Everyone knows electric cars are the future. For lots of people that's a frightening concept because they don't fancy the idea of waiting around in 4 hour long queues to fill up every 200 miles.
This job could be a chance for you to have a hand in changing that perception.
They have quite a small team which is a benefit as the MD has a straight line to the CEO and everyone can join to make decisions and create a real difference.
You’d be coming in as a Quality Engineer due to the business winning a massive contract which means they’re on a huge growth trajectory and need to keep up with headcount.
The business has grown quite quickly over the last 10 years and with this contract in the works, there are loads of progression and development opportunities to climb the ladder if that’s what you’re looking for.
Initially, you'll probably have to wear quite a few different hats - looking after internal audits, PPAP and APQP as well as managing the customer relationship and, sometimes, getting out to see suppliers to make sure things keep ticking along as smoothly as possible.
Once you’ve helped to get everything up and running, the plan is to move into a new purpose-built site in Burnley. However, for the first year you would be based across 2 sites (one is Northwest, and the other is East Midlands)
That'll be too big a job for some people. Throw in a pretty demanding customer and I've probably scared off 99% of Quality Engineers around.
If you're still reading I'd suggest we should probably take some time for a more detailed conversation.
It sounds like they’re pretty flexible on salary but I can imagine this falling between £40-50K.
Give me a shout on 0161 250 5326 or drop an email to beth@optima-cs.com if you're not put off yet.
Don’t worry if you don’t have an up-to-date CV, we can cross that bridge when we get to it.
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Job Specification – EC&I Design Engineer.
Department Electrical Controls & Instrumentation Design Engineer
Reports To EC&I Departmental Manager
Direct Reports None
Liaising with Project and Design Engineers, Technical Publications Team, Sales, and Production Technicians
Purpose of the Role To take the lead in the design and development of the Pharma and Bio product range in particular the development of processes and the electrical controls and instrument requirements; providing technical support to other areas of the business as required
Behaviours Integrity Collaboration Excellence
Key Deliverables & Accountabilities
• Provide design and technical input into tenders/estimates • Provide technical support into preparation of estimate/tenders • Meet key design milestones for project delivery and tender preparation • Delivery a design to cost and time constraint • Standardisation of design – developing a modular framework for the entire product range • Play a key role in value engineering • Be proactive in EC&I product development taking ideas to the EC&I Design Manager for evaluation and approval • Review and streamline processes aiming to increase efficiency and reduce cost without loss of quality and functionality • Able to write FDS, P&ID’s, and input into FAT & SAT protocols
Qualifications, Experience & Knowledge
• Have a minimum educational OND in Electrical Engineering • Have a proven track record in EC & I product and process design • Knowledge of Pharmaceutical processes and containment requirements • To be fully conversant with latest engineering design concepts, engineering standards and disciplines, including hazardous area compliance, (ATEX and UL Directives).
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• Knowledge of the Company products and their subsequent design requirements. • Understand Health and Safety legislation related to design, incorporating risk assessments. • To be fully experienced / trained in Auto-cad for production of electrical schematics and process drawings or similar packages.
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Need to do
• Need to liaise and communicate with the Pharma Design and applications departments • Challenge established ways of doing things by proactively developing innovations for products across the range looking to develop USP’s • Identify and implement the best solution which is fit for purpose with due consideration for the commercial implications looking to as a minimum protect margin • Keep focused on agreed priorities • Look to increase margin by developing products • Drive value engineering of EC & I to increase margins • Provide technical support to the sales team and technicians / field-based engineers • Need to understand and interpret quickly, the design requirements from the applications team and where appropriate the Clients specification • Contribute to tender/estimate preparation passing on technical knowledge to other team members • Need to be creative and put forward ideas to solve design problems and meet Client’s requirements. • Provide on-site advice/support to Howorth staff and clients in the UK and abroad • Plan and prioritise own work to ensure that tasks are completed to meet project deadlines/ milestones • Communicate and work effectively with other departments to achieve project deliverables • Act as a training resource for staff in own specialist areas • Any other reasonable activity requested by his / her manager
Expected behaviour.
Demonstrate the ‘Desirable ‘level of the ‘Howorth Way’ behaviors framework. Integrity You are trustworthy and reliable. You are respectful and considerate. You seek to learn from your colleagues. You review your own performance and ask for feedback to learn and improve. You use your initiative to solve problems and inform others when you are aware of potential
issues. You acknowledge when you make mistakes and take responsibility for addressing and correcting
them.
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You appropriately challenge assumptions and unhelpful behavior. You take personal responsibility for delivering projects on time. – You are flexible in providing solutions to deliver improvements and resolve issues. You take accountability for your development needs. You make sure there is a mutual understanding of task responsibility. You balance competing priorities to meet standards and expectations. You continue to give time to colleagues who need help, even when the pressure is on.
Collaboration You work together with colleagues and customers and take the time to build effective and
rational working relationships. You celebrate team successes and create a positive team spirit. You work well with people who have different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds. You share skills and knowledge and encourage and support others in applying their ideas to work
– helping others to help themselves. You encourage working together for the benefit of customers. You look to work together, across and outside typical groups; initiating joint approaches to
delivering products and services. You look for ways to maximise the value of working together by building support, providing
focus and giving direction to deliver joint outcomes. You listen to and involve colleagues and external customers and respond positively to
suggestions before making decisions.
Excellence You are punctual and friendly and demonstrate a positive professional attitude. You take pride in your own work and that of your team members. You understand who your customers are and why they matter. You are willing to go the extra mile for customers and act on their feedback. You promote and
drive continuous improvement by asking ‘How could we do this better?’. You work with customers in tailoring products and services to meet their expectations.
Are you the type of person that enjoys seeing projects progress from cradle to grave?
If you are, and you’re from a programming and electrical background (especially if you’re up to scratch with Siemens TIA), this could be worth a read.
The company itself basically design and manufacture turnkey control and automated systems for the materials handling industry so experience in a similar sector would be essential.
You’d be designing control panels from scratch using AutoCAD Electrical, programming from scratch using Siemens through to the commissioning stages so time management is key.
Oh yeah, it’s worth mentioning that the role would be fully remote for the initial design and programming stages which would be about 70% of the time and then 30% of the time you’d be on site commissioning.
If you’ve got around 5+ years’ experience and have a similar background to the above, then the salary will fall probably fall within the region of £50,000 to £60,000.
Not to mention the company are known for their positive and fun company culture that actually give their staff autonomy, are always up for pushing you along the right progression path.
If this opportunity sounds promising, give me a call on 0161 250 5326 to discuss the role further.
Don’t worry if your CV isn’t up to date, we’ll cross that bridge once we get to it.
What do you reckon the best reason for a job vacancy coming up is?
Based on another internal promotion in this team alone, you’ll be coming in as a Metallurgist working for a business supplying a massive range of industries across aerospace, O&G, nuclear, marine and more.
Essentially, you’ll work with the sales and production team to manage, monitor and advise on hot material conversion for each customer by using your expertise and understanding of complex alloys (specifically nickel, titanium and iron in this case) and their behaviours under certain environmental factors i.e. pressure and temperature.
You’ll have the opportunity to work with open and closed die forgings so an understanding of both would be really beneficial for you, or if you’re keen to learn about the one you don’t know, you’ll get all the training you need to get yourself up to scratch. If you’ve never actually forged before either, they’re not averse to training on that so long as you have experience with hot metal – you don’t see that many places so flexible on the level of experience someone can bring.
Obviously, you’ll be preparing and documenting production routes/contract reviews for each component while considering ways to optimise and improve processes to reduce costs moving forward. You’ll have a good understanding of quality standards and will also be responsible for investigating non-conformances as they crop up.
Given the growth trajectory they’re on and the historic promotions and developmental pathways that other people in this team have seen, if you’re keen to see scope for progression then it’d be an interesting one for you to explore.
In an ideal world, if you’ve experience in aerospace it’s be great, but as you can probably already tell, they’re pretty flexible.
Salary wise, they’re looking up to around the £45k mark with possible flex for the right person, and given the scope of opportunities it will present, that will increase as your influence across the business does and you’d be based at their site in Sheffield.
grace@optima-cs.com | 0161 250 5326
Aerospace companies that actually see their Quality function as a key part of the business are fewer and further apart than I'd always imagined (scary when you think about it, but let's not go there).
This role is with one of the few I've seen over the years who can really demonstrate their commitment to getting things right...
Not only that, but they're big on giving training and development opportunities to people who really want to get on. That's one of a few reasons they tend not to lose many people.
There has been some movement in the team recently though after someone being promoted, which has left behind an opportunity for you to join the team as a Quality Engineer.
You'll focus on the operational aspects of the quality function to start with. That'll mean leading and managing the PPAP documentation and producing FAIRs to validate product conformity with engineering drawings and customer requirements. Clearly that'll mean you're likely to be the "boots on the ground" for the team, whilst others focus on the "systems" heavy side of things.
The company's based in Altham and is a Tier 2 supplier to the aerospace and defence industries. Salary wise, you're probably looking at something around £40k - £45k, which will grow as your time and contribution to the business does.
If there's a chance you might like to hear some more let's have a chat.
Don't worry if you don't have an updated CV ready to go either. Let’s have a chat first and take it from there....
Apprenticeships have really taken back off again in the last few years. For some companies, they really buy in to the idea of “growing their own” and helping your career to take off both during and after your studies.
Others use them for cheap labour.
The latter often underpay you, even when you qualify and then choose not to invest any more time and money in your development.
If that sounds like you, and you did an Electrical Engineering apprenticeship, I might have an interesting job for you to consider.
It’s an Electrical Maintenance Engineer position that’ll probably have a real learning curve to it. You’ll learn everything there is to know about Siemens 840D, which is a premium software product used to control 5 axis machine tools.
Rather than working on routine maintenance activities, you’ll actually become the “go to” person when it all hits the fan and the team of highly skilled maintenance engineers on site have been stumped by a problem.
You can probably imagine that might not be an overnight thing. In the meantime, you’ll be sent on external courses to learn more about the Siemens software and you’ll shadow a team of highly trained engineers who know everything there is to know about high value CNC machines. You know, the massive ones with enough intricacy to craft the premium Swiss watches your boss probably wears.
The salary is actually a bit of a weird one with this but I’ll do my best to explain it. Your basic will probably be somewhere around £35k - £37k, but there’s an expectation that you’ll do a few hours of overtime every week as standard. That means you’ll be doing 45 hours a week, but actually taking home between £48k and £51k every year by doing those hours.
There’s more overtime available at the weekend as well, for what it’s worth, but whether or not you do that is completely your choice.
A pretty decent thing is that they do “average holiday pay” – so if you go away, you don’t lose out on the OT you’d normally have done during a week and get paid your holiday pay as standard, plus the overtime pay you’d have been paid based on an average of what you’d been doing up until you went away.
Oh, and you’ll be based on site at BAE in Samlesbury, so you’ll need to be able to get security clearance if you’d like to be considered.
If there’s enough in this for you to feel like it’d be worth a chat, give me a call and I’ll be happy to answer any questions you might have – 0161 260 5326.
Are you the type of person that enjoys acting as the ‘go to’ person when it comes to complex issues?
If you’re not, then there’s probably no point wasting your time reading the rest…
The company I’m working with are looking for a highly experienced Mechanical Maintenance Engineer to join the team and act as a ‘specialist’ on their kit.
It’ll be a mix between 60% plan preventative and 40% reactive working on highly complex machinery that are bigger than most people’s house but have the ability to have a 6-meter bed calibrated to 10 microns.
If you’ve worked with 5 axis CNC/milling machines, then you’re probably in the right spot as they’re looking for someone to hit the ground running. It’s worth mentioning that you’ll be part of a tight-knit team so you’ll always have someone with you to bounce ideas back and forth with to support you getting to the bottom of difficult breakdowns.
You’ll be based on the BAE site in Samlesbury working Monday to Friday day shifts, so you’ll need to be able to get security clearance to be considered.
The salary is a bit of a weird one, but I’ll do my best to explain it. Your basic will probably be somewhere around the £40k mark, but there’s an expectation that you’ll do a few hours of overtime every week as standard.
That means you’ll be doing 45 hours a week, but actually taking home between £50k and £52k every year by doing those hours. There’s more overtime available at the weekend as well, for what it’s worth, but whether or not you do that is completely your choice.
If you think it could be worth exploring further, then give me a shout and I’ll be happy to answer any questions that you might have- 0161 250 5326.
BMS Sales Engineer
A leading provider of Building Energy Management System solutions is seeking a highly motivated and dynamic individual to join their expanding sales team as a BMS Sales Engineer. This role focuses on business development, servicing both new and existing clients throughout the North of England. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in maintaining the existing client base and developing new relationships to support the growth of the business.
About the Role
With a history spanning over 33 years, our client specialises in the design, supply, installation, and commissioning of Building Management Systems (BMS). They are recognized as a Trend Technology Centre and have agreements in place to sell and install products from leading manufacturers, including Siemens, Tridium, Schneider, and JCI BMS. With offices in Liverpool, London, and Leeds, their experienced team is committed to providing seamless service and post-installation support.
Responsibilities
- Understanding specifications, drawings, schedules, and preparing essential documentation.
- Liaising with subcontractors for panel work and electrical work.
- Estimating jobs using Excel and preparing quotations using Word/PDF formats.
- Actively following up on quotations and developing relationships with contractors.
- Conducting face-to-face meetings with customers to secure orders and future work.
- Negotiating with customers to secure orders.
- Participating in on/off-site design meetings with contractors, consultants, and clients.
- Generating own enquiries and orders.
Key Skills
- Excellent communication skills and a dedication to providing outstanding customer service.
- Strong organisational skills and time management.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office.
- Flexibility to work additional hours to meet deadlines.
- Willingness to travel nationwide as required by the business.
Package
- Annual Salary: Competitive, paid monthly in arrears.
- Benefits: Company car including personal fuel benefit, laptop, mobile phone, 25 days holiday (excluding national holidays), and pension scheme.
- OTE: £100k.
- Location: Must be based in the UK.
BMS Field Service Improver / Trainee
Based in London with a competitive salary ranging from £25,000 to £35,000 per year, this full-time position offers a unique opportunity to grow within the field of BMS. As a trainee, you'll acquire essential skills and experience in delivering scheduled BMS services, including:
- Onsite planned preventative maintenance.
- Panel modifications.
- Offsite technical support.
- System hardware testing.
- Developing innovative software applications.
- Participating in an emergency call-out service on a rotational basis.
General Competencies
- Experience or exposure to PPM Site Servicing, small works, and upgrades within an allied industry.
- Strong computer literacy and proficiency in Microsoft Packages.
- Excellent customer service skills and effective time management.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Problem-solving abilities and attention to detail.
- A team player with a willingness to learn new systems and technologies.
Working Knowledge
- An apprenticeship or exposure to BMS/BEMS systems such as Trend, Tridium, or Distech is advantageous.
- Familiarity with electrical engineering, facilities management, or BMS/HVAC applications is beneficial.
Who We're Looking For
We seek a dedicated individual who is ready to demonstrate commitment, adaptability, and initiative. You should be driven, with the ability to motivate others, possess excellent time-keeping skills, and have the capacity to work in customer-facing teams. Previous exposure or experience in FM/HVAC or a related industry is essential.
Benefits
- Company car
- Company pension
- Life insurance
- Private medical insurance
Schedule
- Monday to Friday
- Overtime
- Weekend availability
Supplemental Pay Types
- Bonus scheme
Experience
- FM/HVAC or allied industry: 2 years (required)