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Job Title \n Audit Assistant Manager \n \n Location \n Blackburn \n \n Salary \n £48,000 - £56,500 \n \n An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Audit Assistant Manager to join a growing accountancy practice in Blackburn. \n \n This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious audit professional looking to take the next step in their career, working with a diverse portfolio of clients and taking greater responsibility for the delivery of high-quality audit engagements. \n \n You will work closely with Audit Managers and Responsible Individuals, playing a key role in the planning, execution and completion of audit assignments, while also supervising and developing more junior members of the team. \n \n What you will be doing as an Audit Assistant Manager \n \n\n • Planning, coordinating and delivering audit assignments from start to finish\n, • Working closely with Audit Managers and Responsible Individuals to ensure audits are delivered to a high standard\n, • Ensuring all audit work complies with relevant regulatory and professional standards\n, • Reviewing audit work completed by junior team members\n, • Supervising, coaching and developing more junior members of the audit team\n, • Acting as a key point of contact for clients throughout the audit process\n, • Building and maintaining strong client relationships\n, • Identifying and resolving issues arising during audit assignments\n, • Managing multiple assignments and priorities effectively\n, • Supporting Managers and Partners with the delivery of client work\n, • Contributing to the continued improvement of audit processes and ways of working\n\n \n What you will need to succeed as an Audit Assistant Manager \n \n\n • Previous experience working within an accountancy practice\n, • Strong audit experience, ideally at Senior or Assistant Manager level\n, • A relevant professional qualification such as ACA or ACCA, or be working towards completion\n, • Good technical knowledge of auditing and relevant accounting standards\n, • Previous experience supervising and reviewing the work of junior team members\n, • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills\n, • The confidence to build strong relationships with clients and colleagues\n, • Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities\n, • A proactive approach to problem-solving and delivering high-quality work\n, • The ambition to continue developing their career within practice\n\n \n Why join this firm? \n \n\n • Competitive salary based on experience\n, • Hybrid working\n, • A varied portfolio of audit clients\n, • Increased responsibility and client exposure\n, • Opportunity to develop leadership and people management skills\n, • Ongoing training and professional development\n, • Supportive and collaborative working environment\n, • Clear opportunities for further career progression\n\n \n This is a great opportunity for an experienced Audit Senior or Assistant Manager who is ready to take on more responsibility and develop their career within a growing practice. \n What next? \n \n The client is keen to start interviewing NOW! So, if you are interested, please apply ASAP! \n \n \n \n As an employer, we are committed to ensuring the representation of people from all backgrounds regardless of their gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, ethnicity, age, neurodiversity, disability status, or any other aspect which makes them unique. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds to apply and would encourage you to let us know if there are steps, we can take to ensure that your recruitment process enables you to present yourself in a way that makes you comfortable.

Are you ready to take on a rewarding interim role where your financial expertise can have a real impact within an education setting? Do you have excellent numeracy and accounting skills? \n Do you have experience of working with financial systems and processes? If yes, then get in touch today about this school position in Accrington. \n Hays Education are looking for a finance officer to join our friendly and professional education team based in the Accrington area. You will be responsible for managing and maintaining the school's financial records, ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations and standards alongside the school business and finance manager. \n This is a full-time finance job on a short-term temporary basis starting ASAP this September. School experience is ideal for this role, as well as previous experience of school finance systems. A DBS on the update service would be an advantage. \n Your new role \n\n • Supporting day-to-day financial operations, including invoicing, banking and ensuring compliance with financial regulations.\n, • Producing financial reports and statements for the school leadership team\n, • Auditing financial information and ensuring the accuracy and completeness of data.\n\n What you'll need to succeed \n\n • Experience of working in a finance or accounting role in an educational setting is essential.\n, • Knowledge of the Access Education financial system\n, • Good communication skills and ability to work as part of a team\n, • An enhanced DBS check on the update service would be ideal but not essential.\n\n What you need to do now \n If you're interested in this school finance officer role in our Accrington, East Lancashire school setting, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. \n If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. \n Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at hays.co.uk

Shape the strategy. Lead the change. Make it work. This is a new, high impact role with the opportunity to build Crown Paints’ Revenue Growth Management capability from the ground up. Working closely with our Managing Director and senior commercial leaders, you’ll take the journey from initial concept and strategy, through business transformation and adoption, to operational ownership. You’ll help define how Revenue Growth Management should work at Crown, create the roadmap and tools around it, bring teams with you through change, and then own and evolve the capability as it becomes part of everyday commercial decision making. You’ll combine strategic thinking with practical delivery, moving confidently between concept, change leadership and hands on commercial ownership. • Shape the Revenue Growth Management strategy, operating model and roadmap with the Managing Director and senior leaders., • Turn the strategy into practical processes, tools and governance that teams can use., • Lead the change required to embed new behaviours and ways of working across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Category and Supply Chain., • Build organisational capability through coaching, education and clear commercial storytelling., • Own and continuously improve the approach as it moves from transformation into day to day operation. You’ll use data and commercial insight to identify where Crown can create more value across both Retail and Trade. • Identify opportunities across pricing, promotions, portfolio, trade investment, customer, channel and route to market., • Translate complex data into clear recommendations that support revenue, margin and profitability decisions., • Track performance and make sure identified opportunities deliver measurable value., • Support customer strategy and help shape compelling growth propositions. There is no single route into this role. You might come from Revenue Growth Management, Commercial Finance, Category, Pricing, Sales Strategy, Commercial Excellence or another commercially focused transformation role. • Experience shaping and delivering significant commercial or organisational transformation, from initial concept through to implementation and adoption., • Experience within FMCG, retail, consumer goods, trade or a similarly fast moving commercial environment., • Commercial and financial judgement, with confidence using data to guide decisions., • The ability to influence senior stakeholders, create alignment and bring people with you through change., • A practical mindset. You can build the concept, embed it and then operate it. You do not need to be a career pricing specialist., • If your experience has come through a different route, but you can demonstrate the commercial thinking, change leadership and influencing skills we’re looking for, we’d like to hear from you. We value transferable experience, different perspectives and varied career paths. This is a rare opportunity to build a strategically important capability from day one, with senior visibility and broad commercial exposure. You’ll work in partnership with leaders across the business, not in isolation, and have the chance to shape how Crown approaches growth for years to come. If you enjoy taking an idea, turning it into a strategy and making that strategy stick, we’d love to hear from you! Application due 2026-10-12 Seniority Level Mid-Senior level Job Functions Accounting / Auditing, Finance, Sales Industry Chemicals Crown Paints is one of UK’s most renown paint manufacturers and we have been manufacturing for over 200 years, with over 60 years proudly holding the Royal Warrant. However, what really sets Crown apart is the support we provide for cultural, humanitarian and scientific causes across the world through our ownership structure. Crown Paints is part of the Hempel Group, which gives our company stability and our employees extended, global career possibilities. Hempel is a world-leading supplier of trusted coating solutions working with customers within the decorative, marine, infrastructure and energy industries. Our purpose is to shape a brighter future with sustainable coating solutions, and being owned by the Hempel Foundation gives us the stability, means and purpose to deliver lasting, positive change in the world. The Hempel Group is the owner and parent company of Crown Paints, Wattyl and the Neogard brand. #J-18808-Ljbffr

Equans is looking for a Senior Technical Services Manager to join our team at Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital on a permanent basis. This is a full‑time role working 40 hours per week. On offer is a competitive salary, company vehicle or allowance, bonus and benefits package. The postholder will act as the technical lead for hard FM services, driving operational excellence, asset reliability, compliance, workforce development, and continuous improvement. The Senior Technical Services Manager is responsible for the safe, compliant, and efficient delivery of all engineering and technical services across a large acute healthcare PFI estate. The role provides operational leadership to multidisciplinary engineering teams and specialist contractors, ensuring all statutory, contractual, and healthcare‑specific requirements are met whilst maintaining a safe environment for patients, staff, and visitors. RBTH is large scale acute PFI hospital - experience of direct management of engineering staff is essential. • Manage compliance and ensure it is fully up to date from respective Facilities Managers/supervisors., • Ensuring that contractor and the in-house engineering team are competence checked and they are appointed as Competent Persons., • Working with direct reports to ensure the collaborative development of the business, effective teamworking, and support to colleagues. – Ensure safe systems of work are in place and always used., • Ensure that the contract delivery team has sufficient appointed persons to undertake works as per EQUANS Safety Rules, • Undertake AP/RP positions/duties such as L8, Pressure Systems. LV/HV – Ensure adherence to all Statutory Standards and Regulations., • Ensure that staff performance is managed as required through for example, performance appraisals, disciplinary proceedings, and grievances., • Proactively identify and manage the professional development and training needs of the technical staff., • Produce technical reports and evidence as required for assurance and auditing., • Ensure delivery of critical workstreams such as reactive and PPMs., • Undertake internal audits of performance., • Responsibility for critical healthcare infrastructure operating 24/7/365., • Manage and support operations to resolve instances of Hard FM non‑compliance and non‑conformance, • Diagnose complex engineering issues and support and implement solutions., • Provide technical leadership, directly to operations across engineering disciplines., • Be able to work closely with the operational delivery teams, whilst at the same time retaining sufficient independence to be able to fulfil the duties of an independent body., • Able to engage comfortably with clients and customers on complex technical and non‑technical issues. On offer is a competitive salary, car or car allowance, bonus and benefits package, which includes; • 26 days annual leave (+ public holidays), • Life Cover equivalent to 2x times annual salary, • Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers, • Gym membership discounts, • Cycle to work scheme, • Holiday purchase scheme, • 2 corporate social responsibility days per year, • Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalized support programmes, • Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme, • Access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals., • 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app, • Significant experience in a senior engineering or technical services leadership role., • Experience managing engineering services within an acute healthcare environment., • Strong understanding of healthcare engineering standards and compliance requirements., • Experience operating within a PFI/PPP contractual environment., • Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering teams., • Proven track record managing critical infrastructure and complex estates, • Proven management experience of Hard FM teams. Equans is a world leader in energy services with nearly 100,000 employees working in more than 50 countries, with an annual turnover of over 17 billion euros. In the UK & Ireland, Equans is a provider of technical, FM, regeneration and energy services – with specialist capabilities in smart buildings, green mobility, district & embedded energy and decentralised renewables. Equans’ 13,500 UK & Ireland employees combine these activities to help businesses, public sector organisations and government to embrace the energy transition towards net zero, and also the digital & industrial transitions that are redesigning the way we move, work and live. Equans is a Bouygues group company. As part our commitment to better reflect the markets within which we operate, we encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010. At Equans we’re committed to delivering a culture where everyone’s voice is heard and supported. We know the value a diverse workforce creates, delivering better results for our people, customers, and stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do, should you join Equans you'll find a welcoming and open workplace where you're supported and encouraged to be your true self at work. You’ll also have access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, Young Professionals, Veterans and Reservists Network (VaR). For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a re-location package with this job role. 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Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer - 1 or 2 days a week expected at Head Office in Blackburn - Salary: £60k-£65k Summary of Position The Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer will be responsible for the administration, reliability, security and continuous improvement of the TW Group infrastructure estate across both Linux and Microsoft environments. This is a hands-on senior role for an experienced infrastructure engineer who is comfortable taking ownership of technical problems, investigating unfamiliar systems and delivering practical solutions with minimal supervision. The successful candidate will work closely with the Software Development Team, IT Operations and selected third-party technology partners to support business-critical infrastructure, development environments, databases, container platforms and deployment pipelines. The role will be expected to take ownership of day-to-day infrastructure operations while also improving automation, monitoring, resilience, documentation and disaster recovery capability across the wider IT estate. Key Responsibilities - Administration, maintenance and improvement of Linux and Microsoft server environments. - Provisioning and configuration of new virtual machines, servers, services and supporting infrastructure. - Deployment and configuration of applications and infrastructure components. - Monitoring the health, performance, availability and security of production and internal systems. - Investigating and resolving infrastructure incidents, performance issues and system failures. - Designing and implementing appropriate monitoring, alerting and logging for new and existing systems. - Managing and improving configuration automation using Ansible. - Supporting and administering containerised environments using Docker, CRI-O and Kubernetes. - Managing Kubernetes clusters, workloads, services and associated infrastructure. - Administration and operational support of MySQL, Galera Cluster and Microsoft SQL Server environments. - 1 Building, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines. - Supporting software deployment and release processes in collaboration with the Development Team. - Maintaining system patching, upgrades, security configuration and vulnerability remediation. - Managing backup, recovery and disaster recovery processes. - Improving infrastructure resilience and reducing key-person dependencies through documentation and cross-training. - Reviewing existing infrastructure and recommending improvements where systems can be made more reliable, secure, maintainable or efficient. - Supporting infrastructure-related security incidents and remediation activities. - Maintaining clear technical documentation covering systems, infrastructure, recovery procedures and operational processes. - Working with third-party infrastructure and technology partners where specialist support is required. - Supporting the broader IT function where infrastructure, systems or operational responsibilities overlap. Experience - 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Systems Administration, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering or a similar role. - Significant hands-on experience operating production-grade infrastructure. - Strong Linux administration experience. - Practical experience across both Linux and Microsoft server estates. - Proven experience managing infrastructure supporting business-critical applications. - Experience taking ownership of complex technical problems with limited supervision. - Proven ability to investigate unfamiliar systems and determine appropriate solutions. - Experience improving infrastructure reliability, automation, security or operational efficiency. - Previous experience operating in a senior or highly autonomous engineering role Skills and Experience - Core Linux & Systems Administration - Strong professional experience administering Linux server environments in production. - Strong understanding of Linux system administration, including: users and permissions system services package management networking storage and filesystems scheduled tasks logging performance management troubleshooting. - Experience provisioning and configuring servers and virtual machines from initial deployment through to production readiness. - Strong understanding of production infrastructure reliability, availability and operational support. - Experience with system patching, upgrades and lifecycle management. - Experience diagnosing complex infrastructure issues independently. Monitoring, Reliability & Security - Strong experience with system, application and security monitoring. - Experience designing and implementing monitoring and alerting for new infrastructure and applications. - Ability to identify meaningful service health indicators and create appropriate alerts. - Strong understanding of: infrastructure security access control patch management vulnerability remediation system hardening logging auditing certificate management - Experience responding to production incidents and security-related infrastructure issues. - Strong understanding of backup, recovery and disaster recovery principles. - Experience documenting and testing disaster recovery procedures. Automation & Configuration Management - Strong working knowledge of Ansible. Experience using automation to manage: server configuration 3. - Application deployment package installation security configuration environment setup recurring operational tasks - Ability to design reusable, maintainable and well-documented automation. - Strong understanding of infrastructure automation and configuration management principles. - Experience with Infrastructure as Code concepts. Containers & Kubernetes - Strong experience with Docker and containerised workloads. - Experience with CRI-O, containerd or comparable container runtimes. - Practical experience administering Kubernetes clusters in production or business-critical environments. - Strong understanding of: deployments pods services ingress persistent storage secrets configuration resource allocation cluster networking availability monitoring troubleshooting - Ability to independently deploy, troubleshoot and maintain applications within Kubernetes. - Experience supporting highly available containerised environments Database Administration MySQL / Galera - Strong experience administering MySQL environments. - Experience managing Galera Cluster or comparable highly available MySQL architectures. - Good understanding of: replication backup and restore performance - monitoring database troubleshooting permissions and access upgrades clustering high availability failover disaster recovery - Ability to investigate and resolve database performance and availability issues Microsoft SQL Server - Experience administering Microsoft SQL Server / MSSQL environments. - Good understanding of: database backup and recovery - permissions maintenance - monitoring performance - troubleshooting availability resilience Microsoft Systems Administration - Strong experience administering Microsoft Windows Server environments. - Experience installing, configuring and maintaining Windows-based servers and applications. - Experience with system monitoring, patching, security and operational support. - Strong understanding of Windows Server permissions, services and network configuration. - Ability to troubleshoot Windows infrastructure and application issues independently. - Experience supporting business-critical Microsoft workloads. CI/CD & Development Operations - Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines. - Experience designing, maintaining and troubleshooting automated deployment pipelines. - Understanding of build, test and production deployment processes. - Strong working knowledge of Git and modern source control workflows. - Experience supporting software developers with infrastructure and deployment requirements. - Ability to improve deployment reliability through automation and standardisation. - Experience supporting multiple development, staging and production environments Infrastructure & Networking - Strong understanding of: TCP/IP DNS HTTP / HTTPS firewalls VPNs load balancing reverse proxies TLS / SSL certificates - Experience administering web servers such as Nginx and Apache. - Understanding of highly available, multi-server environments. - Ability to troubleshoot infrastructure issues across operating system, networking, database and application layers. - Experience working alongside external infrastructure or managed service providers Working Style & Soft Skills - Strong problem-solving and diagnostic capability. - Comfortable being given an outcome or problem rather than a predefined technical solution. - Able to independently investigate, evaluate options and implement appropriate solutions. - Strong ownership mentality and willingness to take responsibility for systems through their full lifecycle. - Proactive approach to identifying operational risks before they become incidents. - Calm and methodical approach to production incidents and high-pressure situations. - Strong attention to detail. Good communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Ability to explain infrastructure risks and recommendations in practical business terms. Nice-to-Have - Previous experience supporting SAP environments. - Experience working with infrastructure hosting or supporting SAP application and database workloads. - Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tooling. - Experience with cloud infrastructure. Experience with centralised logging and observability platforms. - Experience with vulnerability management and security tooling. - Experience administering Redis or similar caching technologies. - Experience with highly available ecommerce or customer-facing infrastructure. - Experience supporting infrastructure across multiple physical locations or datacentres. - Experience working in organisations subject to formal audit, governance or listed-company control requirements. - Familiarity with broader Microsoft infrastructure and enterprise systems Is this role for you?? Click apply! TPBN1_UKTJ

Practical Adult Insights based in Blackburn is seeking a Network Security Analyst to manage its information security. Key responsibilities include auditing networks for vulnerabilities, investigating security breaches, and training staff on best practices. Applicants need to stay informed about evol

Are you ready to take on a rewarding interim role where your financial expertise can have a real impact within an education setting? Do you have excellent numeracy and accounting skills? Do you have experience of working with financial systems and processes? If yes, then get in touch today about this school position in Accrington. Hays Education are looking for a finance officer to join our friendly and professional education team based in the Accrington area. You will be responsible for managing and maintaining the school's financial records, ensuring compliance with internal and external regulations and standards alongside the school business and finance manager. This is a full-time finance job on a short-term temporary basis starting ASAP this September. School experience is ideal for this role, as well as previous experience of school finance systems. A DBS on the update service would be an advantage. Your new role Supporting day-to-day financial operations, including invoicing, banking and ensuring compliance with financial regulations. Producing financial reports and statements for the school leadership team Auditing financial information and ensuring the accuracy and completeness of data. What you'll need to succeed Experience of working in a finance or accounting role in an educational setting is essential. Knowledge of the Access Education financial system Good communication skills and ability to work as part of a team An enhanced DBS check on the update service would be ideal but not essential.What you need to do now If you're interested in this school finance officer role in our Accrington, East Lancashire school setting, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV, or call us now. If this job isn't quite right for you, but you are looking for a new position, please contact us for a confidential discussion on your career. Hays Specialist Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. By applying for this job you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at (url removed)

A fantastic opportunity has become available to join a well-established engineering and distributor business that specialises in precision weighing and measurement solutions across a wide range of industries. The company has built an excellent reputation for quality, compliance and technical expertise, and they are now looking to appoint an experienced Quality, Compliance & IMS Manager to take ownership of their Integrated Management System while driving continuous improvement across the business. Quality, Compliance & IMS Manager Salary: Very Competitive Location – Rishton Benefits: 25 days holiday + bank holidays, 3% Pension, Life Insurance, Excellent Career Progression Opportunities The business is particularly keen to speak with individuals who have experience managing Integrated Management Systems within an engineering or manufacturing environment, with strong knowledge of ISO standards, auditing and regulatory compliance. The Role Lead, maintain and continuously improve the Integrated Management System (IMS). Drive compliance with ISO 9001, ISO 17025, Module D and SafeContractor accreditation. Maintain metrology traceability and ensure compliance with NAWI and MID regulations. Lead internal audits and act as the primary contact for external certification bodies including UKAS, BSI and the Weighing Federation. Manage non-conformances, corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives across the business. Oversee Health & Safety activities including COSHH, DSE and Fire Risk Assessments. Manage RIDDOR reporting, investigations and ensure legislative compliance. Deliver training and provide guidance on quality, compliance and health & safety to managers and key stakeholders. Produce quality and compliance reports, monitor KPIs and support business-wide improvement projects. About You Proven experience managing an Integrated Management System within an engineering or manufacturing environment. Strong working knowledge of ISO 9001, ISO 17025, Module D and quality management systems. Internal Auditor qualification (or equivalent) is essential. NEBOSH qualification or equivalent Health & Safety qualification would be highly advantageous. Experience leading internal and external audits and liaising with certification bodies including UKAS and BSI. Knowledge of metrology traceability, NAWI and MID compliance. Strong understanding of Health & Safety legislation including COSHH, DSE, Fire Risk Assessments and RIDDOR. Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence and train stakeholders across all levels of the business. A proactive approach with a passion for continuous improvement, compliance and operational excellence. If you are interested in applying for this opportunity or wish to receive further information, please contact Sean Turton on (phone number removed) or email a copy of your current CV to (url removed) quoting reference "SER-IN

Our client, a leading organisation within the commercial services sector, are seeking a highly organised and proactive Assistant HSEQ Manager to support its governance, health & safety, HR administration, environmental management, and wider business support functions. This is a varied and impactful role suited to someone who thrives in a structured environment, enjoys improving processes, and is confident working across multiple operational areas. You will play a key part in ensuring the business operates in line with legal, regulatory and industry standards, while supporting continuous improvement across all departments. Reporting to the Compliance Manager, key responsibilities to include: • Maintain and develop internal compliance policies, procedures and controls, • Support internal and external audits, compliance monitoring and reporting, • Assist with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 quality and environmental management systems, • Coordinate investigations into non‑conformances and support corrective actions, • Provide HR administrative support including onboarding, documentation, training records and employee welfare programmes, • Assist with health & safety processes including DSE assessments, first aid compliance, fire safety checks and accident investigations, • Support facilities management including statutory inspections, cleaning contracts, security systems and grounds maintenance, • Administer fleet compliance, insurance records and vehicle tracking reviews, • Coordinate statutory, mandatory and development training programmes, • Provide general business support across multiple operational functions As a successful candidate you will have previous experience in compliance, HR, health & safety or quality management and a background in the automotive and/or FMCG could be advantageous, knowledge of ISO 9001 / ISO 14001 and internal auditing could also be beneficial. You will also possess strong organisational and administrative skills, excellent written/verbal communication and be confident using Microsoft Office and business systems. This is an excellent opportunity to join a respected organisation in a role that offers breadth, responsibility and the chance to influence operational excellence. Ideal for candidates seeking career development within compliance, governance or business support and in return the company offers a competitive salary, benefits and excellent career progression

Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer - 1 or 2 days a week expected at Head Office in Blackburn - Salary: £60k-£65k Summary of Position The Senior DevOps & Systems Engineer will be responsible for the administration, reliability, security and continuous improvement of the TW Group infrastructure estate across both Linux and Microsoft environments. This is a hands-on senior role for an experienced infrastructure engineer who is comfortable taking ownership of technical problems, investigating unfamiliar systems and delivering practical solutions with minimal supervision. The successful candidate will work closely with the Software Development Team, IT Operations and selected third-party technology partners to support business-critical infrastructure, development environments, databases, container platforms and deployment pipelines. The role will be expected to take ownership of day-to-day infrastructure operations while also improving automation, monitoring, resilience, documentation and disaster recovery capability across the wider IT estate. Key Responsibilities - Administration, maintenance and improvement of Linux and Microsoft server environments. - Provisioning and configuration of new virtual machines, servers, services and supporting infrastructure. - Deployment and configuration of applications and infrastructure components. - Monitoring the health, performance, availability and security of production and internal systems. - Investigating and resolving infrastructure incidents, performance issues and system failures. - Designing and implementing appropriate monitoring, alerting and logging for new and existing systems. - Managing and improving configuration automation using Ansible. - Supporting and administering containerised environments using Docker, CRI-O and Kubernetes. - Managing Kubernetes clusters, workloads, services and associated infrastructure. - Administration and operational support of MySQL, Galera Cluster and Microsoft SQL Server environments. - 1 Building, maintaining and improving CI/CD pipelines. - Supporting software deployment and release processes in collaboration with the Development Team. - Maintaining system patching, upgrades, security configuration and vulnerability remediation. - Managing backup, recovery and disaster recovery processes. - Improving infrastructure resilience and reducing key-person dependencies through documentation and cross-training. - Reviewing existing infrastructure and recommending improvements where systems can be made more reliable, secure, maintainable or efficient. - Supporting infrastructure-related security incidents and remediation activities. - Maintaining clear technical documentation covering systems, infrastructure, recovery procedures and operational processes. - Working with third-party infrastructure and technology partners where specialist support is required. - Supporting the broader IT function where infrastructure, systems or operational responsibilities overlap. Experience - 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Systems Administration, Infrastructure Engineering, Platform Engineering or a similar role. - Significant hands-on experience operating production-grade infrastructure. - Strong Linux administration experience. - Practical experience across both Linux and Microsoft server estates. - Proven experience managing infrastructure supporting business-critical applications. - Experience taking ownership of complex technical problems with limited supervision. - Proven ability to investigate unfamiliar systems and determine appropriate solutions. - Experience improving infrastructure reliability, automation, security or operational efficiency. - Previous experience operating in a senior or highly autonomous engineering role Skills and Experience - Core Linux & Systems Administration - Strong professional experience administering Linux server environments in production. - Strong understanding of Linux system administration, including: users and permissions system services package management networking storage and filesystems scheduled tasks logging performance management troubleshooting. - Experience provisioning and configuring servers and virtual machines from initial deployment through to production readiness. - Strong understanding of production infrastructure reliability, availability and operational support. - Experience with system patching, upgrades and lifecycle management. - Experience diagnosing complex infrastructure issues independently. Monitoring, Reliability & Security - Strong experience with system, application and security monitoring. - Experience designing and implementing monitoring and alerting for new infrastructure and applications. - Ability to identify meaningful service health indicators and create appropriate alerts. - Strong understanding of: infrastructure security access control patch management vulnerability remediation system hardening logging auditing certificate management - Experience responding to production incidents and security-related infrastructure issues. - Strong understanding of backup, recovery and disaster recovery principles. - Experience documenting and testing disaster recovery procedures. Automation & Configuration Management - Strong working knowledge of Ansible. Experience using automation to manage: server configuration 3. - Application deployment package installation security configuration environment setup recurring operational tasks - Ability to design reusable, maintainable and well-documented automation. - Strong understanding of infrastructure automation and configuration management principles. - Experience with Infrastructure as Code concepts. Containers & Kubernetes - Strong experience with Docker and containerised workloads. - Experience with CRI-O, containerd or comparable container runtimes. - Practical experience administering Kubernetes clusters in production or business-critical environments. - Strong understanding of: deployments pods services ingress persistent storage secrets configuration resource allocation cluster networking availability monitoring troubleshooting - Ability to independently deploy, troubleshoot and maintain applications within Kubernetes. - Experience supporting highly available containerised environments Database Administration MySQL / Galera - Strong experience administering MySQL environments. - Experience managing Galera Cluster or comparable highly available MySQL architectures. - Good understanding of: replication backup and restore performance - monitoring database troubleshooting permissions and access upgrades clustering high availability failover disaster recovery - Ability to investigate and resolve database performance and availability issues Microsoft SQL Server - Experience administering Microsoft SQL Server / MSSQL environments. - Good understanding of: database backup and recovery - permissions maintenance - monitoring performance - troubleshooting availability resilience Microsoft Systems Administration - Strong experience administering Microsoft Windows Server environments. - Experience installing, configuring and maintaining Windows-based servers and applications. - Experience with system monitoring, patching, security and operational support. - Strong understanding of Windows Server permissions, services and network configuration. - Ability to troubleshoot Windows infrastructure and application issues independently. - Experience supporting business-critical Microsoft workloads. CI/CD & Development Operations - Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines. - Experience designing, maintaining and troubleshooting automated deployment pipelines. - Understanding of build, test and production deployment processes. - Strong working knowledge of Git and modern source control workflows. - Experience supporting software developers with infrastructure and deployment requirements. - Ability to improve deployment reliability through automation and standardisation. - Experience supporting multiple development, staging and production environments Infrastructure & Networking - Strong understanding of: TCP/IP DNS HTTP / HTTPS firewalls VPNs load balancing reverse proxies TLS / SSL certificates - Experience administering web servers such as Nginx and Apache. - Understanding of highly available, multi-server environments. - Ability to troubleshoot infrastructure issues across operating system, networking, database and application layers. - Experience working alongside external infrastructure or managed service providers Working Style & Soft Skills - Strong problem-solving and diagnostic capability. - Comfortable being given an outcome or problem rather than a predefined technical solution. - Able to independently investigate, evaluate options and implement appropriate solutions. - Strong ownership mentality and willingness to take responsibility for systems through their full lifecycle. - Proactive approach to identifying operational risks before they become incidents. - Calm and methodical approach to production incidents and high-pressure situations. - Strong attention to detail. Good communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. - Ability to explain infrastructure risks and recommendations in practical business terms. Nice-to-Have - Previous experience supporting SAP environments. - Experience working with infrastructure hosting or supporting SAP application and database workloads. - Experience with Terraform or similar Infrastructure as Code tooling. - Experience with cloud infrastructure. Experience with centralised logging and observability platforms. - Experience with vulnerability management and security tooling. - Experience administering Redis or similar caching technologies. - Experience with highly available ecommerce or customer-facing infrastructure. - Experience supporting infrastructure across multiple physical locations or datacentres. - Experience working in organisations subject to formal audit, governance or listed-company control requirements. - Familiarity with broader Microsoft infrastructure and enterprise systems Is this role for you?? Click apply

Quality Engineer (Manufacturing) Blackburn, commutable from: Darwen, Accrington, Preston, Chorley, Clitheroe, Bolton, Burnley, Haslingden, Bacup, Fulwood & all surrounding areas £40,000 - £45,000 + Pension + Private Healthcare + Training + Career Progression + Excellent Company Benefits Are you an experienced Quality Engineer with a background in engineering or manufacturing, looking to take ownership of quality systems and drive continuous improvement within a highly technical environment? This is an excellent opportunity to join a globally recognised engineering organisation where product quality, safety and reliability are at the heart of everything they do. You'll play a key role in maintaining and improving the Quality Management System, working closely with production, engineering, suppliers and senior management to identify issues and deliver sustainable improvements. You'll have the opportunity to take ownership of internal and supplier audits, external certification activity, CAPA, non-conformances and process improvement projects, while gaining further training in areas such as internal auditing and quality management. The organisation operates within a specialist, safety-critical manufacturing sector, designing and producing technically advanced products used by customers around the world. This position would suit a Quality Engineer from a manufacturing or engineering background looking to develop their career within a technically advanced manufacturing environment. The Role: Manage and improve the Quality Management System Lead internal, supplier and external audits, driving corrective actions to closure Lead quality improvement and process capability projects across the site The Candidate: Previous experience working as a Quality Engineer for an engineering or manufacturing business Proactive, results-driven and passionate about continuous improvement Strong knowledge of QMS, ISO 9001 & auditing Reference Number: BBBH(phone number removed) To apply for this role or to be considered for further roles, please click "Apply Now" or contact Patrick Simper at Rise Technical Recruitment. Rise Technical Recruitment Ltd acts an employment agency for permanent roles and an employment business for temporary roles. The salary advertised is the bracket available for this position. The actual salary paid will be dependent on your level of experience, qualifications and skill set and will be decided by our client, the employer. Rise are not responsible or liable for any hiring decisions made by the end client. We are an equal opportunities company and welcome applications from all suitable candidates