Recruiter

Connectus

Salary

Competitive

Location

Altrincham

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Are you a Java Developer looking to join a leading Electronics design and Automation company?

This Java Developer will have a strong engineering, mathematical or computer science background and be accomplished with Core Java / J2SE. You will be working on a highly technical Java-based application suite, which requires a solid knowledge of Object Orientated Programming and Design Principles.

This Java Developer must have skills in:

- Core Java / J2SE
- UML Design
- GUI Development

It would be beneficial to have skills in the following:

-Agile Experience
-UML
- Oracle or Postgres database systems / development environments
-Test Driven Development methods
-Development of CAD, manufacturing, enterprise-level or client / server systems

This is a great opportunity for a Java Developer to be involved in complex and market-leading application development for a globally recognised and acclaimed organisation. You can expect an annual salary of between £30,000 and £38,000 + benefits.

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

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

Recruiter

Hays - North West

Salary

From £22,000 to £25,000 per year

Location

Warrington

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

IT SUPPORT TEAM LEADER

An opportunity with a large, national company supporting retail and business applications. This is an ideal opportunity for someone looking to move up into a team leader position, or someone who is currently a team leader. You will be supervising a team of two 1st line Technicians covering applications and areas such as Active Directory.

You will require previous experience in an IT support position, either from the 1st or 2nd line and looking to move into a more senior role with responsibility for junior members.
Technical skills required include Windows OS, MS Office, Active Directory, knowledge of Servers, networking and applications support. As well as the technical skills, because this is a supervisory level position a level of maturity, leadership and excellent communication skills are required. You will need to be committed to the needs of the business and be prepared to learn bespoke software.

If you feel you are suitable for this please feel free to apply.
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Support Services Group (1)

Salary

From £25,000 to £30,000 per year + overtime & benefits

Location

Stockport

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

An established building services design consultancy is looking to expand its busy south Manchester office with the addition of a Thermal Modeller with extensive TAS (Thermal Analysis Software) experience. The successful applicant will work within an established team to take an active involvement in a variety of refurbishment, modernisation and new build projects. You will be involved in building services projects across a number of sectors including educational, leisure, and commercial. Responsibilities will include carrying out dynamic thermal modelling & simulation work, renewable energy assessments, assisting in BREEAM assessments & contributing to general project delivery and the promotion of technical excellence within the location. You will have demonstrable experience in thermal modelling gained with Consultants or within Academia, be fully competent in the use of relevant engineering TAS software have excellent communication & presentation skills and be familiar with relevant legislation (Building Regulations, Part L etc). Excellent CPD scheme offering good potential for further career progression within this busy location. Package includes competitive basic salary, overtime and additional benefits.

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

Connectus

Salary

Competitive

Location

Warrington

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

I’m currently recruiting for an exciting permanent opportunity for a Monitoring, Control & Automation (MCA) Programme Manager in Warrington. Managing projects directly through the MCA department, you will be responsible for developing, maintaining and co-ordinating a programme of projects from need identification through to project closure.

Supporting the MCA Portfolio Delivery Manager in working with the MCA Strategy & Engineering teams, you will establish and manage a programme of work, across multiple areas of the organisation to deliver all MCA activities within agreed constraints of time, quality and cost, ensuring that MCA deliver excellent customer satisfaction.
Directing and coordinating Demand/Supply Forecasts for current and future work load for the programme of work. You will also be responsible for managing programmes that may require a business change work stream to be delivered as part of the programme.


Role details, Skills, Experience

The MCA department was established in April 2012, and already they have developed a £70 million portfolio of projects. You will be instrumental in contributing to this success by helping to deliver a programme of works with an approximate value of £30 million within the overall MCA portfolio.

You will report to the MCA Portfolio Delivery Manager and will be responsible for a team of up to twenty staff including Project Managers. You will also indirectly manage up to approximately fifty staff through a matrix resource management structure, and be responsible for packages of work delivered by partners and contractors.


Essential Criteria including any necessary qualifications

To succeed in this role you will:
* Significant Programme Management experience, managing multiple projects and complex programmes to time, cost and quality constraints.
* Be a Chartered Engineer with significant ICA experience.
* Possesses a formal project management qualification (e.g. APM). Have an exceptional track record of delivering programmes on time, to budget, and to the required quality.
* Strong knowledge and experience of ICA technologies, and good awareness of IT technologies and design processes.
* Experience in managing resources in a matrix organisation, also managing 3rd party suppliers and contractors.
* Significant experience at Effective stakeholder management at a variety of different levels.
* Business case and cost-modelling development experience.
* Experience of leading programmes of work that include business change work streams.
* Preferably have experience of the water industry (this is not an essential requirement) & experience in appropriate health and safety regulations (i.e. CDM, HASAWA etc).

The package includes a £5000 per annum Car Cash Allowance, Healthcare, Direct Contribution Pension Scheme, Eligibility for up to 20% bonus and 26 days holiday rising to 30 for every completed year of service. Range of flexible benefits including. Buying and selling holidays, child care vouchers, on line and in store discounts.

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

Recruiter

OCC Computer Personnel (Northern) Ltd (0)

Salary

From £45,000 to £55,000 per year

Location

Stockport

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Seeking a Software Development Manager in Stockport and paying up to £55k for the right person, plus Pension Plan, Profit Related Bonus and Private Health Ins.

An IT application engineering and systems delivery company, with the technical expertise to deliver software solutions and services tailored to client's needs. Founded over 30 years ago, and having built superb reputation as a quality supplier whose approach is to grow long-term relationships with clients through delivery of successful projects. The supply chain products are market leaders and offerings cover entire project lifecycle.

Purpose of role is to manage software development team to produce software to agreed quality and timescales using key development disciplines and practices.

Duties and Responsibilities

* Responsible for setting and managing objectives for software development team
* Able to take task list and plan, understanding timescales, priorities and team competencies
* Remain focused delivering results even when under pressure
* Manage staff workloads and conflicting priorities whilst monitoring and improving quality of outputs
* Provide reports on progress against objectives
* Undertake defect management responsibility and able to produce documentation, proactively ensuring teams are producing required documentation as well
* Able to estimate projects and work though issues and technical problems before escalating queries
* Pro-active in suggesting and implementing changes to improve efficiency and technical functionality
* Follow design, build, documentation, test and delivery cycles set
* Use software tools, including source code, testing, implementation and documentation
* Able to interact comfortably at technical / business level with clients
* Exposure to pre-sales, able to work unsupported at client sites
* Demonstrate ability to lead, coach and motivate teams and able to delegate work whilst developing knowledge sharing across the team

Required:

* Commerical experience of managing software teams
* Exposure to Agile and Scrum techniques
* Analysis skills of operational / business needs and able to understand technical issues
* Able to work at both detailed and abstract levels and analyse and solve problems creatively
* Ability to work to deadlines and budgets with self-sufficiency and pro-activeness
* Good communication, presentational, organization and planning skills
* Willingness and ability to create / adapt to new technologies
* Ability to launch new projects/activities and follow through to completion
* Persuasiveness, adaptability, innovation and judgement

If the above describes your skills and experience, then get your CV to me urgently, ensuring the CV makes clear how you match up to these requirements specifically.

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.