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Just Recruitment is seeking a UK Sales Manager to join a company based in Braintree, who is a pragmatic leader, accustomed to working in medium-sized business structures, and has leadership experience of small teams.

This office-based role will involve client visits approximately three days per week. It offers an exceptional opportunity with diverse and exciting tasks, alongside a dynamic team and a collegial working environment. Company mobile phone, laptop and a company car to include private use.

You will have at least 2 years’ business-to-business direct sales experience, preferably in the electrical / tools / PPE / sector.

Role will involve:

• Leading and inspiring the UK sales team under your responsibility: conduct individual interviews, develop skills, handle conflicts, participate in recruitment, etc.
• You will supervise relationships with key accounts and also acquire new key accounts, especially in the area of (electrical) distributors and wholesalers.
• Strategic Deployment: define the development strategies, translate operational actions, and oversee their implementation.
• You will be monitoring the market and your competitors and defining actions in order to grow the business.
• Ensuring compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements.
• Developing the commercial policy, product offerings, and pricing conditions; prioritising and allocating resources; developing sales forecasts; monitoring margins on direct costs.
• Facilitating decision-making and resource coordination, ensuring efficiency in expenses and investments, monitoring regulatory changes, evolving organisation and procedures, establishing and updating performance indicators, and monitoring service effectiveness and efficiency.
• You will be working in close collaboration with the colleagues in Product Management and R&D.
• Ensuring budget management and reporting for the service.
• Coordinating with the Sales Department and local Service Managers.

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Due to continued growth, a leading UK Supplier of premium building products, systems and solutions is recruiting for a CNC Machine Setter Operator.

Working hours: 40 hours per week on a weekly rotation shift comprising earlies and lates.

Early shift:
Monday to Friday, 6am – 2pm (paid 0.5hr lunch).
Total = 40hrs

Late shift:
Monday to Thursday, 2pm – 11pm = 36 hrs. (paid 0.5hr lunch)
Friday 2pm – 6pm = 4 hrs.
Total = 40hrs

Key requirements include:

• Proven experience as a CNC Machine Setter Operator / Programmer
• Working knowledge of diverse high-speed machinery and measurement tools
• Previous setting/programming knowledge of CNC multi-spindle machines preferred
• Previous Mazak CNC machine experience is advantageous
• Ability to adapt to change
• Tool setting
• Part inspection

Role will involve:

• Setting up machines (calibration, cleaning, etc.) to start a production cycle
• Producing components in accordance with layouts, drawings, sketches, production orders or verbal instructions, working to the stated limits of tolerance
• Controlling and adjusting machine settings (e.g., speed)
• Feeding raw material or parts to semi-automated machines
• Inspecting parts with precision and measuring tools
• Testing the operation of machines periodically
• Fixing issues that might occur during the shift
• Checking output to spot any machine-related mistakes or flaws
• Keeping records of approved and defective units or final products
• Maintaining activity logs
• Using cranes and forklifts

Benefits include:

• Holidays: 25 days' holiday, plus bank holidays
• Salary Sacrifice Pension
• Scheme Cycle 2 Work Scheme
• Quarterly Employee Recognition Scheme
• Benefits Hub (Discounts, Rewards and Perks on 1,000s of brands)
• Health and Wellbeing Employee Assistance Platform
• Free parking

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Just Recruitment is supporting a growing business in Sudbury that is looking for a Sales and Office Assistant to join their team.

Duties include:

• Taking telephone orders and answering customer queries/taking telephone messages
• Processing customers' orders, picking stock and processing customer details
• Assisting the E-commerce Sales Manager in labelling stock, making up boxes, inserting marketing materials, etc
• Assisting with creating purchase orders
• Assisting with replies to email enquiries
• Sending out written customer communications as required
• Processing customer account statements

Hours:

Monday to Thursday, 9.00am - 5.30pm
Friday 8.30am - 5.00pm

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Just Recruitment is currently recruiting for a Service Engineer, ideally located in the Guildford area, to cover South East London and the South East England region.

The role will involve carrying out routine servicing and maintenance, including filter changes and breakdown repairs, across a wide range of company units. You will need to have a good level of physical fitness and be comfortable working at heights.

Occasional call-out cover will also be required to support a key local customer.

Key requirements include:

• Must have a full driving licence
• Must be Gas Safe Registered, ideally with CoNGLP1 PD COCN 1 CIGA 1
• CDGA 1 ACS accreditations
• Electrical/Mechanical/Engineering background required
• Experience with gas/oil burners
• Self-motivated and innovative
• Ability to use initiative and have excellent customer liaison skills

The benefits package includes:

• Competitive salary depending on experience, overtime, paid door to door (at 1.5x (travel included)
• Company Vehicle
• Mobile Phone / Tablet
• Pension
• Private Health Scheme
• 25 Days Holidays

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Just Recruitment is currently recruiting an Electrical Maintenance Engineer for their client based in Braintree, Essex.

The purpose of this role is to take a proactive approach to preventing equipment failure and to ensure that all planned preventative maintenance (PM) schedules are completed effectively and on time.

You will work as an integral part of the maintenance team, supporting the achievement of quality, waste reduction, efficiency, and KPI targets, while ensuring all Health & Safety procedures are adhered to at all times.

Working hours: Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 4.30pm.
20 days holiday rising to 25 days for every year worked, plus bank holidays.
The company operates a 1:3 call-out system.

Qualifications and job skills required:

• Previous manufacturing / processing / warehouse / cold store industry experience.
• Electrical bias, electrical qualifications/time served apprenticeship.
• 4 years’ experience
• A good standard of both written and oral English.
• Basic Health & Safety.
• Data and analytical skills.
• Computer literate. (Word/Excel/Windows-based packages).

Desirable skills:

• PLC, hydraulics, temperature control, instrumentation, welding, FLT/MEWP licence.
• Can do approach, drive and ambition towards maintenance excellence.

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.

Just Recruitment is supporting a growing, sector-leading business in Sudbury that is looking for a Part-Time Finance Manager to join their team.

The key purpose of this role is to manage the Finance Department and to support senior management in all areas of finance and accounting, reporting directly to the MD and being responsible for an Accounts Assistant.

Key duties include:

• Reconciling current accounts on SAGE.
• Updating the cash flow spreadsheet and reviewing.
• Loading purchase invoices onto SAGE and distributing them for approval.
• Producing Balance of Accounts for Finance Meeting.
• Reviewing the sales ledger and purchase ledger.
• Compiling supplier invoices, reviewing and loading for payment via Bacs, updating SAGE and sending remittance advice.
• Managing SAGE backups.
• Reconciling all bank accounts against paper statements.
• Loading credit card payments onto SAGE and reconciling against the paper statement.
• Calculating commission figures for payroll.
• Processing wages – gathering all timesheets and expenses, compiling and sending to an outsourced company, receiving documents and payslips back, loading Bacs payments and sending payslips and loading Journals onto SAGE.
• Downloading monthly supplier invoices.
• Creating monthly sales invoices.
• Compiling and filing VAT returns.
• Compiling required documents for accountants at the financial year end, processing SAGE year-end end and communicating as necessary with accountants
• Managing commercial and vehicle insurance. Reviewing current circumstances, reassessing cover and requirements, and supplying supporting documents.
• All property management tasks with support from the Accounts Assistant.
• Reconciling rental payments from the agent’s statement.
• Communicating with and managing tenants when required.
• Supporting other departments as required.

This is a part-time role - working 20 - 25 hours per week - this role is office-based, and the ideal candidate will be able to work Tuesdays and Thursdays, but hours can be flexible.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a lovely business, with a great ethos and a long-standing team.

Just Recruitment acts as an employment agency for permanent roles.
We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates.