Admin / Purchasing Assistant | £26,364 per year | Rochdale

Looking for a steady, supportive admin role where your work actually helps things run smoothly?

This is a full-time, office-based role providing day-to-day administrative and purchasing support to a growing engineering business. If you're organised, dependable and take pride in keeping things in order, you’ll fit in well.

Here’s what you’ll be doing:

• Handling incoming calls and emails, greeting visitors and managing general admin

• Raising purchase orders, chasing suppliers and cross-checking delivery notes

• Updating calendars, booking travel and managing site-related records (servicing, alarms, utilities etc.)

• Keeping company documents up to date and supporting other departments as needed

• Helping maintain a tidy, well-run office that supports the wider team

What’s in it for you:

• £26,364 per year (based on 39 hours per week)

• A permanent role with steady hours and supportive colleagues

• Based at CR Solutions in Rochdale, with occasional contact across the wider group

• Room to grow your skills in a calm, professional environment

You’ll need:

• Some experience in an admin or purchasing support role

• Familiarity with Microsoft Office and a general comfort with using computer systems

• A steady, reliable approach to work and a good eye for detail

• A full UK driving licence

Whether you’re just starting out or returning to work after a break, this role suits someone who values routine, enjoys helping others, and prefers a quieter team setting over a noisy sales floor.

About the Company:

CR Solutions is part of the Baldwin Engineering Group and manufactures specialist robotic tooling used by clients across a range of industries. The team is small, friendly and focused on doing good work without fuss. This role plays a key part in keeping the business running smoothly day to day.

Interested?

No need for a glossy four-page CV. Just a short overview of your experience and achievements will do the trick.

So you're aware, your application will be reviewed directly by the hiring manager.

What if your next move let you work across the UK and overseas while helping bring complex machinery to life? If you’re a Commissioning Engineer who enjoys independence, problem solving and variety, this could be a strong fit.

You’ll join a small, ambitious team led by someone who’s spent more than a decade with the business. The company has grown from £2 million to £20 million and the commissioning function is developing quickly, which gives you room to make a real impact.

Your time will be split between the workshop in Nelson and customer sites. You’ll commission machines before they ship, then head out to get them running smoothly on site through fault finding, PLC tweaks and performance tuning. UK visits are usually short and overseas projects tend to last a couple of weeks, with plenty of notice, and you’ll get to work in locations across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific.

To settle in quickly, you’ll need experience commissioning equipment, confidence working with Siemens, Allen Bradley or Mitsubishi PLCs and a mixed mechanical and electrical background. Experience with pneumatics and production environments like food, pharma or packaging will help.

You’ll need to stay calm, communicate clearly and be comfortable working independently at times, supported by a team that wants you to succeed. With the department growing from two to six engineers, you’ll have clear paths into senior or more PLC-focused roles.

If you’d like to explore it, feel free to get in touch on 0161 250 5326 or eloisa@optima-cs.com.

Maintenance Engineer | £45,000 + monthly uplift (£3,000/yr) | Littleborough

If you enjoy figuring out why things go wrong and then making sure they stay fixed, this role will suit you. Machines here run hard, breakdowns happen, and you will be the go‑to person when something needs attention. The environment is practical and hands‑on. The short‑term focus will be reacting and resolving issues. Over time you will build processes and systems so the site becomes proactive rather than reactive.

You will work solo as the Maintenance Engineer, but closely with a small team of three experienced Setters. They will raise issues early, and you will diagnose and resolve them. A lot of faults look mechanical at first, but many turn out to be electrical, so strong electrical fault finding will be key.

What you will do:

• You will be the site’s core maintenance engineer working alongside setters and reporting to the Production Manager.
• You will maintain and improve injection moulding machines and related plant such as driers, chillers, and heaters.
• Most of the work will involve electrical fault finding, with plenty of mechanical involvement too.
• You will help define and improve the PPM (planned preventive maintenance) schedule, so it becomes more effective over time.
• Technical support from machine suppliers is available when needed.

Why this could be a good move:

• You want responsibility and ownership of your maintenance patch.
• You like working independently but can bring others with you when needed.
• You prefer results over bureaucracy and a straightforward work culture where decisions are practical and changes happen quickly.

Pay and perks:

• £45,000 base salary.
• Monthly uplift worth around £3,000 per year, reflecting occasional out‑of‑hours work or staying late when needed.
• Standard hours are 8am to 4pm, Monday to Friday, but flexible start and finish times are available so you can avoid peak traffic (some start at 7 and leave at 3).
• 23 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• Work at a stable, growing SME in plastics manufacturing with a straightforward, supportive culture.

About the company:

AMS Technical Plastics Ltd is a UK‑based specialist in technical injection moulding, producing complex plastic components across industries including automotive, defence and industrial. The business is part of the Accuratio Group and has built a strong reputation for quality moulded parts and engineering expertise.

Interested?

If you’re looking for a role where your experience matters and where you’ll genuinely improve maintenance performance, this could be worth a look.

Don’t worry if you don’t have a full CV ready to go.  Just a short overview of your qualifications, work history and a few key achievements will do the trick.

So you’re aware, your application will be reviewed by the hiring manager directly.

What if your next move let you truly own your projects, build systems from scratch and work somewhere people stay because they enjoy it, not because they’re managed into it?

If you’re a Control Systems Engineer who wants more trust, more variety and more autonomy, this could be exactly what you’ve been looking for.

You’d be joining a close and friendly team, led by someone who’s been there for twenty-five years and still genuinely loves coming in every day. It’s a place where engineers are simply trusted to get on with real engineering in a way that feels natural and uncomplicated.

The company grew for years purely through word of mouth, but demand has now outpaced the team. They work across food and beverage, pharmaceutical and a mix of other sectors, designing and delivering control systems that keep production moving. Robotics is something they’ve never tackled because the internal expertise hasn’t been there, so if that’s something you bring, there’s real room to steer where things go next.

Your work would be proper end to end controls engineering, programming PLCs from scratch and delivering systems you can genuinely take ownership of. If you’ve got around five years of experience and you’re confident with Siemens, Allen Bradley or Mitsubishi, you’ll fit in comfortably.

Flexibility is genuinely part of the culture. Remote work wasn’t something they’d done before, but they hired someone who lived further away and found it worked perfectly well. Salary will fall somewhere between £50,000 to £65,000 depending on your experience, along with a range of additional benefits that reflect the level you join at.

It’s a straightforward place to work. You’ll be trusted to get on with your job, treated like an adult and given the space to do good engineering without unnecessary noise. If you prefer a calm, steady environment where people look out for each other and the work speaks for itself, you’ll fit in well.

If you’d like to find out more, please reach out on 0161 250 5326 or eloisa@optima-cs.com.

Do you love taking projects from concept to completion? If you’re an experienced EC&I design engineer with a background in electrical engineering and a passion for innovation, this could be your next move.

We design and deliver advanced control and instrumentation systems for the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors. You’ll lead projects from design to delivery, provide technical input for tenders and estimates, and create detailed schematics and process drawings using AutoCAD Electrical or EPLAN.

You’ll need around five years of EC&I design experience, ideally within pharma or biotech, along with a solid understanding of ATEX and UL standards.

In return, you’ll join a collaborative team that values integrity, teamwork, and excellence. Expect hybrid working, competitive pay, and the chance to work on cutting-edge projects that truly make a difference.

If this sounds like you, call 0161 250 5326 0161 250 5326 to find out more. Don’t worry if your CV isn’t up to date — we can sort that later.