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Waltham Forest
£30.18 - 39.55 per hour
Contract
Hybrid
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.
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Birmingham
Competitive Salary Plus Benefits
Permanent
On Site
Senior Engineer - Mechatronics / Mechanical Engineering
Mechanical / Robotics / R&D / Prototype / Industrialisation
Competitive Salary Plus Benefits
Turn complex ideas into real-world results with a role that rewards momentum, hands-on thinking, and clear ownership. As a Senior Engineer - Mechatronics / Mechanical Engineering, you'll help deliver projects end to end in a fast-moving, consultancy-style engineering environment, where designing, building, testing, and iterating are part of everyday success. If you enjoy taking responsibility, unblocking progress, and mentoring others through practical engineering discipline, this Senior Engineer - Mechatronics / Mechanical Engineering opportunity is built for you.
As a Senior Engineer - Mechatronics / Mechanical Engineering you will:
- Take direct ownership of engineering projects from brief through to delivery, keeping timelines, scope, and resourcing on track.
- Proactively manage a live backlog, clearing delayed work and establishing a cadence so new tasks do not pile up behind unfinished priorities.
- Lead hands-on design, prototyping, testing, and refinement, applying mechatronics fundamentals across mechanical and electronics boundaries.
- Mentor junior engineers and support technicians with practical guidance to resolve build and test blockers quickly.
- Collaborate with the Head of Engineering and electronics specialists, translating technical insight into decisive next steps.
- Communicate scope changes clearly when new findings arise, ensuring progress never stalls waiting for direction.
The Senior Engineer - Mechatronics / Mechanical Engineering will bring:
- A minimum of 7 years of engineering experience, ideally with a mechanical and/or mechatronics background bridging mechanical and electronics disciplines.
- Strong fundamentals across engineering and electronics, with confidence working across both domains, ideally with a bias towards mechanical applications.
- Genuine hands-on capability, with proven experience designing, building, testing, and iterating rather than working purely from screens.
- Track record of delivering projects and managing timelines in a high-tempo, consultancy-style or similarly fast environment.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to gather information proactively and integrate quickly into a small team.
In this Senior Engineer - Mechatronics / Mechanical Engineering role, the company's delivery-focused approach comes to life. Work is organised around action, clarity, and accountability, supporting a culture where excellent engineering includes practical documentation, disciplined reasoning, and repeatable processes. This Senior Engineer - Mechatronics / Mechanical Engineering position also strengthens capability within the engineering team by encouraging mentoring, better handoffs, and measurable progress from one project milestone to the next.
Interested?:
If you're ready to own delivery, get stuck into real builds, and make an immediate impact as a Senior Engineer - Mechatronics / Mechanical Engineering, apply today and take the next step in an exciting, hands-on engineering journey.
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.
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Abingdon
Competitive Salary Plus Benefits
Permanent
On Site
IATF QMS Implementation Lead
Automotive / IATF16949
Competitive Salary Plus Benefits
Ready to make real, measurable impact in the automotive quality space? This IATF QMS Implementation Lead role is your chance to architect an integrated quality management system from day one, drive genuine cross-functional ownership, and help deliver certification outcomes that stand up to scrutiny. With the company simultaneously implementing Ideagen as its QMS platform, the work is dynamic, hands-on, and built for strong, credible leaders who can manage sequencing risk and turn plans into embedded practice.
As a IATF QMS Implementation Lead you will:
- Lead the IATF QMS Implementation Lead programme through structured gap assessment and future-state architecture for IATF 16949 alignment.
- Drive the redesign of core processes, including APQP, PPAP, FMEA (AIAG/VDA), Control Plans, MSA, SPC, and customer-specific requirements integration.
- Build a clear process ownership model so accountability sits with the cross-functional business, not this role or Central Quality alone.
- Orchestrate Ideagen configuration sequencing so the platform reflects IATF-ready processes, not legacy ISO 9001 ways of working.
- Support the delivery of internal audit capability by building an audit schedule, coaching auditors, and closing findings through PDCA.
- Oversee evidence generation and readiness reviews to support certification delivery, including Stage 1 and Stage 2 audit preparation.
The IATF QMS Implementation Lead will:
- Demonstrated track record leading at least one end-to-end IATF 16949 implementation or major QMS upgrade project (not just auditing).
- Strong working knowledge of IATF 16949:2016 and core automotive tools such as APQP, PPAP, FMEA (AIAG/VDA), MSA, and SPC.
- Experience within, or alongside, a Tier 1 or Tier 2 automotive supplier, including redesigning processes and developing practical ownership.
- Proven ability to lead change across cross-functional teams without direct line authority, from shop floor engagement to leadership alignment.
- Familiarity with IATF certification preparation and internal audit programmes, plus an understanding of QMS platform configuration sequencing risk.
This IATF QMS Implementation Lead role sits firmly within the automotive manufacturing and engineering industry, helping the business transition from ISO 9001 to an embedded IATF 16949 Quality Management System. The goal is not a paperwork exercise: it is a cross-functionally owned, genuinely improved way of working that protects quality performance and strengthens operational discipline.
Location:
This IATF QMS Implementation Lead role is based in Oxfordshire, with work centred around supporting the company's automotive quality programme and Ideagen implementation.
Interested?:
If you have delivered IATF 16949 implementations before and are excited by turning architecture into real process ownership, apply now for immediate consideration for this IATF QMS Implementation Lead opportunity.
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.
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Gaydon
£28.54 - 28.54 per hour
Contract
Hybrid
System Integration and Test Engineer - 37317400 - £28.54/hr (Umbrella Rate - Inside IR35)
Step into a brilliant opportunity as a System Integration and Test Engineer, where your work directly shapes reliable vehicle systems and delivers confidence in every build. This System Integration and Test Engineer role sits within a fast-moving automotive engineering environment, giving you hands-on time on real rigs and vehicles, plus the chance to build robust manual and automated test coverage for interior experience features.
What You Will Do:
- Create high-quality manual and automated feature and system-level test cases for Interior Experience features, using clear feature and system documentation.
- Apply strong test techniques to ensure test cases are thorough, maintainable, and meet agreed quality standards.
- Execute feature-level tests on vehicles and system-level tests on Hardware-in-the-Loop and Vehicle-in-the-Loop rigs.
- Produce professional test execution reports, keeping stakeholders informed with clear outcomes.
- Support defect management and root cause analysis, helping teams move quickly from issue to resolution.
- Work closely with system engineers and system leads to maintain traceability from requirements through to test cases.
What You Will Bring:
- Automotive system integration and integration testing experience, ideally within systems engineering programmes.
- Familiarity with Systems Engineering V-Model approaches, especially requirements-based testing and design verification and validation.
- Understanding of systems engineering tools, processes, and practices used to plan, execute, and evidence testing.
- Experience building or working within simulation environments, such as dSPACE and Simulink.
- Clear communication skills, with the ability to explain complex engineering topics to a variety of audiences.
This System Integration and Test Engineer position plays a key role in ensuring engineering requirements can be validated effectively, supporting delivery of dependable systems and quality assurance across the Body and Exteriors team. With testing firmly in focus, the work helps the engineering organisation maintain momentum, improve outcomes, and strengthen confidence in every stage of development.
Location:
The System Integration and Test Engineer role is based in Gaydon.
Interested?:
If you are excited by System Integration and Test Engineer work that blends requirements-based rig testing, automation, and practical problem-solving, apply now and take the next step in your automotive engineering 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.
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Yeovil
£85k - 100k per year
Permanent
On Site
NEW VACANCY - OPERATIONS MANAGER
Are you an experienced Operations Manager, Business Operations Manager, Site Operations Manager or Site Manager looking for a new job opportunity within Somerset?!
We are looking for an experienced Operations Manager to join a leading manufacturing business who are based in Somerset, whilst the working hours are 39 hours per week Monday to Friday, some flexibility will be needed regarding start and finish times.
The role comes with a competitive annual salary, as well as an annual bonus (up to 10%) and a company car allowance.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
- Proven experience in Production, Operations or Site management within a process manufacturing environment.
- Proven experience of leading manufacturing processes and implementing process improvements.
- Experience and/or knowledge with ISO9001 and/or AS9100 quality standards.
A Bachelor's or Masters degree in either Engineering, Manufacturing or Industrial Engineering would be highly advantageous, but is not essential.
What You Will Do:
- Develop and execute manufacturing strategies that improve productivity and support business goals as an Operations Manager.
- Own operational performance through clear KPIs, identifying gaps early and ensuring effective corrective actions.
- Lead production planning and production-related maintenance scheduling, helping ensure continuity and efficiency across operations.
- Drive continuous improvement initiatives such as Lean, Six Sigma-style methods, and process optimisation to reduce waste and enhance quality.
- Collaborate closely across engineering, supply chain, and quality to deliver seamless manufacturing plans and customer requirements.
- Support customer audits and manage queries through to resolution, ensuring robust operational responses and quality outcomes.
What You Will Bring:
- 10 to 15 years' experience in production or operations management within complex process manufacturing, with strong leadership and planning capability as an Operations Manager.
- Proven experience improving processes and delivering operational results, ideally in precision engineering or manufacturing settings.
- Strong knowledge of production and quality frameworks, with exposure to PFMEA/PPAP/FAIR-type disciplines being advantageous.
- Familiarity with MRP/ERP tools for planning and resource management, helping drive accurate schedules and effective utilisation.
- A safety-first mindset and confidence in managing budgets, resources, and performance in a fast-paced environment.
Desirable Experience:
- Lean Six Sigma Certification (Green Belt or Black Belt preferred).
- Project Management Certification (e.g., PRINCE2, PMP).
- Health and Safety Certification (e.g., NEBOSH, IOSH Managing Safely
This Operations Manager role sits within the manufacturing and engineering industry, supporting advanced, integrated manufacturing solutions for aerospace, defence, and related sectors. The business has a clear focus on quality, process discipline, and continuous improvement, including ISO9002 and AS9100 approvals and accredited capabilities. By stepping into this Operations Manager position, you'll help strengthen operational performance, enhance customer confidence, and contribute to a culture that values safe, reliable, world-class manufacturing outcomes.
Location:
This role is based in Somerset.
Interested?:
If you're ready to lead production performance, drive continuous improvement, and make an immediate operational impact as an Operations Manager, apply today and take the next step in your manufacturing leadership journey.
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.
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Didcot
£65k - 80k per year
Permanent
Hybrid
An exciting start up organisation who are looking to shape the energy sector are seeking a Head of Science, to own the experimental programme, set decision-ready success criteria, and lead a small team of PhD specialists to accelerate progress in a fast-moving, lab-first environment. If you thrive on clear thinking, rapid testing, and making confident calls with incomplete data, this Head of Science position is built for you.
What You Will Do:
- Own and run the experimental programme, ensuring every experiment maps to a specific programme decision.
- Maintain the system energy ledger by integrating modelling outputs, experimental data, and hardware constraints.
- Define experimental requirements and decision points for each prototype stage, including explicit success and failure criteria.
- Lead and develop a science team of four, setting scientific direction, ownership, and performance expectations.
- Ensure scientific validity through rigorous measurement definitions, integrity checks, and clear sign-off on results.
- Translate experimental findings into actionable inputs for engineering and contribute to technical narratives for stakeholders, investors, and external partners.
What You Will Bring:
- A PhD or Masters in physics, engineering, materials science, or a closely related field.
- Demonstrated experience in system-level modelling and energy balance thinking.
- A track record of hypothesis-driven experimental design linked to practical hardware development.
- Strong thermodynamic literacy and an evidence-first mindset when interpreting results.
- Proven leadership experience developing small multidisciplinary teams in a high-tempo, experiment-led setting.
This Head of Science role sits within the wider energy hardware and scientific innovation landscape, helping convert first-of-a-kind research into prototypes with disciplined, measurable outcomes. With a mission focused on designing, patenting, and licensing energy technology to support global sustainability and reduce energy poverty, this position plays a direct part in turning scientific progress into reliable engineering direction. The company's culture values speed with rigour, intellectual honesty, and decision-making that prioritises what the data truly shows.
Location:
This Head of Science role is based in Didcot Oxfordshire, with a well-equipped laboratory environment at the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus.
Interested?:
Bring your experimental leadership to the Head of Science role and help drive the next breakthroughs at pace. Apply now and submit your CV and a short covering note explaining why this scientific challenge excites you and which parts of your experience best match the essentials.
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.
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