Exciting Opportunity: Process Operator

Are you ready to join an industry-leading company that stands at the forefront of innovation, quality, and efficiency? With over 90 years of experience, this company is a pioneer in providing high-strength, lightweight, and fatigue-resistant products made from the world's most advanced composite materials. They are currently seeking a dedicated Process Operator to become an integral part of their dynamic team. This role offers the chance to work on projects that make a real difference, in an environment that fosters growth, learning, and excellence.

What You Will Do:

• Handle raw materials, ensuring their proper delivery and setup for work streams.
• Accurately place cut material shapes into various tools including preform, moulding vac form, composite, and steel tooling.
• Safely load tools, laminates, and preforms into compression presses, ovens, or autoclaves.
• Carry out finishing and assembly of composite components.
• Manage the packing and labelling of finished products.
• Perform lay-up of composite materials and operate presses.
• Accurately record production data as required.

What You Will Bring:

• A keen eye for detail and a commitment to maintaining high-quality standards.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as independently.
• Strong organizational skills and the capacity to manage multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Experience in a manufacturing or production setting, particularly within the composites or defence industries, is highly desirable.
• A proactive approach to problem-solving and a willingness to learn new skills.

Company Contribution & Industry Information:

This role is a fantastic opportunity to contribute to a company that is not just a leader in the defence sector but also a pioneer in commercial composites, serving industries such as medical, transport, aerospace, and energy. The Process Operator will play a crucial role in maintaining the company's reputation for excellence, delivering products that are up to 50% lighter than equivalent steel products while meeting the specific requirements of customers across various sectors.

Location:

This position is based at the company's state-of-the-art facility in Coventry, renowned for its cutting-edge armour design and military vehicle integration capabilities.

Join Us:

If you're passionate about making a tangible impact and ready to take your career to the next level, we want to hear from you. This is more than just a job; it's a chance to be part of a team that values innovation, excellence, and making a difference. Don't miss out on this opportunity to grow with a company that is shaping the future of the industry.

Apply now to become the next Process Operator and embark on a rewarding career journey!

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 Are you an experienced Commercial Officer or Contracts professional looking for your next challenge?

This is an excellent opportunity to join a well established Defence Manufacturing business in Coventry. Working within a highly regulated environment, you will play a key role in supporting complex commercial contracts from tender stage through to completion while working closely with customers, suppliers and internal stakeholders.

Offering a salary of up to £50k this role would suit someone with experience in commercial management, contract management, defence, aerospace, manufacturing or another highly regulated industry.

The Role

As Commercial Officer, you will support the full commercial lifecycle of customer contracts, ensuring compliance, managing commercial risk and providing guidance across the business. You will work closely with sales, procurement, project teams and senior stakeholders to deliver commercially sound solutions while protecting the interests of the business.

This is a varied role where no two days are the same, giving you the opportunity to work across both UK and international projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage commercial and contractual activities across customer and supplier contracts
• Support the full contract lifecycle from tender and bid stage through to contract completion
• Draft, review and negotiate commercial agreements, contracts and subcontractor agreements
• Support the sales team with commercial input during bids, proposals and customer negotiations
• Identify commercial risks and opportunities and provide practical solutions
• Ensure contractual obligations are understood and flowed down throughout the supply chain
• Build strong relationships with customers, suppliers and internal departments
• Provide commercial guidance across the wider business
• Support compliance with company policies, regulations and governance requirements
• Carry out third party due diligence and support commercial process improvements

What We're Looking For

• Previous experience as a Commercial Officer, Contracts Officer, Commercial Executive, Contracts Manager or within commercial contract management
• Experience working within manufacturing, engineering, defence, aerospace or another regulated industry
• Strong contract drafting, negotiation and commercial management experience
• Knowledge of commercial governance and contract compliance
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Strong organisational skills with excellent attention to detail
• Able to prioritise workloads and work independently

What's On Offer

• Salary up to £50,000 depending on experience
• Full time onsite role based in Coventry
• Flexible working hours
• Annual bonus scheme
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays
• Holiday purchase scheme
• Pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Healthcare cash plan

You will need to pass a DBS check and have been a resident within the UK for 5 years. 

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.

Production Manager

In support of a firmly established family-owned hydraulic cylinder manufacturing company in Hereford, we are seeking a NEW Production Manager to work in partnership with the Operations Director, who will be responsible for leading all day-to-day manufacturing operations at our clients' site in Hereford.

The role ensures that products are manufactured safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards, while maintaining a motivated and skilled team. This position bridges planning, production, engineering, and supply chain to ensure flow, reliability, and on-time delivery in alignment with the company's objectives.

Specifically, your responsibilities will be:

Leadership & People

• Lead, motivate, and develop the production team to achieve operational targets and maintain a safe working environment.
• Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, and continuous improvement.
• Work closely with HR to manage attendance, performance, and training requirements.

Production Control

• Deliver the production plan on time, in full, and to the correct quality standards.
• Monitor production flow and capacity, identifying and resolving constraints proactively.
• Ensure efficient utilisation of labour and machinery to meet delivery and cost targets.
• Work with the resources team to balance capacity and demand, ensuring bottlenecks are managed effectively.

Quality & Process Improvement

• Drive a "right-first time" culture across all operations.
• Collaborate with the Quality and Engineering teams to reduce scrap, rework, and internal rejects.
• Ensure compliance with company and customer quality standards.
• Investigate process deviations and implement sustainable corrective actions.

Continuous Improvement & Data Management

• Support and lead continuous improvement activities (5S, waste reduction, standardisation, and OEE improvements).
• Review and report on production KPIs, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
• Identify improvement opportunities to increase output, efficiency, and reliability.
• Collaborate with the Continuous Improvement team to embed lean principles throughout the factory

We expect your skill set to encompass a mix of knowledge, skills and behaviours that role model our clients' Vison and Values. Specifically, this role will need the following knowledge and skills:

• Proven experience in a production or manufacturing management role, ideally within precision engineering or component manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of lean principles, workflow optimisation, and resource planning.
• Ability to lead, motivate, and develop a production team, fostering accountability and engagement.
• Sound technical knowledge of hydraulic cylinder manufacturing processes, materials, and machining operations.
• Demonstrates the company's values of honesty, fairness, strength, inquisitiveness, loyalty, and resilience.

Desired qualifications:

• ILM L5 or similar
• Engineering apprenticeship and/or HNC in Mechanical Engineering.
• IOSH qualification in Managing Safely.
• Formal Six Sigma qualifications (Green/Black belt).

This role is in support of an established, privately owned and modern manufacturing facility seeing continued growth and expansion.

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.