Our client is a well renowned UK Cutting Tool Manufacturer who is seeking to recruit a Technical Sales Engineer to join their established sales team and drive sales throughout the South of England. Our client is proud of their manufacturing expertise, producing high performance cutting tools to multiple sectors worldwide.

The successful candidate will have a strong understanding of the cutting tools sector, experienced in offering a bespoke sales approach, including problem solving, identifying productivity improvements and conducting cost per part studies.

Technical Sales Engineer – Key Accountabilities:

• Research the market, identify new clients throughout the South of England who would benefit from our client’s cutting tool expertise.
• Be proactive, focused and driven to meet sales targets.
• Understand, interpret and manage customer requirements with the confidence to negotiate and close sales.
• Communicate and build rapport effectively with our client’s customers.
• Provide pre-sales and after-sales technical assistance, sharing your knowledge of cutting tools, conducting technical presentations and demonstrating how a cutting tool will meet customer needs.
• Work with our client’s talented design team to create custom-made products for our client’s customers.
• Attend trade shows, conferences and other marketing events to generate new contacts and develop existing relationships. To enhance our client’s reputation in the market for delivering quality cutting tools that exceed customers expectations.

Technical Sales Engineer – Skills & Experience:

• Apprentice served tradesman (ideally gained within a cutting tool manufacturing environment) – Mechanical craft apprenticeship, toolmaker, machinist or equivalent.
• Proven track record of selling cutting tools into the engineering market.
• Awareness of potential customers in the South of England region.
• Be an effective communicator who builds rapport well.
• Have a full UK Driving Licence, as this role will involve regular travel to client sites throughout the South of England.

Technical Sales Engineer is offering a base salary of £35,000 - £45,000 (negotiable) plus benefits for the successful candidate.

All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 days of application. Due to the volume of recent applications, if you do not receive a response within this timeframe please assume your application has been unsuccessful for the position of Technical Sales Engineer.

This vacancy is being advertised by Technical Prospects Ltd. The services advertised by Technical Prospects Ltd are those of an Employment Agency.

Our client is an established construction business with offices throughout the UK. They are currently recruiting for a Senior Estimator / Pre-Contract QS to join their growing business. The successful candidate will be responsible for ensuring all bids are priced competitively and in accordance with company overhead and recovery requirements.

The Senior Estimator / Pre-Contract QS will support the Commercial Team in fully preparing priced submissions and producing forecasts, budget information and handover packs.

The successful candidate will provide comprehensive quotations and quality bids for the products and services our client delivers.  Actively chase work tendered and secure work to meet company objectives and budgets. Be responsible for building relationships with prospective and existing customers to identify and secure further opportunities and representing the business in a professional manner.

Senior Estimator / Pre-Contract QS – Accountabilities:

• Producing accurate quotations using the current procedures and submit quotations on time, ability to undertake take off from drawings/plans and produce bill of quantities to clients satisfaction.
• Ensure accurate information is provided to allow the quote register and tender settlement sheet information to be completed for every tender submitted.
• Chase tenders submitted to determine who was successful and if our clients price was competitive.
• Managing relationships with customers to build customer relations and post relevant comments onto commercial diaries.
• Ensuring all contract hand over information is completed accurately and passed to the relevant department on time.
• Contribution of management information for review at monthly meetings.
• Post tender negotiation / analysis in preparation for entering new contracts.
• Analysis and pricing of scheme work within existing frameworks.
• Checking of measures against bills, drawings, specifications to ensure adherence and to identify risks and / or opportunities.

Senior Estimator / Pre-Contract QS - Qualities & Experience:

• Experience gained within a similar role in the Highways, Soft Landscaping, Grounds Maintenance / Vegetation Management sector.
• This position requires commercial and contract awareness as well as Health and Safety and environmental awareness. JCT, ICE, NEC awareness preferred.
• A CSCS Card is required. Full Clean Driving Licence.
• Must possess good interpersonal skills, be a team player and have good communication and computer skills particularly Word, Excel.

Senior Estimator / Pre-Contract QS is offering a highly competitive basic salary plus attractive benefits.

All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 days of application. Due to the volume of recent applications, if you do not receive a response within this timeframe please assume your application has been unsuccessful for the position of Senior Estimator / Pre-Contract QS.

This vacancy is being advertised by Technical Prospects Ltd. The services advertised by Technical Prospects Ltd are those of an Employment Agency.

Our client is an established quarry and landfill facility based in the Doncaster area. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Site Manager to join the senior management team. Reporting directly to the Operations Director.

The successful candidate will manage all operational activities at the Doncaster quarry and tip site. Responsible for leading the site team to deliver operational activities to the highest standards of health, safety, and environment compliance.

Site Manager – Key Accountabilities:

• Lead and manage direct reports and contractors ensuring employees are motivated and managed effectively to meet production plans.
• Develop strong working relationship with key stakeholders to ensure materials are maximised on all development platforms.

• Achieving quality and production targets within production costing and budgets.
• Demonstrate competence in operating, managing, monitoring, maintaining, and improving fleet efficiency.

• Having a joined up approach with Site Maintenance / Engineering teams to ensure the H&S of machinery and plant are always maintained.

• Share information with Senior Managers to develop reporting to ensure plant efficiencies.

• Strive to achieve or exceed operational and financial targets for the site.

Site Manager – Routine Accountabilities:

• Constantly monitor the running of the plant and the quality of the product.
• Ensure daily zone safety checks are completed and action report findings.
• Lead daily and weekly Operations meeting.
• Deploy all site personnel to efficiently achieve goals.
• Analyse daily shift reports and take any actions requirements.
• Co-ordinate preventative Maintenance activities to maximise fleet availability.
• Induct visitors, contractors and new starters when required.

• Minimise downtime and maintain production targets through constant monitoring.

Site Manager - Person Specification:

• Experienced in managing a fast paced quarrying, mining or civil engineering site.
• Thorough knowledge of all aspects of Health, Safety and Environmental legislation but specifically the Quarry Regulations 1999.
• NEBOSH qualification or equivalent.
• Thorough knowledge of site investigation practices and construction material specification.
• Ability to lead, motivate and inspire a small team (>12) of employees and contractors.
• Self-driven and able to prioritise own workload to ensure tasks are completed and deadlines are met.
• Completing employee APR’s and setting PDP’s
• Able to work as part of a team with excellent communication skills.

Site Manager is offering a competitive basic salary plus benefits for the successful candidate.

All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 days of application. Due to the volume of recent applications, if you do not receive a response within this timeframe please assume your application has been unsuccessful for the position of Site Manager.

This vacancy is being advertised by Technical Prospects Ltd. The services advertised by Technical Prospects Ltd are those of an Employment Agency.

Our client is an established waste management business based in the Yorkshire area. They are currently recruiting an experienced Senior Field Sales Manager to drive sales and manage a small team of talented field sales professionals.

Senior Field Sales Manager – Key Accountabilities:

• Responsible for leading and driving sales performance for the waste management business. Growth will be generated across a number of waste collection streams ranging from trade waste bins through to skips, hooks & 3^rd party waste specialists on a sub-contracting basis.
• Coaching, motivating and managing four Field Sales Executives.
• Lead and manage the sales team to conduct market research to identify selling areas, services and competitor activity to ensure our client is offering relevant and client focused services.
• Actively lead on all broker activity for the business, maintaining and growing relationships with existing brokerages.
• Lead and manage all new business tender opportunities.
• Comply with and promote all health & safety, environmental and quality requirements of the business, including completing risk assessments on all new sites and customers. Training will be provided if required.

Senior Field Sales Manager – Skills & Knowledge:

• Proactive B2B field sales professional with a proven track record of new business generation and key account management.
• Leading, coaching and managing a team of field sales professionals.
• Ability to influence, empower and motivate colleagues ideally with a management or leadership qualification.
• Market analysis and the development of marketing strategy to launch sales campaigns.
• Aptitude for building strong external relationships and strong negotiation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal, customer service and IT skills (use of a CRM system).
• Able to understand a complex legislative and Health and Safety critical environment.

Senior Field Sales Manager is offering £30,000 - £37,500 basic salary plus bonus and benefits for the successful candidate.

All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 days of application. Due to the volume of recent applications, if you do not receive a response within this timeframe please assume your application has been unsuccessful for the position of Senior Field Sales Manager.

Our client is an established software provider based in West Yorkshire. They are currently recruiting a Head of Database Services to lead their International DBA teams. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work in a fast moving and growing organisation, with highly talented colleagues and an impressive list of clients. This position would suit applicants who have both, hands-on DBA skills and proven management experience.

The Head of Database Services must be capable of leading a diverse team across multiple time-zones, be familiar with standard concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. Must rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals. Must be able to perform a variety of tasks with little to no supervision. A certain degree of creativity and latitude is required.

Head of Database Services – Key Responsibilities:

• All database related services across the business, both to support the internal business as well as our client’s customers, retaining responsibility for the team development, all functional aspects as well as reporting back to the business.
• Ability to administer, maintain, develop and implement policies and procedures for ensuring the security and integrity of the company
• Be able to implement data models and database designs, data access and table maintenance codes; resolves database performance issues, database capacity issues, replication, query optimisation and other distributed data
• Coordinate work teams and provide technical support to project team members. Able to provide consultation on complex projects and is considered to be the top-level contributor/specialist.
• Have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, able to deal effectively and harmoniously with various personnel both internally and

Head of Database Services - Experience, Knowledge and Skills:

• Proven ability to manage team of DBA’s, across multiple technologies.
• Proven hands-on DBA experience in all versions of Oracle from 11g upwards, SQL from 2014 upwards (earlier versions an advantage).
• High level of technical capability including database interrogation, Complex SQL scripting, maintenance, and proactive identification/resolution.
• Background in providing DBA services for external customer utilisation in a SaaS environment ideal.
• Demonstrable experience in providing proactive customer support, maintenance, investigation and
• Ideally, have worked in a customer focused B2B (Business to Business) environment with good understanding of customer requirements/market.
• Committed to providing outstanding customer service (internally & externally).
• Have excellent lateral-thinking and problem-solving skills, highly organised, experienced in managing workload and delivering effectively and

Head of Database Services is offering a highly competitive basic salary plus excellent benefits. The position is based at our client’s Head Office in West Yorkshire.

All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 days of application. Due to the volume of recent applications, if you do not receive a response within this timeframe, please assume your application has been unsuccessful for the position Head of Database Services.

Our client is an established heavy industrial production facility based in the Glamorgan area. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Operations Manager to join the senior management team. Reporting directly to the Operations Director.

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the site team to deliver operational activities to the highest standards of health, safety, and environment compliance.

Operations Manager – Key Responsibilities:

• Head weekly operations meetings. Lead and effectively manage 7 direct reports and additional contractors, ensuring they are motivated and focused.
• Demonstrate competence in operating, managing, monitoring, maintaining, and improving facility.
• Be responsible for exceeding operation and financial targets for site. Achieving production targets within production costing and budgets.
• Understand and analyse data and statistics to improve efficiency and identify issues.
• Monitor the running of the plant and the quality of the product. Coordinate site maintenance and engineering teams to ensure the health and safety of machinery and facility are always maintained. Ensuring daily zone safety checks are completed.
• Co-ordinate preventative maintenance activities to maximise plant availability.
• Minimise downtime and maintain production targets through continuous monitoring.

Operations Manager – Requirements:

• Experience gained within a fast-paced heavy industrial production environment.
• Proven track record of leading, motivating and inspiring a small team of skilled employees and contractors. Able to develop and complete employee personal development plans.
• Thorough knowledge of all aspects of Health, Safety and Environmental legislation.
• Self-driven and able to prioritise own workload to ensure tasks are completed and deadlines are met.
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal.

Operations Manager is offering a competitive basic salary plus excellent benefits for the successful candidate.

Technical Support Analyst (Remote Working Available) Circa. £25,000 - £30,000 Basic Salary plus Excellent Benefits! Our client is an established and growing software provider based in Yorkshire. Due to continued growth, they are now recruiting for an experienced Technical Support Analyst to join their established Software Support team. Our client is continuously investing in new technologies, giving the successful candidate the opportunity to advance their skills further. Technical Support Analyst - Summary & Purpose of Role: • Manage incoming incident and service requests from customers through the customer service support portal, email and telephone to ensure all contractual SLA’s are met to a high level of customer satisfaction. • Escalate cases to other teams within our client’s business, providing detailed troubleshooting and replication steps and ensure these are managed through to completion and the customer is informed throughout the process. • Create complex SQL scripts raised through the change management process to problem solve and fault find, resolve issues and provide database administration services. • Share knowledge and provide help and guidance to other teams within the business including the 1st and 2nd line support. • To use your high level of technical ability in resolving software support or environmental issues found by external customers and internal Stakeholders whilst using the available suite of software products and websites. • Provide a high standard of customer service, able to adapt your approach dependant on customer’s technical knowledge and if needed, able to explain technical terms in a non-technical way. Technical Support Analyst - Specification: • You should have a high level of technical capability including database interrogation, complex SQL scripting, software fault-finding, interface/integration issue investigation and finding alternative solutions to technical software problems. • You should be able to demonstrate initiative and have excellent lateral-thinking and problem-solving skills. • You should be a team player who integrates easily and communicates effectively. • You should be committed to providing a high standard of customer service (internally & externally). Technical Support Analyst – Technical Skills & Experience: • Background in helpdesk/technical support ideal. • Intermediate SQL skills with an ability to create complex SQL scripts. • Experienced offering a customer focused approach. Technical Support Analyst offers Circa. £25,000 - £30,000 basic salary plus excellent benefits for the successful candidate. This position offers the flexibility to work remotely with the occasional need to attend our client’s office when needed. All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 days of application. Due to the volume of recent applications, if you do not receive a response within this timeframe please assume your application has been unsuccessful for the position Technical Support Analyst.

Our client is a full-service digital agency specialising in design, development and digital marketing. Since day one, their philosophy has been to create remarkable work that produces excellent results, blending creativity with digital technologies. They are a passionate bunch of designers, developers and digital marketers, now looking to recruit a Mid-Level WordPress Developer. Working alongside a small but talented team of digital experts, the successful candidate will be passionate and skilled in WordPress with a desire to develop these skills further.

WordPress Developer - Outline:

• Working on a variety of exciting projects including WordPress B2C and B2B websites.
• You will ideally have front-end and back-end development skills.
• An eye for good design as you will be working closely with our client’s design team.
• Experience updating client websites and solving support issues.

WordPress Developer Requirements:

• Strong hands-on WordPress experience gained within a commercial environment.
• You will have experience working with technologies/tools such as PHP/Composer, Node/Webpack, CSS/SASS and WordPress Bedrock/Sage theme.
• Strong PHP skills and experience would be desirable.
• Experience with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
• Knowledge of version control.
• Experience with deployment tools such as Git.
• Knowledge of MySQL would be an advantage.

WordPress Developer is offering £25,000 - £35,000 basic salary plus excellent benefits for the successful candidate. This is a full-time, permanent position. During the pandemic the position will be homebased, once we return to a new norm, the successful candidate will be expected to be office-based in Leeds 2-3 days per week.

Our client is a full-service digital agency specialising in design, development and digital marketing. Since day one, their philosophy has been to create remarkable work that produces excellent results, blending creativity with digital technologies. They are a passionate bunch of designers, developers and digital marketers. Now recruiting for a Digital PR Strategist.

Digital PR Strategist - Outline:

• Hands-on implementing targeted PR and content strategies
• Writing press releases and client website content
• Building relationships with journalists and key media outlets
• Attending client pitches to sell-in PR and help support new business
• Working with creative, development and marketing teams to develop campaigns
• Promote our clients’ content, pitch stories ideas to journalists, bloggers and influencers to gain media coverage and backlinks
• Content campaign planning and implementation
• Brainstorming content marketing assets
• Producing ideas around content production for clients
• Researching trends and pitching creative ideas to clients
• Media monitoring for relevant opportunities for clients
• Use of PR software databases, distribution and reporting platforms
• Creation of content calendars
• Manage the creation of copy internally and externally (clients and freelancers)

Digital PR Strategist - Requirements:

• Strong digital PR experience, ideally agency side
• Experience of creating content strategies and driving PR campaigns
• Excellent content & creative writing skills. Able to spot ideas, angles and opportunities with content
• An understanding of what makes a good quality link
• Knowledge and connections with media contacts and social influencers would be desirable
• Strong communication skills
• Experience researching trends and competitors
• A keen interest in digital marketing
• Good written and spoken English

Digital PR Strategist is offering £25,000 - £35,000 basic salary plus excellent benefits for the successful candidate. This is a full-time, permanent position. During the pandemic the position will be homebased, once we return to a new norm, the successful candidate will be expected to be office-based in Leeds 2-3 days per week.

Our client is an established distribution business based in West Yorkshire. They are currently recruiting for an IT & Systems Support Officer. The successful candidate will be confident supporting computer networks, PC’s and business systems. Working within a small IT department, this is a hands-on position supporting and maintaining all IT solutions whether that be hardware or software, supporting approximately 50 users on a Windows network.

 

IT & Systems Support Officer – Responsibilities:

• Maintain and develop our client’s Internet Channel integration tool – Linnworks
• Deal with day-to-day IT and support issues
• Liaise with third-party support to ensure effective management of Servers, Printers, Telephones etc
• Maintain and develop our web site in partnership with our developers
• Work with colleagues to deliver solutions to IT related challenges facing the business
• Support cost reduction, efficiency, delivery and quality improvement
• Develop strategies for moving infrastructure into the cloud
• Assist with the smooth-running of our new ERP system - Apprise
• Support external sales team on iPads, Android phones and associated Apps
• Collate regular reports using Excel and Crystal reports whilst producing and maintain automated reports
• Monitor integrated systems such as EDI & Carriers
• Ensure integrity of data, particularly for third-party applications
• Ensure daily backups are complete and verified

 

IT & Systems Support Officer – Technical Skills:

• Operating system knowledge – Window 7 / 10 and Windows Server 2008 / 2012 R2
• Windows administration experience – including active directory and networking
• Database languages – Microsoft SQL Server 2005 / 2012 (query and report writing)
  • Experience of writing SQL query for data extraction and manipulation
• Knowledge and experience of Crystal Reports and Excel
• Programming and Scripting - VBA programming for excel macros / Powershell / Python 2.7.x / vbscript
• Microsoft Office products including Microsoft 365 / SharePoint / Teams
• Knowledge of Apple Mac hardware and software
• Telephone system and Mobile Devices – iPads and mobile phones (android)
• Customer PC connectivity – Ethernet, WiFi, TCP/IP and VPN
• Exchange/ Email service
• VMware and Veeam
  • Experience of supporting ERP systems

IT & Systems Support Officer – Characteristics:

• Effective communication and interpersonal skills with a customer focused approach
• Analytical, methodical, able to work independently and be quality driven
• Organised with keen attention to detail, able to prioritise and be flexible in your approach

IT & Systems Support Officer is offering circa. £23,000 - £26,000 basic salary plus benefits for the successful candidate.

All successful candidates will be contacted week commencing 4^th January 2021. Due to the volume of recent applications, if you do not receive a response within this timeframe please assume your application has been unsuccessful for the position of IT & Systems Support Officer.

A well renowned Cutting Tool Manufacturer is seeking to recruit a Senior Design Engineer to join their established Design Team based at their Flagship manufacturing facility in Coventry. Our client is proud of their manufacturing expertise, producing high performance cutting tools to multiple sectors worldwide.

The Senior Design Engineer will be working on the design of bespoke cutting tools to suit a wide range of customer requirements, ensuring every tool meets customer and quality standards.

In addition to providing exceptional design, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to mentor and train new designer engineers. As our client continues to grow, the Senior Design Engineer role will have more emphasis placed on developing and leading new designers, along with providing technical support within new and existing customers.

Senior Design Engineer - Key Responsibilities:

• Ability to produce cutting tool drawings, from concept to manufacture. • Work with the technical team to problem solve and offer cost effective customer solutions. • A pivotal role in training and growing the design team. • Perform tolerance analysis to ensure high quality robust design. • Provide a key role in supporting multiple projects from concept through to manufacture. • Potential for Key Account support dependant on previous experience.

Senior Design Engineer - Requirements:

• Strong cutting tool design and application experience. • Competent using 2D CAD. 3D would be desirable. • Able to draw, read and interpret complex engineering drawings. • Able to work to deadlines and deliver results within a fast-moving, quality conscious manufacturing business. • Enjoy working in a 'hands on' role where you will be an integral part of the technical department.

Senior Design Engineer is offering Circa. £40,000 basic salary plus excellent benefits for the successful candidate. This is a day position, 39 hours per week, with flexibility to meet the needs of the business.

All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 days of application. Due to the volume of recent applications, if you do not receive a response within this timeframe please assume your application has been unsuccessful for the position of Senior Design Engineer.

This vacancy is being advertised by Technical Prospects Ltd. The services advertised by Technical Prospects Ltd are those of an Employment Agency.

Our client is a leading technology provider who develops pioneering cloud solutions. Due to continued growth, they are now recruiting a Full Stack .NET Developer to work home-based.

The successful Full Stack .NET Developer will be responsible for:

• Developing and maintaining our client’s software for Cloud based solutions and projects.
• Own code and technical documentation for product or project area.
• Develop functional and non-functional features including unit tests and diagnostics.
• Identify common patterns and new approaches to be reused in future projects.
• Carry out research and development, and bug-fixing for new and existing projects.
• Possess strong and clear communication skills, be capable interacting with customers on occasion.

Full Stack .NET Developer – Requirements:

• Be an experienced Full Stack .NET Developer with experience writing software in a range of languages, however, must have experience in C# and Angular 2+.
• Experienced developing solutions natively in Microsoft Azure, not just Azure hosted websites, although AWS would be considered.
• Experienced working in Agile development teams, managing projects, branches and releases over large code bases with GIT.

Full Stack .NET Developer is a full-time, permanent homebased position, offering £40,000 - £50,000 basic salary plus excellent benefits for the successful candidate.

All successful candidates will be contacted within 5 days of application. Due to the volume of recent applications, if you do not receive a response within this timeframe please assume your application has been unsuccessful for the position of Full Stack .NET Developer.