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Step into an exciting opportunity as a CNC Programmer Setter, where precision, continuous improvement, and hands-on machine shop expertise come together. This CNC Programmer Setter role offers a clear pathway to develop technical capability, take ownership of quality, and support smarter, more efficient production within the manufacturing and automation industry. If a busy workshop, tight tolerances, and problem-solving work energise you, this CNC Programmer Setter position is built for you.
What You Will Do:
- Create and develop CNC programs to produce consistently accurate parts to specification.
- Set up and operate machines for production runs, during both manned and unmanned periods.
- Perform routine machine maintenance checks and keep check-sheet records up to standard.
- Carry out self-inspection and complete inspection records, ensuring quality is maintained at all times.
- Prove out programs on the machine and support problem solving for specific machining parts.
- Keep the working area clean and compliant with quality, Health and Safety, and customer requirements.
What You Will Bring:
- Experience in CNC programming and working to customer drawings and engineering specifications with minimal supervision.
- Strong understanding of machining processes and the ability to work to tight tolerances with confidence.
- Practical knowledge of machine set-up, operation, and basic maintenance checks.
- A quality-focused mindset, including the ability to inspect, measure, and report findings accurately.
- Professional communication skills, with the drive to spot tooling improvements and raise them with the right people.
This CNC Programmer Setter role is part of a business delivering bespoke high-speed assembly automation systems and special purpose machinery. The work supports scalable, creative manufacturing outcomes designed to reduce production costs, increase production capability, and deliver high-quality results. The focus on careful craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and tailored solutions helps the wider team meet demanding project expectations, while keeping Quality, Environmental, Health and Safety standards firmly at the centre of day-to-day delivery.
Location:
Based in Erdington, this CNC Programmer Setter opportunity is suited to candidates comfortable working within a machine shop environment.
Interested?:
If you are ready to bring your CNC programming, set-up, and quality skills to a role where impact is real and standards matter, apply now and take the next step as a CNC Programmer Setter.
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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Northamptonshire
£55k - 60k per year + car + bonus
Permanent
Remote
Are you an experienced technical sales professional who thrives on winning new business and building relationships with customers?
This is an excellent opportunity to join a well established and growing engineering business as an Area Sales Manager, taking ownership of a large territory across the South of the UK.
We are looking for a genuine new business hunter. Someone who enjoys identifying prospects, opening doors, getting in front of customers and turning opportunities into sales.
You will have the freedom to manage your own territory, develop your own pipeline and build long term customer relationships. This is a consultative technical sales role where understanding customer requirements and recommending the right solution is key.
The role is primarily home based, with regular travel throughout your territory and periodic visits to the Telford office.
There is also excellent progression potential for the right person.
The opportunity
You will take ownership of the South UK territory and be responsible for generating profitable growth through proactive business development, new customer acquisition and account development.
You will be expected to create opportunities rather than simply wait for enquiries to come in. You will research potential customers, make contact, arrange meetings, understand their requirements and develop commercially strong solutions.
This role would suit someone who enjoys the challenge of winning new business and has a proven track record of selling technical products, equipment or solutions.
What will you be doing?
• Identify and target new customers across your territory
• Proactively generate new business through telephone, email, networking, referrals, events and customer visits
• Build and manage your own sales pipeline
• Develop relationships with key decision makers and senior stakeholders
• Arrange and attend customer meetings and site visits
• Understand customer requirements and identify opportunities for technical solutions
• Work with internal engineering and technical teams to develop appropriate solutions
• Prepare and present commercial proposals
• Manage opportunities from initial contact through to negotiation and order
• Develop existing customer relationships and identify further opportunities
• Maintain accurate CRM records and sales forecasts
• Achieve agreed sales, revenue and gross margin targets
• Monitor competitor activity and market developments
• Attend exhibitions, trade shows and customer events
• Share customer insight and market intelligence with the wider business
What are we looking for?
The most important thing is your sales experience.
We are looking for a strong technical sales professional who is commercially driven, confident opening new doors and motivated by winning business.
You may currently be working as an Area Sales Manager, Regional Sales Manager, Territory Sales Manager, Technical Sales Engineer, Business Development Manager, Sales Engineer, Account Manager or Technical Sales Manager.
You will need:
• Proven experience in technical B2B sales
• A strong track record of new business development and customer acquisition
• A genuine hunter mentality and the drive to create your own opportunities
• Experience managing a sales territory
• Experience selling technical products, equipment, systems or solutions
• Strong commercial awareness and negotiation skills
• The ability to understand customer requirements and translate them into commercial opportunities
• Excellent communication and relationship building skills
• A consultative approach to sales
• Strong organisation and time management skills
• The confidence and self motivation to work remotely and manage your own territory
Experience within engineering, manufacturing, technical equipment, automation, filtration, industrial systems or another technical environment would be beneficial, but the key requirement is proven technical sales and new business experience.
Why join?
You will be joining a well established business with more than 50 years of experience and a strong reputation for providing technically led solutions to customers across a range of sectors.
The company is part of an international group and is officially certified as a Great Place to Work, with a strong focus on employee development, culture and work life balance.
You will have access to tailored personal development plans, internal masterclasses, enhanced pension support and an additional holiday purchase scheme.
This is also a role where you can genuinely build a career. There is excellent progression potential for someone who delivers results and wants to take on greater responsibility in the future.
Package
Salary: £55,000 to £60,000
Car allowance: £650 per month or hybrid/electric company car
Bonus: Based on company and personal performance.
Location: Home based, with regular travel across the South UK
Office: Periodic attendance at the Telford office
Progression: Excellent future progression potential, with two days per week office based in Telford when progressing into the next stage
Hours: 37.5hrs per week with an early finish on a Friday
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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Coventry
£28.54 - 28.54 per hour
Contract
Hybrid
HR Advisor (Contact Centre)
Reference: 37537607
Umbrella Rate: £28.54/hr (Inside IR35)
Contract running until October 2027
Do you have experience of working in an HR employee advisory role? Unlock a rewarding role as an HR Consultant, delivering great service in HR Direct and shaping confident, consistent outcomes for UK colleagues. As an HR Consultant, you will be the trusted first point of contact for employee questions, turning complex HR queries into clear guidance, timely resolutions, and a genuinely positive experience. This HR Advisor/Consultant role offers hybrid flexibility from Whitley, Coventry, an engaging, fast-paced contact centre environment, and clear performance goals focused on quality, service levels, and employee satisfaction.
What You Will Do:
• Provide first-line HR advice by phone, email, portal and virtual chat, resolving enquiries across HR processes and policies.
• Understand employee circumstances, identify the correct policy, and help colleagues apply it with confidence.
• Manage and triage inbound tickets and escalations from the HR Virtual Assistant, ensuring strong first-contact resolution.
• Pull absence reports and maintain the daily inbox for non-employee queries, supporting smooth HR Direct operations.
• Coach and advise managers on applying employment policies appropriately, using knowledge of UK employment law to minimise risk.
• Work collaboratively with wider HR teams, supporting continuous improvements to policy deployment and service delivery.
What You Will Bring:
• Prior experience in an HR employee advisory or contact centre style role, with strong generalist HR knowledge.
• Good working understanding of UK employment law, including disciplinary, grievances, absence management and performance.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex information clearly and professionally in writing and verbally.
• Strong IT literacy, including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Excel, plus comfort with ticketing and case management workflows.
• A customer-first, problem-solving approach, with resilience and tenacity in a high-volume environment.
This HR role contributes directly to this company’s goals by strengthening first-contact resolution, delivering reliable HR services with clear service level standards, and supporting an employee experience built on transparency and dependability. The role sits within the HR Direct contact centre within the wider HR function, helping ensure consistent, high-quality responses and driving continuous improvement across HR processes.
Location:
Based in Whitley, Coventry, with hybrid working 2-3 days per week on site.
Interested?
If you’re excited by a people-focused, high-impact HR Advisor opportunity with clear KPIs and meaningful influence, apply now to be considered.
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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Telford
£30k - 35k per year
Permanent
On Site
A leading food manufacturer are seeking a Graduate Reliability Engineer. This role is working across the engineering function, overseeing day-to-day performance, reducing downtime, and shaping smarter maintenance plans in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment. As a Graduate Reliability Engineer, you will help keep critical factory equipment running reliably, support continuous improvement, and take ownership for an area of the operational asset base. It's a hands-on opportunity that blends technical problem-solving with practical planning, collaboration, and meaningful results for production teams.
What You Will Do:
- Maintain reliability and availability for factory equipment through an effective planned maintenance regime as a Reliability Engineer.
- Monitor equipment downtime, analyse trends, and drive continuous improvement initiatives using clear downtime data for weekly meetings.
- Raise planned and reactive maintenance jobs, then review completed job sheets to ensure learning is captured and acted upon.
- Support installation and capital projects, coordinating activity alongside production and planning teams in the reliability space.
- Coordinate OEM engineer service visits, scheduling follow-up work that arises from inspections, and ensuring actions are tracked.
- Oversee equipment calibrations and support compliance-focused documentation such as risk assessments and PPMS creation.
What You Will Bring:
- An engineering qualification at with a Bachelor's degree preferred, or HNC/HND or equivalent considered.
- Experience within an engineering maintenance environment, with a strong understanding of reliability in an operational setting.
- Excellent communication skills and confidence working with on-shift engineers, suppliers, and contractors.
- Strong IT capability, particularly with Power BI and Excel, to analyse downtime and equipment efficiency.
- A self-motivated approach, able to multi-task and thrive within timeline-driven planning and continuous improvement.
As a Reliability Engineer, this position directly supports the operational goals of a major food supply chain business by helping equipment stay available, improving maintenance effectiveness, and enabling high-quality production at scale. The emphasis on planning, analysis, and collaboration aligns with a culture of delivering great quality and great service every day, while also encouraging continuous development through training and progression.
Location:
This Reliability Engineer role is based at the Telford site, working Monday to Friday 08:00 to 17:00.
Interested?:
If Reliability Engineer work that makes a tangible difference is calling, apply now to take the next step in your career and bring your expertise to a role built around continuous improvement, reliability, and meaningful outcomes.
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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Worcester
£30k - 35.9k per year
Permanent
On Site
A growing food manufacturer are seeking a Production Team Leader, you'll help drive safety, quality, and performance in a fast-paced manufacturing environment, while inspiring colleagues and continuous improvement through hands-on management. If leading from the front, improving processes, and delivering measurable results is your style, this Production Team Leader role is built for you.
Shift Pattern- 4 on 4 off days & nights
What You Will Do:
- Lead a production area with clear ownership of key performance metrics, putting personal and team safety first as a non-negotiable standard.
- Maintain an immaculate working environment by supporting Autonomous Maintenance, strong 5S standards, and well-prepared, organised handovers.
- Ensure quality requirements are met by monitoring process controls, responding immediately to non-conformance, and supporting root cause analysis and corrective actions where needed.
- Drive output performance through disciplined adherence to Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), line speeds, and process times, escalating deviations through the right channels.
- Minimise waste by spotting loss points early, acting on spillages or leaks, and challenging wasteful practice to eliminate recurring issues.
- Communicate effectively across upstream and downstream teams, contributing to Kaizen improvements and troubleshooting problems to prevent repeat occurrences.
What You Will Bring:
- Experience working in manufacturing, with a solid understanding of day-to-day operations and shift-based targets.
- The ability to communicate clearly with colleagues and stakeholders, including the confidence to challenge unsafe or out-of-control conditions promptly.
- A continuous improvement mindset, with practical experience in problem-solving, root cause thinking, and helping teams adopt better ways of working.
- Strong numeracy and an interest in interpreting basic process data, supporting straightforward statistical process control and performance tracking.
- The ability to work in English, understand instructions and specifications, and maintain accurate, timely documentation.
This Production Team Leader role supports this company's goals by strengthening a world-class manufacturing culture focused on safety, quality assurance, and operational excellence. Your leadership helps ensure product meets specification, processes run efficiently, and continuous improvement becomes part of everyday work, from shift handover to Kaizen activity.
Location:
Based at the Worcester Factory.
Interested?:
If you're ready to lead a production area, elevate standards, and make a real difference in manufacturing, apply today and take the next step as a Production Team Leader.
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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Worcester
£47k - 51.5k per year
Permanent
On Site
A growing food manufacturer are seeking a Maintenance Engineer to join their team. You will be responsible for troubleshooting, supporting preventive maintenance, and working with modern automation in the food manufacturing industry. Expect a team environment, clear priorities, and the chance to develop specialist knowledge while making a measurable impact every shift.
Shift Pattern 4 on 4 off Days
What You Will Do:
- Perform planned preventive maintenance and complete all relevant paperwork to the required standards as a Maintenance Engineer.
- Tackle corrective maintenance quickly and safely to minimise production downtime, including electrical breakdowns and fault finding on pneumatic and hydraulic systems.
- Support continuous improvement by suggesting practical solutions that boost efficiency, reduce costs, and enhance quality.
- Help deliver meaningful handovers, including notes and reports, so the next shift engineer is fully informed and supported.
- Assist with risk assessments and maintain strict adherence to health and safety, hygiene, and food safety procedures.
- Work with and coordinate contractor activity on site, ensuring inductions, permits to work, and site rules are followed.
What You Will Bring:
- Proven engineering or maintenance experience, ideally within a fast paced manufacturing or processing environment as a Maintenance Engineer.
- Strong fault-finding ability for electrical breakdowns, plus knowledge of pneumatic systems and basic mechanical troubleshooting.
- Relevant qualifications such as ONC and/or City and Guilds in electrical and/or mechanical engineering, alongside NVQ Level 3 in the relevant discipline and an 18th Edition certificate or equivalent.
- Working knowledge of PLCs, preferably Siemens, and experience with modern automation systems; frequency inverter setup experience is beneficial.
- Confident communication skills, computer literacy for maintenance systems and Microsoft Office (especially Excel), and a proactive, can-do approach.
You will play a key part in protecting health and safety, supporting reliable operations, and continuously improving how the site works. The Maintenance Engineer role aligns with the company's values of respect, cooperation, and ambition, helping teams deliver excellent day-to-day service across engineering and operations.
Location:
The Maintenance Engineer role is based in the Worcester area.
Interested?:
If you are ready to bring energy, precision, and a genuine problem-solving mindset to a Maintenance Engineer position, apply now to be considered for this exciting 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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