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PHP Lead Developer - Team Leader & Client-Facing Role Location: Dewsbury (1 day per week in office) Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum Team Size: 4 Developers (Graduate, Junior, Mid-level, Senior) The Opportunity We're seeking an experienced PHP Lead Developer to take ownership of our development team and work directly with our major client projects. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll split your time between technical delivery, team development, and client engagement. Working alongside a Project Manager who handles client relationships, you'll be the technical face of our team - jumping on calls, answering technical queries, and ensuring our solutions exceed client expectations. What You'll Be Doing Technical Leadership • Lead Back End development using PHP and React with strong JavaScript skills, • Architect and deliver solutions for 4-5 clients, with primary focus on our major client, • Provide technical guidance and code reviews across all team projects, • Make key technology decisions and drive best practicesTeam Management, • Lead a diverse team: 1x Graduate, 1x Junior, 1x Mid-level, 1x Senior Developer, • Handle recruitment, from interviewing to onboarding new team members, • Design and deliver training programs to develop your team's skills, • Conduct performance reviews and career development planning, • Foster a collaborative, learning-focused team environmentClient Engagement, • Work directly with clients on technical discussions and solution design, • Join client calls to provide technical expertise and answer questions, • Collaborate with the Project Manager to ensure seamless client experience, • Maintain professional, clear communication with stakeholders at all levelsWhat We're Looking For Essential Skills, • Strong PHP development experience with leadership background, • Proficient in React and JavaScript, • Proven experience managing and developing development teams, • Client-facing experience with excellent communication skills, • Hands-on approach to recruitment, training, and team management, • Professional demeanor suitable for direct client interactionLeadership Experience, • Experience leading technical teams through project delivery, • Track record of developing junior developers and growing team capabilities, • Comfortable with performance management and conducting reviews, • Ability to balance hands-on coding with management responsibilitiesWhat We Offer Competitive Benefits Package, • Salary: Up to £70,000 per annum, • Holiday: 25 days + bank holidays, with buy/sell option (up to 5 days), • Service Recognition: Additional holiday days after 3, 5, and 10 years, • Training Focus: 10% of your time dedicated to learning and development, • Consulting Bonus: Up to £500 per month based on team billable hours, • Pension: Standard company pension scheme, • Flexible Working: Just 1 day per week required in our Dewsbury officeProfessional Development, • Dedicated time for training and skill development, • Opportunity to shape technical strategy and team direction, • Work with diverse clients across multiple industries, • Walk through your code and explain your approach, • Discuss technology choices and architectural decisions, • Demonstrate your problem-solving methodology

The Company Newly Weds® Foods is a leading, privately owned global food ingredients business. The European division is a market leader in the manufacture of coatings, seasonings and functional ingredient systems. Today, Newly Weds® Foods is a world leader in food ingredient technology. A network of R&D, manufacturing and service facilities around the globe allows us to serve our customers’ needs in more than 90 countries. Despite our size and scope, we’ve continued to be an independent, family-owned business answerable only to the demands of our customers. That’s why we continue to invest in infrastructure, human resources and capacity to keep pace with our customers’ needs and expectations. The Position Newly Weds® Foods Ltd are currently seeking to recruit a highly motivated, proactive and driven individual to work as a Group Health and Safety Manager. Reporting into the Managing Director for the UK and Europe, with a dotted line to the Global EHS Director, this leadership role has the responsibility for developing Health, Safety and Environmental standards, and ensuring that they are embedded within our business. You will be responsible for setting the strategic framework for the management of these standards and for defining and delivering against objectives that enable both the achievement of these standards and continuous improvement. You will give technical guidance on all Health, Safety and Environmental matters and identifying and advising on current and future requirements. The most important aspect of the role is to improve the HSE culture across the organisation and, working alongside the existing Operations team and Plant Manager group, deliver significant improvement. You will work at all four sites in the UK and support new projects and developments in the UK and EU. You will have the ability to work at all levels across the organisation and have demonstrable experience in a similar role. Key for success in this job is a passion and identification with Operations and Manufacturing, ideally with some prior experience, or ambition to develop in, site operations roles. Deliver: • Develop Weekly and Monthly H+S Reporting – combining and unifying Accident reporting to send a clear report detailing events, as well as One Pagers to communicate and inculcate a culture of improvement and learning across all sites using graphs and clear tables. Ensure wide distribution., • An overall H+S Strategy – based on a gap analysis of where we are now vs where we should be. To include:, • An overall campaign. Style: “Safety Starts with Me” / “Project Zero” which ‘brands’ an initiative to ensure that all employees are aware of the focus. This should incorporate an annual calendar of events., • Should ensure there is a programme of site-based initiatives, • Look outside the business to see what ‘best practice’ in behavioural safety campaigns is., • Alongside Plant managers, a ‘Health and Safety’ element to the 5 Year Plans. So that we can identify a ‘strand’ of H+S investment through the 5 Yr Plan for each site. This will involve working with the Plant Managers., • Develop Personal Development Plans for each of the H+S managers, clearly identifying their objectives, monitoring their delivery, ensure these are aligned with the Plant Managers., • Work with colleagues in the USA to understand each of the site’s gaps vs last year’s H+S Audit to ensure all sites demonstrate an improvement in H+S Audit scores., • Work with internal H+S team and site leadership to roll out IOSH “Working Safely” courses – ideally across all operatives. Explore the option of altering our registration to enable us to deliver ‘Managing Safely’ as well for all colleagues with leadership responsibilities., • Encourage cross-pollination across the sites – bring together best practice across the UK sites, encourage team collaboration. Establish the “H+S” team, meeting on a regular basis., • Execute the Corporate EHS objectives and strategy as directed by the Global EHS Director and Board Way of working: • Take personal responsibility for delivery. Work closely with Plant Managers to understand their site situation. Provide practical help and assistance to drive change and delivery. Person Specification The ability to work collaboratively within a team and demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills is essential to this role, as well as the ability to communicate effectively at all levels. Individuals must be able to prioritise their workload and work effectively when under pressure, as working to tight deadlines is part of this role. You must have excellent organisational skills and have good knowledge of data analysis, risk assessments, negotiation and influencing skills. This position requires a sound knowledge of lean initiatives with excellent computer software skills. As this is a multi-site role you must hold a full driving licence and have a flexible approach to working as you will be required to visit other sites within the UK. Qualifications • Bachelor’s degree in occupational health and safety; or related field; or three to five years related experience and or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience in a manufacturing facility., • Extensive experience operating at a senior level within SHE contributing to the leadership teams strategic objectives., • Strong leadership skills with demonstrated experience managing, developing and coaching a team., • Strong communicator, with demonstrated experience influencing at all levels., • Change agent, focused on continuous improvement with demonstrated results in driving the SHE agenda., • Strong aptitude for solving complex problems., • Demonstrated experience in driving behavioural safety with tangible results., • NEBOSH Diploma in Health and Safety., • Chartered member or working towards becoming a chartered member of IOSH. Hours of work This is a day staff position, working a basic 37.5-hour week, Monday to Friday, however due to nature of this role you will need to demonstrate a certain amount of flexibility.

A fantastic new opportunity has arisen within Integrated Utility Services and we are looking for an experienced Head of Commercial. This role can be based at either our Stockton or Wakefield office. Do you want to be part of a growing business, with a proficient workforce, dedicated to high level customer service, delivering a quality product together with an uncompromised safety culture? Join a group that is passionate about the environment and cares about the health and wellbeing of its employees. We are currently in search of a talented and motivated Head of Commercial. Reporting to the Commercial Director, the Head of Commercial will be responsible for the overall commercial strategy, performance, and risk management across a portfolio of projects across the UK. You will lead and mentor a dedicated commercial team, ensuring robust contract administration, effective cost control, and maximised profitability, all while maintaining strong client relationships. Along with a competitive salary of up to £100,000 we also offer great benefits such as; -25 days holiday plus bank holidays which increases up to 28 days with service -Performance bonus of up to 20% -Agile working -Enrolment into our double matched pension scheme -Private health care -Personal transport provision -Long service recognition Key Responsibilities ·Provide strategic commercial leadership across a portfolio of projects across the UK. ·Lead, manage, and develop a team of Quantity Surveyors and Tendering & Estimators, providing guidance, training, and development opportunities to ensure high performance and alignment with company goals. ·Oversee all commercial aspects of projects from tender stage through to final account settlement. ·Lead contract negotiations for existing accounts, ensuring favourable terms for both parties while aligning with the company's goals and revenue targets. ·Oversee the financial performance of key accounts, including budgeting, forecasting, and ensuring that commercial agreements are managed within the agreed cost structures. ·Ensure rigorous application and administration across a range of standard form and bespoke contracts. ·Develop and implement commercial strategies to manage risk and maximise opportunities. ·Manage subcontractor procurement and performance, ensuring KPIs (e.g., service levels, cost efficiency, delivery accuracy) are met or exceeded. ·Prepare regular performance reports for senior management and clients, with a clear focus on sustaining and growth ·Oversee cost reporting, forecasting, cash flow management, and financial reporting. ·Lead on the negotiation and resolution of claims and variations. ·Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, delivery partners, and the supply chain, ensuring ongoing communication and collaboration to meet their evolving needs, while safeguarding the revenue stream. ·Drive continuous improvement within the commercial function. ·Work closely with internal departments (e.g., operations, supply chain, customer service) to resolve client issues, streamline processes, and ensure smooth, efficient service delivery. ·Act as a member of the Senior Leadership Team, reporting directly to the Commercial Director. Qualifications and Attributes Essential Qualifications and Experience ·Proven experience operating at a senior level (e.g., Commercial Manager, Senior Commercial Manager, Head of Commercial) within a main contracting environment. ·Demonstrable experience working on large-scale infrastructure, civil engineering, or utilities projects. ·In-depth, expert-level understanding and practical application of a range of contracts, including NEC. ·Degree qualified in Quantity Surveying, Commercial Management, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience). ·Strong leadership and team management skills with the ability to motivate and develop staff. ·Excellent negotiation, communication, and influencing skills. Commercially astute with a strategic mindset and strong analytical abilities. Desirable Qualifications and Experience ·Professional membership (RICS/CICES) is advantageous, or willing to attain this. ·Prior experience with DNO/IDNOs in the UK is highly beneficial but not essential. What next? We’re excited to hear from candidates with a passion for our company and the energy industry and a desire to succeed. Apply now and we’ll be in touch.

Job Title: Software Engineering Manager Level: Manager (Leadership Team) Reports to: Director of Commercial & Strategic Delivery Location: Wakefield Purpose of Role The Software Engineering Manager role is responsible for developing, implementing and managing Minster Law’s Application development strategy and to lead on the technical solution designs and architectural standards to support the business’s short- and long-term business plan objectives. The scope of the role includes service to support the entire business (as prioritised), has an essential perspective both inside and outside the organisation (including our business and supply chain partners) and has a strong eye on technology developments both current and expected in the future within and beyond our sector. This role is accountable for designing and delivering high quality application solutions through direct line management of the internal development teams to achieve the businesses objectives, needs and requirements. In addition, it will include strong collaboration with both the Head of Digital Operations and Delivery Manager who together with the Software Engineering Manager, form the leadership team responsible for delivering a technology product and service environment which propels the business forward. This is a key role in the business and as such forms part of the Leadership community. Key Accountabilities • Develop a best-in-class application delivery capability with ambitious teams with the right skills to deliver the technology strategy., • Responsible for the productivity and advancement of the development and testing teams, ensuring optimised performance and delivery from highly engaged, motivated team members, • Technology coach to the wider Minster Law leadership team (and beyond as required) as we continue our journey to be a digitally competent business., • Responsible for the design and execution of our technology ‘product’ design process from solution ideation to solution design, and solution implementation, • Responsible for establishing and managing the IT Application Architecture for the business and the adoption of an architecture and standards methodology., • Communicates the architecture to all internal stakeholders and collaborates and coordinates the adoption of IT standards and procedures., • Assures solutions are not only fit for the specific purpose but are also built using reusable components, contribute to our medium-term architecture map and avoid point solutions., • Ensure alignment with the recognised standards and guidelines of technology solutions., • Assists the Delivery Manager, other change sponsors and all Multi-Disciplinary Teams on solutions delivery and timing of financial spend for application solutions., • Directs and manages the identification, recommendation and delivery of appropriate solutions, upgrades, replacements, or decommissioning options incorporating business and technology productivity, usability, and total cost of ownership., • Takes ownership of diagnosing, treating and resolving any live software and application incidents or issues raised through the service desk ticket notification processes., • Provides analysis of security protection technologies as necessary., • Ensures that software products are developed using a ‘Security by Design’ principle, • In collaboration with the Head of Digital Operations and Delivery Manager ensure all appropriate security considerations are considered and applied to all applications, architecture and solution designs, • Work closely with Head of Digital Operations and Delivery Manager to create a Digital ‘centre of excellence’ promoting collaboration, sharing of skills and development & mobility of talent, • In collaboration with the Head of Digital Operations and Delivery Manager, support deployments and infrastructure changes to “environments” in a controlled, automated and auditable manner and align to DevOps processes and best practices., • Leads the software delivery and testing teams, ensuring that the skills of team members remain aligned with the company digital roadmaps., • Maintains oversite of development within multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring that deliverables meet quality standards, • Ensures the delivery of high quality, well defined, maintainable software products, • Manages the software testing function and all associated tools, procedures and approaches. Works with operating teams to ensure that UAT processes are effective., • Manages the company’s legacy debt reduction strategy, • Ensures that software development tooling remains relevant, secure, effective & maintainable, • Support the Head of Digital Operations to manage relationships with key partners, performs technology due diligence when required Key Performance Indicators Your KPIs and Objectives will be discussed and agreed upon with you on a one-to-one basis. In addition, you will have regular one-to-one meetings with your line manager to review your performance against these objectives and identify any areas for development and required support Person Profile Essential Technical Skills • Application development skills using .NET, C#, • Strong understanding of front-end technologies such as JavaScript, Angular, React., • Strong experience in designing cloud-native applications and architectures., • Strong background in API design and integration patterns., • Deep understanding of Azure cloud services and modern deployment practices., • Strong knowledge of development management tooling and approaches, including code control, collaboration, and test automation, • Comprehensive Microsoft stack knowledge, • Extensive experience of management of deploying and supporting in-house developed applications., • Strong knowledge and demonstrable experience in solution design and architecture (business and systems), • A good understanding of Low Code technologies and the implementation within a business environment., • Experience and understanding of cloud data architecture and solutions. Additional Essential skills • Keeps abreast of technology developments with a curiosity to identify new ways of working, • Able to inspire business leaders and the wider colleague base on the use of current and future applications, • Experience of leading IT Development teams and Test functions, • Good interpersonal skills to be able to analyse situations against the bigger picture, • Strong influencing skills, cross functional collaboration with a focus on knowledge sharing, • Ability to convey technical solutions to a non-technical audience, • Excellent Problem-solving skills, • Excellent oral and written communication, • Analytical and problem-solving skills, • Ability to work under indirect supervision, • Broad understanding of information technology topics, • Effective interpersonal skills and collaborative management style to include teamwork and team building ability Desirable Skills • Understanding of practical applications of automation testing and relevant solutions, • Exposure to / experience of using AI for operational efficiency, data-driven insights, and future capability building, • Comfortable with ambiguity and time spent outside of comfort zone acquiring new skills, • Flexible in a fast-paced dynamic environment with shifting roles and responsibilities, • Technically creative and open-minded, • Robust - able to deal with changing circumstances and challenging situations whilst still achieving objectives., • Team Player and acts as a role model to your colleagues, working together to achieve business and team goals., • Take opportunities to develop and stretch yourself and be passionate about developing your career at Minster Law. Personal Development There is the opportunity for high performing individuals to move into different departments across the business to expand their knowledge and experience and develop a career within Minster Law. Travel This role is based in our Wakefield office, occasional travel may be required Equal Opportunities Minster Law is committed to equality and diversity and being a workplace that creates a sense of belonging for everyone. We’re an equal opportunity and disability confident employer. All applicants will be considered for employment regardless of age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, neurodiversity, or disability status. You can read more about our commitment to equality and diversity on the Minster Law website. The Recruitment Team at Minster Law would like to thank you for applying for Employment with us. Due to the high volume of applications, please note if you have not heard back from us in 10 working days, you have not been successful on this occasion. Please continue to follow us on LinkedIn for more opportunities.

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