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Automotive Visualisation Graphic Designer

Reference: 56527

Umbrella Rate: £30.18/hr, increasing to £39.55/hr after 12 weeks (Inside IR35)

Contract Length: to end of 2027

Step into an exciting contract Automotive Graphic Designer opportunity with a focus on automotive visualisation and graphic design that turns ideas into show-ready graphics. If you enjoy high-impact creative work, precise mapping onto complex 3D vehicle surfaces, and collaborating across design disciplines, this Graphic Designer role offers a genuinely rewarding challenge. You will get the chance to develop bold 2D graphic language, bring it to life on real-world surfaces, and help shape brand moments through cutting-edge digital visualisation.

What You Will Do:

• Create high-impact 2D graphic concepts, including typography, badging, decals, and livery themes tailored to automotive briefs
• Translate 2D artwork into complex 3D vehicle surfaces with distortion-free, perfectly aligned results
• Collaborate with exterior, interior, and component designers, plus clay/digital modelers, to ensure cohesive surface language
• Prepare detailed digital models for high-end rendering and real-time Virtual Reality (VR) reviews to support design evaluations and senior sign-offs
• Pilot emerging design technologies, including AI-assisted creation tools, generative design, and parametric workflows
• Support prototyping by preparing and scaling vector plots for physical decal and livery validation

What You Will Bring:

• Extensive professional graphic design experience, with strong focus on automotive graphics

• A proven track record showcasing successful decal, stripe, badge, or livery design programs
• Expert-level command of Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Illustrator and Photoshop
• High proficiency in industry-standard visualisation and rendering software, including Autodesk VRED and/or Unreal Engine
• Strong understanding of graphic mapping onto complex 3D vehicle surfaces, with a meticulous eye for technical accuracy and detail
• A relevant degree in graphic/automotive/transportation design, industrial design, digital modelling, or equivalent practical experience

This Graphic Designer role supports the company’s product development goals by strengthening brand identity and ensuring graphic concepts remain consistent from initial creative design through to immersive VR review and prototype validation. The work helps deliver clear, production-ready visual outcomes and encourages smart, forward-thinking ways of collaborating and iterating within the automotive industry.

Location:

Based in Here East, with hybrid working of 4 days per week on site and 1 day from home.

Interested?

If you’re ready to bring automotive graphics to life with confidence and precision, apply now for this Graphic Designer contract role and take the next step in your design career.

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.
In order for your CV to be processed effectively, please ensure your name, email address, phone number and location (post code OR town OR county, as a minimum) are included.

Direct Commodity Buyer (Powertrain Components)

Reference: 56511

Umbrella Rate: £27.38/hr, increasing to £35.89/hr after 12 weeks (Inside IR35)

Do you have experience of purchasing within the automotive industry? This is your chance to join a dynamic and forward-thinking organisation as a Direct Commodity Buyer for Powertrain Components. With the automotive world transitioning from internal combustion engines to electric vehicles, you'll be at the heart of this change, shaping the future of mobility while advancing your career in a challenging and rewarding environment.

What You Will Do:

• Develop sourcing strategies that leverage the transition from internal combustion engines to battery electric vehicles, ensuring value, quality, and efficiency.

• Conduct benchmarking activities and market tests to maintain a world-class supply base.

• Complete sourcing documentation in line with programme timing and cost targets.

• Place production purchase and tooling orders in accordance with purchasing procedures.

• Monitor supplier quality performance and drive cost reduction initiatives through effective negotiation and collaboration.

• Handle raw material negotiations and support distressed supplier management to ensure supply chain stability.

What You Will Bring:

• Proven experience in a purchasing role within the automotive industry, along with a degree qualification or equivalent experience.

• Strong business acumen and excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Demonstrable understanding of the challenges facing the automotive industry and how purchasing can support business objectives.

• Proven negotiation skills with a track record of delivering cost reductions and value improvements.

• Experience working in cross-functional teams, coupled with strong organisational and project management skills.

In this role, you’ll play a critical part in shaping the company's supply base, ensuring it remains competitive and robust in a rapidly changing industry. By driving supplier performance, leveraging cost-saving opportunities, and ensuring quality standards, you’ll directly contribute to the company's mission to deliver innovative and sustainable mobility solutions.

Location:

This role is based in Dunton, with a requirement to work on-site four days a week. Occasional travel may also be required.

Interested?

If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact in the automotive industry, apply now to become a Powertrain Components Direct Commodity Buyer. Don’t miss this opportunity to join a company that values innovation, excellence, and collaboration. Your next career move starts here!

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.
In order for your CV to be processed effectively, please ensure your name, email address, phone number and location (post code OR town OR county, as a minimum) are included.

If you're looking for a rewarding entry point into HR operations with payroll responsibility, this HR and Payroll Assistant (Maternity Cover) role is a brilliant opportunity to make an immediate impact. Expect hands-on work, strong cross-functional exposure with HR, Finance and managers, and a clear, structured route to owning key employee lifecycle and payroll admin activities. The HR and Payroll Assistant (Maternity Cover) position is ideal if you love detail, enjoy improving processes, and want your work to be felt every month as teams and payroll run smoothly.

What You Will Do:

- Support hiring managers through the recruitment process, including managing applications and coordinating interviews via the applicant tracking system.

- Manage new starter administration, including onboarding documentation, right to work checks and pre-employment processes.

- Handle employee lifecycle administration such as contractual changes, probation support, absence management and leaver processing.

- Input and collate monthly payroll changes and liaise with Finance to support accurate and timely payroll processing.

- Maintain and correct employee data across systems, including SAP, BrightHR, ATLAS and internal platforms, ensuring data integrity.

- Assist with employee relations administration at Level 0 and Level 1 by responding to routine queries and supporting managers with casework administration.

What You Will Bring:

- Proven experience in a similar HR, payroll or people administration role, with confidence processing payroll changes.

- CIPD Level 3 (or equivalent) is essential, with further HR study viewed positively.

- Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and HR best practice, with the ability to apply it accurately.

- Experience with pension administration, including managing uploads and changes in line with relevant deadlines.

- Excellent systems skills and high attention to detail, alongside strong organisational and communication abilities.

This HR and Payroll Assistant (Maternity Cover) role sits within the engineering and technology industry and helps this company keep HR administration reliable, compliant and efficient. By supporting recruitment coordination, onboarding, employee lifecycle administration and payroll change input, you help maintain a smooth employee experience while also supporting continuous improvement in processes and controls.

Location:

Lichfield, with the role supporting HR operations on-site within the HR and payroll team.

Interested?:

Ready to bring your HR and payroll administration skills to a role with real day-to-day value? Apply now for the HR and Payroll Assistant (Maternity Cover) opportunity and take the next step in your people operations career.

Your CV will be forwarded to Jonathan Lee Recruitment, a leading engineering and manufacturing recruitment consultancy established in 1978. The services advertised by Jonathan Lee Recruitment are those of an Employment Agency.
In order for your CV to be processed effectively, please ensure your name, email address, phone number and location (post code OR town OR county, as a minimum) are included.