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Just Recruitment have a fantastic opportunity for a bright and ambitious Commercial Manager to join an exciting company as they rapidly expand nationwide.

Based in Colchester, Essex, you will be working as part of their supplier negotiation team.

Duties will include:

• Negotiating purchasing agreements to ensure the best deal for the business.
• Delivering support to both managers and estimators in their pricing and queries.
• Providing a point of contact for our suppliers to help deliver their message to our staff and customers.
• Attending events, shows and exhibitions to network and identify further possibilities for a better deal.
• Working alongside the Product File team to creating pricing structures to enable our staff to trade competitively.
• Identifying new product ranges and suppliers that will provide futureproofing for the years to come.
• Providing direct assistance to the Commercial Director with support from the other Commercial Managers.
• A good level of competency with Excel is a must. Experience in either a similar role or a related industry is preferred.
• Key personality traits would be a keen grasp of numbers and an enthusiastic, dynamic, ‘can do’ attitude.

Just Recruitment is recruiting for an enthusiastic, motivated and talented individual for the position of Maintenance Engineer on behalf of a company based in Sudbury, Suffolk.

Primary responsibility:
The primary responsibility of this role is to lead preventative and reactive mechanical maintenance in order to support Operations

Key responsibilities:

• Leading preventative and reactive mechanical maintenance to support Operations
• Assisting electrical support and associated work to support Operations
• Responsible for leading infrastructure maintenance and upgrades
• Provide support to the contractor coordinator dealing with external contractors and associated permitting systems
• Provide support for Project Lead assisting with identifying potential suppliers and equipment, liaising with companies through to installation and commissioning stage
• Provide support required to maintain the engineering side of SAP with regards to PPM scheduling, PPM job sheets, tracking breakdowns and keeping equipment infrastructure up to date
• Responsible for ensuring continuous site improvements are achieved in line with Lean manufacturing principles e.g. 5S
• Facilitate service contract management including regulatory requirements for maintenance-related activities
• Ensure site engineering documentation and associated training is kept up to date in line with site procedures
• Responsible for sourcing quotes and raising purchase requisitions to maintain stock levels

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Advance modern apprenticeship, BTEC Level 3 in engineering or HNC in Engineering, or equivalent
• 17th (current) edition wiring regulations certification preferred but not essential
• IPAF access license 3a and 3b qualification preferred
• PASMA tower qualification preferred
• Experience working in a busy manufacturing environment
• Experience in change management and driving continuous improvement
• Troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with high attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate various organisational levels
• Ability to understand and manage Engineering SAP system
• Ability to understand and use procurement purchasing system
• Good working knowledge of health and safety requirements including permitting systems
• Ability to respond and react quickly to changing production demands.

Hours of work:

• Hours of work are 40 hours per week with overtime as required to support production demand - Monday to Thursday 4.30pm to 2.30am.

Just Recruitment is recruiting for an Industrial Engineer for a medical device manufacturer based in Sudbury, Suffolk.

Industrial Engineers are key within their newly created team whose primary responsibility is to deliver continuous improvement initiatives across all levels/functions of the business.  

Ideally, you will be an accredited Lean Six Sigma Green / Black Belt practitioner, with some experience within a manufacturing engineering environment.

You will be the driving force behind fostering a culture of sustainable change through the creation, coaching and embedding of LEAN methodology, its tools, and the supporting framework to deliver business transformation.

This is a great opportunity for development.  If you're great at coaching and motivating others we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities include:

• To identify and deliver improvement activities across the business through employing process improvement methodologies and the application of innovative thinking
• To work with key business stakeholders to build a Continuous Improvement environment to support an on-going programme of change
• To lead, facilitate and coach LEAN/process improvement based workshops or Kaizens to drive ideas and solutions
• To support the delivery of better value and greater efficiency through the identification and elimination of unnecessary complexity within business processes and identify better ways of working
• To identify trends and process variations as part of establishing a Continuous Improvement monitoring system
• To assist in the development and implementation of 'best-in-class' Continuous Improvement strategy
• To take ownership of change initiatives from evolution/efficiency identification through to project delivery via internal governance and controls
• To ensure the business impact and project objectives/dependencies are identified, reported on and managed at all times
• To set up programs, deliver coaching and run projects across all functions
• To complete post implementation reviews to ensure successful delivery has been achieved and to ensure that improvements can be made for future projects (lessons learned)

Suitable applicants will ideally have some work experience in the medical device industry or other regulated industry.

• Accreditation in Lean Six Sigma Green/Black(preferred) belt as a minimum
• Experience in Manufacturing / Engineering is essential
• Significant experience of hands-on implementation of Continuous Improvement programs and LEAN solutions
• Ability to operate and communicate within a cross-functional team made up of both technical and non-technical members
• Manage time efficiently to meet reactive business demands
• Ability to set-up, facilitate and lead improvements/Kaizen sessions with a range of business stakeholders
• Strong understanding of how to interpret business needs and translate them into operational requirements
• Project management skills highly desirable