CNC Machinist - £21.79 per hour - Rochdale

Due to an ever-increasing orderbook, we are seeking CNC Machinists to join a well-established engineering team. Our client are a leading supplier of Machinery into the Global Rubber processing industry and have been on the current site for over 100 years.

The role provides the opportunity for a permanent position within our award-winning engineering facility where we annually spend more than £2m every year in capital investment.  Industry leading apprenticeship scheme (5-years) recruiting 6 per year.

The Role:

• Setting and operating of Fanuc/Heidenhain CNC Milling Machines to produce low volume precision parts
• Setting up tooling and fixturing, prove out and execute part programs
• Follow planned operations to completion at prescribed production rates to meet customer delivery schedule in accordance with Company H&S and Quality Policies
• Collaborate with colleagues and provide training if required.

The Person:

• Experienced in writing and editing programs and able to read and interpret engineering drawings to a high standard
• Competent in setting and operating CNC machines
• Able to perform initial inspections of your own/a team members' work using a variety of measuring equipment
• Sound understanding of materials, modern cutting methods and engineering processes
• Produce high quality and accurate output with minimal error rate
• Opportunities for upskilling and Further Education

Hours:

•  06:00 - 14:15 Early shift, 14:00 - 22:15 Late shift, 22:00 - 06:15 Night Shift (4 hours Friday)
• 37 Hours Per Week

Salary

• OTE £50,000
• Uncapped Overtime
• £21.79 per Hour  (average shift rate included) - pay award pending

Benefits:

• Fully Paid Lunch Breaks
• Matched Pension contribution (5.5% employee, 5.5% employer)
• Optional Salary Sacrifice Scheme
• 33 Days Holiday per year
• Death in Service Benefit
• Sick Pay (3 months full pay, 3 months half pay)
• Onsite Parking
• All Workwear and PPE provided

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We are looking for a multi-disciplined candidate with experience in both setting and operating of Fanuc controlled CNC lathes and vertical machining centres, as well as multi-axis turn/mill machining centres. Candidates must have good attention to detail and demonstrate a thorough, methodical approach to their working environment.

The Role

• Setup and operation on a range of multi-axis CNC machine tools
• Use of hard gauging and CMM equipment to ensure product quality working with fine

tolerances   

• Working in stainless steels and heat resistant super alloys    
• Requires strong understanding of ISO programming

Essential

• Time-served with a minimum of 5 years' experience in setting and operating in a

precision manufacturing environment      

• Good knowledge of setting and operating Fanuc controlled CNC lathes and vertical machining centres
• Capable of reading and interpreting technical drawings and documentation - Use of Microsoft office

Desirable

• Good knowledge of setting and operating multi-axis CNC turn/mill machining centres
• Experience in the setup and operation of Mazak Integrex machine tools
• Knowledge of Mazatrol Smooth control
• Experience of twin turret, twin spindle machining

Utilising your knowledge and experience, with a high attention to detail; the successful candidate will be a real team player who is capable of working on their own initiative.  You will be highly organised with excellent time management and communication skills. 

We are looking for a multi-disciplined manufacturing engineer with a thorough understanding of engineering principles and experience of component manufacture and design in a precision engineering environment. Experience within valve manufacturing is desirable. Candidates must have good attention to detail and demonstrate a thorough, methodical approach to their working environment.

Our client are market leaders within the manufacture and supply of containment valves and integrated material handling equipment for the Pharmaceutical, Chemical and Bio-tech process industries.  We offer the opportunity to work for an award-winning and growing Company in a dynamic and progressive environment in which you can add real value to the business and know that your career development is as important to us as it is to you.

The Role

• Define manufacturing and inspection processes required to produce internally manufactured parts
• Ensure all manufacturing processes and documentation (CNC & CMM programs, tool sheets, quality plans etc.) and product structures are compiled, reviewed and completed for the relevant target dates
• Investigate manufacturing problems or failures, and implement corrective and preventive actions
• With support of senior team members, make technical decisions for manufacturing processes that are either running or scheduled to run
• Provide manufacturing technicians with technical support during manufacturing processes and with daily queries and problems

Essential

• Degree qualified or equivalent in a relevant mechanical engineering discipline, preferably with manufacturing engineering
• Minimum 3 years' experience working within precision engineering of CNC machined products
• Strong understanding of ISO programming
• Capable of reading and interpreting technical drawings and documentation
• A thorough understanding of CAD modelling, CAM programming and programming of CMM equipment

Desirable

• Strong understanding of Fanuc control systems
• Experience using Edgecam or FeatureCAM software
• Experience using PC-DMIS measurement software
• Experience programming multi-axis turn/mill machine tools

Working Hours

This is a site-based role, working 37.5 hours:

Monday to Thursday

8am/9am to 4.30pm/5.30pm (working 8 hours per day)

Friday

8am/9am to 2pm/3pm (working 5.5 hours per day)

What's on offer?

• £45 to £52K DOE
• 25 days holiday plus banks, rising with service
• Auto-enrolment pension
• Life Assurance 4 times salary
• Income protection scheme
• On-site parking
• RAC breakdown cover
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Access to Mental Health First Aiders and wellbeing resources
• Highstreet perks/discounts
• Christmas shutdown

Multi-Skilled Maintenance Technician (electrically biased)

Wigan - £47,333 + £1000 handovers

4 on 4 off ( 2 days 2 nights 7 – 7 )

The Role

To support manufacturing processes by responding effectively to equipment breakdowns in addition to carrying out scheduled maintenance work. A proactive approach to the correction and modification of machine processing faults to ensure repeat failures do not occur.

• Organise daily tasks in order to optimise the time available.
• Diagnose the issues presented to them and to complete the required tasks in timely manner.
• Ability to get to the root cause of issues and make corrective improvements.
• Flexible – to provide additional cover in time of sickness, holiday and extreme workload.

Communication

Must be able to liaise with other departments in a positive, engaging manner. To build good relationships during dealings with departments. To ensure co-operation and assistance in completion of work requirements.

• To respond efficiently and effectively to equipment breakdowns
• To ensure maximum focus is given to their nominated production area
• To accurately record all breakdown information and equipment condition utilising established and future systems
• To be familiar with all aspects of machinery operation, be proactive in identifying running problems and their correction/modification
• To maintain GMP and hygiene requirements in line with Nice-Pak standards. Total compliance with all H & S requirements both legal and internal
• Compliance with engineering stores procedures and documentation.
• To work effectively within a shift structure ensuring technical cover at all times
• To provide a reasonable amount of overtime cover in respect of holidays, sickness, maintenance shut-downs, projects etc.
• To monitor machinery in production with a view to carrying out adjustments as necessary.
• To follow any reasonable request from his/her supervisor
• To fault find in an effective and efficient manner whilst utilising the various machines historic information documentation
• Perform tasks and operate / use equipment/machinery only to the level of their training and competence
• Ensure that they comply with the Company’s GMP Standard and wear the appropriate work wear correctly
• All employees are responsible for ensuring that their workplace is maintained in a clean and tidy manner

Skills & Experience Required

• Time served apprenticeship
• Minimum NVQ L3 or equivalent
• Demonstrable experience of working within a similar environment
• Qualification in ONC or equivalent

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FLT Driver (Temp - Perm) 

Trafford Park

Monday – Friday 08.00 – 16.45

Duties

• Operate FLT to transport, load, and unload goods in a safe and efficient manner (Counterbalance or Reach)
• Ensure accurate placement and retrieval of stock in designated locations
• Perform regular equipment checks and report any faults or issues
• Assist with general warehouse duties
• Goods in/Goods out
• Maintain cleanliness and organisation in the warehouse area
• Support team members with manual handling tasks as required
• Adhere to all health and safety regulations

Skills & Experience Required

• Valid external FLT Licence (ideally & counterbalance)
• Must have experience operating a FLT truck & general warehouse experience
• Reliability & good timekeeping

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Senior Design Engineer

£41,000 - £50,000 DOE

Bolton

Mon – Fri  8am – 5pm (12pm finish on a Friday)

The purpose of the Senior Design Engineer role is to control the design delivery of internal and external  projects, ensuring adherence to specification/ requirements, compliance with standards/ legislation, and full consideration for the product lifecycle. This will include reporting design team performance against budget and programme to the Engineering Supervisor, Engineering Manager, and respective Project Manager. The role is responsible for generating compliant & accurate design output into purchasing, production, and operations.

• Manage the production of designs that comply with product assurance limitations, and that fully consider all stages of the product lifecycle (including material limitations, manufacturability, installability, operability etc)
• Elimination of H&S risks from designs in accordance with CDM regulations
• Ultimate responsibility for product Designer’s Risk Assessment’s clearly identifying mitigation measures incorporated; good knowledge of risks and mitigations
• Checking & Approval responsibilities in accordance with company process (3D Models & 2D  Drawings)
• Ensure all design output aligns with the Engineering Handbook, BS 8888, and is 100% accurate
• Work closely with analysis engineers to ensure designs/ models/ drawings developed accurately reflect the theoretical analysis, advising on design issues, and logging changes in accordance with company procedure
• Understand the build sequence in design of all output, prior to release into production engineering
• Ensure Design and/ or Manufacturability reviews are completed and documented, and communicate design intent to the wider project team
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to increase departmental design capabilities and improve efficiency
• Confirm appropriate door template with Reportees prior to commencing work, where appropriate
• Maximise change capture within the department, ensuring all change is captured on projects
• Provide support to the project teams, liaising with customers as required
• Complete adherence to Booth’ ISO 9001 procedures for engineering department
• Attend on-site/ off-site customer meetings & shop floor as required
• Responsible for achieving schedule adherence for all actions assigned to individual projects

Benefits include (but not limited to)

• Life Assurance
• Pension
• Healthcare packages
• Free fruit/tea & coffee
• Free eye tests & contribution to glasses
• Bonus scheme
• 4 and 5 day workng patterns
• Occupational health

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Mechanical Analysis Engineer

£35,000 - £40,000 DOE

Greater Manchester

The purpose of the Mechanical Analysis Engineer role is to provide accurate evaluation of mechanical systems, components, and structures, in accordance with company procedure and/ or customer specification, through the use of analytical techniques and tools. The role is responsible for advising the business’ sales and design teams of the theoretical performance of products to specification, via analysis/ calculation output.

• Produce hand calculations and FEA Analysis to deliver against project requirements (e.g. mechanical,  structural, thermal, fatigue, acoustic, shock and blast)
• Responsible for ensuring self-prepared calculation are correct, concise, and considerate of all lifecycle forces/ factors, prior to release into SQEP Analysis checker(s)
• Ensuring the use of correct design/ calculation standards on all projects to deliver theoretical assurance
• Work closely with design engineers to ensure designs models drawings developed accurately reflect the theoretical analysis, advising on modifications as necessary, and logging changes in accordance with company procedure
• Produce written reports, presentations, and calculation documents for customer approval.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives to increase departmental technical capabilities and improve efficiency
• Contribute to R&D activities as required & discuss innovative design solutions for bespoke works with peers and superiors
• Support new business enquiries with timely and accurate communication to the sales department, keeping the enquiry tracker up to date
• Provide technical support on projects, liaising with customers as required.
• Responsible for achieving schedule adherence for all actions assigned to individual/role

Essentail Skills & Experience Required

• Minimum HND in Engineering, plus 5 years’ experience producing calculations and analysis in a related engineering industry OR 2) Minimum Bachelor’s degree (BEng Hons) in Engineering (preferably Mechanical Engineering)
• Minimum 3 years’ experience producing calculations and analysis in a related engineering industry
• Ability to generate hand and software-based calculations (unaided) in accordance with common design standards (e.g. British standards & Eurocodes)
• Understanding of load paths, failure modes, and operating limits of steel structures/ components
• Ability to write technical reports and specifications

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Ability to use ANSYS FEA software unaided
• Ability to use Autodesk 3D Inventor, AutoCAD, and Autodesk Vault
• Awareness of door performance testing standards and guides
• Understanding of drive and control systems operating principals
• Knowledge of welding types, strengths, and limitations
• Understanding of tolerance stacking, and the practical application of tolerances
• Driven in the pursuit of becoming a Chartered Engineer

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Control Systems Engineer

£55K - £60K

Telford

Are you a talented and resourceful hands-on PLC software engineer who thrives on working autonomously to solve technical challenges?

Are you excited by the prospect of applying that talent to a state-of-the-art world beating manufacturing environment - most of which is bespoke and has been designed and built in house?

If you are looking to join our innovative Engineering Development team, read on...

Who we are looking for:

• An individual who embraces and lives our core values of Determination, Quality, Integrity and Teamwork
• A flexible team player with plenty of ideas and enthusiasm who thrives under pressure.
• A talented Engineer with a minimum of HNC in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, someone excited by learning new techniques & technology
• Someone who craves End-to-End Involvement - Experiencing the full lifecycle from initial concept to final delivery
• A problem solver with extensive PLC programming expertise and fault diagnosis experience - specifically Siemens & Schneider although others considered
• Someone ideally experienced within the food or processing industry - although not essential - Design for functional safety & SCADA experience would be beneficial

What you will be doing:

• Developing subject matter expertise in Siemens/Schneider PLC's
• Providing technical leadership and programming expertise in a professional manner to drive improvements and new developments
• Actively contributing to & supporting lead development engineers in continuous improvement & New innovations
• Delivering high impact change - be involved in multiple projects that will enhance improvements in technology
• Taking ownership of your work to agreed deadlines with internal stakeholders and contractors

Benefits

• Company Pension 5% Employees 8% Employers.
• Benefits - Health Cash Plan
• Health & Life assurance
• Unparalleled engineering & workshop facilities

• Mentorship to gain professional registration

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Mechanical Maintenance Engineer  

Nantwich

4 on 4 off, rotating 06:00 - 18:00/18:00 - 06:00

£35.00 Per Hour (3 - 4 months contract)

The successful candidate will have previous mechanical or multi-skilled experience within manufacturing and a solid background in Health & Safety. You will provide engineering support to production to ensure the efficient performance of all equipment. 

• Conduct planned and predictive maintenance of processing and packaging assets
• Respond to breakdowns
• Identify faults (electrical, mechanical, instrumentation, automation, and pneumatics) and action as required
• Lead or support operational teams with machinery change overs and set ups
• Manufacture and repair component parts for machinery
• Contribute to continuous improvement projects to optimise assets or processes
• Ensure that all H&S procedures, engineering best practice are adhered to at all times
• Accurate & timely records are entered and recorded on all work carried out, root causes of failures and of spares/consumables used

Skills & Experience 

• Time served apprenticeship or equivalent 
• Recognised Engineering qualification
• Previous maintenance experience in a manufacturing environment
• Flexible working attitude
• Competent electrical / fault finding & analysis skills
• Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
• Methodical & strong attention to detail

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Senior Specifications Technologist, emphasising expertise in food regulations, specification writing, and collaboration with cross-functional teams in the food manufacturing sector. Below is a summary of the key aspects:

Job Overview

• Purpose: Develop, maintain, and manage product specifications that meet customer, legislative, and industry standards while ensuring manufacturing specifications align with product launches and updates.
• Scope: Includes responsibility for quality, compliance, and departmental leadership.

Key Responsibilities

1. Specification Management:
• Create and manage product specifications across retailer portals with precision and timeliness.
• Ensure specifications reflect quality and compliance.
2. Team Leadership:
• Support and mentor the Specifications Technologist team.
• Deputise for the Specifications Manager when needed.
3. Collaboration:
• Partner with NPD, procurement, quality control, and production teams to resolve specification-related issues.
• Assist during external and third-party audits.
4. Compliance & Artwork:
• Review and approve product artwork to meet UK/EU regulations and customer requirements.
• Interpret and implement food regulations, policies, and practices.
5. Food Safety Culture:
• Actively promote food safety, preventing deviations that could impact product safety, quality, or legality.

Skills & Experience

• Technical Expertise:
• Extensive experience in writing specifications on online retailer portals.
• Strong understanding of food labeling regulations, safety standards, and customer codes of practice.
• Analytical Abilities:
• Meticulous attention to detail with excellent organizational and time management skills.
• Proven experience in artwork review, including ingredient declarations and nutritional labeling.
• Leadership:
• Previous experience leading or supporting a team within the food industry.
• Education:
• A food-related degree or equivalent qualification is highly preferred.

Ideal Candidate

• Experienced in managing specifications within the food manufacturing industry.
• Confident in liaising with suppliers and customers.
• Demonstrates strong organisational skills and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

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