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Production Technician

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Production Technician – Temporary to Permanent Opportunity

K&D Recruitment is supporting a local client who is looking for a Technician to join their team. This is a temporary role with the potential to become permanent.

As a Technician, you will be responsible for repairing containers on a daily basis, using various hand tools such as screwdrivers, pliers, grinders, hammers, and chisels. Full training will be provided, so previous experience with hand tools is all that’s required.

You will be joining an experienced and supportive team, ensuring a smooth transition into the role.

Role Details:

  • Hours: Monday to Friday, 7:00 am – 4:00 pm

  • Pay Rate: £12.71 per hour

  • PPE: Safety boots required (all other PPE provided)

  • Needs to be a car driver and have a licence

If you are interested in this opportunity, apply now!

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Mechanical Design Engineer

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A Mechanical Design Engineer with good 3D CAD skills is needed to work for a busy manufacturing company in the Gateshead area

YOUR NEW JOB

Working in a small design team you will design enclosures and use the MRP system to create accurate BOM’s. You will be working on both new and existing product ranges and creating 3D mechanical designs and providing all manufacturing drawings to the operations teams. You will also monitor the progress of all undertaken mechanical design by holding regular design reviews with the aim to speed up product introduction and reduce design change costs. You will also ensure mechanical design solutions are viable and cost effective, utilising all available manufacturing methods

KEY SKILLS

The ideal candidate will have a HNC in Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline and experience of mechanical design of enclosures, fabrications and assemblies. You will need good 3D CAD skills (CREO, Inventor, Solidworks etc) and be able to transfer 3D CAD data into 2D drawing packs and standardise the formats.

You will need to be adaptable, be able to communicate well across departments and work with minimum supervision to agreed timescales. You will have an innovative approach to mechanical design, demonstrate good mechanical engineering knowledge, have good attention to detail and ability to complete fully assigned tasks. You will also need to be able to communicate will with customers and suppliers and be proficient with MRP systems and MS Office

APPLY NOW

This is an excellent opportunity to join an established manufacturing company with good technical and career development opportunities

If you are interested in this exciting role please call Adam Jones at Major Recruitment or click Apply Now and send your CV

Mechanical Design Engineer

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A Mechanical Design Engineer with good 3D CAD skills is needed to work for a busy manufacturing company in the Gateshead area

YOUR NEW JOB

Working in a small design team you will design enclosures and use the MRP system to create accurate BOM’s. You will be working on both new and existing product ranges and creating 3D mechanical designs and providing all manufacturing drawings to the operations teams. You will also monitor the progress of all undertaken mechanical design by holding regular design reviews with the aim to speed up product introduction and reduce design change costs. You will also ensure mechanical design solutions are viable and cost effective, utilising all available manufacturing methods

KEY SKILLS

The ideal candidate will have a HNC in Mechanical Engineering or similar discipline and experience of mechanical design of enclosures, fabrications and assemblies. You will need good 3D CAD skills (CREO, Inventor, Solidworks etc) and be able to transfer 3D CAD data into 2D drawing packs and standardise the formats.

You will need to be adaptable, be able to communicate well across departments and work with minimum supervision to agreed timescales. You will have an innovative approach to mechanical design, demonstrate good mechanical engineering knowledge, have good attention to detail and ability to complete fully assigned tasks. You will also need to be able to communicate will with customers and suppliers and be proficient with MRP systems and MS Office

APPLY NOW

This is an excellent opportunity to join an established manufacturing company with good technical and career development opportunities

If you are interested in this exciting role please call Adam Jones at Major Recruitment or click Apply Now and send your CV

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Development Manager

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The NPD Manager will report into a NPD Controller and help to drive the innovation agenda internally and with our customers. Ensuring a continuous quality first agenda. Supported by the Process Technologist and reporting to the Head of NPD. We are looking for a real foodie and someone who gets excited about innovation

Food Obsessed – You are the engine behind our product innovation agenda. Keeping your finger on the pulse of food and drink trends and sharing your findings, products and examples across the team.

Continuous learning / researching. Use personal experience, product tastings, online research and insight driven by the category team.

NPD and EPD management – Relentlessly driving innovation and product improvement from concept to launch.

Working in tandem with the Category and Commercial team to ensure we are using data driven insight to target the largest and most strategic opportunities to deliver category value and volume growth.

Proactive and continuous product management. Driving the long-term innovation plan to deliver against our customers strategic ambitions

Working cross functionally with Category and Commercial to ensure a joined-up approach to product launches with all of our customers.

Developing innovation briefs, in partnership with our customers as their partner supplier.

To develop products from concept, customer sign off, factory trials, nutrition and shelf-life evaluation through to launch procedures. Includes associated specification and quality system maintenance.

Internal systems and specs maintained and up to date. Customer critical path management, paperwork and systems management.

Sample Management – Development of products will require kitchen development work regarding samples for customer presentations.

Samples are fit for purpose and of the highest quality for both internal and customer approval.

Project management – Lead and own all customers and projects working closely with Category, Commercial, Technical, Planning & Operations.

Internal and external teams understand the ownership of the project. Provide clear communication to and direction to all key stakeholders both internally and within our customers.

NPD Meeting leadership – Cross functional, biweekly meeting.

Specifications and artwork are approved in a timely manner as directed by our customers and inline with the critical path.

Benchmarking – Support the benchmarking schedule. Feedback to the business updates with opportunities and developments within the sector

Process Management – Support the Process Technologist in investigation of process related issues, identifying issues and making recommendations to deliver quality and consistency.

Continuous improvement approach to NPD & Production

Customer presentations – Lead NPD / Product development and Benchmarking meetings with all customers.

Product Presentations are led by the NPD team to customers and aligned with Category and Commercial.

A passion for food culture, research through media, online platforms, comp shops, food safaris and recipe exploration. Share your findings with the team.

ESSENTIAL / DESIRABLE SKILLS, COMPETENCIES AND QUALITIES

Essential

Desirable

Previous NPD / Process experience.

Previous experience in FMCG environment

A real passion for food

  • A well-developed palate
  • Driven and motivated
  • Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills
  • IT literate
  • Good attention to detail

Excellent English speaking and written skills

Ability to plan and organise your time to deliver concepts to an agreed quality and timescale

Calibration Technician

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A Calibration Technician is needed to work in a collaborative test department within a successful company

Your main duties will be to test, calibrate and adjust a wide range of test & measurement equipment, provide detailed calibration certificates, source and understand equipment specifications, liaise with repair staff regarding faulty items and provide the administration team with timely data.

Other duties will include

  • Calibrate a wide range of multi-parameter test equipment from a range of industry sectors
  • Provide certificate details when calibration complete
  • Identify and share ways of improving test techniques and increasing parameters.
  • Maintain high quality levels throughout testing
  • Obtain product specifications and maintaining a suitable library facility
  • Maintain, and safeguard the integrity of test equipment and company standards
  • Enter data correctly and update the job progression system
  • Maintain turn round times to a minimum level

You will ideally have a HNC in electrical/electronics minimum or a similar discipline, experience within the instrumentation industry or previous calibration experience in an electrical/electronic role, good mathematical skills and be meticulous & quality driven with good interpersonal skills and the ability to meet client deadlines

If you would like more information on this exciting opportunity please call Adam Jones at Major Recruitment or click Apply Now to send your CV

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