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Joinery Production ManagerLocation : Hemel HempsteadSalary : £60,000-£75,000 DOE + Discretionary Performance BonusContract : Full-time, PermanentLead a High-Performing Manufacturing Operation. Inspire Your Team. Drive Excellence.At Quest Joinery, we're renowned for delivering exceptional bespoke joinery for prestigious projects, combining traditional craftsmanship with modern manufacturing expertise. As our business continues to growwith a projected turnover of £12 million this yearwe're looking for an experienced Joinery Production Manager to lead our busy manufacturing facility and play a pivotal role in our continued success.This is an outstanding opportunity to take ownership of a large-scale production operation, leading a team of 40+ employees, both directly and indirectly, while driving quality, efficiency, safety and continuous improvement across the workshop.A Day in the Life and the Impact You'll MakeAs Joinery Production Manager, you'll be responsible for the overall performance of our purpose-built manufacturing facility, ensuring every project is delivered safely, efficiently and to the exceptional standards our clients expect.Leading a multi-disciplined team, you'll oversee production planning, quality, people development and operational performance while working closely with Pre-Construction, Logistics and senior leadership to ensure customer expectations, commercial objectives and production deadlines are consistently achieved.Your leadership will shape the future of the workshop, helping to build a culture of accountability, collaboration and continuous improvement.What You'll DoLead the day-to-day operation of our joinery manufacturing facility, managing a team of over 40 people across production and workshop functions.Oversee production planning, scheduling, quality, productivity and cost control to ensure projects are delivered on time and to the highest standards.Develop, motivate and support your team through effective leadership, coaching, recruitment and succession planning.Drive continuous improvement initiatives, identifying opportunities to improve manufacturing processes, workflow and operational efficiency.Ensure the highest standards of health & safety, compliance and workshop maintenance while working collaboratively with internal departments to achieve business objectives.About YouYou'll be an experienced manufacturing leader with a proven background in joinery, woodworking or a related production environment. You're passionate about developing people, improving performance and creating a positive, high-performing culture where quality comes first.You'll also bring:Significant experience managing a joinery or manufacturing workshop.Proven success leading large production teams, ideally with responsibility for 40+ direct and indirect reports.Strong operational and commercial awareness, with experience delivering against production targets, budgets and business objectives.Excellent knowledge of manufacturing processes, production planning and quality management.A solid understanding of Health & Safety legislation and best practice within a manufacturing environment.Strong leadership, communication and organisational skills, with the ability to motivate teams and build effective working relationships.A proactive approach to continuous improvement, problem solving and driving operational excellence.What You'll Receive for the Value You Bring:Competitive salary of £60,000-£75,000, depending on experienceDiscretionary performance-related bonusLife insurancePrivate health insuranceCompany pensionOngoing training and personal developmentThe opportunity to lead a successful manufacturing operation within a growing, highly respected bespoke joinery businessApply TodayIf you're ready to lead a large-scale joinery manufacturing operation and play a key role in the continued growth of a thriving business, we'd love to hear from you.Apply today and become part of the Quest Joinery team.No agencies please.TPBN1_UKTJ

About MotionTech \n MotionTech designs, installs and maintains conveyor, robotics and automated storage systems for logistics, food and beverage, and retail sites across the UK. Founded in 1997 and now more than 150 people strong, they support equipment through its full lifecycle, from installation through to day-to-day maintenance. This role is based at a major new client site in Hemel Hempstead. \n Th... \n \n ZIPC1_UKTJ

Production Supervisor (Progression to Manager) \n £70,000 - £75,000 + Training + Company Bonus + 33 Days Holiday + Progression \n Hemel Hempstead \n Are you a Production Supervisor from a joinery background looking to join a thriving and well-established company offering rapid progression to a Production Manager position? \n On offer is the chance to join a company that will value your work with a yearly bonus and grant ample autonomy for you to run the entire department. \n In this role, you will be responsible for managing a team of 40 employees, ensuring production deadlines are consistently met, health and safety procedures are followed, and production schedules are effectively planned and managed. \n Established over a decade ago, this rapidly growing company has consistently targeted a 10% annual increase in turnover and has accelerated to the top of their industry. They are now looking for a Production Manager who will oversee their production department. \n This role would suit a production supervisor who is looking for the next step in their career where they will be autonomous and trusted to manage their own department and staff. \n The Role: \n\n • Managing 40 employees\n, • Ensuring targets and KPIs are met\n, • Follow Health and Safety procedures\n, • Production planning\n, • Monday to Friday, 7:00am - 4:30pm\n\n The Person: \n\n • Production Supervisor or similar\n, • Looking for progression to a Production Manager\n\n Reference number: BBBH26755 \n Engineer, Engineering, Engineering, Production, Manager, Supervisor, Planning, Joinery, Health and Safety, Scheduling, Hemal Hempstead, Luton, Dunstable \n If you're interested in this role, click 'apply now' to forward an up-to-date copy of your CV. \n We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitable candidates. The salary advertised is a guideline for this position. \n The offered renumeration will be dependent on the extent of your experience, qualifications, and skill set. \n Ernest Gordon Recruitment Limited acts as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and employment business for the supply of temporary workers. \n By applying for this job, you accept the T&C's, Privacy Policy and Disclaimers which can be found at our website.

At Kids2, we help parents win at one of the toughest jobs in the world. We don’t just sell products; we create holistic solutions that make early-stage parenting easier across borders, categories, and channels. \n \n No matter our title, our job is to create more tiny wins for parents so they can create bright futures for their little ones. We take the work seriously—and have fun doing it. \n \n SUMMARY \n We are seeking a Sr. Category & Product Manager to build and scale a premium stroller business in Europe, grounded in European design, functionality, and consumer insight. \n \n This role is the business owner for the stroller category in Europe—setting the long-term product vision, leading cross-functional teams, and owning the end-to-end category strategy from portfolio and roadmap to financial performance and market execution. You operate as the GM of the stroller category in Europe, owning revenue, margin, and SKU productivity while creating a differentiated, design-led offering that wins with European consumers and retailers. \n \n PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: \n\n • Own the European stroller category P&L (revenue, margin, key investments), setting forecasts, cost targets, margin goals, and managing overall portfolio health.\n, • Define the category vision and 3-year product roadmap, aligned with Kids2’s global strategy, including a clear good/better/best portfolio and premium positioning for Europe.\n, • Leverage European consumer insights, category data, and competitive intelligence (e.g., Bugaboo, Cybex, Uppababy) to identify whitespace and guide long-term product vision and innovation.\n, • Translate European parenting behaviors into clear product briefs and partner with design and engineering to deliver differentiated, design-led strollers with strong price/value and premium materials.\n, • Serve as the internal expert on European parenting, stroller market dynamics, retail landscape (specialty, omni-channel, D2C), and relevant regulatory changes.\n, • Build and maintain strong relationships with key European retailers, distributors, and marketplace partners to inform strategy, shape assortments, and secure support for the portfolio.\n, • Lead and align cross-functional teams (design, engineering, packaging, digital, sales, operations, demand planning) to execute the roadmap, maintain launch timing, and resolve trade-offs.\n, • Own go-to-market execution for stroller launches across Europe, including pricing strategy, margin guardrails, channel segmentation, assortment architecture, and sell-in materials.\n, • Represent the stroller category as the European expert in key retailer meetings, trade shows, and strategic presentations.\n, • Monitor in-market performance and consumer feedback to drive SKU rationalization, lifecycle management, product refreshes, and add/drop recommendations to retail partners.\n\n \n QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE \n\n • 7+ years in product, category, or brand management—ideally in juvenile products (strollers preferred), consumer durables, or premium lifestyle brands.\n, • Proven experience launching premium products in Europe.\n, • Strong understanding of European design and consumer expectations.\n, • General knowledge of manufacturing materials, product development processes, and costs.\n, • Familiarity with online and brick & mortar retail in Europe.\n, • Strong commercial acumen and P&L ownership mindset.\n, • Deep appreciation for design, brand, and user experience.\n, • Experience working in global supply chains (Asia manufacturing preferred).\n, • Highly collaborative; able to lead cross-functional teams.\n, • Must be fluent in English.\n\n \n EDUCATION & SKILLS \n\n • Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, or related field, or equivalent experience.\n, • Able to execute and excel in a fast-paced environment.\n, • Strong prioritization skills amid shifting priorities.\n, • Outstanding oral and presentation communication skills.\n\n \n COMPUTER/TECHNICAL SKILLS \n\n • Proficient in PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.\n, • Familiarity with category and retailer data tools (e.g., Circana, Profitero, Scintilla) and POS/shopper data analysis.\n\n \n PHYSICAL DEMANDS \n\n • While performing the duties of this job, the team member is regularly required to talk or listen.\n, • The team members frequently are required to sit; have flexible use of hands; reach with hands and arms; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.\n, • The team members are occasionally required to stand, walk, and taste or smell.\n, • The team member must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 - 50 pounds.\n, • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.\n\n \n WORK ENVIRONMENT \n\n • General office environment with regular domestic and international travel (approx.. 15%).\n\n

Role: Assembly OperativeAre you motivated by a fast-paced environment and enjoy hands-on assembly work? Vanta Staffing is seeking Assembly Operatives to join our client in Amersham. You will assemble a variety of components primarily for aircraft interiors, working with materials such as polycarbonate, metals, and composites, ensuring all products meet precise quality standards.Full-time hours: 38 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 07:30 – 16:15, and Friday 07:30 – 12:30, including a 30-minute lunch and short morning and afternoon breaks each day.Responsibilities• Bond and assemble plastic aircraft interior parts including panels, meal trays, seat backs, literature pockets, and magazine racks.• Follow work instructions and engineering drawings accurately.• Achieve and surpass manufacturing targets.• Prepare and assemble composite components.• Repair and overhaul damaged plastic parts.• Visually inspect and self-certify finished products to ensure quality.• Undertake training and assist with other production and assembly duties as required.• Actively contribute to lean manufacturing initiatives to improve efficiency.• Participate in daily and weekly SQCDP board meetings.• Support team goals by delivering quality results.Essential skills• Ability to follow work instructions and interpret engineering drawings.• Previous experience in component assembly.• Experience in aerospace interiors assembly is advantageous.• Competent in using machinery such as band saws, hand routers, drills, and hand tools.• Able to work independently and collaboratively within a team.• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.• Effective problem-solving skills.• Good hand-to-eye coordination.To apply, please send your CV today.TPBN1_UKTJ

Production Technician You will play a key role in building, testing, and repairing precision-engineered products to the highest standards.

There are two Product Delivery Manager (Scrum Master) roles within the Digital & Data Delivery team. The Digital role owns end-to-end delivery accountability for a set of digital products - working alongside business product owners, nearshore and offshore engineering partners, and internal tech lead

Mobile Maintenance Technician Travel anywhere from Luton to Slough surrounding areas - Daily travel upto 2hrs radius from home - Paid after 1 hour Monday - Friday £27000 - £29040 with performance bonus Overtime (Between £5,000 - £10,000 additional) Hours normally between 8a

There are two Product Delivery Manager (Scrum Master) roles within the Digital & Data Delivery team. The Data role owns end-to-end delivery accountability for a set of data products - working alongside business product owners, nearshore and offshore engineering partners, and internal tech leads to e

Are you a Production Supervisor from a joinery background looking to join a thriving and well-established company offering rapid progression to a Production Manager position?. They are now looking for a Production Manager who will oversee their production department. Production Supervisor (Progressi

As our business continues to growwith a projected turnover of £12 million this yearwe're looking for an experienced Joinery Production Manager to lead our busy manufacturing facility and play a pivotal role in our continued success. As Joinery Production Manager, you'll be responsible for the overa

We are currently recruiting a team of operatives join our well established client who deals with pot holes and resurfacing roads. You will be part of a highways team working across Hemel Hempstead and surrounding areas. Monday-Friday 07:00 to 16:00 (Usually 8-9 hours daily). Working in a two to three person team, you will respond to pre planned road defects including potholes and carriageway repairs, Must have some experience and a valid CSCS and NRSWA card. Whilst working with the agency we are happy to pay either PAYE or Umbrella which would include your holiday payment within the hourly rate. Call Vortex Recruitment for more information and many other positions Temporary and Permanent

You will design and deliver analytics and ML solutions across policy and document-centric projects, handling real-world data from industrial domains and driving production-aware, business-focused insights.

Site Reliability Engineer / Production Engineer. You'll work across Linux, distributed systems and production infrastructure, partnering with software engineers to improve resilience, automate operations and solve complex technical challenges at scale. Build and improve highly available production i

You will own production reliability and collaborate with ML researchers, product managers, and platform engineers to deliver scalable, low-latency ML solutions.

The role emphasizes production-grade code, scalable architectures, and cross-functional collaboration.

London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own backend services and ship production-grade software for an AI-enabled platform.

As Head of Story, you will lead the story team and oversee the creative development of story across the production. You will work closely with the Director, Creative Leads and wider production team to shape compelling storytelling, support the development of the story team and ensure the creative vi

You will work with engineers, data scientists and product teams to move ideas from prototype to production, leveraging Pleo's dataset of 40,000+ customers. You will own end-to-end AI development, design RAG pipelines, build evaluation frameworks, and ensure production readiness with strong Python an

The Production Guild is seeking a Head of Film Financing to develop financing strategies and lead capital raising for its slate of film and television projects. The role involves strategic oversight of funding, tax incentives, and international co-productions, ensuring robust investor engagement and

You will build robust data pipelines, supervise production deployments and drive experiments to improve model performance.

Pulserise Technologies Ltd in London is seeking a Senior ML Engineer to own the design, training, and deployment of a novel foundation model, including custom CUDA kernels that accelerate performance.This is a hands-on, high-ownership role for someone who has shipped a large-scale foundation model a

Argus Media is hiring a senior AI/ML engineer in London to bridge prototypes and production. You will productionise Generative AI, build APIs, tools and workflows enabling LLMs and agents to run reliably at scale, and partner with Engineering, DevOps and Infrastructure. You will mentor colleagues, s

IMI plc is seeking a seasoned manufacturing leader to oversee production, purchasing, continuous improvement and despatch, with strong linkages to Quality and Engineering managers to ensure consistent performance for demanding customers.

We are seeking a Senior Production Manager to lead on-site and office delivery of technical and production requirements for a range of live events and exhibitions. You will report to the Head of Live Production and oversee budgets, schedules, and safety, while developing innovative technical solutio

You will work with clients to understand fraud challenges, prototype models, and build scalable, production-ready solutions using machine learning and graph analytics.

One Identity’s OneLogin team seeks Senior Software Engineers who own production systems and drive reliability.

A pioneering tech firm based in London is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and maintain critical backend services and create user-facing components.This hybrid role emphasizes real-world impact, with meaningful equity and extensive company benefits.Ideal candidates will have a strong bac

Propel is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own features and systems from discovery through to production and ongoing iteration in a fast-growing startup environment.

Intellias is recruiting for an engineering role focused on building production-grade agentic AI systems that reason over diverse data sources.

You will work with Business, Technology, Product, Legal, and Compliance to deploy robust ML solutions in production and contribute to publications, conferences, and open-source projects.

As a senior individual contributor with significant autonomy, you’ll own the full lifecycle of your work, from data collection and modelling through prototyping, coding, and delivery to production. Take detection and analysis problems from data collection and labelling through modelling, prototypi

United States Digital Space LLC in London seeks an experienced Lead Software Engineer to lead the design and delivery of production-grade AI systems within our AI Engineering team. You will work with business stakeholders and global teams to incubate and mature AI solutions, ensuring production read

LEGO Digital Play is seeking a Director of Production to lead our production team across multiple products and workstreams.

Anaplan Inc is looking for a Principal Machine Learning Engineer in Greater London.In this role, you will lead the architecture, design, and deployment of scalable AI systems.Your work will empower business users to leverage GenAI within their planning workflows, demanding both deep ML knowledge and

Autodesk seeks a Senior Industry Manager for Production Environments to lead strategy that connects design, make, and operate workflows.

RELX is seeking a Senior Software Engineer / Senior AI Engineer to join an embedded Innovation Squad in Greater London.You will tackle challenging research, design, and software development tasks, turning AI experiments into validated, reusable solutions.With guidance from senior engineers, you will

This hands-on role focuses on production-grade systems, secure APIs, and scalable data pipelines.

Role involves negotiating with production partners, talent and rights holders, while aligning production with corporate policies and UK law. You will provide end-to-end legal and commercial support across development, production and exploitation of UK-originated content for Disney+ and other Disney

UST is seeking a Generative AI Scientist to design and deliver production-grade AI solutions for complex enterprise environments. You will work on AWS deployments, ensure observability and reliability, and push boundaries of scalable AI in production.

Baringa is seeking experienced Machine Learning Engineers to lead production ML solutions across diverse industries.

Oliver Bernard is seeking a Senior (Node/React/AWS) Engineer to lead AI features end-to-end, from architectural choices to production deployment. You will work across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure to ship AI-powered products into production. TypeScript, React, and AWS expertise, drivin

You will work with Research Scientists to move prototypes toward production-grade components and integrate with our enterprise API.

Blankstate, a London-based AI infrastructure company, seeks a Lead Machine Learning Engineer to bridge deep research with our production ecosystem.

Aveni is hiring a hands-on Senior AI Software Engineer to build and ship AI-powered products for financial services.You will work with FinLLM and other LLMs, owning features end-to-end across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure.You'll design, deploy, and observe systems that bring AI models

This hands-on role offers significant ownership, working directly with engineers, data scientists and leadership to bring problems from experimentation to production. You will design and deploy scalable AI pipelines and production-grade infrastructures.

London is seeking a senior software engineer with a focus on Generative AI to own end-to-end tech components and production-grade systems.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Senior Production Manager to join our Live Production department. Reporting into the Head of Live Production, your curiosity will help us research and develop innovative technical solutions, whilst your rigorous attention to detail