Process Engineer | Manufacturing Engineer

Process Engineer | Manufacturing Engineer

Connect 4 are working with a globally recognised company that turn over £1.5 Billion a year. The company has recently opened a vacancy for a Process engineer to support the project manager through the definition of detailed and accurate processes based on customer product drawings and specifications. Duties would include providing detailed analysis and design of assembly processes that accurately reflect product drawings, specifications and manufacturing considerations, including Automation Process Engineer, Good working knowledge of AutoCAD, Knowledge of joining methods, Good working knowledge of Catia V5 and tool design, Understanding of RobCad and complete cell design, Good general level of computer literacy,

– Method of assembly, i.e. manual vs. automation process choice, flow, throughput optimization, tooling and handling

– Recommendation of location strategy

– Recommendation of best practices or alternative processes

– Assignment of process synthetics to actions so as to establish process cycle times

Key skills needed:

  • Automation Process Engineer
  • Good working knowledge of AutoCAD
  • Knowledge of joining methods
  • Good working knowledge of Catia V5 and tool design
  • Understanding of RobCad and complete cell design
  • Good general level of computer literacy

Type: Long term Contract

Rate: £30 – £40 ph

Location: West Midlands

Layout Engineer | Facility Engineer | Facilities Engineer

Layout Engineer | Facility Engineer | Facilities Engineer

Connect 4 are working with a globally recognised company that turn over £1.5 Billion a year. They are now recruiting a layout engineer to join the expanding team. As a layout engineer you’ll be responsible to provide layout technical solution within the Customers timing, cost constraints and expectations, prepare timely and accurate technical specifications to customer and product requirements, effectively interact with the Process, Design and RobCad teams so as to create and maintain accurate Plant Layout drawings, taking lean manufacturing principles into account.

 

Key Skills needed:

Layout Engineer | Facility Engineer | Facilities Engineer

Experience working with AutoCAD, Factory CAD and Vision MockUp

Knowledge of Catia V5

Good understanding of factory simulation techniques

Good working knowledge of MS Project

Awareness of lean manufacturing methodologies

 

Type: Long Term Contract

Rate: £30 – £40 ph

Location: Rugby

Controls Project Engineer | Project Engineer | Controls

Controls Project Engineer | Project Engineer | Controls

Connect 4 are working with a company that has recently won prestigious projects in the automotive sector, including an £80million project in the North West.

Because of the growth of the business they are seeking a highly skilled and motivated person who will be responsible for managing a Controls team and coordinate with sales, estimating, mechanical and Controls TL’s and installation and commissioning team.

  • Understand the requirements for Controls Hardware, Fluids, Software design, the interface requirements with equipment needs, to produce an estimate that supports the proposed solutions.
  • Develop relationships with the Customer to ensure they are confident with technical solutions, costs & resource support / strategy to deliver the project.
  • Manage a team of Controls engineers and respective TL’s supporting the delivery of Control System projects.
  • Demonstrate Lessons learnt are being followed up.
  • At all times be aware of the project status including timing and scope changes.
  • Be able to support all Controls, robotic and joining technical issues.
  • Be able to support and coordinate the design and commissioning of PLC / Safety software, robot programming and joining technology activities if required.
  • Visit the Customer to ensure what was agreed is being delivered & understand new project work strategies.
  • Support Customer changes with cost & technical solutions.
  • Be prepared to support the controls teams on the customers sites as required to deliver the project within the agreed restraints.
  • Close the project in a timely manner including producing all required documentation.
  • Complete Systems training to the customer if required.
  • Develop and manage Budget KPI trackers including Actual and CTC activity, maintaining hours and cost control of all elements of Controls deliverables.
  • Develop, instruct and monitor progress and resources in all areas of Controls deliverables to ensure on time delivery and quality.
  • Manage Quality Assurance process, checklists, milestone events and sign offs.

Person / Experience Required

  • Must have worked on Industrial Automation solutions preferably within the BIW/PWT sectors
  • Proven background and history within project coordination, delivery, technical leadership and equipment commissioning.
  • Be conversant and experienced with PLC & Robotic Systems
  • Be conversant and experienced with Motion Control Systems.
  • Be conversant with Microsoft main stream software packages that must include MS Project.
  • Strong communication skills at all levels.
  • Demonstrable experience of problem solving & implementation of countermeasures.
  • Be prepared if required to work within our Sectors of the Company’s organization to support International projects and use of common standards.

Qualifications

  • Minimum HNC in Electrical Engineering and have an appreciation of Mechanical / Robotic engineering.
  • Training qualification to support PLC programming.
  • Experience of main stream joining technologies, such as spot welding, riveting and sealant
  • Significant customer site working experience.
  • Formal project management qualifications / experience preferred

Type: Contract

Duration: Ongoing

Location: Midlands

Rate: £30-£40ph

Health & Safety Advisor | H&S Advisor | Nebosh

Health & Safety Advisor | H&S Advisor | Nebosh

Connect 4 are working with a company that has recently won prestigious projects in the automotive sector, including an £80million project in the North West.

Because of the growth of the business they are seeking a highly skilled and motivated person who will be responsible for the Health and safety on an automotive site in Halewood.

Being the Health and Safety advisor, you will be required to communicate between the client and main contractor on site, ensuring the safety on site is kept to a high standard whilst maintaining good relationships with everyone to improve working safety.

Key Skills:

Health and Safety Cert Nebosh or equivalent

Automotive experience

RAMs

Risk Assessments

Type: Contract

Duration: Ongoing

Location: Midlands

Rate: £19-£25ph

Mechanical Fitter | Automotive | Robotics

Mechanical Fitter | Automotive | Robotics

 

Connect 4 are seeking skilled Mechanical Fitters based in the Sunderland area. Being a professional Mechanical Fitter, you would need to have skills including Robotics, Automotive, Mechanical Fitting and Mechanical Qualification City & Guilds or apprentice.

 

Key Skills:

Mechanical Fitter

Robotics

Automotive

Mechanical Fitting

Mechanical qualification City & Guilds or apprentice

 

Location: Sunderland

Type: Contract

Rate: £12.50 -£15 ph

Manufacturing Engineer | Mechanical technician | Toolmaker | Robotics | Contract 

Manufacturing Engineer | Mechanical technician | Toolmaker | Robotics | Contract

We are currently hiring for a globally recognised company based in the midlands for a Manufacturing Engineer | Mechanical technician | Toolmaker to join a leading project in the Automotive industry worth £80million.

Being the skilled Manufacturing Engineer | Mechanical technician | Toolmaker you will be expected to have a high level of ability and experience with jigs, fixtures, hydraulics, pneumatics and tooling.

Key skills:
Manufacturing Engineer | Mechanical technician | Toolmaker
Conveyors

Hydraulics,

Pneumatics
Robotics
Jigs
Fixtures
Welding and
Tooling
Contract

Type: Contract
Rate: Negotiable

Robot Programmer | Fanuc | Programming | Robot

Robot Programmer | Fanuc | Programming | Robot

Connect 4 are working with a globally recognised company that turn over £1.5 Billion a year. The company has recently invested in the North East by building a new facility that needs a skilled robot programmer to help with the programming of Fanuc robots within the automotive/PWT/Powertrain industry specifically looking at Robot Programming within powertrain.

Key Skills Needed:

Robot Programmer

Experience within robot programming

Experience with Fanuc robots

Experience with powertrain (beneficial but not essential)

Automotive (beneficial but not essential)

Type: Contract

Rate: £35 per hour (negotiable)

Location: Sunderland

Technical Recruitment | Recruiter | Senior Recruitment Consultant

Technical Recruitment | Recruiter | Senior Recruitment Consultant

Salary/Rate: £21,000 – £26,000/annum

Location Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire

Company Connect4

Description Technical Recruitment | Recruiter | Senior Recruitment Consultant

Connect 4 are currently seeking ambitious, driven, technical individuals to join our successful recruitment team in Bishops Stortford.

Being a recruitment consultant with Connect 4 offers the opportunity of great progression and support including full online and one to one training and developing into 360 recruiters and team leaders.

Being an employee of Connect 4 will offer progression in the way of moving up in the position from trainee to Senior Recruitment Consultant / Recruitment Team Leader Position/Office Manager.

Connect 4 have regular team events.

Key skills and attributes needed:

– Recruitment Process.

– Sales and Closing.

– Excellent listening and communication levels.

– Ability to gain maximum information in limited times.

– Can adapt and evolve to surroundings and difficult situations.

– Hard working and wants to achieve.

– Solution finders.

– Terms of Business Negotiation.

Background or education desired:

– Letting Advisor

– Sales Negotiator

– Insurance sales

– Property Sales/lettings

Salary: £21,000 – £26,000/annum / Negotiable depending on experience

Type: Permanent

Location: Bishops Stortford

Job Type: Permanent

Proposal & Estimating | Contract | Manufacturing

Proposal & Estimating | Contract | Manufacturing

Connect 4 are seeking a professional Proposals / Estimating engineer to help with the growth of a globally recognised company that have recently won large scale projects in the Midlands area.

Being the Proposals / Estimating engineer you will be preparing proposals and estimating for the projects, this will be preparing documents, attend meetings, gather and develop proposal documentation.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Receipt of formal Enquiries (RFQs) from potential customers, promptly and accurately analysing the base requirements
  • Convene Enquiry Review Meetings involving all appropriate personnel in order to support bid/no bid decisions
  • To effectively develop a base Proposal and documentation ensuring that the outputs of other contributors are incorporated in the appropriate format into the Proposal document
  • To provide timely and effective assistance in the preparation of commercial forecasts and budgetary information
  • To ensure that the tasks necessary for the preparation of the associated proposal are properly apportioned and that these tasks are undertaken with due regard for the date of submission
  • To provide timely and effective assistance in the preparation of the Estimate associated with the RFQ as required, including preparing and issuing the appropriate technical and commercial enquiries, as well as liaising with sub-suppliers in order to obtain sub-contract prices as required
  • To either prepare or support the preparation of the final documentation for authorisation of the project internally and for submission to the client, and accurately maintain all necessary internal records relating to proposals, estimated costs, supporting documentation and drawings, including details of orders acquired as a result of proposals as well as those received as variations to existing orders
  • To provide effective assistance with liaison with the potential customer at all stages of the Proposals process
  • Upon receipt of a customer order, to collate all necessary technical and commercial data, to convene the “Sales Handover” meeting and to participate in the cascading of data to Project Team personnel
  • Correct reporting and maintenance of files, folders and other records associated with commercial activities

Requirements

  • Formal presentation skills and computer literacy
  • Report writing
  • BIW manufacturing methods and processes and costings
  • Understanding of project costs – design, management, installation, etc.
  • Understanding of new technologies and methods
  • Good level of numeracy and literacy

Location: Rugby
Type: Contract
Duration: Ongoing
Ref: VR/03214/JB

Controls Engineer | Controls | Automation Engineer

Controls Engineer | Controls | Automation Engineer

We are seeking an experienced and skilled controls engineer to help with the running of a automation system. The position will require being a specialist in PLC’s, Controls Systems, Coding, Automation systems and speaking with other departments.

Key Skills needed:

PLC’s

Controls Systems

Coding

Automation systems

Speaking with other departments

Location: Midlands

Rate: £40,000 – £50,000 + competitive package