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Proven experience as an IT Buyer or similar procurement-oriented role.

A leading organisation within the defence and technology sector is currently recruiting for a Lead Buyer - Information Technology on a full-time, permanent basis in Stevenage (with additional presence in Bolton).

Role: Lead Buyer - IT
Type: Permanent
Location: Stevenage (Hybrid)
Salary: 45,000 - 55,000 + benefits

Key responsibilities for the Lead Buyer - IT will include and will not be limited to:

• Lead and support procurement activities across a broad range of IT categories including software, SaaS, hardware, networks, cyber security, AI, and IT services.
• Manage end-to-end sourcing activities, including supplier engagement, negotiation, contract placement, and performance management.
• Own and deliver large-scale procurement projects in collaboration with Category Managers and key stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and international suppliers across the UK and Europe.
• Support the development and execution of sourcing strategies to deliver value, cost savings, and operational efficiency.
• Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives within procurement processes and governance.
• Engage in international procurement activities, including travel for supplier and stakeholder meetings across European sites.

Key skills and experience required for the Lead Buyer - IT role will include and will not be limited to:

• Experience within procurement, either specifically in IT categories or across indirect spend with a strong interest in technology.
• Proven ability to manage procurement processes and supplier relationships within a complex environment.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to operate in an international setting.
• Experience delivering sourcing activities and supporting procurement strategy execution.
• Proactive and adaptable approach with the ability to manage multiple priorities and projects.
• MCIPS qualified or working towards certification (desirable).
• Willingness to travel internationally as required.

To apply for this Lead Buyer / IT Buyer / Indirect Buyer / Procurement Specialist / Category Buyer / Sourcing Specialist role, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK and meet security clearance requirements.

Role & Responsibilities

Raytheon UK is seeking an experienced Digital Technology Director to provide strategic leadership for digital technology across all UK business groups and functions. This senior leadership role is critical to enabling business success through the effective alignment of technology strategy, investment, and delivery with current and future business needs.

• Proven leadership of large-scale ERP transformation programmes
• Strong experience with manufacturing systems and factory technologies
• Senior-level strategic technology leadership experience
• Track record of delivering complex enterprise-wide digital programmes
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

• Experience within the UK defence industry
• SAP ECC to S/4HANA migration experience
• Experience in large international or matrix organisations

Basildon
Salary - Negotiable DOE plus higher potential earnings due to some travel.
Monday-Friday with Flexitime hours

The company:
Based in South Essex, you will be joining a purpose-built design and engineering premises for chemical manufacturing feeding into a wide range of industries, including the pharmaceutical industry. They are now able to appoint an Automation Engineer to join their team.

As an Automation Engineer, you will work alongside the electricians and panel builders to assist in the design and build of the control systems and associated machinery. In addition, you will be involved in the designing of PLC-based electrical control systems from design specifications, programming PLC-configurable relay systems, as well as carrying out fault-finding on electrical control systems, PLC and hardwired systems.

Essential duties and responsibilities:

• Designing PLC-based electrical control systems.
• Programming PLC, touchscreen, and safety systems
• Fault-finding electrical control systems, PLC systems etc.
• Fault-finding electrical control systems, PLC, and hardwired systems - commissioning, support, and service work at customers' sites.
• Working with other areas of the manufacturing team to support projects.

This is just a summed-up list of responsibilities and other duties will be required.

Skills and Experience required:

• Previous experience in a similar role within a manufacturing environment.
• Previous experience and understanding of PLC'S and control panels in a programming & writing environment
• Experienced with electrical control panels in an automated environment
• Qualified electrical apprentice or similar
• Ability to work in a team situation or alone.

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Servicing and fault finding

Installation

Must have full Driving Licence Van provided.

Installation and Commissioning of Gate Automation
Force Testing
Carrying out Risk Assessments
Installation of Automated Barriers
Installation of Access control systems
Associated Welding works

Design & Technology Teacher (ECT)

Secondary School | Near Braintree, Essex

Start Date: September 2026

Contract: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: MPS (ECT scale)

We are seeking a passionate and enthusiastic Early Career Teacher (ECT) of Design & Technology to join our committed and supportive team from September 2026.

This is an excellent opportunity for an ECT to begin their teaching career in a friendly secondary school with strong behaviour, a collaborative staff body, and a well-established ECT support programme.

• Teach Design & Technology across KS3 and KS4 (specialisms welcomed, such as Product Design, Resistant Materials, or Engineering)
• Inspire students through creative, practical, and engaging lessons
• Work collaboratively within a supportive and well‑resourced department
• Contribute to curriculum development as you grow in confidence and experience

• A high‑quality ECT induction programme, with dedicated mentoring and reduced timetable
• Strong departmental support and regular coaching
• Well‑equipped DT workshops and access to modern resources
• A calm and orderly learning environment
• Ongoing professional development and clear career progression

• Holds (or is completing) QTS
• Has strong subject knowledge and enthusiasm for Design & Technology
• Is reflective, organised, and eager to develop their practice
• Has high expectations for all students

The school is conveniently located near Braintree, with good transport links and on‑site parking, making it accessible from across Essex and surrounding areas.

Please send CVs to (url removed)

Senior Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer

Chelmsford, Essex (Hybrid)
£75,000 – £85,000 + Bonus + Benefits

Build the Data Platform. Shape the Future.

Raynor Foods is one of the UK's leading food-to-go manufacturers, supplying healthcare, travel, workplace and retail customers nationwide. We are investing heavily in technology, data and AI, and we're looking for an exceptional Senior Microsoft Fabric Data Engineer to lead the development of our next-generation enterprise data platform. 

This is a rare opportunity to join a successful, employee-owned business and build a greenfield Microsoft Fabric environment from the ground up. You'll take ownership of our data strategy, architecture and platform, creating a single source of truth that powers reporting, analytics, AI and business decision-making across the organisation. 

If you're excited by Microsoft Fabric, OneLake, AI and solving complex data challenges at scale, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll lead the design, implementation and ongoing development of a modern Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, bringing together data from manufacturing, finance, HR, transport, warehousing and customer systems into a secure, scalable and high-performing environment. 

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing and building enterprise-scale Microsoft Fabric solutions
• Creating Lakehouses, Data Warehouses and Semantic Models
• Developing robust ETL/ELT pipelines and real-time data integrations
• Designing and managing the OneLake architecture
• Establishing data governance, security and access controls
• Supporting Power BI, self-service analytics and Direct Lake solutions
• Preparing enterprise data for AI, Copilot and future data science initiatives 

What We're Looking For

You'll be an experienced Data Engineer or Data Platform professional who enjoys combining hands-on technical expertise with strategic thinking.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Strong Microsoft Fabric expertise (Lakehouse, Warehouse, Pipelines, Notebooks)
• OneLake architecture and management
• Advanced SQL / T-SQL
• PySpark and Spark optimisation
• Data warehousing, modelling and ETL/ELT development
• Power BI semantic modelling
• Experience delivering enterprise cloud data platforms
• Experience integrating multiple business systems
• Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical solutions 

Desirable

Microsoft DP-700 Certification

Microsoft Purview

Azure DevOps and CI/CD

Manufacturing or FMCG experience

ERP, WMS or MES integrations

Azure AI Foundry

Data Science or Machine Learning exposure 

Why Join Raynor Foods?

This isn't just another Data Engineering role.

You'll have the opportunity to:

• Build an enterprise-scale Microsoft Fabric platform from scratch
• Shape the data strategy of a £45m+ business
• Drive AI, Copilot and advanced analytics initiatives
• Work directly with senior leadership including the Managing Director
• Enjoy significant autonomy, ownership and influence
• Join an employee-owned business where your contribution makes a real difference
• Benefit from hybrid working, bonus opportunities and a collaborative culture 

The Person

We're looking for someone who can think like a Data Architect and deliver like a Senior Data Engineer .

You'll be equally comfortable discussing strategic transformation plans with senior leadership as you are building PySpark pipelines, optimising Fabric workloads and solving complex data challenges. This is not a reporting role — it's a platform ownership role that will define the future of data at Raynor Foods. 

Ready to Build Something Exceptional?

Apply now with your CV and help shape the future of data, analytics and AI at Raynor Foods.

Raynor Foods Ltd
Trust. Care. Respect. Innovation.

Location: Stevenage (Hybrid - 2-3 days onsite per week)
Contract Length: 12 Months (Extension possible)
Rate: 70 per hour (Inside IR35)

Our client, a leading organisation operating within a highly advanced engineering and technology environment, is seeking an experienced Data Engineer to join their Customer Support and Project Teams on an initial 12-month contract.

This is an excellent opportunity for a data professional to play a key role in the development, optimisation and evolution of complex database solutions. You will be responsible for managing data migration from legacy systems, designing robust data models, improving database performance, and supporting business-critical management information systems.

Working within a collaborative environment, you will help drive data strategy, enhance data governance, and ensure that data architecture meets both current and future business needs.

• Develop and maintain database solutions to efficiently store and retrieve business-critical information
• Install, configure and support information systems to ensure optimal functionality
• Analyse, plan and define data architecture frameworks, including:
  • Security
  • Reference data
  • Metadata
  • Master data management
• Migrate data from legacy systems into modern database solutions
• Design conceptual and logical data models and associated process flowcharts
• Improve system performance through testing, troubleshooting and integration of new technologies
• Optimise existing and newly developed database systems
• Define and maintain security, backup and recovery procedures
• Work closely with stakeholders across the business to identify future data requirements and objectives
• Support the development and implementation of data strategies and models
• Provide operational support for Management Information Systems (MIS)

• Proven experience working as a Data Engineer or in a similar role
• Strong proficiency in SQL (essential)
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills
• Strong understanding of database structure and design principles
• Experience gathering and analysing system requirements
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

If you're an experienced Data Engineer with strong SQL expertise and a passion for data architecture, modelling and system optimisation, we'd like to hear from you.

Apply today with your latest CV for immediate consideration.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Company Overview

Cloud Combinator is an AWS Advanced Tier Partner that helps businesses adopt AI with confidence. We design, build and deploy production AI solutions on AWS, from agentic AI systems and generative AI applications to modern data platforms, with 40+ AI projects delivered into production. We are also NVIDIA and Anthropic partners, and part of the 3J Group. We are a small, senior, fast-moving team, which means you will work on real client projects from day one.

Ready to launch your AI engineering career at the cutting edge? We are looking for an ambitious, motivated AI Engineer apprentice to join our team. You will work alongside senior engineers on live client projects while studying towards the Level 6 AI Engineer apprenticeship, a degree-level qualification delivered virtually by QA and tailored towards the AWS route.

The role is a blend of hands‑on technical development, problem‑solving and client collaboration, crafted for someone eager to learn fast and contribute to impactful projects. Around six hours per week are protected for apprenticeship learning, applied directly to the work you do with us.

• AI & cloud engineering: assist in the design, development and deployment of production generative AI and agentic AI solutions on AWS (including Amazon Bedrock) under the guidance of senior engineers, and support our Solution Architects with implementing cloud best practices
• Code quality & debugging: write clean, maintainable code and participate in code reviews. Take initiative in debugging, troubleshooting and resolving issues in collaboration with the team
• Client collaboration: join client calls, demos and project check‑ins. Our engineers are customer‑facing, so you will learn to communicate technical work clearly to non‑technical audiences
• Learning & development: complete your apprenticeship modules (building with GenAI, optimising business processes with AI, AI security and ethics, deep learning and transformers, testing and deployment) and apply them to real projects. Work towards AWS certifications with our support
• Agile participation: engage in daily stand‑ups, sprint planning and retrospectives, contributing insights to improve team workflows and deliver on time

• Hands‑on with code. Python is our main language, but we care more that you understand what your code is doing. Personal projects or a GitHub profile count as much as commercial experience, none of which is required
• Genuinely curious about AI. You have experimented with LLMs, AI coding tools or built something with AI models in your own time, and you can tell us why you want a career in it
• Aware of cloud fundamentals. Any AWS exposure is a plus, not a requirement
• An effective communicator who values collaboration and is comfortable speaking with clients
• A problem‑solver who can independently seek out solutions and ask the right questions when needed
• Detail‑oriented and committed to producing high‑quality, reliable work

• Are driven by learning and applying new technologies quickly and effectively
• Thrive in collaborative, dynamic environments and are committed to clear communication and continuous improvement
• Have a strong work ethic and take pride in delivering high‑quality solutions
• Are excited to build a career in AI engineering and want to tackle complex problems with a forward‑thinking team

Acceptable qualifications include any of:

• Two A-levels in one or more similar subject plus B in A‑Level maths
• Two A-levels in one or more similar subject plus 2‑years work experience in tech
• Level 4 or 5 apprenticeship in a similar technical subject
• International Baccalaureate at Level 3 in a similar subject
• 3+ years in a similar subject‑related role
• A first degree in a numerate discipline (but excluding Computer Science as not fundable)

You may also have a combination of qualifications and experience which demonstrate the minimum foundation needed for the programme. In this instance you could still be considered for the programme.

If you hold international equivalents of the above qualifications, at the time of your application you must be able to provide an official document that states how your international qualifications compare to the UK qualifications.

For more information please visit the UK ENIC website.

Working hours: 37.5 hours per week

• A funded degree‑level qualification: the Level 6 AI Engineer apprenticeship delivered by QA, plus access to QA’s full learning platform during the programme and for a year after.
• Paid certifications & training: we fund AWS certifications and invest in your technical growth.
• Pension scheme: workplace pension.
• Team socials & events: a supportive, close‑knit team that values learning and knowledge‑sharing.
• Cutting‑edge projects: hands‑on exposure to Amazon Bedrock, Claude, and production AI systems used by real customers.

90% of QA apprentices secure permanent employment after completing: this is 20% higher than the national average.

Our apprenticeships are the perfect way to gain new skills, earn while you learn, and launch yourself into an exciting future. With over 50,000 successful apprenticeship graduates, we're a top 50 training provider, dedicated to helping you succeed.