Zenith People, the friendly and professional recruitment agency
- Create monthly email marketing campaigns targeted to specific groups/demographics
- Social media management – Including delivering creative and engaging social media strategies, writing content and creating social graphics where required
- Creating monthly email newsletter to customers
- Liaise with company who provide us with data to discuss new contacts, demographics and add to CRM system.
- Case studies – organise interviews with clients to carry out case studies as and when required, this includes video case studies.
- Creating and posting of blogs on the company website
- PR – news articles to be created as and when required.
- Attending exhibitions/networking events
- Attending events with business development groups we are currently members of.
- Video case studies – as and when required these should be organised with clients.
- Ongoing website development including uploading of news articles, case studies etc.
- Raise proposals as and when necessary
- Follow up proposals with clients ensuring notes are maintained on their CRM system.
- Maintain CRM system
- Analysing data from company social media and website.
- GoogleAds – Check the campaigns on a weekly basis to ensure continued return on investment
- Keeping up to date with the latest techniques, marketing trends and insights.
- Strong background with previous Sales and Marketing experience
- Experience with email marketing and social media content
- Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
- Outstanding time management, planning and organisation skills
- Excellent communication skills.
Job Features
Job Category | Commercial |
Salary | £40,000 |
- Careful diary planning of client meetings
- Upload documents in advance to Share Point
- Liaise with the Certification Body to provide support to clients
- Liaise with 3rd party auditors
- Support clients with surveillance audits, attending remotely
- Cover Pre-Audit Support
- Manage own clients in company CRM
- Update CRM
- Any other business as required
- Experience of working with Iso standards desirable but not essential
- Previous admin/client support experience
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Attention to detail
Job Features
Job Category | Commercial |
Salary | £25,000 |
- A deep software engineering background and mindset. You’ve seen several different programming paradigms and languages. You understand design patterns – and know when not to use them. You know what it means to develop bullet proof software in a fast-paced environment where bugs cost money.
- Strong communication skills, written and spoken, you can communicate complex subjects concisely.
- Deep experience developing in Python. You’ve used it at scale, you have a deep knowledge of the language and many of its commonly used packages. You believe in testing your code to destruction, using several different testing frameworks. You’re a Pythonista who loves the language and embraces its culture.
- Experience in one of the JVM languages. You’ve used it at scale and have excellent knowledge of the language and its associated ecosystem.
- Strong knowledge of Spark or other data focused work on massive, complex datasets. You’ve built, tested and tuned spark jobs that operate on giant data sets.
- A great working knowledge of financial derivative products, their risks, and how the front to back process to process them works
- Some exposure to cloud-based systems (ideally Microsoft Azure) and a desire to learn more.
- Some exposure to web-based UI frameworks would be useful, though not essential
- A desire to learn Python You are:
- A passionate engineer. Dedicated to building software that end users love. You enjoy working in a fast-paced agile environment.
- A dev-ops evangelist. Committed to helping to improve the developer experience for everybody working on the ACQA platform and interacting with your code.
- A teacher. You enjoy helping those around you develop their skills, while you develop your own.
- Collaborative by nature. You enjoy working in a highly skilled team where the best ideas win. Even if they are not yours. You are equally happy developing something new or building on the work of others.
Job Features
Job Category | IT and Digital |
Salary | £600 - £650 Per Day |
- To produce daily, weekly and month end reporting which provides a professional service to both internal and external customers
- To ensure location assets are safeguarded and have adequate processes in place to support financial reporting.
- To ensure all internal controls are in place, that they are maintained and updated as necessary to meet company requirements and to actively participate in internal audit processes
- Overhead cost analysis
- Month end journals and reconciliations
- Assist with the standard costing and works order processes
- Ensure through timely and accurate provision of information the reporting of all financial results including financial statements, midyear reviews, forecasts, budgeting and all cost and financial reporting is done to schedule.
- Help with provision of required information for statutory reporting and taxation departments at head office.
- Offer support and advice to other locations within the division as needed.
- Provide information to support financial planning, budgeting and forecasting.
- Ensure accounting practises are carried out in accordance with current standards.
- Assist on special projects as required, as part of the Finance team and the wider business.
- Part of team which ensures that all accounting data and reporting requirements for the division are completed in a timely and accurate manner to corporate deadlines. This includes budgeting, planning and forecasting processes as well as regular cadence calls.
- Ensures that adequate internal controls are in place to ensure that business assets are safeguarded
- Provides timely and accurate data and analysis as required for management teams and Finance community.
- Newly qualified, passed finalist or finalist – CIMA or ACCA.
- Previous experience of cost accounting within a manufacturing environment to defined procedures, rules and policies is desirable.
- Experience of a standard costing environment is desirable.
- Previous experience of working across borders in a multi-national organisation is an advantage.
- Previous experience of project cost accounting would be advantageous.
- Previous experience of audit processes is desirable.
- Strong working knowledge MS Office (particularly Excel) is essential
- Experience of JD Edwards would be an advantage
- Strong communications and interpersonal skills which allow the job holder to influence and persuade at all levels within the organisation.
- Good analytical and problem-solving skills are required.
- Self motivated with the ability to work on own initiative either alone or as part of the team working to and achieving strict timescales
- Ability and willingness to continually expand and develop professional financial knowledge.
Job Features
Job Category | Commercial |
Salary | £40,000 |
- Ensure all tasks are carried out in an accordance with established standard operating procedures.
- Operate semi-automated and automated high speed production equipment including setting tasks that require a high degree of dexterity and accuracy.
- Responsible for Quality control and inspection procedures.
- Achieve expected efficiency, quality, and quantity outputs.
- Participate and contribute to ensure continuous improvement is achieved.
- Any other duties commensurate with the position as and when required.
- 3 years’ minimum experience in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
- Capable of carrying out basic maintenance and setting tasks.
- Demonstrate a good mechanical/technical aptitude.
- Awareness/knowledge of statistical process control.
- Good computer literacy.
- Be flexible in availability to achieve manufacturing objectives and production plans.
- Ability to work either a 3 shift or continental shift pattern.
- Company pension
- Cycle to work scheme
- Free on-site parking
- 12-hour shift
- Day shift
- Night shift
- Overtime
- Weekend availability
- Washington, Tyne and Wear: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
- Production: 5 years (preferred)
Job Features
Job Category | Engineering and Manufacturing |
Salary | £29,000 - £34,500 |
- Finding and rectifying faults on Press Tooling equipment
- Maintenance of Progression Press Tooling
- Assisting with the development and improvement of Progression Tools
- Press Setting
- Working closely with Engineers and Technicians
- Weekend overtime working is occasionally required.
- Any other duties associated with the position as and when required:
- Must be totally flexible in approach, and maybe required to assist in other departments if and when required.
- Experience in high volume manufacturing not heavy industry
- Must be time served and qualified to a minimum level of ONC.
- All round machining skills particularly in Surface Grinding and Cylindrical Grinding
- Capable of working to tight tolerances
- At least two years recent post apprenticeship experience
- Good problem-solving skills.
- PC literate
- Be flexible and adaptable.
- Good communication skills.
- Ability to deal with people at all levels.
- Keen and enthusiastic
- Ability to work unsupervised.
- Washington, Tyne, and Wear: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Job Features
Job Category | Engineering and Manufacturing |
Salary | £39,692 |
- Diagnosing and rectifying faults on production equipment.
- Perform thorough maintenance as scheduled by the CMMS.
- Work as part of the Production shift team communicating issues to other Technicians and Engineers.
- Complete shift log, detailing all relevant information to ensure continuation and/or review of repair.
- Assisting with the commissioning, development, and improvement of production equipment.
- Some overtime work is expected.
- Any other duties commensurate with the position as and when required.
- Be time served and qualified to a minimum of BTEC ONC.
- Be willing to undergo training as identified through Engineers/Team Leaders.
- Help to develop and improve PPM’s.
- Have at least two years recent post apprenticeship experience.
- Candidates should have experience in a similar role including a good knowledge of Electro - Pneumatic machinery which is PLC controlled.
- Experience in FMCG. Not heavy industry
- Capable of machining to <0.1mm tolerances on lathe/milling m/c.
- Mechanical or Electrical bias but Multi skilled
- Good diagnostic/problem solving and communication skills.
- The ability to work unsupervised or as part of a team and assist in prioritization where applicable.
- Ability to perform when under pressure.
- Washington, Tyne, and Wear: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Job Features
Job Category | Engineering and Manufacturing |
Salary | £50,737.67 |
- Troubleshoot user issues related to Databricks (Spark) and suggest optimizations.
- Guide teams on best practices of Databricks cluster management.
- Consult and assist teams in developing, implementing, and maintaining sustainable, high-performance data processing and integration systems.
- Improve data access methods to provide a secure and compliant self-service platform.
- Guide users to find cost-effective setups while maintaining efficiency.
- Implement observability solutions in Databricks to reduce costs.
- Encourage the adoption of Databricks features like Photon and Graviton instances.
- Review current infrastructure to identify cost-saving opportunities.
- 3+ years of experience in data engineering application development using Spark, preferably in an enterprise environment on Microsoft Azure.
- 5+ years of experience in building enterprise big data/data engineering applications using continuous integration tools like Azure DevOps.
- Strong Databricks and Spark expertise with the ability to train and guide others.
- Proficient in Python/PySpark and SQL (Spark SQL).
- Experience with Git and a strong understanding of reusable software design patterns.
- Proficiency in Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure Log Analytics, Azure KeyVault, and Git.
- Design and implementation of production-grade solutions.
- Practical experience in applying agile methodologies and DevOps practices.
- Excellent analytical and conceptual skills to understand complex technology stacks and dependencies.
- Enterprise system integration experience.
- Knowledge of the insurance industry.
- Background in finance & accounting or actuarial knowledge.
Job Features
Job Category | IT and Digital |
Salary | £500 - £550 Per Day |
- Carrying out EICR inspections within domestic properties.
- Identifying defects, deterioration, damages and/or conditions.
- Carrying out any remedial works needed on site.
- Competing up to 4 EICR's per day.
- This role will require travelling across the North East so candidates must be willing to travel.
- Must have previous experience conducting EICR's.
- 17th/18th Edition.
- MUST have a full UK Driving License.
- Willing to work across the North East.
- Must NVQ Level 3 qualified.
- 2391 (or equivalent) Qualified with Inspection & Testing experience.
- Good understanding of modern test equipment for all uses.
- Experience with fault finding on electrical systems (preferred but not essential.)
- Company van
- Fuel card
- Bonus
Job Features
Job Category | Construction |
Rate: | £65 per test |
- Provide support to the sales & marketing team in duties that support the generation of new business to the company. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Daily updating and analysis of our business CRM, Pipedrive
- Internal sales and marketing reporting
- Creating proposals and written presentations that promote the brand, products and services
- Researching sectors, industry and company profiles to understand markets and customer needs and behaviours
- Social media post creation, scheduling and analytics
- Supporting the creation of marketing materials
- Website maintenance
- Producing quotes
- Co-ordinating internal and external events
- Supporting collation of data entries for bids/tenders/funding applications
- Collating tender response answers that form an adaptable template and maintain the internal tender & bid library
- Engaging with all relevant stakeholders to deliver the above
- Other duties commensurate to the role.
- Social media competency
- Proficient in MS Office suite
- Experience with CRMs
- Excel capabilities
- Internal reporting experience
- Copy writing experience – desirable, but must demonstrate high level of written language -essential
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and analytics not essential but desirable
- Team player, able to work collaboratively
- Able to build and maintain positive relationships
- Inquisitive, researching mindset
- High attention to detail, strong reasoning and judgement skills
Job Features
Job Category | Commercial |
Salary | £25,000 - £27,000 |
- Build and maintain strong, long-lasting client relationships through regular communication and engagement
- Understand client’s needs and objectives, and proactively address any concerns to ensure overall satisfaction
- Serve as the point of contact for clients, address inquiries and providing timely and effective solutions
- Research and identify potential new clients and business opportunities in target markets
- Follow up any enquires or warm leads that come into the business from a number of channels
- Provide feedback to the organization based on client interactions, contributing to product/service enhancements
- Maintain accurate records of client interactions and transactions
- Previous Sales/Account Management experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Highly organised and working to targets
- Strong work ethic
- Team player
Job Features
Job Category | Commercial |
Salary | £26,000 - £32,000 |
- Work to and continuously improve a sourcing strategy to support the business goals and strategy with capital expenditure
- Source, evaluate and negotiate with new suppliers to best meet the current & future needs to capital projects
- Identify areas of risk in the supply chain, effectively prioritise, develop and implement plans to mitigate any risks to supply
- Liaise with the Project teams to fully understand the technical and commercial requirements needed for the scope of works
- Develop SC project plan to ensure the activities are coordinated and managed effectively
- Benchmark suppliers and analyse trends to protect against price increases
- Track all costs against original estimates and communicated and risks to margin with the bottom line
- Build and develop a list of approved suppliers who can support with multiple projects across the business
- Develop and improve supplier relationships and performance through regular and positive communication
- Ensure suppliers are working safely and report near miss incidents
- Prepare enquiries and present quotation analysis
- Raise PO’s for capex project requirements
- Resolve invoicing issues in a timely manner.
- Educated to degree level or similar
- Hold or working towards a CIPS Qualification
- Experience of working as a Project Buyer or hold strong purchasing experience
- Strong Project Management experience
- Excellent IT and Analytical skills
- Strong communication skills.
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
- Work from home
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- Bonus scheme
Job Features
Job Category | Engineering and Manufacturing |
Salary | £40,000 - £50,000 |
- Work to and continuously improve a sourcing strategy to support the business goals and strategy with capital expenditure
- Source, evaluate and negotiate with new suppliers to best meet the current & future needs to capital projects
- Identify areas of risk in the supply chain, effectively prioritise, develop and implement plans to mitigate any risks to supply
- Liaise with the Project teams to fully understand the technical and commercial requirements needed for the scope of works
- Develop SC project plan to ensure the activities are coordinated and managed effectively
- Benchmark suppliers and analyse trends to protect against price increases
- Track all costs against original estimates and communicated and risks to margin with the bottom line
- Build and develop a list of approved suppliers who can support with multiple projects across the business
- Develop and improve supplier relationships and performance through regular and positive communication
- Ensure suppliers are working safely and report near miss incidents
- Prepare enquiries and present quotation analysis
- Raise PO’s for capex project requirements
- Resolve invoicing issues in a timely manner.
- Educated to degree level or similar
- Hold or working towards a CIPS Qualification
- Experience of working as a Project Buyer or hold strong purchasing experience
- Strong Project Management experience
- Excellent IT and Analytical skills
- Strong communication skills.
- Company pension
- Flexitime
- On-site parking
- Work from home
- Flexitime
- Monday to Friday
- Bonus scheme
Job Features
Job Category | Engineering and Manufacturing |
Salary | £40,000 - £50,000 |
- Increasing awareness of the value the client can bring to businesses trading internationally in the region and to encourage greater engagement
- Arranging the businesses forum, networking events, panel discussions and 1-2-1 meetings with the global network.
- Researching and identifying potential areas for relevant training courses for their members and non-members. Providing statistics, forecasting and future projections concerning most relevant and up to date training courses relevant to their members and the regions businesses
- Participating in contributing to the global group on LinkedIn and Twitter, and actively contribute to articles that would be featured throughout the year on these platforms
- Keeping up to date knowledge in relation to customs and trade developments especially post EU-exit related matters
- Setting up and delivering an extensive program of training including e-learning courses, events, seminars, as well as bespoke training that are appropriate for international trade professionals and ensure that appropriate trainers are sourced
- Organising and promoting the International Trade Forum
- Contributing to the businesses Knowledge Hub by working closely with the Knowledge Manager
- Benchmarking the businesses commercial offer to ensure costs including discounts are competitive within the North East region
- Attending relevant events, training and economic summits as deemed appropriate by the Head of International Trade and in line with their needs
- Experience of working in an international trade environment is essential
- University degree in Business Administration, International Law, or any International Trade related subject is desirable, but not essential
- Ability to plan, organise and prioritise workload
- Ability to work collaboratively
- Ability to provide monthly reports
- Well-developed interpersonal and communication skills
- Customer orientated and focused
- Building and maintaining relationships with key internal and external partners
- Proficient in IT systems including Microsoft packages, Zoom, Teams and CRM based programs
- Drive and enthusiasm in supporting their members and the North East business community
- 25 days annual leave, increasing with each year of service up to 30 days + public holidays each year.
- Life assurance four-times basic salary.
- Contribution to one professional membership each year.
- Hospital treatment plan provided through Westfield Health.
- A motivating, encouraging environment to work in learning and development opportunities.
- Flexible working supporting work life balance, with a mix of home and office working.
- Salary exchange pension scheme with 4% contributions.
- Long service awards.
- Salary sacrifice schemes, such as: cycle to work, gym membership and car leasing.
- Colleague events including summer social and Christmas party.
- Employee assistance programme
Job Features
Job Category | Commercial |
Salary | £30,000 |
- Develops and sustains good relationships with key customers that are some of the largest and/or are key targets for growth.
- Responsibility for overall margin, pricing, volume, demand management, etc. of assigned accounts
- Regular (monthly) internal reviews of Key Account performance
- Monitor, review and address account performance issues (Quality / Delivery / Certification / etc.)
- Provide higher level Customer Service – Minimum quarterly on-site meetings at key accounts
- Addressing and resolving key clients’ complaints.
- Acting as the main point of contact between key clients and internal teams.
- Compiling reports on account progress, goals, and forecasts for account teams and stakeholders.
- Developing a thorough understanding of key clients' needs and requirements and preparing customised solutions.
- Negotiating contracts with key clients and meeting established deadlines for the fulfilment of each client's long-term goals.
- Driving increased sales by improving bid feedback and customer satisfaction.
- Assisting where necessary on contract review of customer orders
- Full UK Driver’s Licence
- Proven experience in customer account management.
- Strong negotiation, persuasion, selling and leadership skills.
- A confident, friendly manner and good personal presentation.
- Excellent attention to detail with ability to organise and manage a diverse workload and meet deadlines
- A good understanding of MRP Principles.
- Competence in Microsoft office including Excel and Word
- The ability to learn and recall technical information about a wide range of products
- Good interpersonal skills for working with a range of colleagues and customers
- Excellent communication and writing Skills
- Willingness to travel up to 30% of time
Job Features
Job Category | Commercial |
Salary | £29,000 - £34,000 |
Hi! We’re Zenith People, a friendly and professional recruitment agency. We possess over 20 years of experience connecting people with business. That means we help businesses grow and people realise their career ambitions. So, we will support you if you’re working for a business needing recruitment services. If you’re a person looking for a new start, we’re here to help.
Not to mention, we do both without any smoke and mirrors. Zenith People listen, and we produce because we believe in our personal and proven approach. Our recruitment consultants are experts and have in-depth knowledge of the North East recruitment market.
We use that insight to deliver tailored solutions for temporary and permanent recruitment.
And we do it across the Engineering, Manufacturing, IT, Construction and Commercial sectors. Zenith works with a fantastic range of businesses that vary in size and culture and value true partnerships.
We’re located in Hebburn, just a few miles from Newcastle; if you need recruitment assistance, we’d love to help.
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IT Recruitment
“Zenith People have been a breath of fresh air in the IT recruitment arena in the North East. They are a real pleasure to deal with, helpful, supportive, get results for us, and at the same time is not annoyingly pushy and appreciates we have day jobs to do as well as recruitment. Their support of the regional IT sector is first class. Their passion and commitment to enabling the region to be successful in filling the IT digital skills gap are so refreshing to see. Their consultants get that collaboration in the current digital climate is paramount to success for the industry as a whole. I would class Zenith People as a partner, not just one of our suppliers.”
Michelle Crosby
Engineering and Manufacturing Recruitment
“I have worked with Zenith People since the business started way back in 2001 and have always had a strong relationship with the team. They understand the North East candidate market extremely well, enabling them to provide the best advice and guidance around recruitment. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them as your recruitment agency.”
Lee Selkirk
Construction & Commercial Recruitment
“We have been working with Zenith People now for over two years, and they have provided us with a range of services, including the recruitment of Trades, IT, Administration & Customer Support, HR and Technical staff. They have also provided apprenticeship training, leadership and management workshops and other staff training programmes where required. During that time, we have found them to be a reliable and consultative partner who provide a value-adding service that holds our business objectives and interests at heart. They are interested in what is best for our business and want to work together to help us successfully deliver our business strategy.”
Phil Pallister
Commercial & IT Recruitment
“Zenith People is a brilliant example of what a true partner looks like – highly responsive, behaves like one of your team and incredibly professional. The value they have added ranges from helping us specify what skills and expertise we need right through to rapidly scaling our operations. We wouldn’t hesitate in recommending them as a recruitment partner.”
Nicki Clarke
Engineering and Manufacturing Recruitment
Faurecia Washington plant has been working in partnership with Zenith People since 2001. Zenith People are our preferred recruitment agency to supply temporary agency workers for our production and logistics operations. We have always found that Zenith People work with the business to find solutions and will go the extra mile to ensure a first-class service.
Diane Cartmell
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We offer an extensive range of apprenticeship, pre-employment, upskilling and commercial training through our sister company Zenith Training.
