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Manufacturing Technician

A global manufacturer is looking to recruit an experienced Manufacturing Technician with a lean manufacturing background to join their team due to continued growth & expansion.

The Manufacturing Technician will provide technical support to Production to enhance line processes / techniques to help drive lean manufacturing initiatives.

The role of Manufacturing Technician you will be responsible for:

• Provide training to shop floor personnel in to maximise full potential and minimise error risk
• Implement Lean Manufacturing initiatives
• Collate data for process improvements
• Value Engineering of New & Existing products
• Build custom equipment & tooling for production
• Improve design for manufacturability
• Author process documentation for assembly
• Lead Root Cause Analysis activities
• Identify reduction in lead times through cycle time studies & process improvements
• Read and interpret engineering drawings to determine assembly methods
• Use Bill of Materials (BOMs) to determine component parts
• Make electrical connections according to specification from wiring diagrams

Skills/Experience/Knowledge required to be successful:

• Interested in speaking with experienced Manufacturing Technicians, Production Technicians, Process Technicians, Cell Technicians in a busy manufacturing/assembly environment
• Background in Lean Manufacturing

• Be mechanically minded
• Ability to read technical drawings and wiring diagrams
• Understand Bill of Materials (BOM)
• Able to write reports / documents at technical level
• Experience with inspection & testing to ensure they meet specifications
• Problem Solving
• ERP / MRP systems
• Must be conversant with Microsoft Office including Power Point and Excel

On Offer:

Friendly professional environment, a salary in the region of £30K-£34K, Company Pension, Life Assurance, Health, Career Development.

Hours of Work: Monday to Friday 07:00am - 3:30pm

Apply now for this fantastic opportunity. Please send your CV to:

stuart.williams@asc-connections.com

The role is commutable from:

Maidenhead, Reading, Newbury, Basingstoke, Wokingham, High Wycombe

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

Are you a management professional with a warehousing background? Are you looking to work for a vibrant, dynamic company who is the leader in their field? Then we want to hear from you!

You will be responsible for:

• To manage the warehouse and transport teams to ensure the smooth running process of goods in, storage and despatch
• Manage the storage and supply to production (raw materials and any other required goods)
• To coach, lead and advise employees
• Working to strict KPI's and targets
• To co-ordinate and plan goods in and despatch
• To actively drive improvement through goods in, storage, despatch and warehouse department
• To always ensure and promote Health and Safety policy

We would love to hear from you if you have had the following experience:

• Managing teams within a warehousing environment
• You may have worked as a Stores Supervisor, Warehouse Manager, Logistics Manager

Benefits:

• Pay is negotiable dependent upon experience
• Excellent training and career progression opportunities.
• This job is easily commutable to anyone living in and around Alcester.

If you're interested hearing more about the role then please apply online today!

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

Controls Engineer

£35,000 to £45,000 per annum

Permanent full time

Would you like to work for a successful systems integrator who leads the field in providing independent industrial process and automation solutions?

Working as a Controls Engineer you will:

• Need to pick up requirement from customer, create FDS, Technical Documentation and take the solution to site and install/commission.
• Program PLC controllers - ControlLogix, CompactLogix 5000
• SCADA configuration - Wonderware Intouch, RSView
• Produce all electrical schematics and panel drawings required for contracts/ manufacture.
• Produce a full range of layout detail drawings and planning documents to contract specifications.
• Travel at least 6 weeks a year, mostly UK some overseas

To be successful, we're looking for:

• Strong PLC / controls background ideally with Allen Bradley or similar platform.
• The ability to fault find and modify code.
• A Time served apprenticeship or relevant engineering qualification.
• An understanding of electrical technical drawings.
• Excellent problem solving and communication skills.
• An engineer who is confident dealing with customers on site and who has extensive knowledge of automated machinery.

Benefits:

Salary £35,000 to £45,000 per annum, pension, private healthcare and uplifts when working on site (£200 per day while working away)

Apply now to be considered for this role.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

Our client, a growing manufacturing business based in Redditch, are looking for a 2^nd Line IT Support Technician to support the existing user base alongside the current IT team.

The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of IT support systems and functions in previous roles, as well as a strong experience in Windows Servers and Virtualisation tools such as Vmware/Hyper-V.

The ideal candidate will have most of the following requirements:

• Previous experience at 1^st/2^nd Line level
• Proven fault finding skills, identifying root cause and resolving
• Strong experience with desktop support for Windows 7 & 10
• Desktop top builds and image deployment
• Experience with office up to 2016 & 365 admin
• Active Directory users and groups administration, group policy.
• Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2016
• Network experience DNS, DHCP. LAN (HP Procurve), WAN, Firewalls (Watchguard)
• Wireless networks (Cisco)
• Exchange 2010 & Exchange online.
• Microsoft SQL Server Administration 2008R2-2016.
• Anti-virus experience, Panda Active Defence 360.
• Virtualisation experience (Vmware / Hyper-V)

About you:

• Strong organisational skills, able to organise and prioritise.
• Ability to multi-task and manage time well
• Good troubleshooting skills
• Hard working, tenacious and determined.
• Good under pressure
• Professional attitude
• Good communicator

Benefits and other info:

• 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
• Pension scheme, employer 5%, employee 3% (plus higher option of employer 6%, employee 3.75%)
• Life assurance, up to 4 times basic salary
• Free car park
• Hours of work, Monday to Thursday 08.00 - 17.00, Friday 08.00 - 12.15.
• Flexible start and finish time in 30 minutes start times (core hours 09.00 - 16.00)

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

A Project Manager position has just become available for a Manufacturing business working through a large period of growth. Located in Nottingham, this well-regarded business will be paying a competitive starting salary, to the successful Engineering professional.

Purpose of the Project Manager role -

To work as part of a team, delivering solutions to clients on time and within budget. Bringing all of the elements together, from order placement to final equipment acceptance.

Project Manager responsibilities include -

• Compiling contract documentation, checking customer data and required specifications.
• Checking budgets and technical information at the sales hand over stage, prior to manufacture.
• Scheduling of project programmes.
• Create, deploy and maintain timing schedules.
• Work closely with the design, manufacture and technical departments.
• Liaising with the clients, internal functions and sub-contractors, to help ensure the smooth running of projects.
• Ensuring the completion of the project, as to the customer requirements.

Project Manager desirable skills/experience/attributes -

• Relevant engineering education.
• Background of manufacturing lines, conveyor systems, automation, robotics, assembly systems, special purpose machines or materials handling systems.
• Strong communication skills and commercial awareness.
• Proven track record of project management, from concept through to project completion.

If interested in this position, please apply through this advert immediately!

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

We are working in partnership with a Birmingham based leading healthcare provider who are looking to recruit an Internal Sales Executive on a permanent basis.

This role is pivotal within the company and you will be working alongside the Sales Director contacting leads and arranging appointments for the sales team to attend. This is an important position as you will be the first person that the clients engage with so an excellent telephone manner is essential. You are the first link in the chain of the sales process so you will have a real sense of achievement when a lead that you initially converted gets turned into a sale further down the line.

Having appeared several times in the Fast Track List of the fastest growing companies that are based in the UK, this is an excellent time to get on board with this company.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Calling prospective clients to discuss services on offer
• Arranging meetings between clients and the sales team to discuss in further detail
• Developing a pipeline of future opportunities by keeping in regular contact with contacts who aren't ready to progress yet
• Maintaining sales database and sales team's diaries
• Working to KPI's

To be successful in this role you will have a proven sales background and will approach your work with enthusiasm and tenacity, and in return you will be offered plentiful support and training to help ensure success in the post.

If you are interested, please apply now or get in touch with the ASC Connections branch in Redditch.

Commutable from: Birmingham, Longbridge, Rubery, Rednal, Edgbaston, Aston, Solihull, Smethwick, Halesowen, Selly Oak, Northfield

Keywords: Customer Service, Sales, Lead Generation, Appointment Booking, Telesales

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

Do you want to work for a leading independent healthcare organisation? Do you want to work within an established team who always strive to offer the best service? This is also a great time to join this exciting organisation as they are going through planned change and exceptional growth.

This exciting organisation offer a great place to work and they are looking for a hard-working team player who is well organised, customer focused and has a good understanding of account management. The want a candidate who is highly reliable as well as highly organised as this is a very busy role.

As an Account Manager you will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Managing a large portfolio
• Develop the income generated from the portfolio
• Build ongoing relationships and become the main point of contact for your portfolio clients
• Recruit new members from leads
• Ensure all portfolio clients are contacted on a regular basis and reviews are carried out
• Using and updating the in house CRM system to ensure all information is up to date
• Carry out service meetings on site at the office

To be successful in this role as an Account Manager you will have the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience of managing a portfolio
• Proven experience of up selling and retaining clients
• Have a confident telephone manner and be able to speak to clients at all levels
• Proven relationship building experience
• Proven experience of selling a service

As an account manager you will receive a salary of £24k with an OTE of £40k. This company is growing massively at the minute so it is an exciting opportunity to join the team. The hours of work at Monday to Friday 9am-5pm and they are based on the outskirts of Birmingham City Centre.

If this excellent opportunity sounds like the perfect role for you then please apply today!

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

Do you want to work for a leading independent healthcare organisation? Do you want to work within an established team who always strive to offer the best service? This is also a great time to join this exciting organisation as they are going through planned change and exceptional growth.

This exciting organisation offer a great place to work and they are looking for a hard-working team player who is well organised, customer focused and has a good understanding of Internal Recruitment. You will be responsible for actively pursuing new leads to recruit new clients into the business,

As an Internal Recruiter you will be responsible for the following tasks:

• Actively recruit new consultant members, paying particular attention to where we have gaps in coverage and make sure you are able to adapt to deliver services at short notice to ensure recruitment is appropriate to business need.
• Build the network using innovative techniques to achieve full national coverage, quickly.
• Quantify candidates
• Ensure new members are welcomed, interviewed appropriately and provided with ab induction
• Use network to garner warm leads and introductions to trusts to build business quickly.
• Attend industry events as required to drive recruitment forward.
• Proactively identify workforce requirements and issues and lead on the effective retention and management of members
• Maintain a robust availability calendar for members so we can mobilise teams quickly and with minimal fuss at short notice.
• Represent the organisation at meetings as required and feedback information to all members of the team.
• Ensure effective communication, both written and verbal

To be successful in this role as an Account Manager you will have the following skills and experience:

• Proven experience within recruitment
• Proven experience of up selling and retaining clients
• Proven experience of working within a target driven role
• Proven relationship building experience
• Proven experience of selling a service

As an account manager you will receive a salary of £25k performance related bonus. This company is growing massively at the minute so it is an exciting opportunity to join the team. The hours of work at Monday to Friday 9am-5pm and they are based on the outskirts of Birmingham City Centre.

If this excellent opportunity sounds like the perfect role for you then please apply today!

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

If you are experienced and talented in the field of industrial Real-time Information System (RtIS), this is an excellent opportunity to join our expanding team. Our client is a leading system integrator, operating in niche energy and infrastructure markets. The business has a strong position in growth areas such as real time information systems (digitalisation) of the UK's critical national infrastructure, which optimise operation and in the asset life extension of the UK's nuclear power stations.

In this position you would take a leading role in expanding the business' RtIS, Digitalisation and Industry 4.0 capability across their Power and Infrastructure client base and delivery teams based out of Glasgow. Supported by the clients established Centre of Excellence, you will strengthen our position as an adopter of technological advances in the Real-time information Systems arena and undertake a wide range of tasks related to the conceptual and detailed design, implementation and delivery of Real-time Information Systems solutions, in the Power and Infrastructure market.

The key aspects of your role would be to:

• develop offering as technology advances and clients' expectations become more demanding;
• represent business at national and international events and conferences;
• work with clients to identify solutions appropriate to them;
• give clear presentations to customers of their ideas;
• produce Strategy Documents, Requirements Specifications and Design Specifications;
• develop Test Strategies and produce Test Specifications;
• design and develop applications as part of Real-time Information Systems;
• give clear, effective presentations to customers on status of their work;
• investigate and resolve problems with Real-time Information Systems;
• operate in accordance with Company policies and procedures;
• lead a team, recruiting new team members and developing others through mentoring.

To succeed in this we expect you to have good analytical and problem-solving ability and be someone who is:

• an enthusiastic proponent of the technology with a clear understanding of the business benefits that it provides;
• enthusiastic to understand developing technological capabilities and to identify how these can be applied;
• readily able to capture information, analyse it, and articulate an appropriate solution;
• capable of communicating clearly both in written and interactive form;
• confident dealing with all levels of audience and self-sufficient working away from the office;
• a person who interacts well with customers at a senior level in a manner that instils confidence;
• able to develop strategies and think in terms of architectures;
• capable of managing others to achieve successful outcomes as a team;
• able to balance multiple pieces of work to ensure that all are progressed as expected.

As for your qualifications and experience, we are looking for some of the following:

• degree or HND in a computing related subject;
• proficient in Microsoft Office products;
• IT methodologies and of related governance issues;
• experience with software development technologies;
• good understanding of IT infrastructure, including servers, databases and networking;
• good knowledge of OSIsoft PI products;
• good knowledge and understanding of the power generation, nuclear decommissioning, transmission and distribution and other related infrastructure industries.

This is a fantastic opportunity to secure a role with a well-respected UK company where you will be rewarded with a competitive salary and benefits package. If you would like to share in our ongoing success, apply with your CV for consideration.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.

Would you like to work for a growing and specialist engineering company who provide turnkey projects in infrastructure systems integration?

Working as a Control Systems Engineer you will:

• Program a variety of PLCs using Ladder Logic, Function block or Statement List methods.
• Programming and configuring SCADA software packages
• IP network design and configuration.
• To develop software, test control systems and work on various projects.
• Responsible for programming assembly lines, robotic devises using range of PLC's.
• Perform a FAT and site commissioning under formal client witnessed conditions.

To be successful, we're looking for:

• Strong PLC / controls background ideally working the full lifecycle of a project from conceptual design all the way through to commissioning on site.
• Experienced working with Mitsubishi GX Works 2 and GT Works 3.
• The ability to fault find and modify code.
• A Time served apprenticeship or relevant engineering qualification.
• Previous experience working as part of a team to design, implement and test control/integrated systems.

Benefits:

£28,000 to £45,000 pa basic salary with pension. Holiday is 33 days including all statutory and public holidays.

Commutable from: Derby, Nottingham, Burton upon Trent, and Loughborough.

Apply now to be considered for this role.

Please note, if your application is suitable, one of our consultants will call you within 5 working days. If you have not heard from us within this time, your application has unfortunately been unsuccessful, however we will keep your details on our talent management system to consider you for future opportunities.