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.

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

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 + Relocation

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

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.

EUROPEAN EPC CAPITAL PROJECTS PROCUREMENT MANAGER
"Multilingual, Degree educated, Strategic EPC Capital Projects Contracting & Procurement Professional required by Global Energy Company"
€/£ Very Competitive (Dependent upon Experience) Excellent Blue-Chip Benefits
Location: UK or Germany or Netherlands (Hybrid Working)

Our client is a global player within the specialist energy, electricity, and power generation sector.
As part of a strategic transformation of the procurement function moving to a shared service and category management model across its global operating units, our client seeks to strengthen its team with the appointment of an innovative and creative contracting and procurement professional with a track record gained within FTSE 100/NYSE Top 100 or equivalent listed companies.

Specifically, we are seeking a European Strategic Capital Projects Contracting and Procurement Manager with experience of EPC procurement project management. You will be highly adept at delivering strategic contracting and procurement change programmes across different cultures within a highly regulated and best in class health and safety environment.

Working within a global shared service projects function, you will be dedicated to delivering excellence in EPC project lifecycle management from a strategic procurement perspective. Your focus will be multi year, $multi million capital investment programmes. You will work closely with a global projects' directorate and the global procurement director, to deliver excellence in project supply chain management. This will include development of EPC project procurement strategies through to supplier selection and contract development to post award contracts and claim management.

The Role:
* Working closely with the global project function, global procurement teams and the executive board you will be responsible for procurement strategy development, defining the key success criteria, priorities and imperatives for the project and devise an appropriate supply chain and procurement strategy which delivers these requirements.
* Each project strategy will be bespoke and specific to the desired outcomes of the project while maintaining some consistency with non-negotiable elements of the global procurement strategy, governance models and company policies.
* Procurement strategy will detail value definition, opportunity development, supply chain execution and value creation, governance and value capture and mitigation of risk and value protection.
* From a procurement strategy execution perspective, you will assume responsibility for the creation and operational leadership of teams to deliver the Procurement Strategy. You will assume day to day accountability for the management of the project Procurement team to ensure delivery of the project requirements.
* To ensure procurement integration you will ensure that strategy and execution of project requirements both aligns and leverages existing category management plans where appropriate to the project.
* Furthermore, you will continuously scan the market from several industry sectors for best practice developments, assessing how they can be exploited by our client to further value creation, value delivery, value capture and value protection.

The Ideal Applicant:

* University Degree educated in Engineering or Science or similar plus Post Graduate level qualification in Procurement and/or Master's Degree. In addition, a project management qualification will be highly advantageous.
* At least 7-10 years consistent, fast track career development within a strategic global or pan European EPC contracting and procurement role within major capital investment or exploration programmes valued as a minimum at £/€250-300 million plus.
* Strategic EPC Contracting and Procurement experience gained within a FTSE 100, NYSE Top 100 or similar global organisation. This could include oil and gas, energy, utilities, mining and minerals exploration, or capital-intensive industrial manufacturing sectors such as steel or construction materials or hazardous industry sectors such as chemicals or nuclear. Candidates from other sectors such top 4 strategy consultancies, FMCG or pharmaceutical will also be considered if they are educated to university/Master's degree level.
* You will ideally be multilingual in English or Dutch or German, but this is not a prerequisite.
* You will be highly motivated to deliver change and transformation and your career to date will be characterised by your ability to engage cross functional teams and global/pan European procurement, engineering, and project management colleagues to achieve this.
* You will be experienced in preparing, presenting, and justifying business cases to main board/ExCom level.
* Experienced in analysing project requirements and developing critical success factors, translating these into bespoke Procurement Strategies
* Track record of delivering commercial capital procurement experience in pan European or global capital-intensive industry
* Adept at managing ambiguity, confidently taking accountability for creating a governance model, resource plan and delivery plan to meet project requirements
* Managing complex contractual relationships including the provision of free-issue materials, technology or IP and will be able to demonstrate a proven track record in managing suppliers to deliver within this context
* Experienced in the award and management of Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts in the range of/up to c£500m.
* Excellent track record of building teams of highly performing professionals, conveying the strategy and vision to motivate and empower a team to take accountability for delivery of the project.
* Experienced in developing unique and bespoke fit-for-purpose commercial models for teams to deliver the appropriate outcomes for the project combined with a proven track record of performance management.
* 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.

In return our client offers a very competitive salary and benefits package and the opportunity to develop your career within a market leader.

As an organisation dedicated to helping companies realise their full people potential, we understand the value a diverse workforce brings to every workplace. In everything we do, we are committed to promoting diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. We encourage applications from all regardless of age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, belief, or race.

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 Managers – Fast Track Career Development Programme

“A rare chance for established Sales Executives to join a successful asset finance business and develop their sales management skills to the next level”.

Base Salary £50-70000 OTE £150,00 -200,000 + (Year 1-3) & Fantastic Benefits

Bedfordshire, East Midlands UK

Are you a Sales Executive at the top of your game? 

Maybe you’ve left college or university, taken a job in sales and reached a high level of achievement in your industry.

Life is good. You’re earning decent money.

But perhaps you’re wondering what’s next? Have you reached a ceiling but have the ambition and drive to go further?

Our client is looking for someone like you. They work in the commercial finance industry and want a rising star to develop into a superstar through their fast-track sales management programme.

You’ll be working alongside the Managing Director, Operations Director, and Sales Director, who will all give you first-hand training of their business to help you develop into a Sales Manager in 18 months. As part of that training, our client will support and pay for you to obtain your LIBF Diploma in Asset Finance (DipAF), if you wish.

Currently, you may be working in a role such as prestige car sales, high-end property sales, or capital equipment, or other B2B or B2C sales and you’ll have learned the art of consultative selling. You’ll have developed your communication skills to work with companies of all shapes and sizes. And that variety is one of the key features of this role. For example, you could go from talking to a small wine-bar owner about finance for new fridges to the FD of a £10m business wanting finance to purchase a fleet of commercial vehicles.

Your day-to-day role will combine generating new business from warm leads, which you’ll aim to convert into long-term accounts for you to manage. Getting to know your clients’ businesses will be critical to your success as you’ll be able to identify further opportunities to provide financial solutions to help them grow and thrive.

Our client’s industry works at a fast pace, and you will have multiple deals in progress at any one time (perhaps 30-40), which can go from initial contact to funds in the bank in a matter of days. As such, you’ll be able to flex your time-management muscles and enjoy your sales commission being paid shortly after the client is onboard.

As you rise through the business, you’ll then mentor, train and lead other sales executives to bring through the next generation of brokers in the business. And to top it all you will also benefit from an override commission on earnings generated by the team, as well as many other market-leading benefits.  

So, if you’re looking to step up to the next level in your career, send your CV to applications@martinveasey.com quoting reference LX 803191
 

VP Transportation – APAC

US/£/€Very Competitive Six Figure Base Salary + Bonus + Blue Chip Benefits + Relocation Assistance

South East Asia

You may think you’re a big hitter in transportation and logistics but are you ready to up your game?

Can you build on your success in your current territory and take it to an emerging market? Would you like to impart your knowledge of best practice and develop a large, complex third-party contract logistics operation in a different country?

What if there was an opportunity to head up a 3PL operation in South East Asia? And be relocated as well?

Enough of the questions. As an experienced VP/Senior Director of Transportation with an outstanding career in 3PL and in-house, you may be the person they need.

Ideally, you’ll be degree qualified in a relevant discipline, and your background will be from retail, grocery, or FMCG. Importantly, you’ll be able to demonstrate the effective management of complex 3PL or in-house operations of at least 1000 vehicles across multiple sites.

Suppose you’ve worked in Europe, the US, or the APAC region. In that case, you’ll be used to operating across multiple areas with different borders and infrastructures, and that’s important as our client needs someone who can quickly adapt to different cultures and procedures.

If you’ve previously headed up a 3PL operation and then moved to an in-house role with a large, multi-national operation, that could work as well. The nature of the  cluster means a broad scope of supply, covering retail, fmcg, eCommerce, pharma, technology network, from the major cities and conurbations all the way through to the tourist hubs around the region. As such, the operations are complex, and there are significant strategic and operational challenges in coordinating all these varied activities.

As you can imagine, this certainly isn’t a generic role, and there’s plenty of detail we’ll need to discuss, so start the ball rolling by sending your CV to applications@martinveasey.com quoting reference LX 703438

ELECTRICIAN – MAINTENANCE (DAYS 8 AM-4/4 30pm)

c£34500 (OTE £45-48000 inc overtime & allowances) + Bonus + Benefits & Ongoing Training & Development

Location:  North Derbyshire

Commutable from Derbyshire, Cheshire, Manchester, Staffordshire, Macclesfield, Chapel en le Frith, Leek, Stoke on Trent, Stockport, Buxton, Sheffield, Chesterfield, Matlock, Burton on Trent, Ashbourne, Belper, Rotherham.

This an excellent opportunity to join the plant electrical maintenance team of this division of a multinational company and play a key part in delivering production targets within a medium/heavy factory process operation. The focus is on maintenance, inspections and planned maintenance of all electrical and process control equipment. This includes instrumentation, PLC’s, DCS/SCADA, LV and HV motors, switchgear and control gear, AC and DC, variable speed drives, and specialised control panels. We are currently seeking a time served apprentice Electrician/Electrical Craftsperson.

You will perform inspections and maintenance to high standards and in line with safety, quality and environmental targets. You will also represent the department on site working committees where required.

The Role:

Working with Plant Production & Maintenance teams and reporting to the Electrical Maintenance Supervisor:

• Completion of planned preventative maintenance activities
• Carrying out fault finding and corrective repair work
• Maintenance operations and accuracy of plant instrumentation including gas analysis systems.
• Record maintenance activities for plant history and capture and create further work requests through SAP based plant planned maintenance system (CMMS)
• Carry out planned maintenance and major repairs.
• Assist in the commissioning of new plant and equipment.
• Assist with plant isolations and verification.
• Ensure compliance with H&S and Environmental legislation and Company and site H&S rules

Qualifications and skills

• Apprentice trained electrician/electrical/process control craftsperson ONC/HNC
• 18^th edition wiring regulations
• Experience in a continuous process industry, factory, chemical, cement, lime, powders, aggregates, construction material or other industrial processing  including plastics and food manufacturing environment including full competence in maintaining large plant equipment.
• Fully competent in maintenance systems with experience of working in a processing/industrial environment.
• Understanding of health, safety and environmental issues/risks
• PLC, inverter drives, gas analytics and telemetry experience preferred.
• DCS experience desired.
• Knowledge off process control and instrumentation systems
• Experience of hydraulic and pneumatic systems useful
• Knowledge and experience of HV/LV switchgearand control gear systems
• Working knowledge of maintenance management systems eg SAP or MAXIMO
• Good working knowledge of electrical isolation
• Experience in medium/heavy industry is useful.
• Must be able to work as a member of a team as well as individually.
• Computer literate
• Interested in learning, self-development, and further training.
• Flexibility, self-motivation, positive attitude and ability to prioritise are important attributes.
• Opportunities to progress to Team Leader/Supervisor level are available for the right candidate.

Our client offers excellent development and the opportunity to make a real difference in a business that really values its people.  This includes an attractive base salary plus opportunity to increase earnings through overtime and shut down allowances, plus bonus and other large company benefits.  Our client also offers excellent ongoing training and development and the opportunity to progress up through the grading structure both technically and professionally.

To apply without delay, please email your CV quoting reference 766555  to applications@martinveasey.com 01905 381 320 www.martinveasey.com