and management systems.

* Ensure that safety improvement plans are developed within the business unit implemented and monitored across all sites in compliance with UK legal requirements and corporate health and safety strategy.

* Providing expertise, leadership and specialist advice to your health and safety advisory team and business unit management teams as required.

* Training, guidance and coaching to line managers to enable them to understand and effectively utilise the health and safety management system, in accordance with ISO 18001 certification and the transfer to ISO 45001.

* Support and enable effective critical and high potential incident investigations to be completed by line managers in order to identify the immediate and underlying causes and the appropriate corrective/preventative actions.

* To provide the appropriate level of challenge and help in developing actions to avoid repeat incidents.

* Facilitate the effective communication of health and safety issues and learning points generated by the business unit across the whole group in the UK and with industry bodies.

* To identify themes and help develop, implement and monitor health and safety strategies which will help to continually improve the business unit's health and safety performance year on year.

The Ideal Candidate:

* Of graduate calibre i.e. HNC/HND, BA, BEng, BSc, MSc

* NEBOSH qualified

* Chartered IOSH member

* Consistent career history within health and safety management roles in large, multi-site, corporate environment within manufacturing and logistics. This could be at Health & Safety Coordinator or Health & Safety Advisor or Health & Safety Officer or Health & Safety Manager. Clear understanding and belief in behavioural based safety and visible felt leadership.

* A strong focus on continuous improvement in relation to health and safety within a lean manufacturing and engineering environment would be especially beneficial.

* Excellent interpersonal and relationship building skills, experienced in persuading and influencing stakeholders at business unit leadership and operational, group and plc level.

* Up to date knowledge of current UK legislation including OSHAS 18001:2007

* Excellent analytical and strategic influencing skills and track record of continuously and proactively improving health and safety standards.

* Recent experience of managing 2-3 small to medium sized individual manufacturing or processing units.

* Good coaching and mentoring skills.

* Proven experience of health and safety systems development tailored to business operational and strategic needs including risk mitigation and incident investigation.

* Strong health and safety management system auditing experience.

* A highly responsive, supportive and inspirational critical health and safety business partner. A real committed team player.

* Professional, discrete, diplomatic and tactful at all times.

* Experienced in dealing with regulatory bodies.

* Computer literate including Excel and Powerpoint.

National Engineering Manager - Bulk Logistics & Materials Handling Equipment

£Very Competitive + Car + Bonus + Blue Chip Benefits

Location: Flexible National Field Based Role

Are you an experienced Engineering Manager looking for a multi-site operation to lead and improve? (And when we say multi-site, we do mean multi-site!)

Due to retirement, our client is looking for someone with your skills and experience to take over and modernise the running of a national engineering team across sixteen sites in the UK.

That's right-sixteen locations, all with their processes and associated challenges for you and your team to overcome.

As a major supplier of construction materials, our client has a well-established network of road, rail, and sea transport supply lines. At each depot and terminal, goods are loaded, unloaded, conveyed, repackaged, and distributed to their next destination.

As such, the associated plant must be available and operational 24/7, so you'll need to ensure a robust programme of maintenance and servicing in place at each site. In addition, although your team contains experienced mechanical and electrical engineers, as the Engineering Manager, you'll have to build skill development programmes to upskill and cross-skill personnel at each site.

Alongside the routine maintenance programmes, you'll take a leading role in designing, developing, and installing new infrastructure projects across the UK network.

Our client envisages your background will include managing the preventative and predictive maintenance activities across multiple sites, focusing on materials handling equipment. You'll also need an excellent working knowledge of bulk packaging technologies and different transportation methods via road, rail, and sea.

Given the nature of the role, there will be significant travel around the UK with time spent away from home. As such, location isn't a significant factor to our client as they have sites within commutable distance of most areas.