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Just Recruitment is recruiting for a Procurement & Logistics Officer to join a manufacturer based in Witham, Essex — on a contract basis for 12 months.

This is a highly cross-functional role, requiring a minimum of 3+ years’ experience and a strong understanding of Customer Service, Purchasing, Manufacturing, Finance, Production Planning, Supply Chain, Stock Management, and lead-time control—ideally gained in a high-volume environment.

Duties include:

• Using the existing systems to accurately order the required volume of products using sales and forecasting availability.
• Monitoring unavailability and wastage. Contribute actively to reducing both and meeting targets.
• Understanding the importance of 100% availability, including seasonal and promotional activities, and investigating all instances of non- and short-delivery to determine, with the supplier, an agreed plan of action to prevent recurrence.
• Actively develop and maintain a professional, respectful, friendly, and honest relationship with all suppliers and other team members. keeping up to date with the latest developments for all suppliers.
• Maintain a vehicle file for all company vehicle documentation, including V5, contract hire agreements and any other relevant documentation.
• Monitoring and managing driver utilisation of the fleetchecker vehicle inspection app and reporting functionality. Organise defect rectification in a timely manner.
• Downloading and monitoring all drivers' tachographs, the vehicle download data, sending to an external agency for checking and monitoring all drivers' hours in line with the legal requirements, EU driving legislation, Great British driving rules and working time directive to ensure that the business and driving staff operate within the legal framework.
• Ensuring all dart charges, congestion charges and other tolls are promptly settled to negate any ongoing unforeseen charges.
• Managing all aspects of Drivers' HR requirements, holiday, sick days, appraisal, and training requirements for CPC compliance.

Skills required include:

• A good, effective, and proactive communicator with the ability to form and maintain good relationships internally and externally, both written and verbal.
• Strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Numeracy, statistical and reporting skills with the ability to analyse, interpret and manage information, data and trends.
• Collaborative approach to working with others.
• Experience in capacity/forecasting modelling and planning.
• Experience and knowledge of fleet management, logistics planning in accordance with legislative constraints.
• Knowledge of Driving Laws and Tachographs/ Infringement legislation.

Hours: Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week.

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Just Recruitment is recruiting for a Customer Services Executive for a manufacturer based in Sudbury, Suffolk.

As a Customer Services Executive, you will play a key role within the sales and marketing team — delivering exceptional service to both new and existing customers while managing ongoing accounts.

You will answer customer questions, solve problems, and provide information about the company’s products and services — all while building strong relationships and ensuring long-term customer satisfaction.

Key responsibilities include:

• Assess incoming enquiries from direct communication or the sales team
• Create quotations and tender documentation
• Follow up on quotations at appropriate points in the process
• Manage the CRM system
• Manage the lead generation tools
• Processing incoming sales orders
• Liaise with the order fulfilment team for the smooth supply of products to customers
• Manage any after-sales requirements
• Help project manage key projects and clients

Role requirements include:

• Must possess excellent communication skills, both oral and written
• Previous experience in a similar role is preferable
• Experience within the engineering/manufacturing sector is preferred
• Good knowledge of and proficiency in Microsoft Office and basic database skills
• Must be able to understand business calculations and be competent to correspond via email in a professional manner
• Must be an excellent face-to-face communicator
• Telephone communication skills are of a high standard
• One of the keys to success is to develop professional relationships with decision makers, and so the ability to ‘connect’ with people and build networks should come naturally
• You will be based at the Sudbury office, with occasional requirements for site and customer visits

Skills and qualifications to include:

• A highly capable person with strong planning and scheduling skills
• Self–driven, results-oriented, and with a positive outlook and a clear focus on high-quality standards
• An independent person with good organisation and planning skills, who is capable of objectively assessing and improving their own and the department’s performance
• Must be reliable, tolerant, and be able to work under pressure. The ability to be professional at all times and represent the company in a professional manner is a prerequisite
• Tenacity and the ability to see things through to the end goal are desired traits
• Must be able to work alone as well as work within a team
• When required, able to work extra hours to accommodate the business needs, which may include occasional travel

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Just Recruitment is seeking a Technical Sales / Applications Engineer for a leading client in Tiverton, Devon — an excellent opportunity for a graduate, higher apprentice, or experienced engineer to develop their career within a technical engineering environment.

Reporting to the Technical Sales Manager, this role will focus on the promotion and sales of company products to prospective, new and existing customers.

Scope:

• Providing a Technical Sales Service to Customers
• Dealing first-hand with customer enquiries, by telephone and digital meetings where required
• Solving Design Problems and providing new design solutions
• Checking and validating applications, preparing costings and quotations
• Preparation of drawings
• Assisting the manufacturing team with design builds

Required qualifications/experience include:

• Ideally qualified to HNC minimum in mechanical engineering
• Consideration given to applicants with a Mechanical Design background and good CAD skills
• Knowledge of Machine and Production processes is advantageous
• Working knowledge of 3D design tools such as SolidWorks or AutoCAD

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.