Recruiter

Connectus

Salary

From £32 to £40 per hour

Location

Cheshire

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

A Controls company in the North West are actively seeking an Electrical Design Engineer with Oil and Gas experience.

Although this company work across various industries,they are currently growing their Offshore output. Therefore, it is essential that all applicants have experience in designing Control Panels for the offshore industry and knowledge of associated standards. Applicants with Aero or Marine backgrounds may be considered but Control panel design experience in these industries is essential.

The position is an initial 3-6 month contract, with an extension possible. Ideal start dates are late May / early June.

To apply for this position, candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK

Matchtech Group Plc is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Recruiter

Oliver Valves

Salary

Competitive

Location

Knutsford

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Established for over 30 years, Oliver Twinsafe Ltd. Is one of the Premier needle and ball valve manufacturers in the world. With a turnover of over £50 million, they have shown excellent growth year on year, and they continue to be one of the leading organisations within their industry. Their products are market leaders in many industries including Oil, Gas and Petrochemical. With an outstanding reputation for staff retention, all of their employee’s are provided with support to aid in their personal career development.

The Role

Currently experiencing a period of growth, there are now a number of opportunities for you to join their design team at their Head Office in Knutsford, Cheshire. As a Mechanical Design Engineer, the main purpose of your role will be to process production orders from concept through to final assembly, and to provide technical assistance through all stages of manufacture.

Key Responsibilities

·Co-ordinate and process Customer orders.
·Identify Customer Requirements and produce technical documents.
·Create Bills of Materials in accordance with pre-defined schedules.
·Provide technical support to both customers and internal employees where required.
·Provide Technical Write-ups for quotations.
·Identify Assembly Problems and implement a corrective action plan.


The Successful Candidate

You should be able to show initiative, make decisions at the appropriate level and take responsibility for your own work. At the same time, you should be competent in understanding the impacts of solving a problem in a particular way, and be aware of the positive and negative impact of your actions.

To be successful in this role, you should:

·Be competent with 2D Autocad and 3D Solidworks.
·Be qualified to at least HNC level, preferably supported by a time- served apprenticeship.
·Have a minimum of 3 years experience in a similar role.
·Preferably have an understanding of the Oil/ Gas/ Valves Industry.
·Have experience in a manufacturing environment.


Job Title: Mechanical Design Engineer
Job Location: Cheshire, North West
Salary: £Competitive

Recruiter

Hays - North West

Salary

Competitive

Location

Cheshire

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

1st Line Support/Service Desk Analyst - Up to £25,000 + Excellent Benefits - Cheshire

My client is a global IT Solution provider and due to continued growth an exciting opportunity has arisen for a 1st Line Support/Service Desk Support Analyst to join their busy Service Desk.

Duties and Responsibilities: Experience of providing software support services across a range of industry standard applications and operating systems, providing remote hardware support services across standard desktop/laptop environments. Experience of working in a client facing IT environment and working in an ITIL structured service environment. You must be capable of working unsupervised to agreed timescales with excellent communication skills both verbal and written.

Essential Technical Skills: Experience of MS Windows desktop operating systems, MS Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory.

This role requires working on a shift pattern, so candidates must be willing to work on a rota covering nights, days and weekends shifts.

This is a fantastic opportunity to progress within a challenging role, where you will receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package.
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Recruiter

E-Recruiter

Salary

Competitive

Location

Crewe

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Borderless Networks Consultant -Technical Pre-Sales
London-North West
£40,000-£50,000 - £65,000 OTE + Benefits

The Company

My client is a fast rising consultancy and services organisation that helps organisations conform & transform their business through the intelligent application of information and communications technology. They specialise in designing, implementing, supporting and managing data centre, collaboration and borderless network architectures.

They are in partnership with global brands including Cisco, EMC, VMware, AppSense and VCE and maintains the highest accreditation and training standards with each of these organisations.

The Role

As a Solutions Consultant you will be joining our expanding Solutions team. The company is growing quickly, and the Solutions Consultant will play a crucial role in our ongoing success.

As a Solutions consultant you will ideally be qualified to Cisco CCNP level as a minimum, and be able to demonstrate that their experience and skills reflect this level of qualification. The candidate will already have gained experience in designing and deploying enterprise Cisco solutions and must have a demonstrable track record of career progression to date. Fundamental to the role of the Borderless Networks focussed Solutions Consultant is:

An excellent understanding of Cisco Borderless Networks (Routing & Switching, Wireless LAN and Security) technologies, particularly related to solution design

-Experience of taking a customer requirement and translating that in to a proposal containing a detailed bill of materials and scope of works.
-A clear understanding of the issues that organisations face due to the BYOD / Consumerisation trend and how policy, process and technology can be used to help resolve them.
-Exceptional communication skills, a clear and confident public speaker, with the ability to adapt to address executive, business and technical audiences
-Excellent written English communication skills, to the level required to take ownership of proposal documentation
-A results-oriented ethos, able to apply knowledge and skills in the pursuit of clearly defined sales objectives
-Flexible approach, with a willingness to travel to customers as required and ' go the extra mile' to meet proposal, client and internal deadlines
-Ability to work responsibly under his/her own initiative

Specific responsibilities include:

-Attending customer conference calls and meetings to help qualify sales opportunities with sales team, including regular presentations and demonstrations
-Overall responsibility for the development and finalisation of proposal content, RFIs, RFPs, ITTs
-Co-ordinate technical expertise to correctly specify equipment and estimate consulting days required for solution pricing
-Ownership of solution design within areas of personal expertise
-Keep abreast of vertical industry and horizontal technology developments that may create opportunity or risk for the company
-Work with sales and marketing to help plan, develop and execute sales campaigns
-Act as focal point for knowledge sharing between sales and engineering teams

The ideal candidate will have an IT or Engineering related degree and a CCIE (R&S, Security or Wireless) certification - although neither are mandatory.

If the role above sounds like it suits your skills and experience please apply now! Or email me on [contact details removed]

Recruiter

People Source Consulting

Salary

Competitive

Location

Cheshire

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Head of ICT Service delivery - ITIL Implementation - Northwest UK

I have an urgent requirement for an interim Head of ICT Service delivery / ICT Service Delivery Manager. I would like the successful candidate to start as soon as possible, initially for a six month period.

This role will provide visionary leadership and management to ICT operations across the Council to effectively support the aims and objectives of all services and meet the requirements of residents.

The successful candidate will work effectively as part of the ICT management team and with key senior stakeholders to determine the strategic direction of the ICT service and will ensure the development and successful delivery of corporate ICT services.

The successful candidate will provide leadership and direction, identifying and securing commitment to change and engaging and managing stakeholders in order to deliver service transformation and increased efficiency.

Candidates will be expected to -

Provide professional leadership to the operational ICT function and establish and implement best practice in the use of ICT systems across the Council.

Proactively engage with Strategic Directors, Heads of Services and external partners in the strengthening of the capacity of the ICT service.

Ensure the management of disaster recovery, business continuity and backup processes. The candidate will ensure that the authority’s ICT infrastructure is secure.

Provide leadership, direction and motivation to staff through appropriate management and identification of training and development needs, to ensure their performance and contribution to the Council is maximised.

Promote the authority’s vision, values, policies, aims and objectives through personal example and positive direction to ensure they translate into practical and effective action.

Contribute to a strong, co-ordinated ICT Management Team, helping develop a culture of collaborative working across functions, departments and inter-organisational boundaries.

Effectively manage and monitor budgets and other resources in accordance with City Council policies and service priorities, and lead the development of the Business Plan for the division.

Lead the redesign and development of strategic and operational functions, developing detailed proposals and plans for service transformation, improved efficiency and customer service, reduced costs, transition, implementation and stabilisation of change.

Develop linkages and greater coordinated working with other council services and key stakeholders to ensure that the service contributes to the development and delivery of key priorities with regard to service development and strategic direction.

Your candidate must have the following Technical requirements-

Specifically we are looking for ITIL Implementation skills and ICT Operational Management skills

Track record of successful direct management in a large, complex ICT environment.

Extensive knowledge of local government operations and legislative environment and sound understanding of the challenges facing local authorities, including detailed knowledge of the transformational government agenda.

Starting ASAP / 6 months initially

Please send me your CV in the first instance and I will call you with more details

Head of ICT Service delivery - ITIL Implementation
People Source Consulting Ltd is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

People Source specialise in niche technology markets including Information Technology, Digital TV, Digital Marketing, Project and Programme Management, SAP, Digital and Consumer Electronics, Air Traffic Management, Management Consultancy, Business Intelligence, Manufacturing, Telecoms, Public Sector, Healthcare, Finance and Oil & Gas.

For more jobs similar to this or in one of our other industry sectors please visit the People Source website www.peoplesource.co.uk

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Recruiter

Templeton & Partners

Salary

From £40 to £45 per hour

Location

Cheshire

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Technical Solutions Architect – Major Blue Chip – Cheshire
12 month contract

Qualification and experience:- Cisco CCNA, CCNP, CCDP.ITIL foundation v3.
2 Years’ experience in customer facing role managing network related service issues, incidents and problems
5 years practical experience working as a Network specialist with 4 years experience as TSA/TSE creating network designs and solutions for the following technologies: Cisco Routing and Switching, specifically the following products: 3560, 3750, 4000, 6000, and 2900 Series, Nexus range specifically 5000 and 7000, also activities required in order to install and interface them into existing networks. Cisco Wireless o Cisco VPN/FW o Cisco VSL/VRF configurations
F5 load balancers Personal Skills
Resilient and able to work under considerable pressures
Approachable and able to deal with people of varying levels, knowledge and experience - especially management and key clients

Customer facing multi skilled individual to support service related issues and incidents at a management and technical resolution level. Technically capable and has experience performing TSA and design solutions role. Work with the customer and its suppliers to take their high-level business requirements and create technical solution proposal to meet them. Work with the sales team to define fully costed proposal open for customer acceptance. Create detailed network designs for defined projects in line with industry best practice and specific architectural standards and policies. The following list specifies general roles and responsibilities of what is expected of the TSA.
Service duties; Attend meetings with customer and its suppliers to understand issues relating to the network service; Investigate and resolve issues relating to network services, creating action plans and communicating progress to stake holders; Be familiar with ITIL frame work and terminology in relation to managing faults, issues and improvements; Understand ITIL process and functions and how these apply to network services; Delegate work and tasks associated with resolution of service issues. Bid Work/ Technical Solution Proposals; Meet with the customer and customer representatives to understand their requirements; Document and agree customer requirements from which a Solution proposal will be created; Identify the high level design for the Solution including the tasks, equipment and resource effort to deliver them; Understand the existing architectures and designs deployed within the estate and ensure these are factored in to the solution designs; Be able to create accurate build of materials of network equipment to fulfill the needs of the solution design; Be able to identify the scope of work and those dependant tasks that sit with and their suppliers; Understand the operational support and service model so that any solutions created can be easily deployed and supported; Be aware of Cisco latest standards to ensure new solutions include a future proof platform; Be able to work closely with the Account network Architect to check and validate proposals are in line with latest standards; Peer review other TSA solutions for consistency of approach and metrics; Apply network security principles to your solutions and check designs for compliance; Attend project hand over meeting to ensure network engineer and design resource understand the solution they are to deliver against; Assist the Sales team with resourcing pricing metrics and methodologies; Assist the sales operation to create proposal estimates for the customer to use for budgetary business justification. Network Design; Carry out design work assigned to you, using standard methodologies and established processes and standards; Create high-level and detailed design documents; Understand Standards and policies and reflect these in the network designs produced; Understand client Tooling and monitoring used on the account. Factor these in to the designs; Work with account architect throughout the design process to ensure compliance to latest policies and standards.