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Technical Operator - Double Days

43,170 + Overtime + Training + Progression + Excellent Benefits

Churchstoke, Powys (Commutable from Welshpool, Newtown, Shrewsbury, Ludlow, Montgomery, Bishop's Castle)

Are you from a manufacturing, production or packaging background with mechanical or electrical skills? Are you looking to join a growing company offering excellent training, long term progression into engineering and plenty of overtime?

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a well-established manufacturer where you'll receive on the job training, develop your technical skills and progress into engineering roles as your experience grows.

This company is a leading bottled water manufacturer supplying major retailers across the UK. Due to continued growth, they are looking to add a Technical Operator to their successful production team.

In this role you will operate and maintain automated bottling machinery, carry out changeovers, fault finding and basic maintenance while ensuring production runs safely and efficiently. You'll work a rotating double day shift pattern with regular overtime available.

This role would suit someone with manufacturing, production, bottling or packaging experience who has good mechanical aptitude and is looking for long term career development.

The Role:

• Operating automated bottling and packaging machinery
• Machine changeovers, fault finding and basic maintenance
• Rotating 6am to 2pm / 2pm to 10pm shifts
• Training, progression and overtime available

The Person:

• Manufacturing, production or packaging experience
• Mechanical troubleshooting skills
• Looking for long term training and progression
• Happy working a rotating shift pattern

Reference Number: BBBH(phone number removed)

Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles.

The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client.

We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Job Title: Technical Analyst
Location: London (3 days onsite)
Contract Length: 6 Months but long term expected
Daily Rate: 416 Umbrella

Are you a detail-oriented Technical Business Analyst with a passion for the financial services and insurance sector? We are seeking a skilled professional to join our team on a contract basis to drive data analysis and technical solutions for our organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Analyse and interpret complex data sets to provide actionable insights.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify technical requirements and solutions.
• Assist in the development and implementation of innovative software applications that enhance operational efficiency.
• Conduct regular testing and validation of systems to ensure accuracy and compliance with industry standards.
• Prepare comprehensive reports and presentations for stakeholders, translating technical findings into clear business terms.

Key Experience Needed:

• Proven experience as a Technical Business Analyst within the financial or insurance sectors.
• Strong proficiency in data analysis tools and methodologies.
• Familiarity with relevant programming languages and software applications.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Effective communication skills, with the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Why Join Us?

This is an excellent opportunity to enhance your career in a fast-paced and supportive environment. With a competitive daily rate and a collaborative team culture, you will play a crucial role in shaping our projects and initiatives.

Please submit your CV outlining your relevant experience. We look forward to welcoming a new member to our team!

Adecco is a disability-confident employer. It is important to us that we run an inclusive and accessible recruitment process to support candidates of all backgrounds and all abilities to apply. Adecco is committed to building a supportive environment for you to explore the next steps in your career. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.

We use generative AI tools to support our candidate screening process. This helps us ensure a fair, consistent, and efficient experience for all applicants. Rest assured, all final decisions are made by our hiring team, and your application will be reviewed with care and attention.

Technical Manager - 12-Month Maternity Cover

Description

We are hiring for our client, a well-established food manufacturing business based in to recruit an experienced Technical Manager for a 12-month maternity cover contract.

This Technical Manager role will take responsibility for ensuring the site maintains the highest standards of food safety, quality, legality and customer compliance throughout the contract period. The successful Technical Manager will lead the Technical function, support the wider operational team and ensure the site remains fully audit-ready.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced food manufacturing professional to step into a visible and influential role within a busy production environment.

• Lead the site Technical function and act as the principal contact for food safety, quality and compliance matters.
• Maintain and continuously improve the Food Safety and Quality Management System.
• Ensure compliance with BRCGS, HACCP, customer standards and relevant food safety legislation.
• Lead and support customer, regulatory and third-party audits.
• Ensure all audit actions and non-conformances are investigated and closed within agreed timescales.
• Manage customer complaints, root cause investigations and corrective and preventative actions.
• Maintain site audit readiness across Production, Hygiene, Engineering and Technical functions.
• Oversee internal audit programmes, traceability exercises and mock recalls.
• Monitor quality performance, analyse trends and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
• Work closely with Production, NPD, Hygiene, Engineering and Supply Chain teams to maintain product safety and quality.
• Support new product launches, process changes and technical validations.
• Lead, coach and develop members of the Technical and Quality teams.
• Promote a positive food safety and quality culture across the site.
• Ensure technical records, specifications and documentation remain accurate and up to date.
• Provide technical guidance to senior management and operational teams.

• Previous experience in a Technical Manager, Quality Manager or senior technical leadership role within food manufacturing.
• Strong knowledge of BRCGS, HACCP, GMP and food safety legislation.
• Proven experience managing customer, certification and regulatory audits.
• Experience leading root cause investigations, corrective actions and continuous improvement activities.
• Strong leadership and people management skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
• Organised and detail-focused, with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Confident working cross-functionally with Production, Hygiene, Engineering and NPD teams.
• Food Science, Food Technology or related qualification would be advantageous.
• Available to commit to a 12-month fixed-term contract.

• Salary up to £50,000 , depending on experience.
• 12-month maternity cover contract.
• Senior leadership responsibility within an established food manufacturing business.
• Opportunity to lead and influence site-wide food safety and quality standards.
• Broad exposure across audits, customer requirements, technical systems and continuous improvement.
• Supportive and collaborative working environment.
• Opportunity to add valuable senior-level experience to your career.

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Technical Manager

Looking for a role where you'll have real ownership and influence?
If you're an experienced Technical Manager who enjoys building supplier relationships, driving quality improvements and being the technical expert for a key retail customer, this could be the opportunity you've been looking for.
We're looking for someone to take full technical responsibility for a Tesco fresh produce category, working closely with growers, suppliers, commercial teams and the customer to ensure products consistently meet the highest standards of quality, safety and legality.
This isn't a role where you'll simply maintain standards-you'll have the opportunity to improve them.

What you'll be doing
As Technical Manager, you'll be the key technical contact for your product category, ensuring excellent communication between suppliers, commercial teams and Tesco whilst driving continuous improvement across the supply chain.

You'll be responsible for:
Taking full technical ownership of a Tesco fresh produce category.
Building strong relationships with suppliers and maintaining regular communication throughout the season.
Monitoring product quality and proactively managing any issues before they become problems.
Providing technical recommendations during daily production meetings.
Managing customer complaints, identifying trends and implementing effective corrective actions.
Leading investigations following customer rejections and ensuring preventative actions are implemented.
Ensuring Tesco Quality Connect specifications, product records and Brandbank information are accurate and up to date.
Managing artwork approvals and packaging developments for your product area.
Preparing products for benchmarking, customer visits and sample requests.
Supporting trial work and product innovation projects.
Completing weekly customer reports and technical documentation.
Conducting end-of-season supplier reviews and driving continuous improvement plans.
Managing supplier due diligence and ensuring all compliance documentation remains current.
Supporting sustainability initiatives across the supply base.
Working closely with Sales, Marketing and Packaging teams to deliver commercially successful product and packaging developments.
Identifying opportunities for innovation, including new varieties, packaging improvements and sustainability projects.
Supporting the ongoing development of Business Objects and technical systems.
What we're looking for
You'll already have experience within a Technical, Customer Technical or Supplier Technical role in fresh produce or food manufacturing and be comfortable working with retailer standards.
You'll also bring:
Experience managing retailer technical relationships,
Strong knowledge of food safety, quality and legality requirements.
Experience managing supplier performance and due diligence.
Knowledge of retailer specification systems such as Tesco Quality Connect.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
A proactive approach with the confidence to challenge and influence where needed.
Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
A passion for continuous improvement and delivering the highest standards.

Why join?
This is an opportunity to become the technical lead for a major retail account, working within a collaborative business where your expertise will genuinely influence quality, supplier performance and future product development.
You'll have the autonomy to make decisions, build strong supplier partnerships and play a key role in delivering innovation, sustainability and continuous improvement across the supply chain.

Interested?
Apply today or contact Luan Harrison at MorePeople for a confidential conversation.

Scotland | Hybrid Working | International Travel

Competitive Salary + Annual Bonus + Excellent Benefits

Escape Recruitment is delighted to be partnering with a global engineering organisation to recruit a Technical Sales Manager to join its expanding commercial team.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a global manufacturer of highly engineered products, supplying customers across international markets. You'll take ownership of complex sales opportunities, build strategic customer relationships and play a key role in driving commercial growth.

This newly created position forms part of the company's continued investment in its commercial function, providing the successful candidate with the opportunity to influence business development strategy while working alongside engineering, project management and international sales teams.

The Role

Reporting to the Sales Director, you'll be responsible for managing the full sales lifecycle, from identifying opportunities within existing accounts and developing new business through to preparing technical and commercial proposals, negotiating contracts and securing orders.

This is a consultative sales role focused on understanding customer challenges, developing tailored engineering solutions and managing complex sales campaigns with customers around the world.

This is primarily an office-based role to support collaboration with the wider commercial and engineering teams, with hybrid flexibility available once established in the role. International travel is expected, typically once or twice per month.

Key responsibilities include:

• Managing technical sales opportunities from initial enquiry through to contract award.
• Preparing commercially and technically robust quotations and proposals.
• Building long-term relationships with customers, OEMs, EPCs, distributors and international sales teams.
• Identifying and developing new business opportunities across existing and emerging markets.
• Managing long sales cycles and maintaining an accurate sales pipeline using CRM.
• Working closely with engineering, project management, purchasing and commercial teams to deliver customer-focused solutions.
• Negotiating commercial agreements for high-value engineered products and systems.
• Representing the business at customer meetings, exhibitions and international industry events.
• Gathering market intelligence to identify new commercial opportunities and support future product development.
• Supporting regional sales teams with technical and commercial expertise.

About You

You'll be an experienced Technical Sales Manager or Sales Engineer with a successful background selling engineered products or technical solutions into industrial markets.

This is a hands-on, operational sales role with genuine scope to progress into a Sales Leadership position as the business continues to grow.

We would welcome applications from candidates with backgrounds in:

• Mechanical Engineering
• Pumps & Rotating Equipment
• Capital Equipment
• Oil & Gas
• Marine
• Industrial Manufacturing
• Process Industries
• Water & Wastewater
• Heavy Engineering

You'll bring:

• A proven track record in technical, consultative B2B sales.
• Experience selling complex engineered products or systems.
• The ability to understand technical specifications and translate customer requirements into commercial solutions.
• Strong commercial awareness with excellent negotiation skills.
• Experience managing lengthy sales cycles and multiple stakeholders.
• A proactive approach to business development and identifying new opportunities.
• Excellent relationship-building and communication skills.
• The willingness to travel internationally as required.

Are you a Technical Manager looking for a new role Do you have technical experience within a Plastic Extrusion Environment and enjoy customer facing work Are you looking for a leadership role supporting customers and managing a small team in a plastic manufacturing business

Kingscroft have been engaged to recruit for a Technical Manager working for a specialist windows manufacturing business with plastic extrusion and aluminium at the heart of its operation.  

The role of the Technical Manager sits between the production site, the regional technical staff and its nation-wide network of fabrication customers. The post holder ensures quality, delivery, product information, technical training and reliability concerns are all handled in line with company processes.
 
As the ideal candidate you will have a technical engineering background, understand plastics manufacturing and enjoy a customer facing role with Quality at its core. You will be comfortable managing an established team of regionally based technicians and enjoy liaising with customers, manufacturing and quality across the business.

Successful candidates could be experienced or fresh to the industry with transferable skills from other extrusion sectors. 

Key Duties and responsibilities:

•    Manage projects to provide customers with the ability to utilise PVC-U and Aluminium profile ranges to fabricate fenestration products to the required standards.
•    Ensure all projects are delivered on time and within budget.
•    Provide technical support to company manufacturing operations regarding quality and product application.
•    Provide overview and advice regarding product and equipment to in-house and external customers.
•    Provide support to customers to resolve end-user issues to ensure costs are mitigated to the business.
•    Manage the day-to-day operation and workload of the R&D workshop and testing facility.
•    Chair meetings and produce reports as required to provide information to the Divisional and Group Board.
•    Communicate effectively at all levels within the organisation and build strong working relationships with internal and external customers.
•    Develop staff using the business PDR process and maintain levels of personal competence through CPD.
•    Champion continuous improvement activity and act as a change agent throughout the organisation.
•    Budget responsibility for yearly PVC-U and Aluminium allocation, ensuring correct use and quarterly review.
•    Ensure compliance with all company policies, management procedures, systems of work and standard operating procedures.
•    Product champion roles at trade and industry shows.

This is a fantastic opportunity to play a key role in this industry leading business. Our client is open to fenestration specialists or to talented Technical Managers with transferable skills from outside the fenestration sector. 

Our client is open to hybrid working and flexible on how the role can best deliver the priorities.
Please apply today for a confidential discussion on the role , company and opportunity.

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Reporting to the Head of Operations and working closely with the wider CustomCare team, the Senior Technical Engineer plays a key role in delivering world-class technical support, service excellence, and operational performance across the region.

The role is responsible for developing and implementing effective service delivery solutions, driving continuous improvement, and providing expert technical guidance to customers and internal stakeholders. Through proactive customer engagement and a commitment to operational excellence, the Senior Technical Engineer will support CDE's vision of creating Customers for Life, ensuring every customer receives exceptional value, performance, and support throughout their lifecycle with CDE.

About this role

• Act as the regional technical authority for CustomCare, providing expert guidance and support to customers, Regional Service Engineers, Customer Relationship Managers, and internal stakeholders.
• Identify and promote upgrade, optimisation, and aftermarket opportunities which deliver measurable value to customers whilst supporting the growth of the CustomCare business.
• Support warranty investigations and technical claims, ensuring timely resolution and accurate root-cause analysis.
• Interpret customer process data and recommend suitable pump solutions detailing flow, head and power requirements.
• Develop technical specifications for wash plant upgrades, including screen sizing, cyclone selection, conveyor sizing, and performance optimisation
• Analyse particle size distribution (PSD) data from aggregate and sand samples to specify optimum screening media sizes in line with target product gradations and customer specifications.
• Liaise with the Electrical Department to coordinate, track, and resolve electrical queries and interface issues
• Attend project review meetings and monitor the progress of technical action items to ensure timely completion.
• Review quotations for technical accuracy.
• Assist with onboarding non-OEM suppliers, conducting technical evaluations of their products, and supporting supplier quality assurance visits.
• Provide technical leadership across the region, coordinating technical priorities and supporting the effective deployment of engineering resources to meet business and customer requirements.
• Ensure full compliance to our H & S Management system at all times.

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Our client requires a confident and driven individual with previous sales, internal sales, account management experience to join their team in what will be a varied consultative sales role. The yearly salary will depend on experience but is likely to be between 35,000 - 42,000 plus bonus. Hours of work will be Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.30pm. Technical sales, electrical sales, engineering sales experience is highly desirable.

Duties:

• Actively and tenaciously seek out new business opportunities
• Upsell , through understanding clients' potential requirements
• Prepare, submit, follow up and report on quotations
• Promptly respond to customer requests, in a professional and efficient manner
• Provide specialist technical back-up as product champion
• Account manage customers

Benefits:

• Up to 42,000 basic salary
• 10% - 20% realistic bonus , however the bonus is uncapped
• Pension
• Private healthcare

Experience:

• Proven sales, internal sales, account management experience
• Experience in a technical sales role, someone who is technically minded, or has a previous technical based qualification is highly beneficial
• Experience and knowledge of electrical circuits, control panels, batteries, DC, AC coupled, inverters, metering renewables electrical products is desirable
• Strong communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to learn new products quickly and effectively promote services
• A good team player

Please bear in mind that you may not hear from us straight away. Due to the high level of applications, we receive every day, we can only respond to applicants whose skills and qualifications are suitable for this position. If you would like to be considered for similar and future positions, or for a complete listing of all our current vacancies, please visit our website.

• Leading the end-to-end procurement process, from supplier identification through to contract award.
• Working closely with engineering teams to understand technical requirements and source suitable suppliers.
• Reviewing engineering drawings and technical specifications to support supplier selection and sourcing decisions.
• Negotiating commercial agreements covering pricing, quality, warranties, indemnities and long-term supply arrangements.
• Developing and managing supplier relationships to achieve quality, cost and delivery objectives.
• Conducting supplier assessments, audits and regular UK and international supplier visits.

• Experience in technical or direct procurement within automotive, aerospace, advanced engineering or a similar manufacturing environment.
• The ability to interpret engineering drawings and confidently discuss technical requirements with engineers and suppliers.
• Proven experience negotiating commercial agreements and supplier contracts.
• Strong supplier relationship management and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Commercial awareness with excellent negotiation and problem-solving abilities.
• The ability to operate effectively within a fast-paced, growing business environment.
• Willingness to travel internationally to visit suppliers and manufacturing partners.