Project Engineer

Probe Technical Recruitment; Wolverhampton, Walsall, West Bromwich; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruitment firm in the manufacturing sector is seeking a CNC Setter / Operator to join a friendly and supportive team in Wolverhampton. This role involves setting and operating Matsuura CNC machining centers, maintaining production efficiency without programming skills required. The ideal candidate should have experience in CNC setting and strong attention to detail to ensure high-quality output. A pleasant working environment and opportunities for career growth are offered. Applicants must have the right to live and work in the UK.

Benefits

Development opportunities offered

Work clothes provided

Friendly supportive team

Early Friday finish

Qualifications

• Previous experience as a CNC Setter/Operator.
• Strong hands-on experience required with Matsuura machining centres.
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings.

Responsibilities

• Set and operate Matsuura CNC machines using existing programs.
• Load/unload components and ensure accurate part alignment.
• Conduct tool changes and machine adjustments as required.

Skills

CNC Setting

Operating CNC Machines

Reading Engineering Drawings

Attention to Detail

Tools

Matsuura Machining Centres

Job description

PERMANENT
DAYS
EARLY FRIDAY FINISH
Development opportunities offered
Work clothes provided
Pleasant working environment
Very friendly supportive team

We are seeking a CNC SETTER / OPERATOR to join our growing team.

This role focuses on the safe and efficient operation of Matsuura CNC machining centres. No programming skills required.
We are simply looking for someone confident in setting, operating and maintaining smooth production from existing programs.

You will be joining a very friendly, supportive team, where you will have a great opportunity to be part of, and enjoy long term career opportunities, with development offered to the right person.

Commutable from Wolverhampton, Walsall, Burntwood, Willenhall, Wednesbury, Aldridge, Feathersone, Essington, Bloxwich, West Bromwich, Bilston, Brownhills and Great Barr

Key Responsibilities

• Set and operate Matsuura CNC machines using existing programs
• Load/unload components and ensure accurate part alignment
• Conduct tool changes and machine adjustments as required!
• Perform quality checks using measuring equipment (verniers, micrometers, gauges, etc.)
• Monitor production runs to maintain output and quality standards
• Adhere to health & safety and maintain a clean working environment
• Report any machine issues or deviations to the supervisor

About You

• Previous experience as a CNC Setter/Operator
• Strong hands-on experience with Matsuura machining centres
• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings
• Good eye for detail and commitment to producing high-quality work
• Reliable, proactive, and able to work well as part of a team
• No programming experience required

If you take pride in your work and want to grow your knowledge and experience, we’d love to hear from you! We will provide you with a pleasant modern working environment, that will keep you challenged and engaged for many years to come.

Please Note: Candidates must have the right to live and work in the UK.

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Probe Technical Recruitment, providing Manufacturing & Production Recruitment Support since 1994

APPLICATIONS / SALES ENGINEER – SPECIAL PURPOSE MACHINES

Travel and networking opportunities across Europe.

Supportive, collaborative working environment.

International Customer Base

UK, Europe and some USA travel

Company care / or car allowance

Exceptional long term career prospects

Other benefits available

Travel across the UK and Europe to meet clients, attend trade shows, and support business development activities.

Collaborate closely with the engineering, production, and management teams to ensure customer satisfaction.

Some USA travel, following training in the States

• Strong technical understanding of manufacturing processes, must be investment casting / wax processing
• Proven experience in an engineering or technical sales role, ideally in special-purpose machinery or process engineering.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical solutions to clients.
• Comfortable with frequent travel across the UK and Europe.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and capable of working independently as well as part of a team.
• Ideally you will be Midlands based, but other locations are happily considered.

CNC Machinists

The best opportunity of the year has arrived, if you are a skilled Machinist, who is looking for that special next role.

This is a superb facility, where your opportunities, are genuinely second to none. The working environment, is spectacular, giving you the most fabulous workplace. We are looking for people with passion and pride, who can work independently, or as part of a highly motivated team.

As a Skilled Machinist, you will operate and maintain a group of machines, within a complex manufacturing system, ensuring productivity and quality targets are achieved.

Commutable from Birmingham, Coventry, Henley-in-Arden, Sutton Coldfield, Solihull, Tamworth, Wednesbury, Moseley, Stratford-upon-Avon, Lichfield, Atherstone, Nuneaton, Walsall, Aldridge and Cannock

Key Benefits available to Skilled Machinists

• 3 shifts – Monday to Friday
• Free parking on site
• Bonus
• 25 Days holiday (Bank Holidays on top),
• Extremely generous Company contributory pension
• Highly prestigious brand, products and customers
• Pristine and modern working environment
• Market leader with more continued growth predicted.
• And much more…

Responsibilities of Machinists

• Operate and maintain a group of machines within a complex manufacturing system.
• Working to tight tolerances
• CNC Turning and milling
• Ensure all machines are running correctly
• Own Quality inspection – measuring own parts.
• Utilising grinding and polishing machines
• Gear cutting and heat treatment.
• Working on automated systems
• Set and Operate – No programming.

Requirements for Machinists

• Apprentice trained to Level 3, or other engineering qualifications considered.
• To have worked in a fast paced, automated environment
• CNC turning knowledge, or CNC Milling experience
• Happy working 3 shifts – Mon – Friday – Nights 4 nights

This would suit ambitious, energetic, initiative-taking individuals, who are looking for an incredibly special long-term career.

Your long-term prospects would be beyond your dreams.

If you would like to be part of a growing success story, where there are unrivalled career prospects for you with genuinely exciting products, send your CV NOW!

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays on top
• Stable, busy working environment
• Early finish Friday
• Easily accessible
• Genuine long-term prospects
• 39 hours per week
• Mon–Thu: 7:30am – 4:30pm
• Fri: 7:30am – 12:30pm

We are looking to recruit a Process / Welding Technician in order to support the Production Engineering team.
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You will be instrumental in introducing new processes and to conduct improvements on existing processes.

We are a high volume, well established manufacturing business, and 2026, is looking to be a busy year for us!

Commutable from Birmingham, Smethwick, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Aldridge, Wednesbury, Sutton Coldfield, Solihull, Moseley, Halesowen, Willenhall, Burntwood, Dudley, Kingswinford and Minworth

Key responsibilities will include:

• Set up and change over manual spot and projection welding machines
• Carry out jig, tooling, and program changes on robotic CO₂ and spot-welding cells (Fanuc / Motoman)
• Troubleshoot breakdowns and technical issues to get production running quickly and safely
• Program new jobs using camera-based poke-yoke systems
• Support new product introductions, attending Gateway / project meetings as required
• Manufacture and repair welding fixtures using toolroom equipment
• Support Quality with 8D problem-solving, operator audits, and checking fixtures
• Train and mentor apprentices within the Production Engineering team
• Actively drive Lean Manufacturing improvements, including layout, OEE, and production rate optimisation

What we’re looking for:

• Experience in press work and welded assemblies
• Strong knowledge of CO₂ welding, spot & projection welding
• Experience programming or supporting robot welding cells (Fanuc / Motoman)
• Confident using toolroom equipment to modify or repair fixtures
• Lean Manufacturing mindset with a passion for continuous improvement
• NVQ or City & Guilds in Mechanical Engineering
• Abrasive Wheel certification

This is a special opportunity, to be part of a successful, fast paced manufacturing business, where your experience and knowledge will have a huge impact.

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays on top
• Stable, busy working environment
• Early finish Friday
• Easily accessible
• Genuine long-term prospects

Own Projects! Drive results and make it happen!

We’re looking for a hands-on Project Manager to take full ownership of customer enquiries and new projects — from RFQ through to PPAP and SOP. If you thrive in a fast-paced manufacturing environment and love bringing structure, clarity, and momentum to complex projects, this is your role.

You’ll work closely with Sales, Engineering, Toolmakers, Suppliers, and the General Manager to ensure projects are delivered on time, on budget, and to world-class standards.

Commutable from Birmingham, Smethwick, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Aldridge, Wednesbury, Sutton Coldfield, Solihull, Moseley, Halesowen, Willenhall, Burntwood, Dudley, Kingswinford and Minworth

Key responsibilities will include:

• Manage customer RFQs end-to-end: feasibility, costing, tooling, and manufacturing layouts
• Review CAD data, generate blank layouts, and lead full feasibility studies
• Run contract reviews and set up projects using a structured 4-phase project management system
• Own the day-to-day delivery of new projects, coordinating across all departments
• Control project timing plans (FOT, PPAP, SOP) and lead internal & external project meetings
• Manage tooling projects, suppliers, and machinery partners
• Take full accountability for project budgets, tooling costs, and invoices
• Drive on-time PPAPs and customer APQP requirements
• Own the ECR process and manage engineering changes
• Champion Lean Manufacturing, 5S, and visual management on the shop floor
• Support the General Manager with process improvement and material flow initiatives

What we’re looking for

• Proven experience in Project Management within manufacturing or engineering
• Strong understanding of RFQs, APQP, PPAP, tooling, and new product introduction
• Confident working with CAD data and technical drawings
• Highly organised, detail-driven, and comfortable managing multiple projects
• Strong communicator who can challenge, influence, and collaborate A continuous-improvement mindset with a passion for Lean and 5S

This is a special opportunity, to be part of a successful, fast paced manufacturing business, where your experience and knowledge will have a huge impact.

We are offering a role for a CNC PROGRAMMER TURNER SETTER to join our precision engineering team.

We blend heritage craftsmanship with forward thinking processes – and as our CNC Programmer Turner Setter, you will be proficient in programming, setting and operating CNC Turning machines.

Established for many many years, offering a range of different manufacturing processes, providing top quality products into a wide variety of different manufacturing industry sectors.

We are an Award-winning business, renowned for our luxury products

Commutable from Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Walsall, Dudley, Norton Canes, Aldridge, Stourbridge, Handsworth, Solihull, Sutton Coldfield, Moseley, Lichfield and Tyseley

RESPONSIBILITIES for CNC TURNER

• Program, set, and operate CNC turning machines (Mazak, XYZ and Citizen
• Read and interpret engineering drawings accurately
• Competent with all aspects of setting tools and understanding cutting speeds, feeds, boring, drilling and threading
• Machine components to tight tolerances
• Perform tooling setups with a strong understanding of speeds and feeds
• Use precision measuring equipment (verniers, micrometers, bore gauges, etc.)

REQUIREMENTS for CNC TURNER

• Significant experience in CNC Setting, Operating programming
• Ideally knowledge of Mazak, XYZ or Citizen
• Sound knowledge of machining principles and best practices
• Proficient in the use of inspection and measurement equipment
• Experience of measuring / inspection equipment, including verniers, bore gauges and micrometers
• Positive, proactive mindset with a commitment to continuous improvement
• Ability to manage workload and prioritise effectively

We are a busy, thriving manufacturing facility in the Birmingham area, a market leader with a reputation for quality and innovation.

We’re seeking a Junior Technical CAD / Product Development Engineer to join our growing design and development team. You’ll play a key role in turning ideas into beautifully engineered products, supporting our in-house manufacturing process and contributing to the details that define luxury

Commutable from Birmingham, Handsworth, Sutton Coldfield, Walsall, Smethwick, Moseley, Hall Green, Aldridge, Hockley, Quinton, Solihull and Minworth

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop products using CAD (AutoDesk Inventor).
• Produce accurate technical drawings and specifications.
• Collaborate with production to optimise designs for manufacturing.
• Check technical drawings and support the shop floor team.
• Ensure all work meets company standards for quality and detail

Requirements

• Good CAD knowledge (AutoDesk Inventor preferred, but not essential)
• Knowledge of metals and machining processes.
• Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
• Team player with excellent communication skills.
• Understanding of GD&T principles.
• Mechanical Engineering degree (or similar) though not essential
• Experience in machining, BOM creation, and technical documentation, would be nice, but again, not essential

What are you waiting for? Send your CV now for immediate interview

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a leading business who are in a period of exciting growth. They are a leading provider in the UK, a market leader in Europe and have a presence in many other countries worldwide. They continue to expand rapidly in the UK and internationally, a business that has doubled in size these last few years.

They are proud of their fast-paced and dynamic manufacturing environment, where customer satisfaction and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything that they do.

Mechanical Engineer Pay, Hours and Benefits

This role is commutable from the following areas: Derby, Nottingham, Sutton in Ashfield, Mansfield, Chesterfield.

Mechanical Engineer Role Overview

If you are looking for a change, love practical engineering design and don’t want to be sat behind a desk all day, this could be the role for you!

The Mechanical Engineer is the perfect role for a confident, self- motivated person who enjoys the challenge of problem solving and can work to deadlines.

You will be very much ‘hands-on’, with a strong mechanical bias. You’ll be comfortable using power tools, with the ability to fabricate, cut steel, carrying out grinding and welding, along with the ability to read and create technical drawings.

This is a great opportunity for someone with engineering skills and experience, a logical approach to design and an innovative approach.

Mechanical Engineer Candidate Requirements

• A Mechanical Engineering background
• Familiar with CAD systems, with the ability to read and create technical drawings
• Strong mechanical bias and comfortable using power tools, with the ability to fabricate, cut steel, carrying out grinding and welding
• Solid knowledge of vehicle construction and functionality – highly advantageous
• Proficient in Microsoft Office
• Comfortable dealing with customers on a one-to-one basis
• A driving licence is essential

Mechanical Engineer Key Responsibilities

• Create new kit designs across the full group range
• Designs must be processed to the highest standard balancing ease and speed of install with manufacturing repeatability
• Design kits using standard parts where possible to minimise new parts creation
• Where new parts creation is necessary, liaise with the manufacturing team for parts sign off
• Develop and improve the kit design process, ensuring that the Kit Design Team delivers optimal results, both in terms of quality and quantity of designs produced
• Ensure prompt delivery of accurate and appropriate data to stakeholder process owners, in order to facilitate an expedient route to market for the designs
• Create jigs for new kit designs when necessary

This business is a specialist engineering company with decades of experience providing high-quality conventional Manual Machinist services. They pride themselves on precision, craftsmanship, and delivering solutions across horizontal boring, vertical boring, turning, and milling.

Are you an experienced Manual Machinist who is looking for a new challenge? You will be responsible for operating manual machinery to produce high-quality components to specification. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong conventional machining skills to work with a variety of equipment and tackle diverse projects.

Onsite Machinery includes: Horizontal Borer, Vertical Borer, Horizontal Grinder, Cylindrical Grinder and other Manual Machines.

Manual Machinist Hours and Pay

• 39 hours per week: 7:00am – 3:30pm Monday – Thursday, 2:30pm on Friday’s (with some flexibility)

This role is commutable From: Swadlincote, Burton on Trent, Ashby de la Zouch, Derby, Rugeley

Candidate Requirements

• Proven experience as a Manual Machinist.
• Proficiency in horizontal/vertical boring, turning, and milling ideally.
• Ability to work from technical drawings and specifications.
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality.
• Knowledge of machine maintenance and safe working practices.

Key Responsibilities

• The Manual Machinist will set up and operate manual milling machines, lathes, and boring machines.
• Produce components to engineering drawings and specifications.
• Conduct routine quality checks and maintain tolerances.
• Ensure safe operation of machinery and maintain a tidy workspace.
• Collaborate with the engineering team to improve processes and efficiency.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced CNC Machinist to join a bespoke and highly successful engineering business. A global supplier with several decades of industry experience, the company is currently entering one of its most exciting periods, driven by increased demand for its products and expansion into other markets.

The successful candidate has the chance to become a key member of the existing team playing an important part in the business’s continued growth and development.

CNC Machinist Salary and Benefits

Salary: £36,000 - £38,000
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Working pattern: Monday to Friday, 8:00am – 4:00pm
Start: Immediate start available

This role is commutable from: Burntwood, Lichfield, Aldridge, Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham

• Paid overtime
• Company performance bonus
• Sick pay
• Free onsite parking
• Easily accessible from public transport


CNC Machinist – Candidate Requirements

The successful CNC Machinist will have:

• CNC programming experience
• Ideally experience working with Haas VMC, XYZ Lathe and Bed Mills (but other machine experience will be considered too)
• Exposure to Haas OneCNC and/or XYZ ProtoTRAK controls (advantageous, but training can be provided)
• Experience in manual turning, milling and drilling (advantageous)
• Any experience using CMM equipment would be an advantage
• Experience of heavier – medium / large components would be ideal, but this isn’t essential

HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER

We are offering an exceptional opportunity for a HEALTH, SAFETY AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGER.

This is an exciting Organisation to be part of, you would be joining a prestigious, state of the Art manufacturing organisation. Specialising in high quality products, supplying into a vast customer base. We are very much at the forefront of brand -new technology.

As Health, Safety and Environmental Manager, you will be tasked with ensuring the effectiveness of the EHS Department

We have been providing pioneering technologies and products to our customers worldwide for a number of years now, out teams are accomplished teams of experts, highly specialised in the development, industrialisation and production.

Commutable from Standish, Skelmersdale, St Helens, Eccles, Bolton, Chorley, Ormskirk

KEY BENEFITS

• Company Pension
• King and Queens Award winning business
• Fantastic chance to make an impact
• Free parking on site
• Huge customer base

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Ensure all policies and procedures are developed and maintained
• Management of 45001 and 14001
• Accident and incident investigations
• Keep up to date with legislation
• Organise HSE training sessions
• Act as Fire Safety Officer on site
• Manage COSHH assessments
• Process hazard assessments, HAZID, HAZOP, LOPA and HFA

REQUIREMENTS

• It is essential that you have relevant Health, Safety and Environmental experience from within a manufacturing environment
• Your experience needs to be UK based
• Previous experience of Risk Assessments including COSHH
• Knowledge of a COMAH site would be highly desirable
• Essential that you have 45001 and 14001 experience
• NEBOSH level 3
• Lead Auditor

If you would like to be part of a growing success story, where there are unrivalled career prospects for you with genuinely exciting products, send your CV NOW!


Are you a time-served CNC Turner who enjoys solving problems, programming from scratch, and seeing a job through from drawing to finished part? If you’re bored of pressing cycle start on repeat work, this could be right up your street.

This CNC Turner role is with a well-established precision engineering company specialising in one-off and small batch components across a wide range of materials. They are now looking to add an experienced CNC Lathe Programmer / Setter / Operator to their team.

CNC Turner Hours and Pay

• 39 hours per week: 7:00am – 3:30pm Monday – Thursday, 2:30pm on Friday’s (with some flexibility)

This role is commutable From: Swadlincote, Burton on Trent, Ashby de la Zouch, Derby, Rugeley

The Role

• The CNC Turner will be fully involved in the machining process, including:
• Programming, setting and operating Haas CNC lathes - ST40 & ST30 (other machine experience will be considered)
• Working directly from engineering drawings
• Machining one-off and small batch components to tight tolerances
• Producing parts in steel, stainless steel, aluminium and plastics
• Taking responsibility for quality from material receipt to finished component
• Selecting tooling, offsets, speeds and feeds to suit each job

What We’re Looking For

• Confident lathe programmer (ideally Haas)
• Able to work independently and problem-solve at the machine
• Experience with one-off / small batch work
• High attention to detail and pride in producing quality parts

Why Join This Business?

• Interesting, varied work — no mind-numbing repetition
• Small team, friendly workshop, and real input into how jobs are run
• Stable workload with specialist engineering projects
  

This business has enjoyed fantastic growth in recent years. They provide niche solutions to their client base across the world and make looking after their staff a priority.

As demand for their solutions are increasing, they require a Project Engineer to work within their fast-paced team.

Project Engineer, Package, Hours and Benefits

• 8:30am - 5pm (flexibility can be given), with an earlier finish on Friday’s
• 33 days holiday – including bank holidays
• Health Cash plan
• Company laptop and mobile phone

Commutable From: Leicester, Hinckley, Loughborough, Nuneaton, Melton Mowbray, Kettering, Corby, Rugby, Northampton, Coventry

Role Overview

This is an excellent development opportunity for someone aiming to progress into a Project Manager role.

The Project Engineer will be responsible for the delivery of smaller-scale, lower-risk projects with shorter timelines, working within defined authority limits and receiving guidance from management.

• The Project Engineer will have previous projects experience or delivery support roles within capital equipment or engineered industrial environments, handling multiple live projects simultaneously.
• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and documentation, including 2D AutoCAD and 3D models, while liaising effectively with internal teams and external stakeholders.
• Exposure to coordinating resources, suppliers, and subcontractors, with developing commercial awareness including support for budgeting, cost control, and variation management.
• Understanding of project risk management principles, with an awareness of health and safety requirements in engineering or construction settings.
• Strong organisational, planning, communication, and problem-solving skills, with a methodical approach and a willingness to learn and develop professionally.
• Mechanical engineering qualification, HNC, HND or Degree.
• Full UK driving licence, and willingness to travel to UK and occasional overseas sites.

Project Engineer Key Responsibilities – but not limited to

• Take ownership of assigned projects from sales handover through to completion and close-out, acting as a primary customer contact and escalating to the Project Manager or Project Director when required.
• Plan, organise, and coordinate project activities including programmes, resources, suppliers, subcontractors, and site work within defined authority limits.
• Work closely with internal teams—design/drawing engineers, commissioning engineers, logistics and H&S—to ensure projects are delivered safely, on time, and to specification.
• Review technical information and sales concepts with the sales team and Project Manager to confirm project scope, assumptions, and equipment selection before execution.
• Coordinate preparation, review, and approval of layout drawings, fabrication documentation, and technical deliverables.
• Support installation and commissioning planning, including site readiness, access, and coordination with customer representatives, while maintaining clear communication with all stakeholders.
• Assist with project close-out, including completion documentation, customer acceptance, lessons learned, and contributing to continuous improvement of project processes.

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