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Just Recruitment is partnering with a growing, industry-leading organisation in Braintree to recruit a Design/Project Engineer.

You will be responsible for providing technical support to evaluate existing processes and configure manufacturing systems to reduce cost, improve machine reliability and develop best practices within the manufacturing environment.

Duties include:

• Manage tooling and fixture design and their manufacture, to support production needs.
• Design lead for R&D activities, assisting with converting concept models to manufactured parts, through design for manufacture and design for assembly principles.
• Produce and manage product drawings and layouts for new products, tooling and gauging to allow internal or external manufacturing.
• Manage and maintain the drawing modification process and document database.
• Assist Process Primes in the development and improvement of processes within the production environment.
• Recognise opportunities to adapt and adopt technologies across processes.
• Lead Continuous Improvement activities within the Manufacturing environment.
• Analyse existing products and look for opportunities to aid manufacturing and reduce costs.
• Conduct and participate in team briefings, workshops and training to ensure smooth integration of new processes, equipment and systems to the production teams.

Skills required:

• Good understanding of maths.
• Ability to lead, manage and engage with different levels of the business from Directors to the shop floor.
• Excellent organisation, administrative and communication skills.
• Formal qualification in Mechanical, Manufacturing or Production Engineering.
• Understanding of both the imperial and metric measurement systems and able to convert between them.
• Understanding of precision, working to 0.001 of a millimetre.
• Conversant with Lean Manufacturing / Continuous Improvement techniques.
• CAD/CAM experience, ideally in SolidWorks.

Hours:

• Monday to Thursday: 7.30am to 4.00pm.
• Friday: 7.30am to 3.00pm.
• 39 hours per week.

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Just Recruitment is partnering with a growing business based near Bury St. Edmunds to recruit a Warehouse Supervisor to join their team.

Responsibilities include:

• Working with the Operations Manager in order to understand their requirements and expectations, and acting as the senior staff on the shop floor.
• Supporting the managers and other supervisors in their roles.
• Training and supporting personal development, motivating staff within the framework of Job Descriptions, and a competency and skills matrix.
• Optimising the utilisation of all assets across the operations.
• Ensuring that all staff on site operate within all current legislation.
• Producing regular reports and statistics as required.
• Ensuring all staff follow work instructions provided, complying with the ISO accredited standards ISO 9001, 14001, 45001.
• Communicating any non-conformances within the ISO accredited management system.
• Raising any upcoming changes which could affect the ISO accredited management system.

Skills required:

• Numerate and literate.
• Ability to communicate at all levels.
• Strong attention to detail, demonstrating and understanding the requirements to provide full, professional, efficient and effective support to the business and the team.
• Continuously develop and improve service quality.
• Demonstrating appropriate understanding of business needs by prioritising activity and resources and regularly reviewing the performance of the team.
• Ability to accept and embrace change.
• Driven by structure and processes, while at the same time being able to cope with fluid situations.
• Demonstrate good leadership skills, being able to inspire, motivate and organise the efforts of a talented team.
• A good team player, working confidently with a very wide range of functions and personalities.

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Just Recruitment is partnering with a growing business on the outskirts of Colchester—an industry leader in its sector—to recruit a Stock Administrator for a 12-month fixed-term contract covering maternity leave.

Please note: this is a part-time role—25/30 hours per week and is fully office-based.

The key purpose of this role is to manage the stock administration throughout the business, from start to finish.

Key duties include:

• Stock management
• Overseeing the regular stock counts and reconciling differences
• Processing stock adjustments in the system
• Processing of stock transfers between sites
• Monitoring levels of stock, raising quotes, and placing orders as required
• Assisting with the year-end stock count
• Ad-hoc queries
• Reviewing of invoices—ensuring profitability of all jobs and flagging jobs that fall outside of expected profit ranges
• General administration related to raising credit notes, creating new stock codes and moving costs between jobs
• Reconciling and transferring time between two internal systems
• Running monthly reports
• Building good working relationships with the Warehouse Manager and all business teams

Key role requirements include:

• Well organised with the ability to multitask
• Attention to detail
• Ability to problem solve, working through queries in a logical manner
• Able to communicate clearly and concisely
• Aware of at least basic Excel functions, such as pivot tables and lookups
• Excellent verbal and written skills
• Confident and positive attitude

This role offers a competitive pay rate and excellent company benefits as well as a good working environment. This is an excellent opportunity to join a forward-thinking organisation on a 12-month fixed-term contract basis.

Free parking is available on site.

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Just Recruitment is partnering with a transport and logistics business based on the outskirts of Colchester to recruit a Transport Planner for their existing team.

You will need to come from a planning background within the general haulage or pallet network industries, and have previous experience managing a fleet of Rigid/Artic vehicles.

Duties include:

• Routing vehicles and covering deliveries across the UK.
• Providing good communication with the Traffic office teams and Drivers to ensure customer KPI’s and targets are achieved and maintained.
• Use in-house planning tools and systems to manage workload and monitor efficiency.
• Ensuring internal tracking systems are kept organised and updated.
• Controlling and planning resources (vehicles, drivers, trailers); ensuring all legal requirements are adhered to (Working Time Directive and EU Drivers’ Hours regulations).
• Plan Rigid and Artic work for the following day.
• Warehouse checks.
• CPC Holder is an advantage, but not essential.

Please note: Due to the company’s location, you will need to drive.

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set.
We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.