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Warehouse/Goods In Operative

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Goods In / Warehouse Operative (Counterbalance & Reach FLT)

Mundford | £13.27 per hour | Monday-Friday, 10:00-18:30

We’re recruiting a reliable Goods In / Warehouse Operative with valid Counterbalance and Reach forklift licences. You’ll be responsible for receiving stock, operating FLTs, and keeping the warehouse running efficiently.

Key Duties

  • Receiving and booking in deliveries
  • Operating Counterbalance & Reach forklifts
  • Loading and unloading vehicles
  • Stock rotation and replenishment
  • General warehouse housekeeping
  • Updating paperwork and warehouse systems

Requirements

  • Valid Counterbalance & Reach FLT licences
  • Previous warehouse/goods-in experience
  • Strong attention to detail
  • Good communication and teamwork skills
  • Reliable and comfortable in a fast-paced environment

Benefits

  • £13.27 per hour
  • Monday-Friday daytime hours (10:00-18:30)
  • Supportive team and training opportunities

This is a Temporary, Ongoing Position with the potential for long-term opportunities.

If you’re eager to work in a supportive, team-oriented environment with great pay, we’d love to hear from you! Apply now to take the next step in your career.

Please contact our office on 01603 536788 or email tashahunt@major-recruitment.com

Major Recruitment act as an Employment Agency for permanent roles and an Employment Business for temporary opportunities

INDER

Business Development Manager

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Business Development Manager
Basic salary up to £50,000 per annum + quarterly bonus
Rural location between Daventry & Northampton – hybrid
Monday to Friday – 39 hours per week – 12.30pm finish Friday
Permanent

Our client, a specialist Engineering manufacturer based between Daventry and Northampton, is recruiting for a permanent Business Development Manager. Our clients products include bespoke torque measurement systems, instrumented couplings and driveline solutions, installed and used at some of the world’s most advanced companies in aerospace, defence, energy, automotive and advanced R&D.

The Role:

In the position of Business Development Manager you will drive growth across key global markets. This role is ideal for a technically minded sales professional who enjoys long sales cycles, consultative selling and working closely with engineering teams. This position will have responsibility for developing business across the UK and European markets, with a strong emphasis on customer engagement through regular travel.
You will be responsible for prospecting & developing new business opportunities, managing strategic accounts, and supporting a global network of customers, partners, and agents.

Benefits:
Performance related bonus paid quarterly
Company car / car allowance
25 days holiday + bank holidays
Private medical scheme
Death in service
Income protection benefits
Contributory pension scheme

Job Responsibilities:

  • Identify and develop new business opportunities across targeted sectors and regions.
  • Manage and grow key customer accounts, building long-term relationships at engineering and management level.
  • Work closely with internal engineering and project teams to define customer requirements and propose technical solutions.
  • Prepare and follow up commercial offers, tenders, and technical proposals.
  • Support and coordinate with international agents and partners where applicable.
  • Represent the company at customer meetings, exhibitions, conferences, and industry events.
  • Provide market feedback to support product development, strategic planning, and identification of new product opportunities as they arise.

Candidate Requirements:

  • Proven experience in B2B business development or technical sales.
  • Background in engineering, industrial equipment, test systems, or instrumentation.
  • Experience in aerospace, turbomachinery, defence, power generation or automotive testing.
  • Knowledge of torque measurement, couplings, driveline systems, or dynamometers.
  • Comfortable working internationally and managing long sales cycles.
  • Willing to travel between 30% to 50% – predominantly within the UK with some overnight stops.

Please apply with a copy of your CV in the first instance

INDKM

Machine Operator

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Machine Operator

  • Location: Snetterton, Norfolk.
  • Required: Full UK Driving Licence and your Own Vehicle (no public transport connections to this location)
  • Hours: 4 on / 4 off, 12-hour shifts (average of 42 hours per week).
  • Hourly Rate: up to £15 per hour depending on experience.
  • Contract: Full Time, Permanent.

Are you hands‑on, dependable, and ready to keep things running like clockwork?!

We’re on the lookout for a skilled Machine Operator to help power our client’s production line. If you enjoy working with machinery, thrive in a busy food manufacturing environment, and take pride in doing things right, this could be your perfect next step!

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Confidently run a range of production machine operation equipment, including Vertical Form Fill Seal (VFFS) machines, retorts, and other automated kit.
  • Set up machinery at the start of each batch making sure the correct film, ingredients, and settings are all ready to go.
  • Keep an eye on machine performance and tweak settings to maintain smooth, efficient output.
  • Carry out routine start‑ups, shutdowns, and changeovers following all SOPs.
  • Ensure everything produced meets customer expectations, quality standards, and key performance indicators.
  • Maintain accurate records for production, quality checks, and hygiene processes.
  • Spot and resolve minor mechanical issues to keep downtime to a minimum.
  • Carry out simple autonomous maintenance tasks i.e. lubrication, visual checks, and component inspections.
  • Work closely with colleagues across production, hygiene, quality assurance, and engineering.

What You’ll Need to Bring to the Role:

  • Professional experience in food production or high‑hygiene manufacturing working environment.
  • Solid understanding of Good Manufacturing Practices, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points, and general safety and quality standards.
  • Ability to identify and fix straightforward machine issues that arise.
  • Comfortable working with KPIs and production-driven targets.
  • A sharp eye for detail and the ability to follow procedures accurately.
  • Happy and able to work a 4‑on‑4‑off shift pattern.

What is Desirable but not Essential:

  • Experience using VFFS machinery, retorts, or other automated food‑processing technology.
  • Mechanical aptitude or basic engineering know‑

Who You Are:

  • Dependable, punctual, and committed to doing a great job.
  • A real team player who enjoys working well with others.
  • A natural problem solver who enjoys figuring things out.
  • Able to stay calm and focused when things get busy.
  • Someone who loves continuous improvement and finding better ways to work.

If you are a motivated individual with a keen eye for detail, an aptitude for all things mechanical and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you!

Apply now!!!

Please contact Louisa Coggs on 07341 497822 or email louisacoggs@major-recruitment.com

Major Recruitment acts as an Employment Agency for permanent roles and an Employment Business for temporary opportunities.

Part Time Administrator

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Part-Time Administrator

We are looking for a reliable and organised Part-Time Administrator to support our day-to-day operations. This role involves handling emails, maintaining records, scheduling appointments, and providing general office support.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Manage correspondence and data entry
  • Maintain accurate records and filing systems
  • Assist with scheduling and coordination
  • Provide general administrative support

Requirements:

  • Strong organisational and communication skills
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office
  • Attention to detail and ability to multitask
  • Previous admin experience preferred

Hours: Flexible, part-time

If you’re proactive and dependable, we’d love to hear from you.

Please send cv to amandacraven@major-recruitment.com

INDAC

Accounts Assistant

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Accounts Assistant – Join a Growing Team
Location: Blackpool
Salary: £25000

Are you ready to build your career in accounts with a supportive and growing team?

My client is seeking an enthusiastic Accounts Assistant to take on a diverse and rewarding role. This position is perfect for someone looking to enhance their skills while contributing to the smooth running of a dynamic organisation.

Why this role could be for you:

  • Career development: Opportunities for external training, including support for Accountancy qualifications.
  • Varied responsibilities: A role that offers exposure to a wide range of accounts-related tasks and challenges.
  • Collaborative team: Join a supportive workplace where your contributions are valued.

What you’ll do:

  • Handle bank reconciliations and manage credit control via phone and email.
  • Assist with data entry, reporting, and problem-solving.
  • Maintain sales and purchase ledgers with accuracy.
  • Work closely with the team leader to meet deadlines.
  • Provide general assistance to all teams and the Director for ad hoc tasks.

What we’re looking for:

  • A keen eye for detail and strong organisational skills.
  • Experience in a similar accounts-based role is an advantage, or if you are looking for your first Accounts role and have accounting qualifications, this could be for you..
  • Confidence using accounting software, desirable QuickBooks or Xero.
  • A proactive approach to learning and problem-solving.

What makes this opportunity unique?

This is more than just an accounts role-it’s a chance to grow your career in a dynamic team, with the potential for formal qualifications and training to help you progress.

How to apply:
Don’t worry if your CV isn’t fully updated-just send me what you have or include a quick message about your interest in the role. Apply today and take the next step toward an exciting career!

HR Advisor

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HR Advisor
Location: Scunthorpe. Site-based (with some flexibility)
Salary: £32,000 + Benefits

The Opportunity
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced HR Advisor to join a fast-paced, highly regulated operational environment. This is a hands-on role where you will play a key part in supporting line managers, driving employee engagement, and ensuring best-in-class HR practices across the site.

You’ll be working at the heart of the business, partnering closely with operational teams to deliver effective HR solutions that support performance, compliance, and continuous improvement.

The Role
As HR Advisor, you will provide proactive, day-to-day HR support across a busy site, ensuring consistent application of policies and a strong employee relations framework.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Advising managers on all aspects of employee relations, including disciplinary, grievance, absence, and performance management
  • Supporting and leading investigations, hearings, and casework
  • Managing end-to-end recruitment for operational roles, including agency coordination
  • Overseeing onboarding processes, including right-to-work compliance
  • Maintaining accurate HR records, contracts, and personnel files
  • Ensuring compliance with UK employment law, GDPR, and industry standards
  • Producing HR reports and analysing key metrics such as absence and turnover
  • Supporting training delivery, including inductions and development programmes
  • Coaching managers to improve performance and people management capability
  • Driving employee engagement initiatives and supporting internal communications
  • Supporting audits and compliance processes within a regulated environment
  • Promoting health, safety, and employee wellbeing across the workforce

About You
You are a confident and resilient HR professional who thrives in a fast-moving environment and enjoys working closely with operational teams.

Key requirements:

  • Experience in a fast-paced HR role (e.g. manufacturing, food, logistics or FMCG)
  • Strong knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice
  • Proven experience managing employee relations cases end-to-end
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
  • Comfortable working with shift-based or hourly-paid workforces
  • Highly organised with strong attention to detail
  • Proactive, hands-on, and solution-oriented approach

Desirable:

  • CIPD Level 3 or Level 5 (or working towards)
  • Experience within a regulated or audited environment

Why Apply?
This is a great opportunity to take on a varied and impactful HR role within a dynamic environment where you can influence culture, support operational success and develop your career further.

Apply today if you feel you have the right level of skills and experience.

Ref: INDSR

Project Manager New Business

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Project Manager – New Business
Location: Surrey

Hybrid (2 days WFH)
Salary: Competitive + Performance Bonus

The Opportunity
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a commercially focused Project Manager to join a fast-growing, product-led business. This role sits at the heart of new client delivery, taking ownership of projects once initial concepts and costings are agreed, and driving them through to successful launch.

You’ll play a pivotal role in turning ideas into tangible products-managing multiple projects simultaneously while balancing client expectations, commercial viability, and operational delivery.

The Role
As Project Manager, you will act as the key point of contact for clients during the development phase, ensuring projects move forward efficiently and to a high standard.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Managing new client projects from concept through to first order
  • Acting as the primary client contact throughout development
  • Coordinating cross-functional teams across product development, packaging, and operations
  • Ensuring projects remain commercially viable, aligned with costings and margins
  • Driving timelines, tracking progress, and keeping stakeholders informed
  • Supporting a smooth handover to account management post-order
  • Contributing to product innovation by staying aware of market trends

About You
You’re highly organised, commercially aware, and thrive in a fast-paced environment where no two projects are the same.

Key requirements:

  • Experience in project management or account management within a product-led or fast-moving environment, NPD or FMCG.
  • Proven ability to manage multiple projects from concept to completion
  • Strong organisational and stakeholder management skills
  • Confident communicator with experience working directly with clients
  • Commercial awareness, including exposure to costings or margin considerations
  • A proactive mindset with a strong sense of ownership

What’s on Offer

  • Competitive salary (dependent on experience)
  • Annual performance-related bonus
  • Private healthcare
  • Gym membership
  • Flexible working hours (8am-4pm or 9am-5pm)
  • Hybrid working (including midweek remote days)
  • Company pension, events and additional benefits

Why Apply?
This is a high-impact role in a growing business where you’ll have full ownership of projects and the opportunity to bring innovative products to life. Ideal for someone who enjoys pace, responsibility and delivering tangible results.

Apply today if you feel you have the skills and experience.

Ref: INDSR

Head of HR

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Job Title: Head of HR – **must speak Mandarin OR Cantonese**

Industry: Manufacturing

Location: Kent

Salary: Up to £50,000

Job title can be: Head of HR or HR Manager or Senior HR Officer

  • On-site, Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm (1hr unpaid break)
  • Will consider Sponsorship

Responsibilities:

  • Administering payroll and payroll records
  • Managing the recruitment, onboarding and exiting practices; in charge of the performance management, disciplinary and grievance procedures
  • Maintaining appropriate systems for HR practices including personal files, performance and absence management, etc.
  • Contributing to the development of the strategic direction of the company and to work collaboratively across various disciplines to help achieve business objectives and targets
  • Maintaining and optimising company polices and practices by adopting the latest polices and regulations
  • Collecting teams’ feedback and to provide periodic reports to the Senior Management Team
  • Assisting with other ad-hoc tasks

Requirements:

  • Proven HR generalist experience of 3 years is expected
  • Must be able to speak fluent Mandarin or Cantonese and English
  • Exceptional organisational and communication skills is required together with proven leadership capabilities and solid knowledge of employment legislation and its application
  • A proactive team player with strong customer service and problem solving skills
  • Experienced in developing and supporting line managers through changes
  • An ability to maintain confidentiality and act with discretion and diplomacy is crucial
  • Self-motivated and able to work under own autonomy or as part of a team
  • Experience in a fast-paced sector is beneficial e.g. Food, FMCG, Manufacturing or Logistics

Language Requirements:

  • Mandarin Chinese (fluent) OR Cantonese
  • English (fluent)
  • Any other languages will be a plus!

Apply today if you feel you have the right experience and skills.

Ref: INDSR

Field Service Engineer – Electrical Bias

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Field Service Engineer – Electrical Bias
Location: Mobile role – UK-wide travel | Pay: up to £22.00 per hour (DOE) + overtime
Company van + travel + tools + expenses

Looking for a hands-on engineering role that takes you beyond the workshop and into real-world, on-site technical work?


This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team working on complex industrial kit across the UK – including conveyors, shredders, compactors and other heavy machinery, so recycling experience is advantageous.

You’ll be installing, servicing, fault-finding and repairing a wide range of electromechanical equipment. Every site is different, and you’ll be working alongside a respected team that values independence, professionalism and problem-solving skills.

This is not just another maintenance job – it’s a career path into a niche sector, where your experience will make a visible impact.

Pay & Perks:

  • Up to £22.00 per hour (flexible depending on background)

  • Time and a half paid after 39 hours (Mon-Sat), double time on Sundays

  • Company van, phone/tablet, credit card, fuel card provided

  • Tools, PPE, uniform and hotel stays covered

  • Full-time hours (42.5/week) + overtime available

  • Progression, development and industry-specific training

What you’ll be doing:

  • Carry out installation, maintenance and breakdown response on recycling & handling equipment

  • Diagnose and repair electrical, mechanical and hydraulic systems

  • Complete service reports and worksheets on mobile devices

  • Deliver occasional operator training and support

  • Travel nationally (some overnight stays – accommodation provided)

  • Participate in an on-call rota (1 in 5)

What you’ll need:

  • Solid hands-on experience as a field service, maintenance, or electromechanical engineer

  • Comfortable working with 3-phase systems, PLCs, hydraulics and motors

  • Level 3 Electrical qualification (ideally with 16th, 17th or 18th Edition)

  • A proactive, self-sufficient approach to engineering tasks

  • Full UK driving licence (essential)

  • Experience with recycling machinery (desirable, but not essential)


Interested? Apply now with your CV – or reach out for a confidential chat.

You don’t need to have recycling sector experience – if you’ve worked with heavy machinery or industrial equipment, we’d love to hear from you.

Field Based Welder/ Mechanical Engineer

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Welder / Fabricator / Mechanical Service Engineer
Up to £20.00 per hour + overtime + company van
Field based – candidates can live anywhere South of Greater Manchester

Are you a skilled Welder / Fabricator who enjoys site work, variety and earning good money through overtime and travel?
I am recruiting for a permanent role with a well-established engineering business that installs, repairs and refurbishes heavy industrial and recycling equipment across the UK.

This is a field-based position where you will work on customer sites carrying out welding, fabrication, installation and mechanical repair work on a wide range of machinery. The role offers regular overtime, paid travel and the opportunity to earn strong money if you are happy working away.

The position can suit candidates living anywhere South of Greater Manchester, including the Midlands, South West, South East, London etc, as travel is part of the role.

What you will be doing:

  • Working on conveyors, balers, compactors, shredders and similar heavy equipment
  • MIG, TIG and ARC welding and fabrication work
  • Mechanical fitting, stripping and rebuilding machinery
  • Installation, relocation and refurbishment projects
  • Planned maintenance and breakdown repairs
  • Travelling to customer sites across the UK
  • Completing job reports electronically
  • Working independently or as part of a team

What you need:

  • Strong welding experience – MIG / TIG / ARC
  • Mechanical or heavy plant experience
  • Full UK driving licence
  • Happy travelling and staying away when required
  • Able to work on site independently
  • Good problem solving skills and safety awareness

What you will get:

  • Up to £20.00 per hour depending on experience
  • Regular overtime available
  • Company van and fuel card
  • Company phone
  • Company credit card after probation
  • Paid travel
  • Training and development
  • Permanent long term role
  • Opportunity to earn well with overtime and travel
  • Work for a growing, established engineering business

Location:
Field based – suitable for candidates living anywhere South of Greater Manchester, including Midlands, South West, South East and London and beyond.

Interested?
Apply now or send your CV for immediate consideration.
All applications will be handled confidentially by the recruiter.